OK, two questions and a greeting. Hi, nice to meet you all. :)

One question is about structure, the site just has a list of posts in my display, no set order, is that a fault of my set-up, or what you all see too?. Do posts come to the top page because they are used, sort of thing?. Basically, is there somewhere I can see how best to proceed?.

Second question is, I read a fantasy novel recently, and could any of you guys identify it for me as it was quite good, and had sequels I would like to read.

Female writer. Female protagonist. She discovers she is the lost heir to an alternate world, people of special bloodlines can move between the two worlds, ours and a more medieval one. People there live in castles, have a great fear of dimension hopping assassins. The ruling classes of the other world make a living by selling people there some of our technology, but pay for it all by running cocaine between the worlds. Each time one of the special people crosses between the worlds they are required to do a little mule work.

Sounds like The Family Trade by Charles Stross, except that the author is a male (the protagonist is a female). This is the first book in the Merchant Princes series. Pretty good.

If you look across the top of the list, you will see headings for 'Topic', 'unread/messages' and 'last message'. You can sort messages by any of these if you click on the heading.

On the left hand side of the talk page, you can choose to filter the messages by looking at 'All Topics', 'Hot topics', 'Your groups' etc which will only show the messages which fit those categories (Hot topics is basically a digest of 'All Topics' which picks out topics and orders them in terms of how many people are posting in them and how frequently).

As for your fantasy book, I've never heard of it, but you might want to try posting the details in the Name That Book group. The members there can be very helpful!

Welcome to LT!

Hi Annodyne and welcome.

If you are on the main 'Talk' page the column heading in black is the one that the list is sorted on. You can click on any of the blue headings to sort by them. I usually keep mine sorted by 'Last Message'

Also, on the left under 'The World' and 'Your World' are a series of filters. I mainly use 'Your Groups' and 'Your Starred' with occasional clickage of 'Hot Topics' if I'm bored!

I notice that you have only joined the one group - this one - and that part of your question is semi-related to this group (there are fantasy groups as well). My rambling point is that there are many, many* groups.

The unfortunately named 'Site Talk' group (it's for talk about the site, not just talking on the site) would be a good place to look for answers to any questions you may have. Or, if you can't find the answer, ask your own question.

So go forth, explore the groups. Add some books to your library (a semi-prerequisite to being taken seriously in most of 'Talk'), and have a lot of fun.

Jim

*many, many, many...

eta: Must. Type. Faster!

Message edited by its author, Nov 7, 2009, 7:28pm.

Bonus points to ljbryant :)

Even though I set you wrong by mis-remembering the authors sex, you got it for me. Thanks mate, hope I can return a favour for you sometime.

Wow, thanks very much for the detailed explanation justjim, I will take a shufty through the tabs you mention. I didn't realise more than one group belongs to the same page/site, I will look into it.
Thank you for the welcome.