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Hi Nolan, If you click on the Preferences link on the top of the page, you go to a page where you can select how your messages will be viewed. I assume your messages are shown in "Mixed Threaded" order, but you want to change it to "Reversed Threaded." Maybe Reverse Threaded was the default for the old script and Mixed Threaded is the new default. I was already using Mixed Threaded, so I didn't see any change.
From Configuration page: ("Chronological" displays show messages simply in the order in which they were posted; "alphabetical" lists arrange messages, logically enough, in alphabetical order by their subjects; "threaded" displays show messages in indented lists, with responses directly beneath their parent messages. In each of those style, a normal list puts the newest messages at the bottom, while a reversed list, obviously, does the reverse. The "reversed theaded" display, though somewhat awkward, is the "default" index style of many Web-based bulletin boards, including Matt Wright's "WWWBoard" script, and is the style with which many users are most familiar. The "mixed threaded" display is a bit of a half-breed; it arranges primary messages with the newest at the top, thus tending to keep newer messages toward the top of the page, but arranges responses with the newest at the bottom, thus preserving a more "intuitive" threading structure. "Compressed" displays show on the main index page only the first message of each thread; responses are available only by going to the primary message's page. This keeps the index page a bit smaller, but also, of course, makes the responses a bit more difficult to access. Finally, "guestbook-style" displays show the full text of messages on the main index page in a strict chronological manner; "threaded guestbook-style" displays show an index page very similar to that of the "compressed" displays, but show the full text of all messages in a thread on a single page.)
Happy New Year, Shawn
> I don't know what the deal is behind this particular "upgrade",
> but it seems the new rage in message boards to post the newest messages at
> the very bottom of a subject line. Making it very difficult to keep up
> with things. I really preferred it when the messages followed the same
> order as the subject listings, as in newest at the top. Can this be
> toggled Nick?
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