Any way to load the first post always from the home list view even for members?

nitaaikumar

I want this because I want to use Flarum as a blog for a specific site and in a blog the article (first post) is the main writeup and all the discussions follow that.

I know this happens by default for non-registered guests. But I do want to allow sign ups and comments to build a community and encourage participation.

The real reason is that I don't want new registered logged-in members to go directly to the last comment of the discussion without reading the main article first.

I have seen that sometimes in a forum replies and discussions take over more attention that the original well-researched post I have written. This setting would fix that.

Also Flarum has a nice top dropdown on mobiles and side slider on mobiles for them to go to the last comment or any comment easily whenever they want, even for members.

Would this setting be considered to be added in the core as I know many other forum softwares have this?

Thanks again and waiting for beta 14.

clarkwinkelmann

nitaaikumar are you referring to the fact that when a user clicks on a discussion from the discussion list, they are taken to the last unread post?

If a user has not read a discussion yet, they will be shown the first post and will have to scroll down to see more comments. Once they have read additional posts, clicking on a discussion will take them to the oldest unread post. If they have read all posts, they will be taken to the end of the discussion.