Changes to Boards - please read as we go along

[Atrocities]

Richard,

One thing I would suggest is reverse the Viewed and Posts on the forum thread lists.

Do you think it would be best read as POSTs first then Viewed second? (From an astetic POV that is.)

[Baron Munchausen]

If you're taking requests, could we have a 'mark all as read' or 'update Last read pointers' button? Sometimes you don't want to have to enter every single thread to clear the 'new Messages' marker -- whatever it might be, graphic or color change.

[Fyron]

If you're taking requests, could we have a 'mark all as read' or 'update Last read pointers' button? Sometimes you don't want to have to enter every single thread to clear the 'new Messages' marker -- whatever it might be, graphic or color change.

There is already one there in My Home (the main page), below the descriptions of the various preferences sections.

[Fyron]

There's a new config feature in your MyHome that will allow you to choose how Posts are shown in showflat (ie Newest or Oldest First).

Awesome!

Slight problem though. When there are new Posts in a thread, if you click on the main thread title, it automatically sends you to the first page with a new post. When you have the Posts displayed in the correct order (ie: newest first), this still happens. If there are 2 pages of Posts and one new post, clicking on the main thread title sends you to page 2, which only has old Posts, rather than page 1, which has the new post. Certainly, this can be worked around by always selecting the page 1 link rather than the main thread link, but it is going to be a source of confusion for some.

[Ragnarok]

Fyron, I have noticed this only happens part of the time. Sometimes it works just fine for me and others it does not. I have not been able to determine what causes it to work and what does not but I am sure there is something there doing it.

[Gandalf Parker]

A neat feature that people might not have found yet is the new search feature. You can select the forum or even multiple forums (shift-click and ctrl-click work for selecting Groups), ask it to show you all of the Posts for the Last day and click the box saying you want to see a bit of the post. You can also include some words from the subject or body to just see certain threads. It makes it much easier to figure out what you want to reply to in a long thread or a particularly active day.

[David E. Gervais]

Great work Richard, Thanks.

BTW, did you get the new forum icons I sent?

Cheers!

[Asmala]

Now when the Posts are in the right order (Thanks Richard), I'd like to get the page I'm writing to viewable in reply page (hmm, perhaps Loser explained it better ). It would be nice.

Also perhaps fonts could be made customizable so everybody could select his favorite font and size.

[TerranC]

*TerranC repeatedly jumps up and down in order to express his profound happiness at seeing the old order come back, until he hits the ceiling of his room*

[Suicide Junkie]

One thing that just bit me:
Right after posting a reply, the displayed page should be the one where your reply ended up.

Multi-posting increasingly panicky Versions of the same message over and over is not a good thing.
(But at least I was able to delete them and hide the evidence of my troubles )

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We could also use a "reply to original post" button somewhere at the top and bottom of the the page, like we had before.