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[rockyracoon]

Is it just me or do any others only get the last 40 questions?

I can't see any questions prior to March 14, Ed, is this right?

[ummmm]

They disappear after a certain amount of time. If you look in the sub sections of some categories there's hardly and questions in there.

[ummmm]

If you click on 'answered' they appear again.

[rockyracoon]

Ah, you learn something new everyday.

Thanks :)

[Gromit]

Rocky

That is similar to my question below. It is like they have lost a load of questions.

[ummmm]

Gromit, click on the 'answered' tab.

[boxtops]

so..... gromit can see 899 answers in Football, but only 19 questions (same as me). That suggests each question gets 40-odd answers - would that be right?

[ummmm]

If you click on answered I can see 516 questions.

[boxtops]

Yes, you are right, ummmm, I'm confusing my tabs.

[boxtops]

No - I can see 516 ANSWERS, not questions!

[Gromit]

Boxtops

899 Sports answers
516 Fottball answers.

What strange functionality. How can it possibly be any help to the user to display only 19 questions when there are 516? If like me you remember a post by the time of year it was posted, then cutting out questions after 6 weeks is very unhelpful. I am sure this has not always been the case.

[factor-fiction]

I'm not sure what the issue is. There are tabs for recent questions and there are other tabs for all unanswered and answered questions going back over many years.
Am I missing the point of the question and some of the replies- such as Gromit's.
Are some people here suggesting we should dispense with Recent Questions as the default tab and have all Answered questions displayed?

[Buenchico]

The default view, when you click on any of AB's sections,is to show the 'Most Recent' tab. Only posts from the past month are shown there. (So there could be many hundreds in Chatterbank and none at all in a little used subsection).

As has been noted above, the 'Answered' and 'Unanswered' tabs will still show older posts.

[pixie373]

The odd thing is, if you do a search, the questions flash up and disappear within a second or two (at least in a mobile). You have to be very quick!

[AB Editor]

"I am sure this has not always been the case."

Sorry, it has!

The default tab is: "most recent" - and to save loading everything, we only show stuff from the last 3 months (irrc).

"Answered" shows all questions in a category which have received answers.

We inherited a structure for the site which was built in 2000, and we've kept it mostly to preserve the links and relationships with other sites we had/have.

Could it be more "sensible" if we redesigned it today? Definitely!

[Gromit]

// The default tab is: "most recent" - and to save loading everything, we only show stuff from the last 3 months (irrc). //

No you don't. You are showing nothing before 16th March 2014.