Why aren't posts numbered within a thread?

[BankFodder]

49 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said:

No one ever said it was a performance issue:

Actually they did:

59 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

This was a resource intensive function, changing how this worked gave a significant performance improvement for all customers, like a really impactful performance improvement.

 

Edited July 25, 2023 by BankFodder

[Adriano Faria]

5 minutes ago, BankFodder said:

Actually they did:

Wrong. Look at the quote Stuart did. They're talking about the topic links to next unread topic. Before and what was resource intensive is that showed the topic title.

[Daniel F]

1 minute ago, BankFodder said:

Actually they did:

 

The title for the next unread topic was the one with the performance issue

[CheersnGears]

3 minutes ago, Daniel F said:

The title for the next unread topic was the one with the performance issue

I remember that one. On older forums with lots of threads in a single category it could get slow.

[Randy Calvert]

1 hour ago, Rikki said:

That reminds me of post #25630909 on Facebook 😂 Go check it out!

Quote of the day. 🤪

Edited July 25, 2023 by Randy Calvert

[Gabriel Torres]

The numbering of posts could be replaced with a more prominent way of linking to that post. Most of users are not well versed in forums in general, so they don't know that they need to click on the "three dots" and then on "Share" to get a link to a post. I belive a small "link" icon there could facilitate users learning how to link to individual posts.

[CheersnGears]

11 minutes ago, Gabriel Torres said:

The numbering of posts could be replaced with a more prominent way of linking to that post. Most of users are not well versed in forums in general, so they don't know that they need to click on the "three dots" and then on "Share" to get a link to a post. I belive a small "link" icon there could facilitate users learning how to link to individual posts.

This idea has good merit.

[Adriano Faria]

15 minutes ago, Gabriel Torres said:

The numbering of posts could be replaced with a more prominent way of linking to that post. Most of users are not well versed in forums in general, so they don't know that they need to click on the "three dots" and then on "Share" to get a link to a post. I belive a small "link" icon there could facilitate users learning how to link to individual posts.

The date is also linked to the post.

[CheersnGears]

1 hour ago, Adriano Faria said:

The date is also linked to the post.

It's not visually clear that it's there. Some sort of Share icon right after the date would be helpful to end users.

[Gabriel Torres]

3 hours ago, Adriano Faria said:

The date is also linked to the post.

Our users don't know that the date is a link to the post itself...

[Adriano Faria]

It’s been like that since forever. I think it’s just a case of creating a FAQ or something to let them know how to properly use the board. 

[Matt]

It's a cue we took from social media which always has the permalink linked to the date.