New web interface to forums

[Hasan Aljudy]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>> First impression: much better than the old one, some what slick.
>>>
>>> I Just noticed that some threads are scrambled .. or broken into 
>>> multiple threads.
>>
>> Yeah, I noticed that too.
> 
> I think I know why this happens.
> The newsgroup overview shows only the N most recent posts (25 by 
> default) and seems to first get those posts and _then_ sort them by 
> thread. This results in subthreads whose common 'ancestor' post is not 
> in the N most recent posts getting split up.
> This may look a bit weird, but I think it makes sense: who wants to get 
> a 500 post thread back because a single post was added?
> 
> Also, note that the thread overview in below the text of a post seems to 
> show the entire thread.

The reason I first thought of was that it sorts by date first, then 
figures out the threads for each day.
But then I saw several replies to the thread "MIT Technology Review: An 
Interview With Bjarne Stroustrup" scattered around in the same day, so 
your explanation makes more sense, I think.