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#564

If you rapidly scroll a long thread (long this one), you’ll see it loading in chunks. I’m guessing that’s what the underlying pagination is for - so you don’t actually load the whole page in one go, but it’s displayed continuously.

In some ways I like this better, as I don’t have to do binary search to figure out which page a particular post is on. If I know the post number, I can use the “Topic progress” box on the lower right to jump right to it; similarly if I want to go directly to the first or last post. And if I don’t know the post number but do know the author, I can use my browser’s search-within-page to seamlessly jump between posts by that author - that’s not possible with strict pagination (and a separate URL query string for each page).

The main thing is, it’s different, but it’s not an arbitrary difference, and you do get used to it.

#565

Has anyone else had a weird (and really annoying) bug where if you edit your post an image will disappear, even though you didn’t alter the URL. Worse still it wouldn’t even show the image after deleting and re-pasting the URL. I had to find the same image hosted from a different source to get it to show.

It’s inly ever happened on mobile.

#566

Suggestion: subforum header should take up less space. ‘All things bl2’ should not take up 1/5th vertical space. Infinite scroll may be NOT paging (which is unfashionable ATM) but is worse b/c its too easy to lose your place in the clutter. Its a disfeature the way it is deployed. The scrollbar works and is standard. The silly nav-widget does the same job but poorly.

Each sub forum should be a one liner with rollover or touch expanding an accordion to show new posts. People can favorite the subforum so the site presents first. if the favorite feature exists, i don’t expect to read a manual to find it.

Replying to posts should be in place, below the comment being replied to rather than appended to bottom of page below suggested topics (which is ENTIRELY irrelevant to replying and disruptive to replying).

#567

Because infinite scroll has no sense of location which is a page of posts. A sequence of pages requires a touch to access, and a jump to post no. zaps you relevant bits of convo.

On top of this, discourse mixes reply threading modes in annoying ways. I have seen replies nested, then listed immediately below the post. Either thread or don’t. Offer a toggle ffs.

Mixing the two is awful.

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#568

That’s probably the “Reply as linked topic”, which is useful if you want to combine a bunch of posts into one so the complete info can then be pinned. Not sure I’m a fan though - it wasn’t clear to me when I started on this version of the forums whether I should use that or the “Reply” (except that the latter is more prominent.)

#569

I agree with both of these suggestions.

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#570

Noticed sometimes that text overlaps, making it impossible to read until you highlight it and the quote thing shows up, making the text go back to normal. Using Chrome, haven’t tried to recreate it in IE or FF yet.

#571

Never noticed this on my Chrome, mind posting a screenshot next time this happens? I’m curious to see what it looks like.

#572

Took me a bit to get it to do it, not sure how exactly to recreate it yet though. Look at Falknir’s post.

#573

That’s… odd. I forget how the text is supposed to wrap based on resolution and all of those other variables, but maybe it’s tied to that? What is your screen resolution, anyway?

#574

I have no problems finding posts. But then again I do the same thing I do in any forum software which is look up a user’s posts / content directly. Pages don’t help me do that. I don’t use pages to recall that on page 3 of topic X user Y said Z. That’s incredibly confusing. Paging doesn’t help the situation in the slightest.

There is no mixinx of reply modes. All posts are ordered sequentially, this is how a thread works. You can see direct replies to your post in a dropdown beneath that post - for your (and anyone elses’) convenience. It is not “awful”, and you saying so doesn’t make it so.

#575

1366x768.

I’ll see if I can get it to happen on an ipad, or something with a higher res than mine,

#576

Bring back the old emoticons! The new ones are…lackluster. Plus I can’t find a whistling one. :stuck_out_tongue:

#577

This. The new ones look like they were designed for 5 year olds.

#578

Yea but…Cats :smile_cat:

#579

:facepunch: I had a cat. It died.

#580

What happened? Did you not clean your room?

#581

Please add arrows above and below the bar to the right, it gets difficult scrolling when viewing a topic that has a lot of posts.

#582

It probably had something to do with not feeding it. How was I supposed to know they needed to eat? :confused:

#583

What browser are you using?
There’s no obvious structural quirk that would do that.