We have lemmybb running on retrolemmy at forum.retrolemmy.com but yeah, unfortunately that project didn't reach the heights it could have.

I created PieBB with that idea, but I wanted it simpeler to set up, and more feature rich. The piefed topics and feeds helped for that.

I'll try and clear it up in a future update. Thanks for the feedback!

It might be cleared up with one of the other themes on the bottom of the page.

nah sort by oldest first is the old experience;)

That's pretty much what the frontend does. And the piefed topics and feeds are the forums. It works surprisingly smooth, and I've actually been using it on and off for a week

Edit: I now understand what you meant. Sort by new only sorts by post date. You can sort by active, but this excludes posts that have no comment. So for every "forum" (community) the software will have to do 2 api calls, and sort them accordingly. Sort new and active and combine those 2.

To prevent rate-limit I will only do the double api calls for the first page. Anything after will be sorted by new, to make sure the topics without comments still get potential views.

Thanks! Fixed.