Ideas for a new forum layout

[livius]

@Frida - i have upvoted your post - now you can post without delay
for your particular problem use Sort-by - you can then have post ordered in way as you like

@Fred
the forum is not so bad. I seen really bad forums.
Here you have:

• formatting (http://commonmark.org/help/)
• recent (https://forum.pycom.io/recent)
• popular (https://forum.pycom.io/popular)
• fork topic
• pin topic
• bookmark
• lock
• sort order
• spam prevention (time limit for new users)
• online status , icons
• image content storage
• tags (https://forum.pycom.io/tags)

some improvement needed:

• bookmark with custom tag or "folder" structure
• category "mostly bookmarked post"
• topic state like "solved"
• button "need attention for admins" - i do not talking about spam messages, and also i do not talk about admins like moderators only dev team
• have more content width - https://forum.pycom.io/post/13315
• share "button" - more intuitive way to get link for some post - (not all people know how to copy link to specific post) i do not talk about share with facebook and others only simple link

[crumble]

@fred

• a button too format source code. As a quick fix, place the comand on top of the help page.
• Pin the thread about the latest firmware versions, so people may not open that many threads for problems with new releases.
• An optional warning ticker, if we shall not update

[HelalBR]

@frida I couldn't agree more! It took me some time to understand that when I get to a topic the first message is the OP and then I have to scroll all the way down and start reading from bottom to top. Really weird. At least order by oldest to newest by default, please =D

[tve]

I'm new here... this must be the only forum I know that has the messages in reverse order! A total PITA if you ask me...

[robert-hh]

@tve You can change the order in the setting. I like to have the newest message on top.

[jcaron]

@frida you can indeed change the sort order in settings (I did), it I would probably make that the default.

Note that the behaviour is sometimes a bit strange in that order (due to lazy loading), but it mostly works.

Some recommendations:

• add dedicated sub-categories or something like that for release announcements for each product, and somehow try to keep them in order.
• change the rules for post spacing. It’s annoying that even after months of présence and many posts one still has to wait 3 minutes between posts.

[peekay123]

@robert-hh, I can't seem to find that setting for my account. Do you have a screenshot that might guide me?

[robert-hh]

@peekay123 That's in the "Sort by" selection box over every list of posts.

[peekay123]

@robert-hh, thanks! Couldn't see the tree for the forest!

[Xykon]

We could change the default sort order but I'm not sure this would affect existing users. I admit it throws me off too if I'm on the forum but not logged into my account. I'll see if our system admin can do some internal tests.