problems with listing of topics

[Guest elwood]

Recently when I access the forums such as Lounge or Deli etc., the topics are listed alphabetically and not by most recent date. Has something happened? To find the most recent post you have to scroll down until you happen to see the date..sometimes page after page.Is there some way I can correct this problem? Thanks

[HooBoy]

When you are in the main page of any of the forums, if you look on the BROWN BAR, you will see, " Sort Topics by..... Topic ID | Discussion Topic | Author | Last Updated Date/Time | Views "

 

Click on the one you want the topics to be ordered in.

[+ deej]

That's if you have topics "expanded".

 

It doesn't actually say "Sort by" otherwise, but you can still click on the column headings to sort on that column.

[Guest elwood]

Thanks Hooboy and deej...I tried your suggestions and it helped a bit...but something is still not right.The listings are now in order of last updated date and time but the topics are in strange order and a very different format from what they used to be. Can't figure this out at all.What would happen if I just stumbled on the site? How would it come up in default if I had never seen it before? Is there some way I can get the default format? Thanks if you can help...as it is now it makes the forums much less accessible...though the review section is still the same.

[+ deej]

I believe (but I'm not sure) that display mode changes you've made are remembered in cookies. If you delete your cookie for this site, you should see the default display.

[Guest elwood]

Thanks again,deej.....but being a somewhat computer illiterate type...I'm not sure how to delete cookies...any advice? Sorry to be such a pain. My experience with cookies is limited to eating them :-)

[+ deej]

Tossing your cookies :9 is going to depend on your OS and browser.

 

In Windows, cookies are stored in a folder named ... err ... cookies. It's in various places depending on your Windows version. You can go in and just delete the files with the name of this site.

 

In Netscape they're stored differently.

 

You could also go into IE's Tools->Internet Options dialog and click the button that says "Delete Cookies" but that will delete ALL cookies, not just the cookies from this site. You could lose logins from other sites. But if you're not, to your knowledge, using cookies for logins it might not be a bad idea to periodically nuke cookies on principle. <shrug>

[Guest elwood]

Thanks,Deej.Your suggestion {and instructions) on deleting cookies was most helpful and solved my problem.After deleting cookies,the next time I returned to this site, the topics were displayed as they had been before I screwed them up.Thanks for your patience with me..I learned something.

[+ deej]

Glad it worked for you!