Posts are backwards why?

Tim Brooks · #1 February 3rd, 2004, 06:04 PM

Hi All:

Sorry some of you have problems with the sorting order. We have done this so that we may provide better support. It is much easier for us to see the new Posts quickly than to go through many pages of Posts to get to the new. And after 4 1/2 years, we now consider it the norm as most of our forum members do.

We have new software that I believe will allow you to choose the way you would like the Posts to be presented. We tried to install this and found the conVersion to be a long drawn out process. With three new releases (Coliseum, Dominions II and Starfury), we just can't have the forums down for a week to 10 days right now. The new Users rely on information here to learn and better understand the games.

Once things settle down a bit and we can find the time we will upgrade the software, but that won't happen anytime real soon.

If you must leave us because of the way the Posts are presented, we will hate to see you go. Hope you try us again in the future.

Happy Gaming!

QuestGAV · #2 February 10th, 2004, 08:40 PM

I am going to have to throw my two cents in here. While it may be difficult for you and your current board readership to switch to a new topic, it's certainly hard as hell to completely redefine something that we've all learned since we were toddlers: that you read from top to bottom. Reading up is a huge hurdle to getting involved in these forums and your games. Obviously it's your board and you've got a way of doing things you're happy with; just consider that you're placing a hurdle to customer retention by trying to train people to read from bottom-to-top instead of the natural way.

Sand · #3 February 28th, 2004, 02:58 AM

If fixing the post order is on your work queue, that's all I can ask -- obviously paying the bills is more important than this stuff. I would definite put in a strong request to upgrade when you have time available though!

PrinzMegaherz · #4 April 3rd, 2004, 02:16 AM

I like the way this forum works.

It is against the mainstream, like the games that are sold here.

Another Wanderer · #5 April 2nd, 2004, 03:08 PM

In any case, it seems like most of the Users would prefer to have at least the option to use normal sorting, according to the sorting poll. Myself included, as I find transitions between Shrapnel and any other forum after reading lots of stuff here rather confuzing. Having to shuffle up and down in threads with long Posts is also somewhat annoying. On the plus side, though, this is one of those rather few forums where interesting threads appear regularly.

Atrocities · #6 April 3rd, 2004, 01:59 AM

Having the choice is great, but it would more than likely require the forum to be down for a significant period of time while they update the features. As we all know a down day at a busy forum can cost a company $$$ bucks and loose membership.

I like the the forum system as it is now.

Gandalf Parker · #7 April 4th, 2004, 02:49 PM

The setup choices seem to be for ease of moderation. Not unusual for forums that expect rare Posts with few answers. Kindof a Customer Support setup. Most of the forums here seem to reflect that it was a perfectly reasonable choice. It looks like its only Space Empires, and moving up fast Dominions 2, which make it a problem. Those are spawning the kinds of traffic seen in general public conversation webBoards. Newsgroup levels of traffic.

IF the new Version of the board can be installed without loss of the content already in the forums, and it offers Users a choice, then Im all for it.