Reddit supports rank by reply date. Which i often use, because it can be useful. My argument is that in most cases its not the most useful ranking option.
I can also remind the old forum rules like: "No useless posts. This includes: Necroing, Thread bumping, useless one liners, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming."
The above is no longer an issue in the more modern forum ranking methods in combination with nesting. Its frankly just sub-par any way you slice it, since the new ways have the features of the old and add to it. There is no regression only progress, you could argue.
If you have <= 100 people actively posting on the forum than yes.
I’ve been an on and off member of car forums. Lots of forums are broken down into sub forms based on model and years, and then sub topic like general discussion, engine problems, mods and so on.
It’s much easier to have a few 100s of people commenting on various parts of the forum than a one single feed like HN.
Exactly the example I was thinking of. Same.
You get to control the direction per your interests rather than being sprayed by an algorithm.
Yeah, I guess I should’ve added at least another 0
I want rank by reply-date. That, in itself, is (and was) a measure of popularity.