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[SammyBirdland]

I was wondering if there was a way to preview posts by scrolling on the topic without clicking on it? Thanks.

The change is now in place. Now when you hover over a topic, it will show you the first 150 characters of the first post.




If you don't like this feature, you can disable it for your account by going to:

User Control Panel ->
----- Board Preferences ->
---------- Edit Display Options ->
--------------- Display topic previews

[osfan99]

Thanks Sammy! That is an awesome improvement.

[McNulty]

Yo Sammy, a few things I've noticed.

I love that you increased the post per page limit, but its still not jiving quite right. It defaults to the 15 per page when showing each forum sub-section (like O's talk). When I click on the button to take me to first unread post, it does weird things where it only shows the last 15 posts (or less) until I hit refresh.

Additionally, and I just figured this out, you can't give out karma until you have 10 posts, I think. I thought I was being such an idiot, but right after I made my last post I now see the green plus for the first time. By design?

Lastly, when I hit quick reply to post, and hit submit, it takes me to another page to confirm the post. I'd like to bypass this extra step if possible.

My apologies if these are fixes I can take care of myself. Thanks, as always.

[SammyBirdland]

Hey McNulty, good to see you here

Can you give me step by step instructions for the first issue you're seeing? When I click the view latest post icon, it seems normal. When I refresh, nothing changes, still looks normal.

Karma -- the default setting is 10 posts. I'll talk to Chris to see if we should change that to avoid confusion.

Quick Edit -- i'll check into seeing if we can ditch the confirmation.


Edit: When I click Quick Reply, enter my post, and hit submit, it takes me to a page that says I have successfully submitted my post, then automatically refreshes back to where I was. Is that the page you want to bypass, or do you get an "are you sure" that you have to submit on?


Thanks for the feedback.

[McNulty]

Ha, re: quick reply, it stopped taking me to the 'are you sure' part. But getting rid of the successfully submitted post then auto refresh would be nice too.

For the first one, here's an example. I clicked on the Jason Hammel thread. Page 8 (of 9). The last post on that page is SG at 11:33 from tonight. The first is (shocking!) SG again on Wed at 11:59. Up at the top, it says page 3 of 4.

If I click next or page 4, it fixes the problem and shows the last 17 posts (since the thread has 167).

Its not really a big deal for me, but I don't want to be the guy who notices problems and doesn't speak up. The morons I supervise at work are professionals at this behavior and it makes me homicidal.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Ha, re: quick reply, it stopped taking me to the 'are you sure' part. But getting rid of the successfully submitted post then auto refresh would be nice too.

For the first one, here's an example. I clicked on the Jason Hammel thread. Page 8 (of 9). The last post on that page is SG at 11:33 from tonight. The first is (shocking!) SG again on Wed at 11:59. Up at the top, it says page 3 of 4.

If I click next or page 4, it fixes the problem and shows the last 17 posts (since the thread has 167).

Its not really a big deal for me, but I don't want to be the guy who notices problems and doesn't speak up. The morons I supervise at work are professionals at this behavior and it makes me homicidal.

I know that game.

As far as the page thing - I've seen this too, but when I went to my individual preferences in my Control Panel, I noticed that I had it set to 15 posts per page. That was conflicting with the board's formatting of 20 per page. When I changed my setting to 20, this issue went away.

I would check there - but I'm sure Sammy will figure this out.

[SammyBirdland]

I know that game.

As far as the page thing - I've seen this too, but when I went to my individual preferences in my Control Panel, I noticed that I had it set to 15 posts per page. That was conflicting with the board's formatting of 20 per page. When I changed my setting to 20, this issue went away.

I would check there - but I'm sure Sammy will figure this out.

Good catch, both of you guys. Yep, it looks like it respects your setting when you're inside the topic, but when you're on the list of topics it uses the default forum setting of 20.

I'll look into this.

[SammyBirdland]

Karma buttons should now show up for everyone, regardless of how many posts you have.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Sorry if this has already been brought up - but is there any way to add a multi-quote feature? So if you want to reply to multiple posts in a thread, you can click a +1 type button, and then quote the other post so that each show up as separate embedded quotes in your reply?

[SammyBirdland]

For the first one, here's an example. I clicked on the Jason Hammel thread. Page 8 (of 9). The last post on that page is SG at 11:33 from tonight. The first is (shocking!) SG again on Wed at 11:59. Up at the top, it says page 3 of 4.

If I click next or page 4, it fixes the problem and shows the last 17 posts (since the thread has 167).

Its not really a big deal for me, but I don't want to be the guy who notices problems and doesn't speak up. The morons I supervise at work are professionals at this behavior and it makes me homicidal.

This issue is now fixed. Your custom "posts per page" setting should now be in effect everywhere. Let me know if you still see issues.

[RShack]

I see where there's a way to "mark topics as read".
But is there a way to selectively mark individual threads as read?

[SammyBirdland]

I see where there's a way to "mark topics as read".
But is there a way to selectively mark individual threads as read?

I haven't found a good solution for that one. What I usually do is middle-click on the topic title that I don't care about and want to mark as read. That opens it in a new background tab. Next time I refresh the page, that topic will be marked as read. I then just close all the tabs when I'm done.

[DJ MC]

I see where there's a way to "mark topics as read".
But is there a way to selectively mark individual threads as read?

Yeah, read them

[RShack]

Yeah, read them

Harrumph...

[DJ MC]

Harrumph...

[Chris B]

I might've mentioned this before, but here goes.

When you're on the Board Index, and you click on the latest thread that has been posted in it takes you to the latest post in that thread. Could we make it so that it takes you to the post that you have read last in said thread?

[SammyBirdland]

I might've mentioned this before, but here goes.

When you're on the Board Index, and you click on the latest thread that has been posted in it takes you to the latest post in that thread. Could we make it so that it takes you to the post that you have read last in said thread?

I'll look into that.

[SammyBirdland]

I might've mentioned this before, but here goes.

When you're on the Board Index, and you click on the latest thread that has been posted in it takes you to the latest post in that thread. Could we make it so that it takes you to the post that you have read last in said thread?

Adding that to the Board Index page might be a little tricky, since we would have to determine if there are actually any unread posts for you in the most recently updated topic.

It's probably worth mentioning that if you click into one of the forums from the Board Index, there is a little red icon to take you to the first unread post for any of the topics in the list.



You can also click the "All Unread" link at the top to see all unread topics on one page, and then use that same icon to go to the first unread post in any of them.

[JeremyStrain]

Organization-wise, would it be cleaner to create a sub-section with the individual player threads?

Like: Jason Hammel, Mark Reynolds, Nick Markakis...etc.

[RShack]

Organization-wise, would it be cleaner to create a sub-section with the individual player threads?

Like: Jason Hammel, Mark Reynolds, Nick Markakis...etc.

Personally, I don't see the benefit... if I want to find something in a library, I use a library (after I use google, that is)... stuff here isn't that, this is mainly for people to just talk about stuff...

The last thing I feel like doing is hunting around to find the right place to read something... just the basic time-stamp order alone naturally provides about 99% of the organization I need for that...