>>>Interesting, I never paid attention (and didn't know) about this last link. It does show all messages in a month for the forum (we can filter by category).
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>>>But still it does not seem to allow date range or does it?
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>>No, not in that option because it is based on a calendar approach.
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>One useful approach might be to return just the first message of all *threads* for a given date range in a given forum/category. A user could then browse threads that look interesting.


YES!! This is what I'd expect. This is very much like what you get on StackOverflow.... A list containing only the posts, sorted in descending order, with a Category and Date Filter. It would also be nice if the entry for each original message showed the original post date, how many total replies were associated with the post, how many views the question has had, etc (again, "just like on StackOverflow")

There is no reason in the wold that the results of a Category + Date restults set couldn't be rendered like the attached screenshot.


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