RON!!! - Possible new feature
I find that if I'm late to the party, I can open with the View All feature and get caught up on a multi-page thread that much quicker and easier. Also, I'm also the kind of person when I find a thread that is VERY helpful, with a lot of advice spread over several pages, I like to save that whole thread as a webpage to my hard drive for future reference. I know in my hot rodding experience, this paid off HUGE for me many times.  So, what do you think? Vance |
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I could look into trying to do that... but eeeeek!! The pic you showed had 30,000 replies, and they allow you to click on view all !??!?  |
| That's the hot rod site I'm a member of the at gets over a million hits an hour!!! That site is NEVER boring! Vance |
| I like the view all idea too! It would save me time clicking from page to page, too. Another idea, what about a 'mark as read' feature? I use the view unread posts button a lot and it would be easier if I could just click a little checkbox and mark everything as read like I do on my email. It would be quite helpful since I have like 16 pages worth of unread posts from before I realized a view unread posts button existed  |
| There is a mark as read feature! Yay! Top right of the forums. When you're in a particular forum the link is at the top of the "Last Post" column and reads: "Mark topics read" Clicking on that will mark all of the topics in that forum as read. When you're on the main page, the link is in the same spot, top of the "Last Post" column, but it reads: "Mark forums read" Clicking on that will mark all of the topics in all of the forums as read. Enjoy! |
| Yay! Has that been there and I've just not noticed or did you just put it there? |
| I'm still waiting for the "preview" feature; where you hover over the thread title with your cursor and a small window pops up with much of the content of the 1st post. This allows the user a preview of the thread to see if they want to commit to it. |
| OK, Mr. Vance. Part 1 is coded. There is now an option to view all, BUT it has some limits at the moment. 1) The option is only available if you are looking at the first page of a topic. This will help if you want to print out the whole thing. 2) It is limited to 1000 posts per page. That shouldn't be a problem since we try to keep threads to a max of 150 posts. 3) I will look into making it available on the topics list page, but no promises. |
| OK, it's available when you're looking at the list of topics in the forum index as well. Enjoy. |
CamVal1 wrote: I'm still waiting for the "preview" feature; where you hover over the thread title with your cursor and a small window pops up with much of the content of the 1st post. This allows the user a preview of the thread to see if they want to commit to it. Mark, I'll look into this as well.... no promises, it might be a toughie. Thread titles are shown in tons of places... is there one particular place where it would be most important for you? |
| Ron, YOU RULE!!!!! Any other forum I've been on, and I've been on a LOT, you're the only one to try to tackle something because one person asks AND in LESS than a week!!! Unbelievable! Thanks a bunch Ron! Vance |
| Sometimes I get lucky and can figure out how to do things easily. Today I had some spare time because everything mechanical that I touched broke, and decided against riding my bike even though the weather was perfect. Seriously. lol |
Ron wrote: CamVal1 wrote: I'm still waiting for the "preview" feature; where you hover over the thread title with your cursor and a small window pops up with much of the content of the 1st post. This allows the user a preview of the thread to see if they want to commit to it. Mark, I'll look into this as well.... no promises, it might be a toughie. Thread titles are shown in tons of places... is there one particular place where it would be most important for you? Just from each section index. |
| I have looked into this for a few hours and (although it will be fun to do) it is a problematic addition; the way that the forum's database is arranged, the easiest way to do it would cause a sizeable increase of load on the webserver. The harder way to do it is in a way that I'm not familiar, and I'd have to borrow code and install it without understanding it enough to fix any problems easily.. The other issue that arises is the content for each post is stored in the database in a not-so-readable format, it needs to be parsed and stripped of things like images, smilies and quotes and stuff. Not an insurmountable task, just one that requires some amount of work. Then only posts that people have permissions to read can be shown, and redirects have to be dealt with. None of which is an insurmountable task, it's just not something I can knock out -and test- in a short timeframe. |
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