episodic
Lifer
Ok, let me start by saying a few things. I am new here. I've only been here since Feb., but I found what I felt was the coolest forums I'd ever been a member of. In the last couple of months, I've invested sometime in each of my days reading and being your customer - and importantly an anandtech patron.
Since I've been a member here I've built my first computer on my own, been buying and selling stuff with other members, and have tried to be helpful when my limited knowledge has came of use. Much of the increase of my usage however came after the discovery of one very important feature.
That feature is now missing, and I feel like the carpet has been yanked underneath me, and I know of at least 3-4 other threads filled with like minded Anandtechers.
That feature was the ability to sort by the latest post withing the forums. Just to be clear (because there was some confusion in one thread), the feature allowed you to enter any forum (for example Off Topic) and read the latest posts as you entered. The latest posts would ALWAYS be first, not the ones that people bumped to the top.
This would allow you to check the forums a few times every day, every other day, whatever and see each and every post in the order they were submitted! What wonders it was. At an instant you could revert back to the default way and see what was the most popular conversations.
The wonderful thing was you could always see the new thing for sale - whether or not it recieved bumps. You could always read the latest bit of news in Politics - even if it was unpopular and did not recieve bumps. You could always read everything new and keep up with it.
Frankly, I don't see how you could be a 'regular' of the forums now without devoting an inordinate amount of time reading through all the bumps trying to find the new meat of the day.
Jason, in one of the threads you had replied to this issue, but I feel from the flow of the thread you though t that people where talking about sorting posts within a thread, and you mentioned a ticket may be put up to correct that in the future. I don't think you were talking about the issue I've presented here.
So in my most humblest request, I ask, I beg, that you bring back the ability for us to sort the threads so that we can keep up with the community if we choose to. I know that it was an oft overlooked feature, but I know dozens of persons including myself loved it, and cherished it.
I am not attempting to criticize you or Anand. I am only trying to make you aware that certain members, even if the minority, woefully miss a feature - and that many of us were those that make up what I thought was a strong core to your audience.
Please bring that feature back.
Respectfully,
Terry
Since I've been a member here I've built my first computer on my own, been buying and selling stuff with other members, and have tried to be helpful when my limited knowledge has came of use. Much of the increase of my usage however came after the discovery of one very important feature.
That feature is now missing, and I feel like the carpet has been yanked underneath me, and I know of at least 3-4 other threads filled with like minded Anandtechers.
That feature was the ability to sort by the latest post withing the forums. Just to be clear (because there was some confusion in one thread), the feature allowed you to enter any forum (for example Off Topic) and read the latest posts as you entered. The latest posts would ALWAYS be first, not the ones that people bumped to the top.
This would allow you to check the forums a few times every day, every other day, whatever and see each and every post in the order they were submitted! What wonders it was. At an instant you could revert back to the default way and see what was the most popular conversations.
The wonderful thing was you could always see the new thing for sale - whether or not it recieved bumps. You could always read the latest bit of news in Politics - even if it was unpopular and did not recieve bumps. You could always read everything new and keep up with it.
Frankly, I don't see how you could be a 'regular' of the forums now without devoting an inordinate amount of time reading through all the bumps trying to find the new meat of the day.
Jason, in one of the threads you had replied to this issue, but I feel from the flow of the thread you though t that people where talking about sorting posts within a thread, and you mentioned a ticket may be put up to correct that in the future. I don't think you were talking about the issue I've presented here.
So in my most humblest request, I ask, I beg, that you bring back the ability for us to sort the threads so that we can keep up with the community if we choose to. I know that it was an oft overlooked feature, but I know dozens of persons including myself loved it, and cherished it.
I am not attempting to criticize you or Anand. I am only trying to make you aware that certain members, even if the minority, woefully miss a feature - and that many of us were those that make up what I thought was a strong core to your audience.
Please bring that feature back.
Respectfully,
Terry
