New format, dislike.....

I miss the "Old Threads" section that was located below Virtual Systems. It was sorted and updated by new activity.
Does anybody miss this section? It was better than looking thru each separate forum for an interesting old thread. Also, threads that just left the 48 hour list would be located in this section.

LR57, I miss that.  I'm not big on change to begin with but am trying to assume merit here; yet, this still leaves me struggling a bit to understand how things are organized.  In the previous format, multiple recent contributions to a given old thread would be found chronologically sorted under the name of the thread - which is what you are saying, I think.  Now, it seems like individual responses for an existing thread (these are found by scrolling to below the "thread categories" section) get posted separately....so you can see the same thread title appear multiple times here depending on how much activity there was.  At least that's what I think is going on.  Like I said, still trying to figure things out.  

Another thing I would suggest is to have the most recent input to a thread appear at the top rather than being "last".  Comments would appear in reverse order as to how they do now...newest first, oldest last.  

Had enough contact with these types of projects in my work life such that I realize compromises have to be made.  But I did like seeing just the thread name with sequential contributions to it vs having to figure which category it might appear in or look for the various responses interspersed amongst multiple unrelated threads.

 

I exactly agree with lowrider, and wonder why no one else has mentioned it.  This page (referred to above) showed every new topic being added as well as new posts to old threads, all on one page.

ghosthouse

Another thing I would suggest is to have the most recent input to a thread appear at the top rather than being "last".  Comments would appear in reverse order as to how they do now...newest first, oldest last.  

IMO, that would be incredible awkward, if I understand you correctly.  It might be OK in a thread when only one or two comments have been added, but trying to read a long thread from bottom to top would be very awkward.

If our friends at Audiogon are tuning in, to be clear, right now in
Recent Activity, there is:
"New Discussions in the past 48 hours"
followed by:
"Forum contributions in the past 48 hours"

This is redundant. The same threads will appear in both, if active within 48 hours.
Under the previous format, "Old Threads," were threads which were no longer in Recent Activity. A good name for this section would be "Forum contributions to Old Threads."
Some of these threads could be years old and if somebody added a comment, the thread was updated and moved into this section.

As it stands now, we have to look thru each topic,  Amp/Preamp, Digital, Speakers, etc. to find an old thread and may never find it because we're in the wrong topic.

FYI, Justin, et al, some of these old threads would stay active for years. We now have a great new "Follow this Thread" feature, but I would like to have the "Old Threads" reinstalled, and then use "Follow this Thread."

Does this make sense?