Bring the new reply icon back to /et/index

[J.P.]

It's too easily manipulated to be the primary view of the forums. The same few busy threads in a given forum constantly appear in the list of 5 threads with recent posts in that forum, which is redundant and not very useful. I've was seeing certain people adding a three-word post to their thread just so it would get bumped back up in the list, which ultimately pushes brand new threads right down (or completely off) the list since the list only shows 5 threads per forum.

Just don't worry about that. My guess is that you have never had a single person complain about these and you likely never will. So, add these back, the way they were, while keeping everything else. This way everyone will have a choice in how they participate. And no one can argue with having choices. Then also maybe increase the number of threads in each forum a little, say to seven or eight, if you are concerned about that. And it's all good.

Or, have the option of displaying these.

Or, if you still insist, then rearrange the New Posts listings to have them listed by forum. (And include all of the forums not just most of them as you do now.)

Or, implement the option to have the New Posts listings categorized by forum.