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StevieB
Familiar face

Forum Moderators - Why do you repeat the same pinned topics on every single page?

For example, when coming into the Discussions page there are pinned topics at the top of the page, then as you move down they turn into the user topics / questions, but then as we go to page 2 / next page, we get the SAME pinned topics taking up almost three quarters of that page yet again, the same happens when you go to page 3, page 4 etc etc.

Why do you do this, it's incredibly wasteful and just whizzes everyone off. Or is that the intention to stop people asking things?

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ThePillenwerfer
Contributor

I absolutely agree.  That and the tiny box we are given to type in make it very annoying to use.

I don't think the forum mods are bothered. They seem quite happy to have you scroll down three quarters of the page . . . Every single page . . . to find out what has been said instead of just pinning topics they deem important to just the first page, you know, like everyone else in the world does!

TechHorse
Making moves

EDIT:
Since posting the below I have discovered that there is, in fact, a sort comments by date button, and that this can be used to place the newest messages in a thread first. This certainly will make catching up on unread posts easier.

Still, it seems that I have to manually select this sort each time. I wish threads could open auto-sorted by date. But of course this button means that some of the bugbears described below did have solutions after all, and so were unwarranted!

ORIGINAL POST:
My personal bugbear is the difficulty in finding the most recent comments within a thread.

For example, if I wanted to catch up on the latest posts in the "Share your feedback on the AI services experiment in Nightly" discussion, am I seriously expected to press the "Load more replies" button a hundred times to get to the end?

And in addition, I have found that comments within a thread are not always listed in chronological order. So even after exhausting the "Load more replies" button, there are no guarantees that there won't be newer posts above the older posts that I have already previously read. Again, this makes catching up with unread comments more difficult than it should be.

Or am I just missing some trick here? If there is some easy straightforward way to get to the bottom of a discussion and to have its replies sorted chronologically, then please tell me how?