Forum List Order [modified]
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Good Morning! I see we have invoked the shuffling of the forum list order again eh? :laugh:
ForumList.Sort( OrderType.Shuffle);Oh and missing once again is the Design forum. Could be more but that's what jumps out at me.
Last modified: after originally posted -- missing forums as well
led mike
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Good Morning! I see we have invoked the shuffling of the forum list order again eh? :laugh:
ForumList.Sort( OrderType.Shuffle);Oh and missing once again is the Design forum. Could be more but that's what jumps out at me.
Last modified: after originally posted -- missing forums as well
led mike
I swear. I didn't touch anything. :~ (OK, maybe I touched something. All fixed...)
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
modified on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:49 PM
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I swear. I didn't touch anything. :~ (OK, maybe I touched something. All fixed...)
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
modified on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:49 PM
... the last time the forum list got trashed I pointed out that this would've been something that should've been covered in the design documentation to make the fix (with unchanged layout) straitfoward.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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... the last time the forum list got trashed I pointed out that this would've been something that should've been covered in the design documentation to make the fix (with unchanged layout) straitfoward.
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
It's nothing to do with a design document. It's a data entry issue
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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It's nothing to do with a design document. It's a data entry issue
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Hi Chris, I too want a fixed order of forums in the table. I tend to know by heart where the important ones are (important to me that is), but every other month a lot of them move columns. Please stop this from happening. Here are two suggestions: 1. Order them explicitly by some objective criterium, e.g. alphabetically or by decreasing message count (and downwards first); that way they will seldom move, and when they move it will be by just one (mostly vertical) position. Message count has the disadvantage that some pairs may interchange rather frequently, it has the advantage new forums always start at the bottom. 2. give us the possibility to create our own table (user settings!) and show that instead of yours. I would list only half of the forums, and the order would NEVER change unless I want it to. I guess you will prefer 1 over 2 for load and effort reasons. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
I resent the black-and-white voting system. :mad:
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Hi Chris, I too want a fixed order of forums in the table. I tend to know by heart where the important ones are (important to me that is), but every other month a lot of them move columns. Please stop this from happening. Here are two suggestions: 1. Order them explicitly by some objective criterium, e.g. alphabetically or by decreasing message count (and downwards first); that way they will seldom move, and when they move it will be by just one (mostly vertical) position. Message count has the disadvantage that some pairs may interchange rather frequently, it has the advantage new forums always start at the bottom. 2. give us the possibility to create our own table (user settings!) and show that instead of yours. I would list only half of the forums, and the order would NEVER change unless I want it to. I guess you will prefer 1 over 2 for load and effort reasons. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
I resent the black-and-white voting system. :mad:
I do like those suggestions and will see if we can do it in a way that doesn't bring the server to its knees.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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I do like those suggestions and will see if we can do it in a way that doesn't bring the server to its knees.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
5+ :-D
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
I dislike the black-and-white voting system on questions/answers. X|
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I do like those suggestions and will see if we can do it in a way that doesn't bring the server to its knees.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
Seems to me calculating the table once every minute or so (to keep the message count somewhat up-to-date), and using it over and over across all relevant forums, should be sufficient; I see no real need to recreate the table for every page request (not implying that this is what you do now, I just don't know). Of course I would like to see some consistency in the numbers shown by a sequence of page loads; getting served by different servers should not result in decreasing message counts for a particular forum, unless messages really got removed that is. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
I dislike the black-and-white voting system on questions/answers. X|
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Seems to me calculating the table once every minute or so (to keep the message count somewhat up-to-date), and using it over and over across all relevant forums, should be sufficient; I see no real need to recreate the table for every page request (not implying that this is what you do now, I just don't know). Of course I would like to see some consistency in the numbers shown by a sequence of page loads; getting served by different servers should not result in decreasing message counts for a particular forum, unless messages really got removed that is. :)
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
I dislike the black-and-white voting system on questions/answers. X|
The message count is always an up to date count. Members (and moderators) sometimes do remove posts.
cheers, Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP