I did like the "what have you done this week" thread. I've seen similar on a couple other smaller forums. I try set weekly/monthly/yearly goals for various aspects of preparedness but its too easy to forget/be too busy doing other things and not keep them. It adds a little bit more accountability when you know your posting public and someone just might be notice that you haven't updated lately. Maybe we should split that thread off by month and lock the old ones after that month has passed.

"The likely cause is not one's computer, but is probably a fault of either the UBB.threads software or the server itself."

If that were the case then it would be more consistent across everyones computer. My guess would be an issue with dial up connections only?
I'm on a capped 512k cable connection which is relatively slow by todays standards and don't have any long thread problems.

Ditto. I think long threads should get a new thread spawned off periodically and the old thread locked, but I'm much rather have three controlled threads about a topic rather than 30 little ones scattered here and there.

-john

I think this is unfair. Basically you are saying the new kids can't play because they got here a year later than other people (or whatever).

You are also saying people's EDC doesn't change or that people don't care how it has changed.

Lock the first two parts and let them post in part #3. You don't have to look at it if you don't want.

If part #3 gets too full, lock it and break it off into part #4.

Put links in each back (and forward) to the other threads and the problem is solved.

-john

If this is the case, the thread probably should have gotten locked instead, or if the capability exists, the thread split.

-john

personally I think it is a tired subject that is chocking out new threads.
It is basically "show and tell".

I suspect it is a combination of speed and how people have their display preferences set.

I have mine set to:

default aged threads: show all threads
default sort order: descending date
default display mode: flat
default view: collapsed
parent posts to show per page: 10 (default)
total posts to show on one page: 100 (default)

For people on slow connections, they could lower the last entry.

When I view the forum, I see the number of new replies in the "Replies" column in red. If I click on that topic, it takes me to the new post. Since I am viewing in flat mode, it only has to render the number of posts as noted with "total posts to show on one page:".

With this setup, I don't see any reason that dial up people should be overly handicapped by large threads. You need not see the whole thread in order to see the new post(s).

-john

Ok, that's cool. Don't look. ;-)

-john

Mine are left at whatever the defaults are.

Someone mentioned the possibility of seperating into sub forums. We could slipt out into "EDC", "gear", "skills", "survival sotries", etc. Maybe a show and tell forum for listing your edc or posting pictures of new gear you just bought. Could appoint a moderator of each subforum to help move the posts.