On 2011-11-28 11:55, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/27/2011 11:55 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Then that's just bad design. If the forum is designed correctly there
won't be
any problem.
Here's a typical example:
http://www.cuda-challenger.com/cc/index.php?topic=72850.0
Check out all of the vertical space consumed by a 2 word message. No
threading view that I can find. There's a "Mark Unread" button, but that
applies to the entire thread, not individual messages.
Here's another:
http://www.gamedev.net/topic/615737-concave-polygon-to-convex-polygons/page__pid__4887554#entry4887554
Same problems.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?source_id=2016875109&source_name=mbase
Note the teeny tiny amount of the screen that is for message text.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/28/0050228/muslim-medical-students-boycott-darwin-lectures
At least it's got a real threaded view. But no way to tell what you've
read, so if you come back to an active topic after an hour or two, it's
a real pain trying to figure out what you've read and what you haven't.
I rarely bother to load a topic more than once because of this. Same
goes for reddit.
I know that most of the forums look like this. But what says that they
have to? I'm just trying to say that a forum doesn't have to look like
these examples.
You also complained how the forum sites doesn't work on a small screen.
Have a look at this site:
http://upperdog.se/
I know this site is not a forum but the content flows really nice when
you resize the browser window to a smaller size and it works great on
mobile devices. I don't see any reason why these techniques can't be
implemented on a forum.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
