Hi all and happy new year.

This is a kind of 'ask for a friend' post 😉, as it has nothing to do with my own server, but any help would be awesome!

Thing is, I'm member on a site running IPS. Their (fancy) forum template does not support fluid layout. They choose to use a zillion sub and subsubboards. It does keep the topics organised, but it isn't helping 'reading' the site. My main interest are the new topics and opening posts, I can't really care about the majority of the replies.

Is there a way to request topic-list or unread list, sorted on topic start dates (desc), without me opening and closing subboard per subboard? The unread/activity/stream pages seem to render per replies only. I tried to squeeze in a manual "fluid layout" cookie, but without luck. Tried adding "?sortby=start_date&sortdirection=desc" to several URLs, but without luck.

Who has a bright idea?

Nobody?

We have an active topics page setup that displays the last 90 threads.  https://www.defenderssv.com/activetopics.html/

 

 

Thank you @lilnina, but that is not a default-page you can call on any forum running IPS, right? That is kind of mandatory, as I don't own that one site I'm talking about.

Why won't an activity stream work for you? Couldn't you use the "Content Items" option?

 

 

That does include topic replies unfortunately

Like this @Daniel F

It is showing all the topics that have been replied to (you in this case) in the last some minutes

Anyone else?

 

On 1/6/2020 at 7:49 AM, Sledge FTB said:

Is there a way to request topic-list or unread list, sorted on topic start dates (desc), without me opening and closing subboard per subboard?

The only way to do what you want without a 3rd-party resource is add the Topic feed widget (ordered by start date) in a page you want, in the horizontal mode. You will get a list of X latest topics like a forum view and it won’t get updated when people reply. 

Thank you for your reply @Adriano Faria, I guess I have to live with it, as it's not my board and I won't be able to install any plugins or so.

Have to be honest and say I found it weird there is no such URL available. Seems quite basic to me.

I give up and rest my case.