I changed things to that: - if you're replying to a post, you see that post - if you're posting to the thread, you see the N more recent posts -- David
On 13-Jul-2012 5:49 AM, [email protected] wrote: > What would be nice would to display the last N posts in the thread when you > are creating a post in the thread. Where N = the page size. This allows > the user to control how much context is there. Users of slow and instable > connections would set the page size small and possibly open a second page > to add the response. Users of high speed stable connections could set to > see enough context to reply to the thread in just the single window. > > jm7 > > > |------------> > | From: | > |------------> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |Jorden van der Elst <[email protected]> > | > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |------------> > | To: | > |------------> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |David Anderson <[email protected]> > | > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |------------> > | Cc: | > |------------> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |<[email protected]> > | > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |------------> > | Date: | > |------------> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |07/12/2012 06:00 PM > | > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |------------> > | Subject: | > |------------> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |Re: [boinc_dev] Feature request: add pages to long threads onwebsites > | > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |------------> > | Sent by: | > |------------> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > |<[email protected]> > | > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| > > > > > > Now we still have the effect of when answering to a specific post, > that only that post shows underneath our answer-window, not the rest > of the thread as well. > When answering to no specific post, just to the thread, no posts of > the thread show. To be answering to one or more posts in the thread, > but not specifically to any of them, we'll now have to open the thread > twice, once to answer, the other to look for who to answer what to. > > In the old style the thread would show in its completeness underneath > the answer-window. > > Another --kind of fun-- glitch is when you have someone on ignore, but > are still eager to see what he/she posted. When their post is on any > page other than the first one, when you click "Click here to show > post", you're thrown back to the first page, first post in the thread. > By the time you load the page with their post on it, the post is > hidden again. > > Yet another glitch is when you are in a thread with multiple pages, > while you're on any page but for page one: > Adjust your "amount of posts per page" value to something large, like > 250 posts. > Save changes. > Now reload the thread with F5 or CTRL+F5. It'll show as first post the > first post of the page you were on, the whole 'first page' itself is > gone. > > > > -- > -- Jord. > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
