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| james_s:
I also loathe those pages that just keep loading as you're scrolling, I didn't know the name for it but it has driven me nuts every time I've encountered it. You can't tell how much further you have to go, it just keeps loading more and more. Then of course the issue someone already mentioned about the difficulty in getting back where you were after reloading the page. |
| 2N3055:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 31, 2020, 04:05:32 am --- --- 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... --- End quote --- Not to mention you cannot use browser search (because some of the page is not loaded) and most of them have problems with select/copy.. |
| Electro Detective:
KIS and DFIIIABroke definately applies here !!! \$\Omega\$ |
| drussell:
--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---I have had this thought for a few years. Wouldn't it make sense to migrate the forum to the Discourse platform? --- End quote --- Surely this was either an attempt at trolling or a very early April fools' joke? I suppose the timezone is quite different on whatever planet you're on! |
| rrinker:
10 Print "No!" 20 Goto 10 RUN For the love of everything actually USABLE - NO. These new "social media style" platforms are nothing but junk. I can't stand the stuff. This forum, in particular, works VERY well. The software is great (hopefully not because of hundreds of hours per week of behind the scenes work by the admins) and checks all the boxes. In my other hobbies, the one I use most often is so far out of date it isn't funny - their message editor for example blocks the spell check that is in every modern browser, and it is severely lacking a great feature here - the notification that someone else has replied to the thread while you were typing yours. The other one, which I gave up (spending too much times on forums, not enough time actually DOING things), is in the more modern 'discussion' format and I absolutely hate it I just want some place, like this, that just keeps on using what works, and doesn't change completely in format because "all the cool kids are doing it". Change for the sake of change is NOT improvement. The experience of setting up a new postage meter at work proved that. The old one was simple and easy to use, probably some micro in there, interfacing the scale and printing mechanism with a multi line LCD character display that displayed the pertinent information and basic prompts. Worked well, even the most tech illiterate people in the office could use it - and being an IT consulting company, it's amazing how many tech illiterate people actually work there. New one - this is no longer good enough (despite a practical monopoly - so it's not like competition forced their hand - the new one has a full color graphical LCD and runs Android. And is insanely complicated to do the simple task of weighing an envelope and printing the correct postage on it based on the entered destination. So no, we do not need this form changed to another platform just because it's the 'trend'. It needs to stay right how it is, it is perfectly usable. |
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