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Would someone like to tell me why the following is happening?
In my Most Recent Forum Entries bit, some of them are saying that there are replies to them. Howver, when I go to the forum I find that if there was a reply it is not showing. I am VERY confused!

Don't forget that the forums are sorted in conversation order, not time order. Someone might have replied to an old bit of a thread and the reply is buried in amongst old conversations.

I was under the impression that the conversation was sorted in time order... The tree on the left shows it in reply order, but the area on the right is in time order.

Or am I crazy?

Both windows are sorted in conversation order, in a vain attempt to make the conversations make some kind of sense. Asynchronous conversations can be very hard to follow when strictly in time order.

We're planning to offer different views on the forums, so you can choose to see messages in date order, and show only the last n messages, and lots more besides. Eventually.

In my experience, the sorting stuff into conversation order doesn't always seem to work. Most of the time, it always appears in time order. Yes this can lead to an awful lot of confusion, especially when people get side tracked. And it obviously gets me confused when it does what it's supposed t

You've probably thought of this but in order to find replies to your own comments, it may be a good idea to highlight the last entry you made in the left hand column. Er, did you understand that as it doesn't seem to clear now I've re-read it?!?

Try again, highlight the heading in left column to show you where your last entry was.

Does that make sense? The baby was up all night last night being ill so please excuse any waffling and incoherence.

hope the baby is better now..

Bronchiolitis poor thing. Still, he seems to be over the worst of it now.

Pleased to hear he's getting better. And you get sleep now too...