I noticed that the topics displayed on the main community page were top topics rather than latest. I did wonder why there was a discrepancy and thought it was a lag. You can select what appears on this page yourself but changed it for logged out and new users as the latest topics are usually the busy ones to join in rather than something from a week ago.
When looking for this setting, have also cut down the number of suggested topics at the foot of the page so save that being such a wall of text.
It now doesn’t show your tracked threads just a couple of the most recent ones (or none at all). I was hoping it was some bug that would sort itself out.
It means you have to go back each time to the main board to find a new thread and to see what has new posts. Previously, I would just use the suggested topics to switch to tracked threads with new posts. It is much harder to follow now, plus there is much less choice to choose as it only seems to show 2 other threads max, so it isn’t really of much use.
Is this something that individual users can change back?
For me it had any threads that I was tracking that had new posts first, then a few others at the bottom. Those others often were relatively random though. Now it just seems to have a few with recent activity but only on the board that the thread I am reading is on (i.e. I have three Site Feedback ones at the bottom now).
I would much prefer that it was a longer list again (I assume it was around 10 before), but most importantly showing those tracked topics that have new posts. Without it, it makes navigating the site considerably worse (at least for how I have been doing it for the last few years, both by desktop browser and mobile).
I have largely been basically a lurker for most of my time on the boards (which I think now is something like 15 years). I do have sporadic times when I do post a little more though (like currently). Maybe that does mean that as I post rarely and generally only in a few topics normally that the change does impact me more than most of the regular users who post much more than me, so interact more based on replies.
Just since this morning, I assumed it might be due to the changeover, but saw this thread and figured it might have been an unintended consequence of shortening the list of suggested threads
Actually, just noticed that it does it, but only for the sub forum I’m in.
So it shows nothing here for me as I’ve got no other tracked threads in site feedback. But in social it’ll show the social ones but not this.
It previously showed all of the regardless of sub forum.
I think it was the choice to just do things for that category which made the difference so I’m now seeing Just Stop Oil thread on music forums, which is fine but doesn’t feel quite as relevant to me for joining in more chats.
I’ve made it 30 days which might be too long so may drop that if it helps promote more active conversations across the community
