Re: Making the newest posts show up first
While I won’t say it’s impossible, doing this currently with bbpress is difficult because of how everything internally is geared for newest last.
The post_position and other issues make this tricky. Even something as basic as jumping to the current post becomes a problem and has to be worked around.
Matt just didn’t think of anyone desiring it any other way when he first coded things in bbpress and now it’s legacy.
This is something I plan to address in a future (forked) version as well as parent/child threading. I’ve actually already accomplished it using plugins for a specific client but it’s overly complex and non-standardized.
