"Today's Active Topics" link Options

[Tom Tamlyn]

The link for "Today's Active Topics" doesn't work for me right now, I assume because there have not been any posts in the last 24 hours.

The error message states " Try again and broaden your search criteria."

When active topics are displayed, there's a drop down menu that permits changing the search criteria to the previous week or month, but couldn't figure out any way of bringing up a list of all the past week's or month's active topics within the search system, until I discovered that performing a successful search on any text string would produce a screen with the active topics drop-down menu.

There's nothing hard about this, but at a sleepy hour of the morning it took me a couple of tries to figure out. In any event it's an extra step couple of steps.

If it's not unreasonably difficult, is there something that could be done to have the portal display a list of active topics under these circumstances? Perhaps a separate link for "This Week's Active Topics"? Or perhaps a routine that would silently perform the weekly search if the daily search failed would present a cleaner interface.

Thanks.

[stevesliva]

I have always used "View new posts" which adjusts for your last visit. You get used to the occasional nothing new, especially on weekends.