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G'day, destructor, and welcome to Kunena.

See msg #2 in this topic.

Ummmm,

I feel a little weird to ask this, as I am SURE it's a major oversight on my part, but I cannot figure out how to change the forum DEFAULT of posts to be ordered like how ALL forums are, showing the oldest first. I am using Kunena 1.6.4
The problem is I try and try and I cannot find in the back-end to make my forum show the oldest 'BY DEFAULT'... I am getting a lot of people stating that it's very confusing as most of my members (comprised mainly of seniors) are migrating over from a different board (ran by someone else, but will be hopefully phased out).

I have ran several forums before (SMF and phpBB) and they all are the typical default oldest to newest ordering, so I cannot understand why Kunena would have it by default backwards, and having to force EVERY member to have to go in and change the setting themselves.

I KNOW this must be a setting that I just am blind on spotting, but I cannot even find any documentation as such.

IF, by chance, this was a programming oversight (I really cannot see that being so, as the developers of this awesome software would be a lot smarter than that), is there at least a core hack that I can perform so that it shows default oldest-to-newest and that if people want it different from the norm, they can change it themselves in their profile settings.

THANK YOU for your help...
and again, THANKS GUYS for the great software...

... and thank you for your patience as I am SURE it's something simple I just cannot find.

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The post order is configurable on a user-by-user basis. This question has been asked many times in the past. See msg #2 in this topic.

sozzled wrote: *** Topics merged ***

The post order is configurable on a user-by-user basis. This question has been asked many times in the past. See msg #2 in this topic.

But I don't understand that we are LOCKED IN to having the forum 'DEFAULT' to newest first ordering.... something that is COMPLETELY OPPOSITE to what most forums are structured. I understand that users can change their configuration themselves, and I think that's great... but why do I have to force all my users to change the forum to a STANDARD and TYPICAL view? Why am I as an administrator do NOT have that global option?

As I can see with all your 'merging' of this topic that I am not alone on this opinion. As it is configurable for an end-user, how much harder must it be to make it an option for the administrator? Why make it such a run-around?

Guess I will try that hack by LeFunk and see if it works...
Just my two cents...

K... the hack by LeFunk does NOT work... especially since his hack is for a version prior to 1.6.4
The lines pertaining to this would start on line 339 in the same file (view.php).

but I cannot make it so that it will show as default descending. changing the default_sort to 'desc' does NOT change the settings... especially to new users.

I sure hope that the developers have taken this extreme oversight and made the appropriate amendments for version 2.0

People (users) HATE the whole 'forced to opt out' situation. I would really like to make things straight forward for them.
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LN888 wrote: But I don't understand that we are LOCKED IN to having the forum 'DEFAULT' to newest first ordering ...

You are not locked-in to using the last-post-first ordering. Do you see that here (at www.kunena.org )? If you don't see it here at this website then you know you are not locked-in to anything and that kind of destroys the argument, doesn't it?