sean said:

To me, the bar on the right, or whatever ends up happening, should say the time or date of the post. A few times i've gone to see the new post in a topic, only to realise there wasn't one.

I will look into that. I believe when I was testing out that widget, I made it so the times would appear but then it looked too "messy" so I removed it.

P.S. I can make it so this list of 20 appear at the top of the forum, but figured the bottom was a better place.

@Admins: You won't be able to see the new 20 posts list because admins can already easily see the most recently posted on forums via the bar at the top.

Locutus said:@Ashraf:  So I'm the only one who reads all the posts?

How many people read all the forum posts on dotTech? The world may never know...

GTiR said:Or get rid of it altogether. I'm guilty of just checking the recent forum posts.

Me too... LOL!

@Everyone: I can't expand the "Recent Forum Posts" widget (because it would get too long) but I can look into how to get a page that lists maybe the 10-20 most recent posts.

After reading Sandeep's post, I looked at the Recent Post area. It's 10 posts long instead of the 5 that the Recent Forum area shows.

I wonder if 10 posts would be a long enough list. It'd be shorter than a 20 post list, so wouldn't effect the length of the page as much. I think Sandeep's idea would be worth a try, it's a good one.

I also realize that the lenght of the page thing I mention is a personal choice thing. To me it looks sloppy to have the right sidebar longer than the stuff in the main area of the page. To my way of thinking, the sidebar has to be shorter than the main area on the average length page of the blog. But again, that's just a personal choice thing that I follow and in no way means that it's right for everyone. I wouldn't dream of trying to tell anybody else how their blog/site should look! I'm just offering my opinion, like everybody else. 

It would be great to have the last 20 posts listed, but am affraid that the list would be way to long, extending the page down further than anybody would like.

@Ashraf: Is there a way with wordpress.org for you to set up something like a seperate "page" where a longer list of recent posts could be, so it wouldn't mess up the look of your current pages?

The "archives" page I set up on my wordpress.com blog does that, kinda. I don't use .org yet so don't know what's possible using that yet.

Just a thought...

Or Last 7 days.

Is there a way to remedy that? Perhaps make the list 1.5 - 2 times longer so that conversations stay alive longer? Does anyone else have an idea?

Ashraf, I think it would be great to have at least a longer list, or maybe a specific page for the latest 20 or so.

Just some ideas. Let me know what you think.