Congrats on the message board update

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

The Reply/Return to Index/Report Post does not need icons and words. Just use the icons. Anyone who doesn't already know that an icon of a home takes you to the homepage will simply learn by clicking the icon.

If you take this suggestion, I advise that you make sure it's still obvious on hover. Maybe a tooltip. (This can be accomplished purely with css.)

Speaking of the home (return to index) link, it's not necessary to have that on every post. The "report post" and "reply" are post-specific, but "return to index" is not.

I disagree. It's not necessary that menu items be post-specific--just that they be convenient for users.

has a job wrote:

I disagree. It's not necessary that menu items be post-specific--just that they be convenient for users.

They could put it with the header and make that part static and just have the body of the message board scrollable.

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

They could put it with the header and make that part static and just have the body of the message board scrollable.

I tried that and it just didn't work as well as I'd hoped.

As far as removing text, or even the return to index link, you saw how easily upset people are by change. You change the padding on a box by 1px and people post threads saying they'll never read the site again if you don't remove that 1px of padding. I use the Return to Index link routinely so I imagine many others do as well.

erik wrote:

You change the padding on a box by 1px and people post threads saying they'll never read the site again if you don't remove that 1px of padding. I use the Return to Index link routinely so I imagine many others do as well.

This place is full of empty threats, but I get it. Maybe just drop the icons in that case.

wqqqqqqqq wrote:

erik wrote:

There's no code that autofills a username, so this is likely a browser config issue.

Not necessarily. It could be the case that the name field is now different enough that certain browsers don't recognize it as being the same thing they have autofill data for.

I suspect this is the case. Hopefully it will get fixed. I'm using firefox btw.

Something else I've noticed is threads are no longer appearing at the top of the message board index as quickly after you post in them. This is the way it used to be, but after an update a while back, the brojos switched the servers I believe and threads you just posted in appeared at the top of the index upon your browser redirecting you after a post.

No consistent user name user wrote:

Something else I've noticed is threads are no longer appearing at the top of the message board index as quickly after you post in them. This is the way it used to be, but after an update a while back, the brojos switched the servers I believe and threads you just posted in appeared at the top of the index upon your browser redirecting you after a post.

You are very perceptive.

We have a caching system and we had it turned off on the main thread list a little bit ago. It generates the thread list every minute (instead of on every reqeust). Yesterday we turned it back on.

It looks like the performance is fine without caching on the main forum so I'm leaving it off now. No reason to add a delay in thing showing up if we don't need to. (The subforums are still cached as the SQL is a little more onerous.)

I'm impressed you caught that.

txRUNNERgirl wrote:

erik wrote:

You change the padding on a box by 1px and people post threads saying they'll never read the site again if you don't remove that 1px of padding. I use the Return to Index link routinely so I imagine many others do as well.

This place is full of empty threats, but I get it. Maybe just drop the icons in that case.

I toyed around with a dark grey instead of black. It looks better.

Good suggestion.

p-p-people wrote:

HardLoper wrote:

Thought he fixed those already

tested again, seems to work fine

We will see, with this post, whether "multiple nesting" [g-y chicadees??] works. But I like the update. Very.....updatish.

KudzuRunner wrote:

p-p-people wrote:

tested again, seems to work fine

We will see, with this post, whether "multiple nesting" works. But I like the update. Very.....updatish.

It works. Nice job, guys!

No consistent user name user wrote:

wqqqqqqqq wrote:

Not necessarily. It could be the case that the name field is now different enough that certain browsers don't recognize it as being the same thing they have autofill data for.

I suspect this is the case. Hopefully it will get fixed. I'm using firefox btw.

The only difference in the old form and the new one is an additional CSS class attached to it that I use to size the width of the forms depending on the browser width. Everything else is identical.

It's possible (likely?) that the browser is noticing that class (its classname was "username") and that triggers it to performs its autocomplete functionality differently. So, as I noted, it's a browser thing.

Although I understand that people are going to be used it performing one way. and not another. I changed the CSS class from "username" to something less "contextual" and that may make the browser behave as it used to. Let me know if that helps at all. If not, I'm afraid the best thing to do would just be to play with the autocomplete features and see if there's a way to make it behave a certain way on "www.letsrun.com/forum/post.php".

txRUNNERgirl wrote: It would also be cool to have the username link to that's user's previous posts and threads. There are a lot of regulars here that I try to keep track of because I care about what they post, so this would make it easier.

You and your creepy boyfriend do enough stalking on your own. Don't expect the Brojos help you.

I suggest you ignore this funny and amusing glitch!

It's overbearing and also could go a little lighter on the blue titles.

This. The Reply, Return To Index, Report Post links are too bold. Maybe just regular font instead of bold, and maybe slightly smaller. No problem with the images now.

I suggest same style as the time stamp on each message.

I think it doesn't automatically close tags anymore. At least that's what happened in this thread:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6102457

GOML wrote:

Still waiting on the AND/OR operators in the search function, though.

The google is weak in this one. I cannot teach him.

I despise the placement of the ads on the right side of the screen. Can't you position them down at the bottom of the screen instead? If you're going to keep them where they are, can't you fill the background with yellow instead of a blank white background?

HardLoper wrote:

I think it doesn't automatically close tags anymore. At least that's what happened in this thread:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6102457

I don't think it ever closed the tags but now you can't get away with that. Thanks for the tip.