On 17/10/12 22:56, David Anderson wrote: > Martin: > Do you have "Jump to first new post in thread automatically" > checked in your community preferences? > -- David
Yes, and that part works fine for an unread thread: The first unread post is correctly positioned. All good. However: This point is for when long threads have already been visited and so all posts have been marked as having been read. To *revisit* the thread, you are dumped at the very start. Hence, to see the most recent post requires multiple clicks and loads to select the last page and then "page end" or scroll to see the last post to then be able to quote/reply or thread post a reply. Hence, for user convenience for a thread with no unread posts (all posts already read), always position the user for that case on the last page of the thread for easy access to the most recent (read) post. The most often use case is you do that to continue an old thread. In contrast, to see the very first ever post in a thread (as is the default at present) is rarely wanted. (I have "Posts: Oldest first" set for chronological order top-down reading.) Thanks, Martin > On 17-Oct-2012 6:48 AM, Martin wrote: >> On 12/10/12 14:06, Martin wrote: >> >>> Fix the placing for "already read threads" to always position to the >>> most recent post? >>> >>> #3 fix thread placing for already read threads >> >> Less often an annoyance but still one to be fixed, please? >> >> (Briefly: Always jump first to the last page/post for an already read >> thread.) >> >> >> Regards, >> Martin >> >> >> >>> The normal usage is to add a post some time later to a thread that has >>> already been read. At present, with "oldest post first" you are taken to >>> the very start of the thread which then requires multiple clicks through >>> the paging to get to the end of the thread to add a post... All rather >>> cumbersome and time consuming, especially on mobile devices!... >>> >>> >>> All this really comes to the semantics of "oldest post first". >>> >>> I use and translate the "sort" setting "oldest post first" as actually >>> meaning "chronological order" or "top -> down posting order". Note: NOT >>> as described on the forum settings and NOT as programmed... >>> >>> In the strict sense, "oldest post first" isn't that useful for normal >>> forum use/interaction. However, "top -> down" or "bottom -> up" posting >>> is more descriptive phrase but that also can be misinterpreted... >>> >>> >>> Regardless of descriptions and semantics... Always position to either >>> the latest post or the first unread post please? >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Martin -- -------------------- Martin Lomas m_boincdev ml1 co uk.ddSPAM.dd -------------------- _______________________________________________ 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.
