Did the whole forum just reverse itself?

[Matthew Fricker]

Have I clicked something I shouldn’t have in my profile or is it intentional that the forum post order is now backwards? Only wondering because I got a shock when I just came on now and every post I read was in backwards order of time/date…..

[Keith]

I don’t think you’ve changed any settings, it seems to happen to me also Matthew

[Matthew Fricker]

Hmm , strange. I’ve not seen anything mentioned in the forum about it as far as I can remember. Perhaps it’s a bug? You would think a large change like that would have been announced otherwise. 

[William Miller]

I’m writing this to see if this is happening to me as well.

[William Miller]

It is!

[Matthew Fricker]

It must be a bug , they would have announced a huge change like this otherwise. It’s pretty weird reading this all the wrong way around after years of reading it the other way, hope it gets sorted soon…

[Mark Smith]

if it means getting the newest post first instead of scrolling all the way to the end…

all I have to say is it took long enough!!

[Karen Trevino]

He told us about it in the forum topic below as it was asked it it could be done in that topic 

Citizen Collaboration: Modeling Heavy Equipment (Backhoe)

[William Miller]

Yes, but it’s really awkward to follow a conversation that’s going the wrong way.

[Shawn Blanch]

You can thank the Backhoe crew. We may have instigated it haha. Our forum was getting 6 pages long and we are posting on it multiple times a day. Going to page 6 each time we get there was getting tiring LOL

[William Miller]

Then couldn’t it have been done for that thread only?

[Keith]

Yea that’s true. My mouse wheel just did a little sigh of relief!  😁

[Shawn Blanch]

I’m not a web developer but that would be tough to pick one forum to alter and none of the others. I believe it is being tested to be honest. I dunno about everyone else but I want to see newest content at the top and on page #1 rather than scrolling all day long to get to the nitty gritty. That’s just me. We suggested it be changed and there were several who agreed.

I don’t think there was any ill will. If you look at the Gallery it has been formatted this way for ages and I like it that way. It is getting more consistent if you ask me. There are many popular forums on the web are done this way.

[Matthew Fricker]

Yeah the reverse conversation is really annoying and arkward as @williamatics says. I also agree with you @me1958424  so maybe a better way would have been to keep it the same way but just rig it so that when you click a notification it takes you straight to the relevant post and a way of skipping to the latest post quickly. I can’t say Iv’e ever seen a forum that is in reverse like this and it is very weird to me. Perhaps even a way to choose either format in your personal preferences might be good? 

Also , if you have never read a thread before that is very long , then you would have to read the top of the first page to see what the post is all about , and then skip to the every end to read the first reply and then work your way upwards from the bottom of that page to the top and then through all the other pages in reverse order until you got back to the top of the first page… to me its like reading the first page of a book and then going right to the end for page two and reading it backwards from bottom to top until you get to the end on page two….. just too un-natural for me personally.

@theluthier has this been intentional or just a bug do you know? 

[Matthew Fricker]

Haha , damn you backhoe crew 😛 . 

I think its just one of those things that not everyone is going to like so there is going to be a big difference of opinion from the regular users of the forum. That and the fact that it just happened without notice or any kind of poll to see if it was something that the majority would be in favour of made me think it was just a bug of some sort. 

As I’ve said above , if there was a way to make the reverse forum order be optional then it would keep everyone happy , but i’m no web developer so I have no idea….. 

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