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Oh, for MMOs there is Dragon Nest, the only MMO I ever actually enjoyed playing and was quite sad when they shut it down. TPS fantasy MMO, the gameplay was very well done. Shooting, casting spells and shit over enemies was very good and very juicy.

I remember Clonk quite well (or well rather me trying to make it work on Linux, OpenClonk is a FOSS version). Is Homeworld obscure? SpringRTS as well, Heroes of Annihilated Empires (I still have that one on Steam), Warzone 2100 (played the heck of it on PS1 on a demo disk). There is also that FOSS RTS with blobs... Globulation 2. There is also Bos War or Wideland.

Tho I am not really aware of how obscure some of these are. I'm pretty sure Clonk is rather obscure. They were some WiiWare games as well, but so bland and boring that I dont remember much about them.

well then in my opinion the most logic is by activity (threads with latest post in them are first).

I think the solution would just be to use JS's fetch API to manually submit the form when the button is pressed, and if it worked correctly, just reload the page from JS.

Copyform.onsubmit = function(ev) {
    ev.preventDefault();

    let res = await fetch(window.location.pathname, { method: 'POST', body: new FormData(form) });
    
    if( res.ok ) 
        window.location.reload();
    else
        alert("failed to send post"); 

    return false; // i think needed as well as the preventDefault? not sure
}

That's what i found online regarding that issue. Surprisingly that isnt a very common or documented issue.

well then maybe add a cooldown or limit?

i feel like it would be easier to do something like that server-side and just do a request from js (that way 1 parser to maintain). like limiting a preview per user at 1 every 5/10sec (would just need to keep a "last preview timestamp" per user, no?). Plus that way a user will need to be connected to use it, so if there is abuse it's traceable to which user is abusing it.

how about giving the option to the user?

just a button/flag to toggle sorting by activity rather than creation. i feel like this is a very per-person-basis preference/opinion.

Pretty explanatory

just a button or smth to preview a message before sending it

im not a web dev but i never saw that behaviour before when i post a reply and i go backward in page history, it brings me back to the same thread so i have to do backward twice

i have at work a tool that uses forms a lot and i never had something like this so idk what's going on but it doesnt feel normal

ye ok fair, only time will tell