an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 11/07/25 at 03:53:10:

Yes, I will do this now and it should be better afterwards.

No, what George Jempty is referring to is within a subforum the topics should be ordered by Last Post (date), but they aren't. For example in the Marshall board you can see this quite clearly at the bottom of page 2. The dates go 2006, 2008, 2003, 2010, 2012, 2006, 2022, 2020.

It's an indexing problem. From time to time GMTonyKosten rebuilds the index and it's fine again. But only for a while. There must be some buggy code in the BBS software leading to disorder over time.

I don't understand the ordering of the posts within the sub-topics.  Shouldn't they be in descending chronological order?

I didn't mean to pick on that particular thread. I meant more that if we are to have the subfora (I suppose that's the right word?), then we need to be strict and consistent, otherwise it defeats the purpose of having them. 

ErictheRed wrote on 01/25/18 at 21:27:41:


That's a problem, I suppose some of the Moderators aren't coming here as often as they should, I'll have a look at it.

I'm somewhat against the subforums, as we've discussed before.  A bigger problem is that newer threads have not consistently been started in the proper subforum, so the organization isn't really being followed anyway. There is a thread in the 1.d4 d5 2.c4 forum called "QGD vs Ragozin;" shouldn't that be in the QGD Mainline subforums? 

Then there are threads that straddle the line between different subforums because of transpositional possibilities or because people became interested in a slightly different but related opening. 

I appreciate the effort that was put into the change, but prefer the old layout, myself.

chk wrote on 01/13/15 at 08:38:24:


Seeley wrote on 01/14/15 at 23:18:41:


I'm glad, it was worth all the effort if it makes the Forum more useful for the members.

It is useful imo - thanks for the effort

TonyRo wrote on 01/12/15 at 01:18:00:


Yes, and no-one even moaned about it.

GMTonyKosten wrote on 09/16/14 at 21:42:12:


I must say I did expect a bigger reaction to such a significant change!

I think the sub-boards are very useful indeed. Thank you!

By the way, I got a rather frightening response after typing in "www.chesspub.com" into my browser: "Welcome to Utimate Web Hosting. Thanks for signing up with us. This will now be your default page...<segue to Ultimate Web Hosting site. No chesspub in sight.>"

Is this a security problem or a configuration glitch or something else?

I think subfora for books/DVDs are unnecessary and may just create clutter.  Discussions about a product usually spill over into evaluating particular positions and variations.  If I have a comment about Simon Williams' recommendation in the Classical Dutch, a separate subforum would create a dilemma where to post it.

Tony, Thank you for your work in upgrading and improving the forum!  I find it amazing that a famous Grandmaster is carefully pruning and sorting all these silly threads created by little peasants like me.