A completely minor and irrelevant issue that has piqued my curiosity:
If you click on the number of replies against a thread, you get a list of all those who have posted to the thread. Posters are listed according to the total number of posts they have made to that thread: those with only one post at the bottom, then those with two posts higher up the list, then those with three etc…
But within the group of those who have made only (say) one post, how are the posters’ names arranged? It’s not alphabetically. Is it just a random arrangement?
It’s not an easter egg: when you’re looking at a page of threads, between “last post” and “views” you see the number of replies. Click on that number and you see the list the OP is talking about.
So far as I can tell, and this is after just a couple a quick checks, it’s based on last board activity with the most recent at the bottom. ( From least to most recent.)
Hmm. The list put me ahead of Can I Change My Answer? but behind everybody else. I rarely log off although I did recently dump cookies and had to log in again, say, two weeks ago. When did everybody else log in last?
It may just be whatever order the database returns them in. I’m kinda surprised that’s not by user ID, but I’m not really familiar with the guts of MySQL, so I don’t really have any basis for that surprise.