Is there a way to see NEWEST responses to a topic first?

I swear that the way it used to work before the upgrade was that if you clicked on a thread title in the "view new posts" list, then it would take you to the first new post that you haven't seen yet in the thread.

For instance, if yesterday you read a thread that had 14 posts in it and today it has 20, when you clicked on the title in the "View new posts" list, it would take you to post #15, not post #1 or post #20.

I liked that.

Of course, I could be hallucinating.

 

Not a Read-Newest-Post-First option, but (while reading the topic) you can change the display mode to “outline†by clicking on the “options†button which is on the right side of the blue topic header located above. At least this way you won't have 14 pages to read . . . just an outline of the posts . . . then just click on the posts you wish to read fully.

The Free Word Association topic will still give you 11 pages of outlines.

 

"read new posts" seems to jump me right into where I last left off
in a thread too, so obviously some notion of who's read what is kept
in the database for each user. But the posts are still in
chronological order. [which IMO makes the progression easier to
follow...] If you come in as a not-logged-in guest, it tends to
drop you on the last page of posts, presumably as being the closest
approximation of "newest" if no actual record can be found.
.
In fact, since the last-ten-posts block seems to have vanished in
the upgrade, I find myself using the "view new posts" thing
quite a bit. Reloading that page sometimes shuffles things around
a little, or maybe that's just driven by who's posting where.
.
_H*

 

I hope I'm not in the minority, but I like the way the board works. If I'm visiting a new thread, I like to read the first few posts at least, to understand what's being discussed. If I see a thread that I want to jump to the end I either click on the icon for this or on the "last post by" link in "view new posts".

GreenHybrid is set up to see the last post first and I am constantly having to dig to the first post because so often threads drift off on tangents. PC is mo better IMHO.