What is happening to the forum sort?

[Former Member]

Why aren't the latest threads showing up on the top? This was so convenient, now I don't know where the latest one showing within a forum.

Also, earlier I was able to watch threads/forums without actually getting email updates about the same. Now if I put watch, I am getting tonnes of emails in my inbox. I liked the old feature where I can mark something for watching and find it by just going to my watches once I login to the website.

[former_member189059]

'Sort' is working again

[michael_goeck]

Hi,

recently we enabled a special caching mechanism, that made messages appear after a short amount of time after they got posted. I think this is responsible for this behaviour.

I have disabled this again, so please let me know if the problem is also gone.

Regarding the watches: You can define for every watch if you get emails or not. See here: .

Regards,

Michael

[Former Member]

Thank you Michael, it is working now. Curious to know why you introduced this caching mechanism to delay the posting of a message. Is this to enable the moderators to read it first before posting? But the time lag is too short for such scrutiny.

Thanks for the email settings, yes I found it. I wish the default setting is no email for each thread I post or answer.

[Former Member]

Hi Srinivas,

The delay is for reducing the work load on db.

This is what the moderator has to say about this feature..

<i>the delay is indeed a feature and part of our effort to reduce database load in order to further stabilize the forums. It is the so-called "Short-term query cache", it prevents cache expirations of the query cache from happening more than once every 5 or 10 seconds.

Another part is by the way that you are no longer able to choose the way threads are displayed (tree or threaded), only "flat" mode is possible.

However, I could not reproduce the "bug" where you points total is shown as 0. Is this still the case? Perhaps there was a short outage of the points system...

Regards,

Michael</i>

Reference :

Regards,

Jai Shankar

[Former Member]

I tried putting "ABAP" in the search area and then selecting yesterday and sorted by date. It doesn't catch everything, but I doubt if the world will come to an end because of it.

Rob

[RichHeilman]

I'm seeing the same issue and would expect that everyone is as well. SDN has been notified by more than one on the issue, but I personally have not had a response. Hopefully the problem can be corrected soon.

Regards,

RIch Heilman

[suresh_datti]

I sort of sorted out the sort by using the open questions filter..

& yes 'watching' became a pain too...

~Suresh

[Former Member]

Glad to see that I am not the only one faced with this Suresh. I will try the filter idea. Thanks for the tip.