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Hi there.

Just another H2G2-phreak who has been with the lot for a year os so. And as such, I happen to participate in many forums, some of whiich go as long back as I do and has been attended at regular basis from the very start.

Such forums contain 100-200-300 entries of marvelously witty content and philosophical feats beyond measure - naturally - and they split up into a LOT of 20-entry-segments.

My point being - if you MUST segment forums, please do so from the END or with a selection of numbers to choose from, as having to click ten+ times (and pause for loading) is one of the most serious threats I have ever experienced against the daily H2G2 participation.

Please - oh PLEASE - change this as soon as possible!

I have to say that I agree. I came here in the latter part of last year, and have participated in a couple of long forums as well. As many forums consists of posts from a group of regular users to that particular forum, the content of the forum is usually fairly known to the ones using that particular forum, and therefor need not to be repeated every time they want to see the latest replies.

Personally, I think that what my esteemed co-Researcher's suggestion about starting to load the forums from the end is a bit inconvenient, as it can make new people to the forum can be "scared off" from the forums if they stumble in to an already established conversation and they want to get some background to see what twists and turns the forum has taken since the start.

My suggestion would in this case be that the forums starts loading from the first messages posted, but that there is a link to the latest messages alongside the link to the next batch of posts after the first one, thereby eliminating the exsessive clicking to get through the mammoth forums, but still start at the very first post to get new forum readers to start reading from the beginning.

Ditto, siliarly and likewise, I agree wholeheartedly with the above. I can see the point of segmentation (quicker loading) but do get bored clicking to the end.
Also, while I am here, I'd like to see more options in skins, I liked the idea of Alabaster, it is just too bright for me. Thanks and keep up the good work, it is nice to see people thinking about and trying to solve our problems.

oops, should have been similarly.

The order of thread loading will be changed very soon.

Users will be able to set their own preferences.

We intend to a number of new skins over the next year or so. Alabaster is just the first of many.

Thanks for all your feedback...

I think I may have had the same thought as other people - users should be able to set in their preferences how many postings are displayed in each forum page, and possibly which way they are displayed (chronologically starting from either end, in threads, or whatever). It would make life so much easier. Any idea what kind of timescale we are looking at for these sort of things to be implemented - will it be days, weeks, months,...

I am happy to hear (see) that there are others who agree that the present system doesn't work - and even more happy to see that the RGPOH2G2 are intending to do something about it.
In some other sites, you load a page shere the segments are numbered and then you can click your way to the segment (such as the last one) to your liking. How about something like that here?

-KimotoCat - not yet ACE anywhere but in sick and twisted mind.

RGPOH2G2: Really Great People On H2G2!