Do the forums report incorrect "most recent post" information on the subforum menu for everyone, or is it just me?
Which forums?
There are several and it would help to know which one, even a screenshot would be nice.
The forums... on this site?
It's not a specific subforum it's the home page which lists all the subforums.
https://forums.elementalgame.com/
PS: I just saw the subforum called "Forum issues." Whoops!
Philly meant which of the Stardock forums. There are more than just the Elemental ones (Sins, GalCiv2, Impulse. WinCustomize, etc). They're all kind of connected. Users on one site can see some posts from other sites, but not always all of them.
I am accessing this thread from Wincustomize.com.
Stardock has many inter-linked sites....with cross-rlated posts/threads/forums....so now and then there will be timing anomalies with refreshing their databases.
In other words you may make a comment in a thread and it won't necessarily immediately show in 'most recent'....
Andrew had said this was by design (some crackpot design that makes no sense) and I believe Bara is trying to look into it.
It's all the same database, the separation is on the user-end of the sites (and yeah, they'll be less convoluted in that regard in the future). If the recent posts pages aren't updating right that's probably just some sort of caching issue.
Quite honestly, SD's forums are atrocious, and easily the worst part about Stardock, and I'd be concerned about it hurting Stardock's image. I hate to sound melodramatic like that on here, since you guys do 99% of things right, but the forums are clearly in that other 1%.
You'd be better off doing forums the way other people do forums. SD's forums are horribly designed, and also horrendously slow. I'm kinda afraid that when elemental is released- the requests and bugreports are going to crash the forums, and give people a negative impression of Stardock if they don't know about all the good things you guys do in terms of support.
I did not realize we were part of a forum multiverse here, I apologize if my comment sounded snarky.
Also, is there a way to search for posts by a certain user? I just wanted to read all of frogboy's posts.
There is, find one by him, left click on the name, bottom option.
https://forums.elementalgame.com/posts/1
The last part of the link is frogboy's user number (1)
Note: you will get a different list of posts if you change the first part to f.ex. https://forums.wincustomize.com
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