Recent Posts feature changes

[SensoVision]

Long ago, Andy, proposed to change list of posts on the bottom to show threads instead of posts as sometimes one thread get a lot of responses and it fill all the list making it useless.
Now I've change it to display only unique name of posts not all responses. Hope it will be more useful now.

Andy I'd like to say thank you for suggestion!

[Andy]

It's working really well Denis.

Another suggestion would be to only allow the 1st first letter of each word of a post heading to be a capital letter. The php command UCfirst springs to mind but you may need REGEX to do this.

[SensoVision]

I thought about this already, but later think that if there would be multiply requests of the same page it may slow down things and performing such duplicated task isn't sound as good solution to me...
I rather thought about implementing topic name filtering at the time it's posted, this way there will be no such problems.
Also I think that thread like "FREE WEB SITE HOSTING FOR LIFE" is rather exclusion than the rule so we shouldn't see them in future much. Anyway making titles smaller during wouldn't harm IMHO.

Thanks for suggestions once again!

[Andy]

I rather thought about implementing topic name filtering at the time it's posted

That would fix the problem with no impact on speed of the site.

[Menard]

Is it possible to put the recent posts at the top of the forum?

I was wondering if it would be likely to help or hurt by making the recent posts list more visible to casual guests on the forum; perhaps getting them interested in looking at a topic rather than bypassing the forum all together.

Of course, it could have the opposite effect in that they just pay attention to the recent posts list rather than digging through the forum. I am guilty of that myself, and the change to the recent posts list does imrove it in my opinion as well, as it makes more threads available rather than letting an active thread dominate it.

[donecweb]

I personally never use the recent post feature as I always use the "Show unread posts since last visit" link. But visitors may want to see what the forum is like before becoming a member and for them the use of recent post links would be a good thing but being at the bottom of the page they may not see it. Putting it at the top of the page may take too much room from those that want to just browse. Maybe the answer could be to keep the recent post at the bottom of the page but add an easily seen link to the recent post area at the top of the page giving the option of using it or not.