^ Well, I mean if I see a thread that's several years old and I posted in it, say, three years ago. Now I know I posted in it because I see the red dot but there's 25 pages and I have no idea which pages my posts are on. Is there a super quick way to find my posts in that thread? Edited by - randomprecision on 2/21/2012 8:53:56 PM
Maybe try the Google forum search? Not the ADT search fields, but just below that, enter the complete topic title, in quotes, followed by your name. "What was the last non-porn movie you watched?" RandomPrecision That's a big thread, comes up with search results linking to early pages of that topic. I'd think you'd have to have your profile set to the default "posts per page" setting. Is the default 35? Seems to work better for this if it's set to 30. Google is linking to a specific page in that topic, comes up with links to pages 38, 51, 53 and more recent. Your posts are in all of them. That topic is really big, a total of 244 pages, if you view 30 posts per page, so your 25 page topic should be a snatch to search. I mean a snap to search.
Not sure if it can be done with this software but one forum where I used to post had am icon you could click that would show you the user names of all the people who posted in that thread (clickable links) and how many posts they made. It was then just a simple matter of clicking a name and it would show you all that person's posts in that thread. Either way would be a lot better than what we have now but would what I just described even work here?Right. I'm sure that would probably work but it's quite a bit of work for such a simple thing if there's a simpler way it could be implemented. It would be nice to be able to get there with a couple of mouse clicks and no typing. If possible (and if it isn't a big headache for Drew). Edited by - randomprecision on 2/22/2012 1:29:24 PM
The code we have here is 95% written by me. It started off as a free ASP forum software package back in 1998 and I developed it from that starting point. Much of what is currently runnging was written 9 to 10 years ago. It obviously needs updating. I'm going to be doing some improvements in the near future.
In that case, I have to say that in the time I've been here, it's been remarkably stable and functional as far as I could tell. I'm not a techie or a coder but I don't imagine it's easy.