I really dislike the threaded format because it makes it extremely annoying to find new posts. Is there a way to make it display like normal forums do?

From what I understand of the DCF-related threads that I've seen, I'm going to say the answer is probably...no.

This does not appear to be the most user- (or admin-) friendly forum out there.

Look for the yellow-colored icons. They're unread posts. Read posts have white icons.

>I really dislike the threaded format because it makes it extremely
>annoying to find new posts. Is there a way to make it display like
>normal forums do?

The part of me that suffered through years of unthreaded USENET before someone finally invented trn weeps at the very asking of this question.

The rest of me poked around a little bit and determined that the answer appears to be no. There's a way to get the most recently updated threads to list first on the forum level, but once you're inside the threads, you have to look for the yellow icons. Not really seeing how that's "extremely annoying," but hey, if I knew of a way around it, I'd tell you anyway.

I mean, there's a way that I could turn off threading, but that would turn it off across the whole forum all the time, and I'm not gonna do that, because flat (or as you pronounce it, "normal") forums are weaksauce in my book. Once multiple subthreads get going, flat chronological display is just an express train to confusionville. NTY.

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I guess I'll just have to live with digging through entire threads to figure out where the heck the new reply is. Is it at the top? At the bottom? Who knows!

>I guess I'll just have to live with digging through entire threads to
>figure out where the heck the new reply is. Is it at the top? At the
>bottom? Who knows!

The yellow/white icon thing never works for me because I access these forums from both work and home, but I certainly don't feel the need to dig through the threads themselves! I load a thread in 'view all' mode, scroll past the first post to the list of replies, and look for the most recent time/date stamps and highest reply numbers. It's not instant but it's a lot faster than thumbing through the text.

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>The yellow/white icon thing never works for me because I access these
>forums from both work and home

I don't follow how these are in any way connected. It's like saying "the drive on the left/drive on the right thing doesn't work for me because I drive on surface roads and superhighways". It's the same mechanism from anywhere. Are you not using the mark-as-read function? 'Cause if not, that's your own fault. :)

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>>The yellow/white icon thing never works for me because I access these
>>forums from both work and home
>
>I don't follow how these are in any way connected. It's like saying
>"the drive on the left/drive on the right thing doesn't work for me
>because I drive on surface roads and superhighways". It's the same
>mechanism from anywhere. Are you not using the mark-as-read function?
> 'Cause if not, that's your own fault. :)
>
Well, if mark-as-read isn't on the yellow/white icons mean nothing whatsoever because they don't react to what I read. If it's on, of course, it's manually done, which to my mind is a silly way of running a railroad. Whatever happened to the forum just turning it to white whenever I load it for the first time?

I was under the impression it was losing my place because my work browser's cookies weren't getting updated from home and vice versa. If that's not the case, well, whatever--I don't use them at all anyway.

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this world created by the
hands of the gods
everything is false
everything is a LIE
the final days have come
now
let everything be destroyed

--mu

>I really dislike the threaded format because it makes it extremely
>annoying to find new posts. Is there a way to make it display like
>normal forums do?

As far as I'm concerned, threaded is the normal way of doing things, and it is the many forums that don't thread things that are in fact the ones doing it wrong.

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