Guild Wars 2

I’ve been looking at the forums frequently as I learn GW2 and find that I’m reviewing the same posts over and over to see if anything new has been added since the last time I checked. It seems the non-sticky threads are already sorted with ones that have the newest post first. I’d like to request a column in the topics pages that lists the time stamp of the most recent post in that thread. The last poster is already listed; it would be great to know the time (or age) of that post. (Or, if there is a way to enable this and I just haven’t done it, please tell me how).

No, it can’t be done.

ANet has said that the forum system in use here is primitive (my paraphrase) and they’ve implied they would love to change it. I imagine it’s on their wish list, but not their priority list.

that is right. its crap.

@Archranis: in the rss feed of every forum (next to “create topic”) you have a last post time.
e.g. for the bug forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs.rss

use your browser or a feed reader. a good reader can sort the feed by this time stamp and can inform you about new posts without opening the forum. then you can click the url to browse to the forum post.

would be nice on the page but it seems to be extrem difficult

-> and there is no “kitten” filter
-> and titles in full length

Doesn’t your sub-forum page show which threads have new posts, and which do not? Or, the Main page, as well?

The only sub-forum title that doesn’t seem to do that for me, is the Dev Tracker. Not sure why that one never greys-out when it gets new posts.

Interesting side note if someone wants to know:

This guys made the forum software

“The Fangamer Forum is an advanced forum software package we wrote from scratch for the Starmen.Net Forum. We recently licensed the software to ArenaNet for use in their Guild Wars Support Forum.”
http://www.fangamer.com/pages/about