:shudders:

I've done that before. It got a bit confusing. Seriously, like Shadows said, you feel like your are scrolling in a counterintuitive manner.

I'd prefer the way it is now to reading up. But i'd much prefer it if there were a way to mark which posts were new. Much like how you mark which forums have new posts in them. Mark the forum, mark the thread and then mark the post is what I'd prefer. That way you wouldn't have to wade through a whole page until you recognize a post you haven't read.

-Tristan

I'm going to cast a definite definitive vote ... for ambiguity!  I really don't mind either way.

I am indifferent :), but I have a logistical type question.  How would customary spoiler warnings work.  Usually you say spoiler and skip a few lines so that the reader can stop scrolling down, but if you were scrolling up then you would naturally always have the whole message on the screen including the spoiler and would inadvertately see it even if you didn't want to...

I would give it a try. I'd prefer seeing the newest messages first or at least go to the page with the most recent messages first.

And like someone already asked: if the new messages could be marked in some way this would be really helpful to find the new ones.

As for the spoilers which could be overread easily by scrolling upwards: since spoilers never stop me from reading a post, this doesn't matter much for me

chris -
who sometimes even reads the last page of a book before getting there

I like the format the way it is.  This is a pretty standard format for UBB and EZBoard, so denizens of other message boards may find the reverse format more confusing.  Maybe, as an alternative, have the setup similar to Yahoo Groups!, where the main page includes the most recently discussed topics?  And perhaps they can contain a small blurb similar to the "Most Active Topics" page?

My vote is for keeping it the way it is...It would be great to have a DThreaded( http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?dthread=14484  ) board...but I guess you've got to go with what you have.


Skile

I'm going to have to vote to make the change!  I'd love to have the latest posts first.  Scrolling down to find the end of those favorite threads is a pain--and this way, you'd only have to open the window and *pop!*   There's the new post.

Vote 1 for reverse order!

I've found it really isn't that much of a bother scrolling down - it's a little annoying, but it's useable, especially if you are catching up on a thread.

One thing that does bug me which I would like to see fixed is that when you click on the most recent message in Today's Active Topics takes you to first message of a thread, rather than to the actual most recent thread.

Other than that, I'm quite happy with the site. This is the first time that I've spent any time on a bulletin board, and it seems to be working really well :)

Well done guys :)

I'd have to see it done to really be able to judge, but my gut feeling is "keep it the way it is."

It is the standard for (almost) all UBB / vBulletin board, and everybody's adjusted to it. It takes me all of 2 seconds to scroll down to where I last stopped reading, while I imagine that backwards could take a lot of getting used to. Perhaps not that bad for those of us who come here every day, but for those who visit only occasionally the adjustment might be quite disconcerting.

I like it the way it is. Start to read at top and read down. Otherwise it would be as if you start a book at the end and you have to read pagewise to the first one.
This would be rather strange. Starting to read at the end...

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Like this or    this you mean?

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