Someone made a MYSTERY POST

Today I see that the red "new posts" is lit up when I visit the forum. So I went to look for the new post, but sadly one of the glaring omissions from this forum software is the ability to click to see new posts. I should be able to click that red "new posts" link and be taken to the new posts but alas, I can't. I actually scrolled back through 5 years of topics and couldn't find this new post so I gave up.

So if you posted today on some old post that maybe you found by searching or something, please reply and tell us where you posted.

And for everyone, if you find an old post and want to reply to it, please do so with a new topic so it appears on the front page. I run into this all the time.

Yes, I learned some time ago to go back at least six pages to encounter 'traffic' on old threads. Strange, but true.

I don't know if you noticed but I changed the settings to display 200 topics per page rather then the former 50 topics. So if you went back 6 pages you were going back 300 topics, but now 6 pages will be 1200 topics.

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I changed the settings to display 200 topics per page rather then the former 50 topics.

Thanks, this is much better!

I believe the post you are discussing was made by lpoleshuck.

The topic title is Triggers: Tyramine and Alcohol. Prior to their post yesterday the last time anyone posted to the topic was June 2017. The first line of their recent post begins with, "It's been more than 6 years since my last post."

By the way you can see the order that discussions/responses are made by clicking on RSS. It does not bring you to the topic but it does show you what the poster discussed and the topic thread it was made under. I use RSS all the time when I can't find a new post.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2024 11:25PM by JakeS.

Thanks, Jake! I never even thought of looking at the RSS.

For those interested, the post was made to a thread from 2017. It's about his success eliminating tyramine from his diet.

For those interested, here are the poster's (lpoleshuck) other posts. Also, above the post Carey linked is a post by Jackie listing foods high in tyrosine. One thing on that list is MSG. Twenty years ago, we had a poster, Fran Ross, who found that MSG was a big trigger for her. Her story starts on p4 in this PDF from Session 61 of the Conference Room archives on our site.

RSS doesn’t work on my iphone

RSS feed do not usually work on iPhone or iPad. Not sure if you have an apple product. There are apps you can download.

At one time, I suggested that all new responses to threads should be at the top of the page rather than the current format of original topics staying in sequential order as originally posted. This way, responses to older topics don't get lost down the list and out of sight. Topics without a current response work their way down the list.

This way, the most popular topics (lots of responses) remain at the top of the page.

Would this be reconsidered?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/01/2024 01:48PM by Ken.

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At one time, I suggested that all new responses to threads should be at the top of the page rather than the current format of original topics staying in sequential order as originally posted. This way, responses to older topics don't get lost down the list and out of sight. Topics without a current response work their way down the list.

This way, the most popular topics (lots of responses) remain at the top of the page.

Would this be reconsidered?

I'm a moderator on a board that does this. I don't think we can do it here without using different software, which is a whole other can of worms.

I'd love to have it work that way, but George is right. The forum software will have to be replaced for that to happen, and that's no small task. It's on the agenda and it will happen eventually, but it has to happen in a very careful, planned manner. The last time the forum software was upgraded by Hans, the site lost thousands of older posts. Don't want something like that happening again.