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Originally Posted by tamrahennatx
I'm having trouble discerning the difference between "Active Topics" and "New Posts". They seem to serve the same purpose for me.
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1) Active topics was organised by forum. As a science minded individual, I liked the feeling of 'structure'. New posts has it in order of when posted. e.g. I don't think I could off hand just see every new swap meet post in one nice group together.
2) Active topics showed all the topics on the same page which also gave a feeling of being able to see the 'whole bhuz' at any one time. Whereas new posts only displays a limited number (10?). I feel dissorientated not being able to have that overview of the 'whole bhuz' at any one time. I feel like I could easily miss threads now.
3) Active topics had many more settings. You could set it anything from last 5 min to last week ? or even month, not jsut since your alst visit. So if you visted once then went away and came back and still wanted to see everything since the night before you could. Whereas new posts would only show you what is new since you logged off 5 min ago. I liked to have it set on 'anything in the last hour' in the background all day. Which brings me on to . .
4) Active topics could be set to refresh at intervals between 1 min up to . .a few hours?
So there is quite a lot of difference!!
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