Hi. I can't find where to set the sort order of posts in Topics. I always want to have the latest posts be at the top of the list of posts, instead of at the bottom.

Thanks!

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, you are using the VERY inconvenient and irritating sort method for posts in a topic that too many forums use. Your forum displays the oldest posts in topics first, at the top, and the newest posts at the end or bottom The more posts that there are in a topic, the more inconvenient and irritating this becomes, because it forces anybody who is following a post, or even just checking the latest information… to have to go to the bottom of the last page. New posts should be at the top/beginning of the first page.

Why is it important to show topics in a convenient sort order of displaying the newest at the top, but then do the opposite and display the posts within a topic displaying the oldest first? The only people who this is convenient for might be for someone who is reading the posts in a topic for the first time. Let THEM go to the end, INSTEAD of making everyone who is actively participating in the topic have to go to the end of the last page EVERY TIME, in order to see the latest post.

The "industry standard" is to have a user selectable setting to choose which they want. This is only the second of dozens of forums that I belong to that does it backwards like this, and doesn't offer the option to select which sort order they prefer. PLEASE contact the author/publisher of the forum software that you're using and request that they UPGRADE their application to let users select which sort order they prefer.

Thanks,

Steve

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Mark Fleming said

Hi Steve.  Thanks for using our new forum.

The sort order for topics, and the sort order for posts in topics, are set globally for everyone.  They're isn't a way for individual users to change their own sort order.

We use the universally standard method of displaying topics in newest to oldest order, and posts within topics in oldest to latest order (order of posting). But these posts are paginated within a topic so in long threads you can easily jump to the last page.