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MagnusVonMagnum said:
Try "Watched Threads" to view only recent posts you're watching and "New Posts" for recent posts in all forums. You shouldn't need to look back at old posts unless you forgot something. As for 100 posts per page, that's way too many. The page loads would take nearly 4x longer and I'd be scrolling forever (and it would be 10x worse on an iPhone or iPod Touch as there isn't much space and certainly the older iPod Touch 4G crashes enough as it is seeing how little memory Apple gave it for so many modern pages (not here) that insist on coating 2/3 your screen with constant unending advertisements which you can't block on a non-jailbroken iOS device). 25 is darn near perfect for a full size browser, IMO.

Did the old forums let you set how many per page as I don't recall having more than 25 posts per page then either (assuming it was the default as I don't recall changing it). I don't know why newer forum versions would give you less features to choose from, but then again, just look at Apple! :confused:
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Thanks I'll try that!
Update: that's a great feature! :)
 
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iBlazed said:
Arn liked my post that you quoted, so I'm guessing he got the message. Hopefully they fix this soon! It's really annoying not having the thread starter highlighted and I notice the absence of this feature daily.

Btw, the link you posted is to this thread, is there a different one you were trying to link to?
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No, it was the associated thread I meant to link to, not my individual post.
 
With the greater number of posts per page (already achieved) there's a sense of less scrolling.

How many times have you scolled or paged up, from the foot of the page, to make visible the Post Reply button and then, maybe, scroleld some more to make visible the toolbar for that field?

Fewer feet. That's good.
 
Searching within separators

Probably harmless.

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How about the ability to delete your own post if it has not been replied to? I've seen this in other forums. Handy for when you change your mind and better than having to type "delete", "ignore", or "dup post".


grahamperrin said:
With the greater number of posts per page (already achieved) there's a sense of less scrolling.

How many times have you scolled or paged up, from the foot of the page, to make visible the Post Reply button and then, maybe, scroleld some more to make visible the toolbar for that field?

Fewer feet. That's good.
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Not sure if you are saying we need something because on the iPad, in the middle of a page, a red scroll arrow appears which takes you to ever the bottom or top of the current page.
 
Huntn said:
Not sure if you are saying we need something because on the iPad, in the middle of a page, a red scroll arrow appears which takes you to ever the bottom or top of the current page.
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Yes, but the red scroll arrow takes you to the very bottom of the page, whereas if you want to reply, you then have to scroll back up past the big-blue-block of boilerplate, the width-toggle and language-chooser box, the breadcrumbs, the share-box, and finally the similar-threads box.
 
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dejo said:
Yes, but the red scroll arrow takes you to the very bottom of the page, whereas if you want to reply, you then have to scroll back up past the big-blue-block of boilerplate, the width-toggle and language-chooser box, the breadcrumbs, the share-box, and finally the similar-threads box.
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What about a reply button at the top of each page too that auto scrolls you to the reply box? Now that I'm used to it, I'm like that your reply keeps you on the current page instead of transporting you to the end of the thread.
 
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Huntn said:
reply keeps you on the current page instead of transporting you to the end of the thread.
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As written, that sounds quite tidy. The actual result is relatively ugly. Parts of the end of the topic, sometimes parts from two other pages, appear misplaced on the page where the reply is presented. Like:
  • ends of the thread are transported from the end, to the beginning, or the midst, to the end of the page – and then probably nowhere near the end of a page when they reappear in their proper places.
 
Forum home page layout

User preferences

grahamperrin said:
... the sections that I collapsed a few hours ago are expanded .... This user preference should be persistent.
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-- I rarely want the iOS section expanded; and so on.

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A click on the heading of a collapsed section simply scrolls to that section. it would nice if that click could show what's beneath the heading.
 
grahamperrin said:
Sorry, I forgot that avatars are hidden. I meant the repetition of two of the column headings.
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Since there's two rows per post to accomodate the other information, there's no harm in keeping the headings and may help communicate better what those values are. That is, removing the headings will not buy you anything.
 
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maflynn said:
removing the headings
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The headings are good, and should stay. They might have been a relatively late addition to the design (for sort purposes).

The repetition of each word occurs below the first occurrence of the word:

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grahamperrin said:
The headings are good, and should stay. They might have been a relatively late addition to the design (for sort purposes).

The repetition of each word occurs below the first occurrence of the word:

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Seems fine given that the spacing is there and that just multiple numbers on their own can seem a bit odd.
 
C DM said:
Seems fine given that the spacing is there and that just multiple numbers on their own can seem a bit odd.
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I know, I'm pretty much on my own with wishes for minimalism. What's in a column appears odd only if the reader ignores the heading ;-)

It's probably impossible to have zero (0) views of a topic and the number of views is nearly always greater than the number of replies, so for me there's no risk of confusion. I might treat this as an opportunity to experiment with style sheet stuff, in a few days. If I reach that point and get it working, I'll post a shot.
 
I hate to bring this up once more but forum performance for me is abysmal. No matter what thread or page, the forum will randomly crash in mobile Safari or stutter to a halt. It can be almost unusable at times. I don't think this is connection speed as this happens almost anywhere: my horrible home connection, my decent work connection, LTE. I'm running on a 6 Plus which is the pinnacle of mobile technology until it is useless in a few months. I mean it can crash six times in a row before I can finally post a reply to read through a thread. I'm wondering if this happening to other members on similar devices as well.
 
Cpt. Gilgamesh said:
I hate to bring this up once more but forum performance for me is abysmal. No matter what thread or page, the forum will randomly crash in mobile Safari or stutter to a halt. It can be almost unusable at times. I don't think this is connection speed as this happens almost anywhere: my horrible home connection, my decent work connection, LTE. I'm running on a 6 Plus which is the pinnacle of mobile technology until it is useless in a few months. I mean it can crash six times in a row before I can finally post a reply to read through a thread. I'm wondering if this happening to other members on similar devices as well.
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I visit these forums several times daily using an iPhone 6, an iPad mini and an iPad Air 2.. I've experienced no problems - though the forums were a little sluggish this morning. Just in case it's relevant: all of my iOS devices are LTE and are being used on the Verizon network in Seattle, WA.
 
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ardchoille50 said:
I visit these forums several times daily using an iPhone 6, an iPad mini and an iPad Air 2.. I've experienced no problems - though the forums were a little sluggish this morning. Just in case it's relevant: all of my iOS devices are LTE and are being used on the Verizon network in Seattle, wa.
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Now I'm starting to wonder if this is connection speed. But the whole page could be loaded before this happens. Safari itself seems to become sluggish. Idk; this doesn't happen anywhere else. Maybe I'm SOL :(
 
Cpt. Gilgamesh said:
Now I'm starting to wonder if this is connection speed. But the whole page could be loaded before this happens. Safari itself seems to become sluggish. Idk; this doesn't happen anywhere else. Maybe I'm SOL :(
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If you're experiencing the same thing on other websites, it might be worth visiting an Apple Store. Can't hurt to try.
 
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