I see now... I see... I hadnt noticed that postlist has been changed already in the default view to not show older posts... that is, that they are already filtered.
OK, so if this is to be a standard I think we should start out with some re-wording. Instead of saying "Show threads [active in...]" it should say something like "Now showing threads [active in...].
Secondly, I see a big problem with this on some boards. For example, I have some boards that get posts every day. But some boards are not that popular... and there will be times this filter will show no posts. That is trouble, it should never happen. Solutions? I would suggest either:
-Different default "Show threads active..." values for every board to adapt them to what is needed for them. For example, in
www.wwwthreads.com you would set less popular boards to maybe a month or so, such as the "Web Hosting" board, and boards like this General Feedback one to a week, as is. Otherwise when you go to a less popular board the forum looks like it is totally new and not worth posting... you know...
"nobody posts here!" I assume most people would not search for older posts, people take the defaults, what you give them.
-Or maybe better yet... Make sure that no matter if it is checking for active threads one month old or just one week there are always X number of threads displayed. That is, if in the default setting as of now (one week) the board only has 3 threads, get next 17 threads so that there are 20 threads... even if they are older.
As for Eileens suggestion about making the filtered dates default to the last you indicated... the problem with it is that most people are not really computer sabby, you have to keep things as simple as possible for them and I am afraid that could result in doing for example on testing a search for posts one day old and when further going through boards wonder why there are so few posts when they are actually filtered by just one day or so. The thing is that we have to assume how users are not that "smart" and sometimes you need to sacrifice features that would be cool for us who spend hours here for easier navigation of the newbies.
Mateo Byler
CruceDeCaminos.com
