What's happened to all the site sponsors? There used to be around 15 or more at one stage. Now there are only 9 banners and 4 or 5 of those are owned by the board admins (S2Ki/GoFastLab).

The group buy forum activity has also slowed dramatically with only 1 or 2 replies to threads on any given day.

 

There are only 3 banners for GFL running at any one time (just to clarify). Replies to GB threads are deceiving as a measure of activity. Replies can be "hidden" by thread starters if they desire to do so.

 

Yes, three banners for GFL and one for S2Ki (both of which are site admins).

What has happened to the rest of the sponsors though?

It would also seem unusual for nearly every thread starter in the GB forum to hide their replies. I don't understand why they'd want to do this and I don't think they are.

 

I'm not saying they are, I'm just saying it's possible. I haven't actually looked at what's going on in there in terms of posting activity. The GB forum is different now than it was and it does seem to have less posting activity at first glance. New posts don't push topics to the top by default, so you have to go to the bottom of the page and sort by last post as opposed to the default which is start date in that forum. That's done to give maximum exposure to newer group buy or announcement threads.

I wasn't counting the S2KI banner obviously

 

Ahhhh.....thanks now I know how to make it work. Is there anyway to set this behavior by default per user? I used to scan the GB forums regularlly to see if there is anything interesting out there, but because of the new group buy format I very rarely go there anymore.

I know you guys like the approach with the newest GB threads at the top but I can't stand it. Is there anyway I can set the old behavior of that forum for me so I don't always have to scroll down and manually reorder the thread?

 

I don't think there's a user setting to change the default behavior on a permanent basis. Personally I'm not crazy about it either