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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2014, 01:41:22 am »
*1: To get around that, you can click one of the page numbers at the bottom and if, for example, you see 1-2-3...98-99-100, clicking the ... will expand the page list.
Yeah, but I don't want a page list, I want more posts on the same page :P

Also, in the last post column, there's a small icon leading to the latest post.
Yeah, I already saw that (and said it in my post) but clicking that small icon is less convenient than clicking the title. It works though, so no problem, it's just a matter of habit :)

*2: I think 20 depends of your forum settings, because I have it set to 50 in my account settings. Also, for me there are 296 pages of topics (going all the way back to 2005), so in fact the New posts list now lists about 15000 topics :P (or more if you're admin)
Indeed, I just went through my settings and saw an option "Topics per page" O.O
I set it to 50 (the maximum), it is a lot better now, thanks :D
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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #16 on: March 24, 2014, 02:28:01 am »
Yeah I think 50 is fine since it was the old board default for topic lists and even if it's still lower for the new posts page, it's more than enough for our current activity (last Saturday I think there were 4 active topics and 10 posts x.x)

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #17 on: March 24, 2014, 10:06:42 am »
Indeed, it is a lot better like that :D
The only differences with the old feature are:
  • clicking on the title of the topic in that list opens the topic at its beginning instead of opening it at the last post (what opens at the last post is the button on the right)
  • it only lists 20 posts


But that's already great, don't worry, I am not complaining, just listing differences :)
Actually if you check carefully:

*1: To get around that, you can click one of the page numbers at the bottom and if, for example, you see 1-2-3...98-99-100, clicking the ... will expand the page list. Also, in the last post column, there's a small icon leading to the latest post.
*2: I think 20 depends of your forum settings, because I have it set to 50 in my account settings. Also, for me there are 296 pages of topics (going all the way back to 2005), so in fact the New posts list now lists about 15000 topics :P (or more if you're admin)
I have 862 pages >.>
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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #18 on: March 24, 2014, 10:09:41 am »
This is great! Now we just need to add a link on the nav bar or on the main page so it's visible. :)

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #19 on: March 24, 2014, 10:10:27 am »
This is great! Now we just need to add a link on the nav bar or on the main page so it's visible. :)
It is ;) Look on the forum drop-down.
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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #20 on: March 24, 2014, 10:12:53 am »
Oh, I thought that was just a heading for Recent unread or Recent replies.

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #21 on: March 24, 2014, 12:20:17 pm »
Oh, I thought that was just a heading for Recent unread or Recent replies.
If you click on the main part that opens the sub menu, it takes you to recent posts. The sub menu is for those pages.
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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #22 on: March 24, 2014, 06:48:31 pm »
Yeah the sub-menus are to ensure that the navigation doesn't get large.

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #23 on: March 24, 2014, 06:51:36 pm »
It's a bit misleading this way though. Recents shouldn't have a sub menu with those two options. Instead they should be tabs like on the old forum. ;)

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #24 on: March 24, 2014, 06:53:26 pm »
True, but still, it's part of forum, kinda. I guess it could be added as main link if many people request it, though. It isn't as visible right now. Another idea would be to include Recent as both a parent link and child link in the dropdowns, since it kinda look weird to have one recent post link in a separate menu than the two others.

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #25 on: March 24, 2014, 06:57:38 pm »
What I mean is that hovering over Recents... gives another menu. The options that gives should be tabs on the recents page like on the old version.

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #26 on: March 24, 2014, 06:58:21 pm »
It's a bit misleading this way though. Recents shouldn't have a sub menu with those two options. Instead they should be tabs like on the old forum. ;)
I'm not sure what is so misleading about having a menu item marked as recent under the forum menu.

Currently the full menu (not all of which most members can see) has these menu options:
Home, About, IRC, Downloads, Forum, Tools, Help, Admin, Moderate, Profile, My Messages, Members Logout

Adding another menu item for Recent posts, which logically falls under the forum category doesn't really make sense.
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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #27 on: March 24, 2014, 07:01:02 pm »
Read my post above yours. I made it clearer since both of you didn't understand.

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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #28 on: March 24, 2014, 07:04:13 pm »
Read my post above yours. I made it clearer since both of you didn't understand.
Ah, well then this isn't the right place to be asking for that. You should submit a request to ourl.ca/request
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Re: The "New Posts" feature is back!
« Reply #29 on: March 24, 2014, 07:05:28 pm »
I think he wants every single navigation option in one single line with no dropdowns with 4K resolution users in mind :trollface:



Actually I see what you mean now.  :P Also it would be nice to see the online list there, although I guess OmnomIRC serves that purpose now (when the userlist actually works properly, which is rare :P)