Currently, when viewing a forum, you see the thread starter, and then the replies, oldest to newest.
That means that once a topic has filled one page, it essentially dies because few people go to the next page.

Posting the messages in reverse order would show the most recent reply first, but then the thread starter would be buried on the last page.

I wonder how difficult it would be to have the thread starting message locked in the first position, and have the replies listed newest to oldest?

Some threads have thousands of replies!

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If you click on the last comment timestamp of a thread on the forum sub index it opens the thread on the last posted comment. Quote