softwareNerd Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 (edited) I've been asked about this a few times, so I thought I'd post a topic. In this version of the software, a topic/thread can be viewed in various modes. If you look on the right-hand-side of this topic, you'll see a button titled "Options". Click on that to see a menu, and notice the "Display Modes" options at the bottom. Open up a topic that has more posts than this one, and check out those different modes to see if you like any of the non-standard ones. Often someone clicks on one of these modes inadvertently and the forum starts looking funny. To get back to "normal", choose "standard" mode once again. Edited November 25, 2008 by softwareNerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEgoist Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 (edited) *** Mod's note: Merged with an earlier topic. -sN *** I don't know if I'm the only one who has seen this, but for the past month or so the posts on the forum have not been displayed in normal forum fashion, but as a list of links to each individual post. The descending posts are ordered by who replies to who. Is there a way to set it back to the old style of simple, displayed posts? Edited January 16, 2009 by softwareNerd Merged notice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted November 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Find the "Options" for the topic... right hand side... near the top of the topic, just below "New Topic" and just beside the "Rating". Click and change the "display mode" back to "Standard". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEgoist Posted November 2, 2008 Report Share Posted November 2, 2008 Woo. I'm blind. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenure Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 When I use the 'View New Posts' button and click the little orange icon to show the 'Latest post since I visited the thread' display of the thread, it keeps sending me to some weird form of the thread, in which the first ever post in the thread is shown, followed by hyperlinks to each subsequent post below it, which is almost the opposite of what the little orange icon should be doing. Does anyone know how to fix this bad boy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mammon Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 (edited) *** Mod's note: Merged with an earlier topic. -sN *** http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44326494073&ref=nf I clicked the link to the forum Mimpy provided in this thread and now I view the threads differently. Instead of just having all the posts in order there is a list/outline "posts in this thread" thing at the bottom. It's bugging the crap out of me. It's their a way to change it back? Edited January 16, 2009 by softwareNerd Merged notice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mammon Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 *** Mod's note: Merged with an earlier topic. -sN *** http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44326494073&ref=nf I clicked the link to the forum Mimpy provided in this thread and now I view the threads differently. Instead of just having all the posts in order there is a list/outline "posts in this thread" thing at the bottom. It's bugging the crap out of me. It's their a way to change it back? Yeah, this thread help the problem. Took note of the Options tab up there now too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenure Posted January 16, 2009 Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 You know I still get this problem. I get it whenever I use the search function and I get it when I search for a topic via Google site search sometimes. Sometimes, it just reverts to that randomly, when I manually look through the forum, or hit 'Latest topic in this sub-forum', rather than 'View New Posts'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted January 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2009 I suspect that this setting is stored locally on your PC -- in a browser cookie. I also suspect that viewing pages that are in that mode might set your local setting. Take these two together, and it would explain why viewing pages that are in that mode (e.g. if Google search has stored a URL which has that setting as one of the parms) can cause a switch. Mammon mentioned it switching after he view some other forum. I don't understand that, because the cookie is stored specifically for the domain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thales Posted January 17, 2009 Report Share Posted January 17, 2009 You know I still get this problem. I get it whenever I use the search function and I get it when I search for a topic via Google site search sometimes. Sometimes, it just reverts to that randomly, when I manually look through the forum, or hit 'Latest topic in this sub-forum', rather than 'View New Posts'. Well, I do believe you own a Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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