> > Just one question - how is "most recent" determined? The date of the first message in the
> > thread? The last?
>
> The "Recent Messages" page contains the last 15 messages posted to the forum. (It has fewer
> than 15 messages now because fewer than 15 messages were posted since I created the page,
> and the scripts aren't set up to insert old ones. But once it gets up to 15, it'll stay at
> 15.) If this number turns out to be too small (or large), it's trivial for me to adjust.

That's good.

Now, how about answering my question?

(Which, in case you misread it, was "How do you decide which are the eight most recent threads?"