On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Tim Hall wrote:

hundreds of postings per day. Quite possibly the usage patterns are quite unlike the probable patterns of The Phoenyx.

Possibly, since the game participants are more likely to read their games separately and things like that, but I'm curious to see whether most people use recent-posts pages or unread-posts pages, or just read scattershot... and what percentage of people go back and re-read threads on later visits. Stuff like that.

Webforums are not conducive to reading every post. This is good, in that you can passively ignore threads you're not interested in, and bad, in that if you're trying to keep up with a game, you probably do want to read every post. So Wirebird needs to serve both approaches. It's actually pretty good at the latter already (other than WHERE DID THE CATCH-UP BUTTON GO? I have 700+ unread posts in Celandra), but I'd like to make sure it can happen in a way familiar to users of vB/phpBB.