Please excuse the long, inclusive quoting below. It's necessary to support my reply, in this case:
Originally Posted by
NickW
Originally Posted by
NickW
Originally Posted by
KevinSours
Originally Posted by
bostonbali
Most frustrating to me has been the Search > Advanced Search >
Search by User Name. [original bolding by poster -Ed]
That's how I keep up with threads where I've had input (where I posted). The current search feature does NOT allow me to see those posts, organized by most recent post date (as the old search feature did).
This limits the usefulness of FT to me at the moment, which is a shame...
The new search doesn't have the capability to sort by most recent post date. It turns out that this is not going to be easy to implement in the new model. It something we definitely want to do.
Kevin
I think it's something you
need to do.
From my own personal experience, and also judging from the posts on this forum, this is the
single most important use case for search on FT.
And just so I'm not a whining freeloader, I just renewed my subscription for two years.
[original bolding by poster -Ed]
In the specific case to which Kevin replied, Search>Advanced search>Search by username>Sort by post date (in search options) works great.
I just wish we could set search by post date as our default, or, if not that, the system default be set to that instead of relevance.
No, it doesn't -
I can't tell who made the last post by looking at those results and they're sorted by the order in which I posted to the threads, rather than the order of the most recent posts on the thread.[Underline is mine, for emphasis. -Ed]
In a Search>Advanced Search>Search by user, you shouldn't be able to see who the last poster to that thread was,
you should only see the posts made by that user. So,
yes, what I described does indeed do what it's supposed to do.
This particular case never did what you're expecting it to do.
Now, as to how to do what I think you want to do:
Using the workaround (referred to by
lin821):
If you subscribe to all threads to which you post (you can even select no e-mail notification, if the e-mailed updates bother you), then the drop-down
Quick Links>(Miscellaneous)Subscribed Threads, will give you a post index style list of all the threads to which you posted, with the most recently posted to thread listed first and with the new mail icon, bolded title, and a link to the most recent post in that thread.