Scream,<br /><br />I just wanted to drop you a line... I LOVE this new option! It could be a huge factor with helping speed thing up! My only question is... can you center the option rather than lave it left justified - or do you plan to add a couple more goodies to the same line? Such as a search this forum option. <hint, hint><br /><br /><pre>Show Threads : [..................] Search This Forum: [..................]</pre><p>Jhariden (aka Strategist)<br />Stratics Forums

Yes!!!!!! This is brilliant. How soon can we have it? I want it NOW. []/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/]<br /><br />[]http://www.wopr.com/w3tuserpics/Eileen-sig.gif[/]

awwwwll yeah, that looks good....<br /><br />[:red]--------------</font color=red><br />http://extremeforums.org

DITTO!!!<br /><br />Muhammad Chishti<br />Creative dIRECTOR<br />[:white]http://www.imcuniverse.com</font color=white>

Hmm, how about a display preference letting you set a default other than... what is it, 2 weeks?<br /><br />Muhammad Chishti<br />Creative dIRECTOR<br />[:white]http://www.imcuniverse.com</font color=white>

*waves to Jhariden*<br /><br />Ian<br /><br />Ethos - Project Coordinator<br />StraticsCom, Inc.<br />http://www.stratics.com

Have you looked at your Profile?<br />I'd like a "12 hours" option - for people who visit busy boards a couple of times a day.<br /><br />[]http://www.wopr.com/w3tuserpics/Eileen-sig.gif[/]

Yeah, I looked and didn't see anything... yesterday. I'll go check again. []/w3timages/icons/blush.gif[/] []/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/] Yep, there it is!<br /><br />Muhammad Chishti<br />Creative dIRECTOR<br />[:white]http://www.imcuniverse.com</font color=white><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Muhammad on 03/17/01 09:18 AM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>

You know, this would be really great if it could be done on a forum-wide or category-wide basis...<br /><br />Muhammad Chishti<br />Creative dIRECTOR<br />[:white]http://www.imcuniverse.com</font color=white>

I hadn't thought about adding anything more to that area, but that might help even the whole thing out. I'll put that in before I put out 5.3.<br /><br />-------------------<br />Scream<br />WWWThreads

On second thought, maybe the Search this forum should wait until the user improvements are worked on. I can add it now fairly easily but not quite sure how everyone wants this to work. Should it be an "AND" search or an "OR" search. Should it include "Usernames", etc. So, maybe I'll just center the Show Threads portion for now until everyone gets some time to think about how this should work.<br /><br />-------------------<br />Scream<br />WWWThreads

It should be a standard "Entire Phrase" search with "All Posts" for the time line I believe. If they wish to search in more detail or with different params they can always visit the standard search page.<br /><br />Jhariden (aka Strategist)<br />Stratics Forums

Ok, I'll throw it in and see what everyone thinks. Thanks for the quick reply.<br /><br />-------------------<br />Scream<br />WWWThreads

Yes, I agree on that.<br /><br />[]http://www.wopr.com/w3tuserpics/Eileen-sig.gif[/]

Yeah, that sounds good... (entire phrase)<br /><br />Muhammad Chishti<br />Creative dIRECTOR<br />[:white]http://www.imcuniverse.com</font color=white>

Awesome, thanks Scream!! :)<br /><br />Jhariden (aka Strategist)<br />Stratics Forums

You added it!!!! w00t! <br /><br />It's PERFECT. Exactly what I was thinking of. I just tested it out and it works great. Thanks again Scream!<br /><br />Jhariden (aka Strategist)<br />Stratics Forums

Hum... I am afraid I dont like it. []/w3timages/icons/crazy.gif[/]<br />It just seems like junk to me:<br /> -In postlist who really needs to view the "active threads" from this last week or so? They are already ordered right there in front of you... come on... they even have dates... they will even have the colored icon if they have unread posts... this option just takes space and is worthless, sorry, I dont like it.<br /><br /> -The search forum option is more interesting... but that is not its place. Put it below, at the bottom, to the left or to the right of the Go To board jump box... it makes much more sense there. Besides, you want content on the top, not one hundred options before you get to what you are really there for. It almost seems like we assume they must be at the wrong page so we give them lots of options of going elsewhere before showing them the threads... no, it should be at the bottom, next to the jump to box.<br /><br /><br />If we really feel the urge to add forms up to the top for people to fill in they are not these forms. I would like to see a log-in form for visitors so they can easily log in... some of you already have this, I like it, it makes sense. But not this.<br /><br />Mateo Byler<br />CruceDeCaminos.com

Actually Mateo, the Active threads one is much more than just junk. When you bring up a forum that has several thousand threads in it the script has to count all of the threads to do the proper paging, and even though it uses a limit and with proper indexing it still does a full table read. By throwing in a date into that query it only grabs entries from the database that are newer than the specified date. This has the benefit of being a very large improvement for large forums. Several seconds can be taken of a query on even moderate sized forums.<br /><br />The search forum one helps balance out that area as well[]/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/].<br /><br />-------------------<br />Scream<br />WWWThreads

Hum... I see what you say... well... partially, I think I am missing something (this week I havent been able to really follow all threads and I guess I somewhat missed on this).<br /><br />So when you speak about bringing up a forum that has several thousand threads .... I gues you are speaking of postlist.pl/.php, right? So, isnt it doing it anyway when you go to postlist? I mean... giving this option once it has just been done anyway doesnt save me that much time... maybe I would have to be a user at a board where there are at least 400 new posts a day... I dont know... maybe there is something I still dont see. []/w3timages/icons/crazy.gif[/]<br /><br />It just seems to me that it would not really add to a better user experience to have this option (active threads...) at my forum, and at just about any forum with less than 50 posts per day. I dont think I would use it here as well (and its more active than my forum)...<br /><br />Any possibility it could be an option? If not dont worry, I know how to comment it out []/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/].<br /><br />Mateo Byler<br />CruceDeCaminos.com