New format, dislike.....

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?

Hi Lowrider,

My perception of the issues you are referring to has been somewhat different.  If I'm not mistaken, under "Recent Activity/12/24/48 hours/Forum Contributions in the Past 12/24/48 Hours," old threads having recent posts ARE being included, BUT:

1)The three sets of listings for those three time periods are all identical.  I had called attention to this earlier in this thread.

2)Usually those listings do not go back even 12 hours, the cutoff perhaps depending on how many posts have been made during that period.

3)As has been said, those listings differ from the "Old Threads" listings of the previous format in that newly created threads are also being included in them, as soon as a response is posted.  In itself I see nothing wrong with that, but see no. 4 just below, which if addressed would make the redundancy you mentioned moot, as I see it.

4)As I mentioned earlier, the constant re-sorting of the "New Discussions in the Past xx Hours" part of that page makes it difficult to identify which threads have been created since one's last visit.

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.

So I don't think this was the intent, and it is only true to the extent that the "Forum Contributions in the Past 12/24/48 Hours" listings do not truly go back 12/24/48 hours as it stands now.

Best regards,
--Al