Posted by humphreybc
Why is it that after you have posted a message (a reply) and click "view my message" or just wait, it takes you back to the FIRST page of the thread, instead of YOUR post on page x?
It's kind of annoying...
Posted by Twometre
It has always been like that for me and it doesnt bother me anymore.
Im sure you will also get used to it. You just need to scroll nd page through to your message
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Posted by whizkidd
Yeah.. its a known issue.. I have learned to live with it though. One option would be to set your posts in ascending(or is it descending)so that the last page of the thread will show up as the first.
Posted by GUCCI.011
Even after 500 posts it STILL annoys me lol
Posted by goldenface
Even after 6000 posts it still annoys me.
Then again, it is just one extra click I suppose, I can live with it.
Posted by masseur
yes, we have discussed this endlessly before and I am sure its on a todo list but for a long time I have used the descending order as whizkidd mentioned, which can be found in Preferences
Posted by paul101
it is very annoying for people on a dial up or very slow connection tho
Posted by paul101
On 2007-11-28 09:33:57, masseur wrote:
yes, we have discussed this endlessly before and I am sure its on a todo list but for a long time I have used the descending order as whizkidd mentioned, which can be found in Preferences
thats very confusing
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Posted by Boinng
Esato is using an early version of phpBB, hacked about of course - and this is just one of the flaws in that version. I know it well because I used to run a site based on PHPnuke, which also incorporated a version of the same software with the same problems. Actually I still run that site now, only we've gone through Postnuke (also using the same forum) to Drupal, with a completely different forum structure now.
Anyway, the point is, back when I was using this same software I wrote a number of fairly simple hacks to get around this and some other probs. On my version, you'd always be taken to the last page of a thread after posting (almost certainly the page your post was on), and you could also preview your post, and edit it without your signature getting all mangled up.
I'm very rusty on it all now - I don't mess around with code at all anymore, I just let Drupal do it's thing - but if Laffen did want any help with this, I'm happy to get involved... I still have all the old files I was using, which could be compared to versions here. It'd be up to Laffen if he was comfortable with me meddling though...
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Posted by masseur
thats very confusing
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only if you have a small mind
its actually alot more logical and in fact my email inbox works the same way with latest messages appearnig at the top and then older mesages going back in time
On 2007-11-28 13:26:59, Boinng wrote:
Esato is using an early version of phpBB, hacked about of course...
its not hacked! its customised, keenly crafted with love and dedication
Posted by Boinng
On 2007-11-28 13:41:21, masseur wrote:
its not hacked! its customised, keenly crafted with love and dedication
As were my forums, of course
Posted by paul101
On 2007-11-28 13:43:03, masseur wrote:
thats very confusing
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only if you have a small mind
well if laffen changed it so it did go to the last post it probably would confuse me as well! IMO its best left as is.
Posted by goldenface
LMAO
Posted by gola
On 2007-11-28 08:34:00, whizkidd wrote:
Yeah.. its a known issue.. I have learned to live with it though. One option would be to set your posts in ascending(or is it descending)so that the last page of the thread will show up as the first.
Posted by deluded
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@masseur, I think emails and threads are a little different, in the sense that I'd usually want to see what the OP posted, and go through the discussion in chronological order, rather than going backwards. For emails, I can understand that it's better to view the latest one first, and that's exactly how I do it myself. In any case, it's a small annoyance, but I've gotten used to it.
Posted by Twometre
Anyways I c no big deal in this. Either post descend or accend bt you will still get your message. If they accend the your post is just a click away. Just click on the last page
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Posted by Boinng
It's not a "big deal", but it's a simple bit of usability that pretty much every other forum has, and this one doesn't. And it does come across as a bug, since the link after posting says something like "click here to see your message", but most of the time doesn't take you to your message at all.
It's a very simple thing to fix, without expecting people to change their own behaviour to suit the bug...
It surprises me how much time has been spent recently on cosmetic improvements to the site, without tackling really simple but aggravating problems like this.
For me, the to-do list for Esato would be this:
1. Fix the "your message" bug
2. Fix the first post on the next page being "invisible" until someone else has posted bug
3. Fix the successive edits messing up signatures and adding multiple edit lines (as below) bug
4. Add a post preview feature!! It's not rocket science!!
In all seriousness, none of that needs to take longer than a few hours, if you know what you're doing. This version of phpBB is coded very simply.
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Posted by tranced
On 2007-11-29 09:45:53, Boinng wrote:
1. Fix the "your message" bug
2. Fix the first post on the next page being "invisible" until someone else has posted bug
3. Fix the successive edits messing up signatures and adding multiple edit lines (as below) bug
4. Add a post preview feature!! It's not rocket science!!
1. im with you
2. ditto
3. ditto
4. dont care at all
Posted by Boinng
On 2007-11-29 10:40:30, tranced wrote:
4. dont care at all
IME post previews tend to improve the quality of postings though, and they avoid a lot of unnecessary (and sometimes confusing) editing after the fact. Again, this is something I added to my own phpBB forum quite simply - it didn't look brilliant, but it did the job just fine.
Posted by paul101
oh and also, we cant use raw html code without editing :S
life is in full colour so why is does evrything have to be black or white?
btw that took me ages
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Posted by NightBlade
On 2007-11-29 21:28:55, paul101 wrote:
btw that took me ages
I hear you. Doing the html manually is a pain in the ass...