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| KE5FX:
I will say that I like what Rennlist does. They maintain the familiar look and feel of traditional BBS-style forums like this one, but if you keep scrolling up or down when you reach the top or bottom of a "page" of posts, it expands the page in that direction. This is a convenient and relatively harmless affordance that lessens the need for the 'All' button. It does waste bandwidth to some extent, since it's easy to find yourself dumped into the middle of a thread full of large image attachments that you've already seen but that still have to be fetched from the server for whatever reason. The 'End' key doesn't always take you to the real end of the thread, but rather to the end of the content you've already cached. If they'd make the End key work properly and keep the page # control for those who prefer navigating that way, it would be more or less perfect. Can't tell what forum software they use but it would be a good fit for EEVBlog if you (Dave) ever do get the itch to change. |
| tautech:
--- Quote from: KE5FX on March 31, 2020, 02:22:32 am ---I will say that I like what Rennlist does. They maintain the familiar look and feel of traditional BBS-style forums like this one, but if you keep scrolling up or down when you reach the top or bottom of a "page" of posts, it expands the page in that direction. This is a convenient and relatively harmless affordance that lessens the need for the 'All' button. It does waste bandwidth to some extent, since it's easy to find yourself dumped into the middle of a thread full of large image attachments that you've already seen but that still have to be fetched from the server for whatever reason. The 'End' key doesn't always take you to the real end of the thread, but rather to the end of the content you've already cached. If they'd make the End key work properly and keep the page # control for those who prefer navigating that way, it would be more or less perfect. Can't tell what forum software they use but it would be a good fit for EEVBlog if you (Dave) ever do get the itch to change. --- End quote --- What we have now is arguably better in that you can access a thread in whatever board it's in and go to a page #, New, Home or End. I used to think SMF was the pits but another forum I'm on changed to Xenforo quite painlessly and it's really little if any better than what we have here however that wouldn't be so if Dave hadn't done the many forum mods he has over the last few years. Strongly support staying as we are. |
| BravoV:
--- Quote from: amyk on March 29, 2020, 11:02:27 pm ---I just noticed the OP is from Italy... maybe the stress of the quarantine is getting to him. :( --- End quote --- Worst .... -> HERE --- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:55:12 pm ---I was changing job when the pandemic started. All interview cancelled, all position suspended. Moved country, can't go back, can't work here. --- End quote --- |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 10:24:29 pm ---[...] Anyway, the data under the posts is small, just some JSON, the generated HTML is heavy, but is generated dynamically as you scroll. like all apps of this decade. --- End quote --- I prefer the model where the whole page is loaded... while I'm reading the top part of the page, the rest of it finishes loading below. Load-on-scroll forces the user to wait, and wait, and wait... |
| LaserSteve:
Oh God No. No no no no. Steve |
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