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« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2008, 12:15:56 PM »
I see for some reason we have a limit of 40 replies per page, can this be increased to 100? Also is there a reason we have to wait 30 seconds between searches? I get between posts to keep people from flooding the board, but between searches?

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« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2008, 12:26:50 PM »
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I see for some reason we have a limit of 40 replies per page, can this be increased to 100? Also is there a reason we have to wait 30 seconds between searches? I get between posts to keep people from flooding the board, but between searches?


I increased the post limit, but I won't touch the search controls until things have settled down.

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« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2008, 12:47:54 PM »
Please take my comments in the spirit in which they're intended, and don't feel the need to explain why you didn't do every little thing: I'm just throwing out the benefits of my own experience, and, it being your house, you - joy! - get to decide if you think they're good ideas for your board or not.

The limit of 20 threads per page on forumdisplay.php is reasonable, given the multi-line thread entries, but I personally find 10 posts per page on showthread.php to be incredibly, powerfully irritating.

Take a look at any post on the board. Okay, see the date/timestamp? Directly under it are two horizontal rules, where one is necessary. It's governed by this code:

Code: [Select]
<div class=&quot;spacer&quot;></div>

<div class=&quot;hr&quot; style=&quot;width: 100&#37;;&quot;>
              <hr />
            </div>
<div class=&quot;spacer&quot;></div>

<div class=&quot;spacer&quot;></div>

<div class=&quot;hr&quot; style=&quot;width: 100%;&quot;>
              <hr />

            </div>

Turning this into normal people code, we get:

Code: [Select]



 





 


Which is just plain silly, of course. I'm not sure if, under a different set of circumstances, those spacer divs might get populated with something, but right now that code drops a bunch of extra divs [waste code] and two horizontal rules [waste space]. Is no good.

The "Go to first new post" icon to the left of the thread title on forumdisplay.php is small enough to be difficult to hit. The multi-page icon is 12px high, so increasing the first new post icon to 12px in height wouldn't distort the layout; more width would make it even easier to hit. Presumably, this is a link often used, and making it the smallest layout element kind of sucks.

On the front page, the description text is allowed to trail all the way across the page until it hits the "Go to Last Post" image [itself utterly useless, since this board gets so much traffic], making it a bit of a visual mess. Better to make it only 75 percent of the cell it's in.
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« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2008, 12:54:57 PM »
Some of those extra div tags are likely for options that are turned off. Yes, the tags should also be hidden, but I don't have the time to look into it right now. I'm aware of the other issues, but they are minor, so they are also on the backburner. Thanks.

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« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2008, 02:43:43 PM »
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The "Go to first new post" icon to the left of the thread title on forumdisplay.php is small enough to be difficult to hit. The multi-page icon is 12px high, so increasing the first new post icon to 12px in height wouldn't distort the layout; more width would make it even easier to hit. Presumably, this is a link often used, and making it the smallest layout element kind of sucks.


This is my only concern about the new layout. Finding that tiny button on a moving train or a bus with a touchpad is a pain. It wouldn't be so bad, but there's so many links on an average forum page that using tab to navigate isn't an option.

Other than that, everything I've fiddled with so far looks pretty sweet. Thanks for the hard work with migration and testing!

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« Reply #20 on: June 17, 2008, 02:59:36 PM »
If you're talking about this icon , then you could just click this icon

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« Reply #21 on: June 17, 2008, 03:32:07 PM »
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If you're talking about this icon , then you could just click this icon

I believe those two images do two different things. The first takes you to the first unread post in the thread, while the second takes you to the last post in the thread. Yeah, I feel the same way, but someone, somewhere, thought that was necessary.
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« Reply #22 on: June 17, 2008, 03:50:57 PM »
If you click a person's name from a post they made, you get a menu that lets you search for all their posts, and from the results, you can click a link in any post to take you to that point in the respective thread.

By contrast if you click the Members link, then select a member, click the Statistics tab, and then the find all posts link there, you get a list that doesn't have the link to take you to the specific post.

This is weird and I'd like to see it fixed, thanks.

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« Reply #23 on: June 17, 2008, 04:28:34 PM »
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If you click a person's name from a post they made, you get a menu that lets you search for all their posts, and from the results, you can click a link in any post to take you to that point in the respective thread.

By contrast if you click the Members link, then select a member, click the Statistics tab, and then the find all posts link there, you get a list that doesn't have the link to take you to the specific post.

This is weird and I'd like to see it fixed, thanks.


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« Reply #24 on: June 17, 2008, 04:58:09 PM »
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I don't follow you.

Okay, you're looking at this post right now, so you're in a good place. Click on my name: it gives you a menu which lets you do a bunch of stuff. Good?

Now go to the Memberlist and click on my name; rather than giving you a menu, it links directly to my profile.

He would like those behaviors to be identical. Not a huge pain in the ass to code, but a small pain in the ass.
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« Reply #25 on: June 17, 2008, 05:00:58 PM »
Ah. OK. That won't be changing. Sorry.

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« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2008, 05:48:13 PM »
Actually, I'm not asking for that.

I think instead I've just fallen afoul of a bug linked to a particular user.

Go the members list and open our friend ColonelHardisson's profile. Now click the Statistics Tab and click "Find all posts by ColonelHardisson". Now look at the results--see how the individual posts don't have a line at the top with a truncated version of the opening text that's also a link to the post?

Same thing happens when you get all his posts through the popup menu on one of his posts.

Maybe it affects other users too.

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« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2008, 05:50:24 PM »
Another thing...the icon for the button to report a message is the same as the icon for multi-quoting a message. Something more distinctive like an exclamation point would be nice.

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« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2008, 06:34:33 PM »
The search issue seemed to be an artifact of the transfer. It should be fixed now.

And I changed the report button (you may have to reload or clear your browser cache).

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« Reply #29 on: June 18, 2008, 09:24:16 AM »
Since the changeover, I've seen three instances of unintentional double-posting. I don't know if the old board had one of those "disable the post button once clicked" mods, and this one doesn't, but either way, it'd be helpful to have one.
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