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Weaver:
[I'm convinced I have mentioned this before, please do accept my apologies - pain and drugs again.]

Feature request - Is the following feasible? I do understand our leader and team have enough to do.

I’d love to have a really fast way of toggling reversing the chronological order in which posts in a thread are displayed. Normally I have things set to ‘show most recent post at the top’. I sometimes want to go to an old thread and read from the beginning, so I want to read that thread in normal chronological order, but to achieve that means digging around in settings making the change, saving it, getting back to where I was because I forgot to open a second window, and then later going back into settings a second time to put things back.

Is there some trick I could use myself?

Is the forum's engine up to allowing any customisation so as to add a readily accessible UI element? (If our dev gods are feeling really bored.)

Westie:
This may not work for you; but it works for me using Safari on an iPad:

I have saved the 'Look & Layout page' of my profile as a favourite. When I get to a thread that I want to change the order of, I
1. Open a new browser tab (which automatically shows the favourites)
2. Select the "Profile" page saved previously and select the order I want the thread displayed as
3. Select the previous tab, showing the thread I'm interested in
4. Hit the "reload" thingy, and voila!  ;D

When I've done with that thread I select the "Profile" tab and revert to previous settings.

It might be rather inelegant, but it works for me!

kitz:
Unfortunately whilst there is a quick toggle for thread view, there isn't any option for posts within a thread and that is set within the user's profiles preferences.

SMF is basically software that interacts with the database and I am restricted to what is there is the CORE.   You can make cosmetic changes such as themes fairly easily, but that's more to do with colours and images.    Whilst it is not impossible to change anything you want within the core, problems arise when security updates and patches are released and they won't install to certain modified code.   I've been burnt before with this several times thinking I was clever by making highly adaptive customisation.   It took a long time to sort and I ended up having to reinstall a fresh brand new version from scratch and import the old database.  I vowed never to do that again.   Even more recently I got caught out with an approved SMF mod that stopped a security patch despite it being packaged. 

So whilst I could tell porkies and say its impossible, instead I shall tell the truth which is that it is possible, but it would mean manual coding in parts of code where I wouldn't even begin to know where to look (it contains massive amounts of code)  and then after I'd done that, there would be the strong probability it would affect any future updates, because they wont install if it detects any changes in the CORE code.

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I tend to have newest post as last set.   That way its easy to read the whole thread chronologically if you want..  but by default clicking on the 'new' button will always take you to the first unread post if there are any new additions to the thread.

Weaver:
> but by default clicking on the 'new' button will always take you to the first unread post if there are any new additions to the thread.

I'm being dense here Kitz? (just taken three different types of pills.)

banger:
New button on Thread title on thread list. Does that help?

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