Yeah, I agree. Also, on a similar subject, how about a section that tells you who last posted on each thread? I find it a guessing game to figure out which threads have new posts -- I don't know about you folks, but they all say they have new posts in. Even when they don't :S

"If it aint on fire, you haven't shot it up bad enough yet" - my old teacher on Planet Housten.

lol - i don't get that problem, i only get it after running adaware, and having my cookies deleted

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@Bounty, look at the time and date on the "Last Post" on the forums page, it tells how old it is since last post.If the day is 1 older, then no one has posted in it for a day

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BHJ - I mentioned that in my "Last Post" topic a few weeks ago and, although the feedback was positive, it has not been instituted.

Final - That is how you do it, but wouldn't it be more efficient to have a "Last Post By" column?

I would assume that it takes more than just a minute or two to implement the ideas. I get the kind of feeling that the forums here aren't like your typical forums - as it doesn't seem to match anything along the lines of a normal forum - so they might actually have to do some scripting and stuff rather than click a check box to activate the feature.................

@Esq, yea, it would have advantages as to know whos around too. Like If some one has a question about Comps, they would know if you or Taw were around and wanted to *talk*.

@Chips, I have only seen a couple of other forums, but from what I have seen, I like this one and it people a whole lot better. No or little flames, no cursing/obsenitys. Friendlyer conversation And a lot of help offered too.

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Edited by - Finalday on 3/9/2004 4:41:33 PM

Now that I think about it Chips, you are probably right. All of the forums that I have seen are PHP, which is comparatively easy to script. ASP on the other hand, is a bit trickier from all accounts. I wonder why Barbig chose ASP?

Well, for one thing...it works very well with databases.

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@Bounty, look at the time and date on the "Last Post" on the forums page, it tells how old it is since last post.If the day is 1 older, then no one has posted in it for a day

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Heh, I know. But I don't remember the exact time I posted everything -- so if someone posts within five minutes of me or something, I probably wouldn't notice. And the fact that the motherboard battery on this computer is flat doesn't help matters, lol -- I dunno what time it is half the time anyway.

"If it aint on fire, you haven't shot it up bad enough yet" - my old teacher on Planet Housten.

plus, being as the server clock is *checks* Pacific Standard Time, and I'm GMT, it's kinda hard to figure things out...

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Stinger - That is true, however you can use PHP and MySQL together quite effectively from all reports. Still, there's nothing wrong with ASP, I was just curious.

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plus, being as the server clock is *checks* Pacific Standard Time, and I'm GMT, it's kinda hard to figure things out...

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We had a topic about that in the OT forum as well, Cardy!