With this new migration, we are trying to start fresh and abandon the thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of posts that are now irrelevant because of fixes, enhanced user interface, etc. This seemed to be the best model we looked at, but it can still be further developed. The "new" button in that filter at the top will show you only the posts that you have not yet looked at, but given your comment I will see if I can also create as "recent posts" list in a block at the right or in some other convenient place.

I am also still working on pulling over the "best of" or the most relevant forum questions from the old site. I migrated another five this morning, but I'm still digging through them.

I hope this helps. And I'll look for a way to show recent--especially if you feel that "new" filter is not good enough.

Ha! No, actually I put that there this morning because of your suggestion. It was a great idea. It's a little hard to think of things in the abstract (what will users want to see here, here, or there?). But once you begin using, then you can see. This is a good example of that. So I put that list up at the right. It basically is just showing the most recent 10 Questions ordered by the ones that have been commented on most recently first. I could do 5, 8, or more than 10. But 10 seemed about right.

If you have any more good ideas, please let me know. I like this set up a bit better, partly because I like the idea of users with the questions building the categories (topics at right) rather than the users trying to stuff every question into a admin-designed category. The ones that are most used could be sorted to the top of that list, but for now the alphabetical sort on those seemed easier to read.

Yes, I'm going to be going back through the forum to try to pull more of that old content that is still good. Some of it though--much of it--is along the lines of question, then Kotlikoff says "call me." :)

The "more" link was easy--thanks for that. And thanks for that spell check. Ugh. The access to the other forum is harder to do since it's really access to the entire site, which we've taken offline. I could put it online (it's at a separate URL) but not sure the implications of that. I'd have to ask a colleague here about that. I know I could put it online for a few hours or a day, but I'd not like to leave it live because of search engines etc that would begin to index it. Another user, Brian V., expressed some interest in the old forum, so perhaps we could mark a time to go pull out some select content that I could then migrate over. Maybe you could help with that. Let me think this through a bit. Thanks for all your suggestions. I've thought about smaller text maybe on that "recent comment" list. I did add the filter by user. And I think that as more content and "tags" are created it will get more interesting as the tag cloud gets bigger. I think I have it set at 50 terms now (i.e., show 50 terms then "more" link). The parenthesis shows the number of posts that use that tag.

Those are good leads. And I agree that those are both big topics. I'll search on those.