Is it possible to sort posts chronologically?

@DeWayfarer Some of us "old time users" are well aware of this, but do not consider this a solution. At best it is a horribly convoluted workaround. For those looking for a full feed it is destructive to the user experience. There is a difference between having [u]a[/u] feed and having 14 feeds to do the job that a single one used to do. Switching back and forth between 14 different feeds and only seeing the top level at a time is just making things a lot more complex than it needs to be.

The way I see it it's like I once had a car, then the car is taken away and a unicycle as presented as a viable alternative.

As I said to someone else here though, if this is a workable solution for you then that's all good. SW is providing a user experience that works for you. To me and some of us others though it's just ruining the site experience for us.

@PirateMonkeyCabinet hope you like crawling instead of walking. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I actually don't have a car.

@DeWayfarer I don't have a car either, but the point remains the same.

Point was that it's not just about "old timers" not knowing the site, but that we're looking for different things from the site, different experiences. Both are valid. Just because I want something different than you doesn't invalidate that you have a solution that provides you a user experience you can accept and gives you what you want. In that same vein, just because your solution gives you what you want it doesn't invalidate that to me this is a dysfunctional user experience.

@PirateMonkeyCabinet having been an admin of a small site. I know what it takes to run one.

Given today's demands ANYTHING to make it easier to run is not only necessary yet required. There's more involved in running a website than just software. And nearly impossible to do with just four people.

They actually have performed miracles, and you apparently not don't appreciate it, yet don't even recognize what they have done.

@DeWayfarer I hope you aren't making the assumption that just because I look differently upon a feature/lack of feature than you then I clearly can't have knowledge or experience on the subject? I still stand behind my view that on the subject of the feed both of us have valid views for our own use case and the use cases for our respective user groups. They aren't mutually exclusive.

On the subject of demands beyond just the software I am well aware. Domain costs, server rentals in some cases, hardware upgrades and maintenance, licensing fees where relevant, navigating multiple different licenses when using different libraries, network costs, network optimization, software optimization, storage space cost and optimization, backup solutions and cost, efficient database management particularly with so many interacting entities, just generally reducing overhead, security and privacy, the whole rats nest of legal stuff to navigate, search engine optimizations and marketing, dealing with outages that occur at any time of the day, and more. And the reason I mention all this is to say: Yes, I know "There's more involved in running a website than just software" as you put it. But user experience, user retention and user satisfaction matter too, as means of ensuring the income of a site to cover the many expenses it incurs, and being a social media site users perception of the site and its features are also quite important to its survival.

They've certainly done good things with the site so credit where credit is due, but that doesn't automatically undo the things that provide a worse or overall bad experience for some users. That they may have overscoped on certain areas of the project, it happens to a lot of projects, particularly small team ones. Just the way things go and I'm fine with that. That said, just because they are a small team I won't automatically praise them for what I think are bad decisions that ultimately make it overall a worse experience. Also, it's not donations or just ads that bring the money in, they sell actual features locked behind a paywall. Nothing wrong with that per se, but at that point I'd say it has become a product and I will view/review the site through that lens.

Again, if you find this site to be a 4 or 5 star on a 5 star scale, that's totally fair and valid, but it also doesn't automatically invalidate those who'd rate it at 2 stars.

@PirateMonkeyCabinet even after you have mentioned most of the separate aspects there are both legal constraints as well as software demands that are affecting the interface of this site that you know nothing about.

What you want just isn't feasible. The old design absolutely had to go. I have talk about googles demands before. That by itself affects advertising. Yet Google itself refused to index this site because of the old design!

Think about that. No indexing means little advertising !

There's more going on the legal aspects as well. Such as the COPPA aspects (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ). That effects the design of ALL sites. They simply had to get rid of many of the groups because of just that. Easier to redesign the whole interface.

People are complaining about FB and even YouTube because of all the changes they had to do just due to COPPA! And those two sites are millions of times bigger than this site.

Please remember that this site was under heavy scrutiny because of what happened on EP!

They had to change it for multiple reasons. Yet still be unique enough to be different than most other sites.

@DeWayfarer Firstly, I did mention legality, and some of the stuff I mentioned could be considered under software demands, and even so I had the "and more" part. The points wasn't to list every single, possible thing, but as I said, to say that I am aware there is more to it.

I totally disagree on the feasibility. Yes, indexing matters, but as far as I've seen there are certainly ways that could have provided an algorithmic feed and an optional chronological without preventing indexing (while conforming to both technical and legal demands).

That said, seeing as this is just leading into us butting heads and with replies now devolving into equivalents of "you know nothing, I know best" statements, I see little value in continuing this discussion and spending time on going into deeper details.

I have given the OP my answer. Have a good day.

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