Quote - Actually you should try living with threads floating to the top - you may find it's actually a better system once you have got used to it. For a start, it's much easier to keep a discussion going. On the old forum, after two days any thread was DEAD. Now threads that were started over a week ago are still active.

Sometimes, that's a good thing. It depends what people come here for. If it's for socializing and chat, active threads on top is the way to go. If it's for information, chronological is better. When there's a chatty post with hundreds of responses, only a real diehard is going to read every single post, along with the various drifts in subject and leaps to other thoughts. Those are the kinds of subject shifts that are often best served as new topics. Sorting by date tends to force new topics to be new threads or they just die out as part of an old thread. I'm not arguing one being better over another, just that they serve different purposes for different people.

I mostly wish that the sort I want will stay the way I want and I'm mildly annoyed that the default sort is no longer the one that this site used to have.