Changes to Boards - please read as we go along

[Raging Deadstar]

*bows*

The right order has returned!

Thanks Richard, and thanks for making it look more firefox friendly

[Ragnarok]

Yes, thank you Richard for all your work in making everyone happy. The option of chosing which post displays first is a great feature and I official love the new forums. Having everything display in Firefox better now makes the formatting issue not so noticable. Thanks again!

[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.

[Baron Munchausen]

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

That's a mighty strange place to put it. I'll let me suggestion stand, and append that the location should be on the top of each forum (thread list) instead of hidden away in our config settings. You're only going to want to update every single forum on the Boards when you've been away for six months or something and don't want to bother to catch up on all of them. The rest of the time you'll only want to catch up on ONE forum at a time.

[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.

[Fyron]

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.

If the thread has only a single page, it works perfectly. But if there are two or more pages, and new Posts on only one page, the bug crops up. It needs to be able to handle the reverse post order.

[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.