I cant find any queries resembling that in showthread.php, I think I understand the premise behind them and so I will experiment with different iterations of those. The two places in showthread.php which might be the ones you're referring to are
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if ($posts=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT postid,dateline FROM post WHERE post.threadid=$threadid AND post.visible=1 AND post.dateline>'$bbuserinfo[lastvisit]' ORDER BY dateline LIMIT 1")) {
or
Code:
ORDER BY dateline $postorder
. I suspect the one I need to work on is the second.
Thanks for the push in the right direction, NTLDR. I really do appreciate you taking the time to give this thought.