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MrMobodies:
Just thought of some stuff with the thread starter's list above:


--- Quote from: ddavidebor on March 29, 2020, 02:59:35 pm ---Pros:
* finally modern mobile experience 1
* much better readability for the forum 2
* improved engagement with younger audiences (!!!) 3
* Lower resources consumption 4
* faster website 4

--- End quote ---

1 What about desktop users who don't want a "mobile experience" slapped on their desktops?

2 In what way?
If it is endless scrolling or something like that where I can't track the page I am reading in the thread by page number then no good for me.

3 Would someone like to start a poll on that for the young audiences of this forum?

4 Faster website? How do we know that, at the moment it loads instantly for me especially on my old stuff.

PlainName:

--- Quote ---track the page I am reading in the thread by page number
--- End quote ---

The page number is arbitrary though, depending on the number of posts per page you set. The default of 40 is pretty silly for being able to quickly jump to a specific post - 25 or 50 would have been better.

On Discord, the scroll widget shows you the post number and total posts. It is beyond trivial to just push it up (or down) to the exact post number and there you are. I have to say that dissing Discord for not making you find posts via unworkable page numbers is pretty perverse - that bit works very well.

And now you've got me playing with it, the quoting is good too. No longer a problem to just hit quote and include the entire unedited quote trail (which can sometime take up half a precious page) - just the first line is actually shown, but you can pop that open to the full thing with a click.

And... on quotes, there's a link to any reply which actually get show right there, instead of 20 pages later in an isolated necro-post. Gosh, it's almost like actual threading!

I am not keen on it, if only because of the fading in and out of the colour for no apparent reason, but it is not an unmitigated disaster if approach without the NIH or "it's change, therefore it's bad" minset. There are workable solutions to things that have been issues on previous forums, and some of them are even not bad solutions.

MrMobodies:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 28, 2021, 11:34:17 pm ---
--- Quote ---track the page I am reading in the thread by page number
--- End quote ---

The page number is arbitrary though, depending on the number of posts per page you set. The default of 40 is pretty silly for being able to quickly jump to a specific post - 25 or 50 would have been better.

On Discord, the scroll widget shows you the post number and total posts. It is beyond trivial to just push it up (or down) to the exact post number and there you are.

--- End quote ---

So you mean it does have page numbers but the amount of posts on them can vary depending on how many are set to appear on one page or for whatever reason.

I don't mind that as long as I can quickly jump by page number of something like what is already here rather than continuously scroll like with the lazy loading stuff I have seen recently but then one could argue that the search can cover that with finding things.

beanflying:

--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on April 28, 2021, 11:34:17 pm ---
--- Quote ---track the page I am reading in the thread by page number
--- End quote ---

The page number is arbitrary though, depending on the number of posts per page you set. The default of 40 is pretty silly for being able to quickly jump to a specific post - 25 or 50 would have been better.

On Discord, the scroll widget shows you the post number and total posts. It is beyond trivial to just push it up (or down) to the exact post number and there you are. I have to say that dissing Discord for not making you find posts via unworkable page numbers is pretty perverse - that bit works very well.

And now you've got me playing with it, the quoting is good too. No longer a problem to just hit quote and include the entire unedited quote trail (which can sometime take up half a precious page) - just the first line is actually shown, but you can pop that open to the full thing with a click.

And... on quotes, there's a link to any reply which actually get show right there, instead of 20 pages later in an isolated necro-post. Gosh, it's almost like actual threading!

I am not keen on it, if only because of the fading in and out of the colour for no apparent reason, but it is not an unmitigated disaster if approach without the NIH or "it's change, therefore it's bad" minset. There are workable solutions to things that have been issues on previous forums, and some of them are even not bad solutions.

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Discord is simply a disaster zone for a multi topic technical forum. Even broken down into similar numbers of categories as here we would finish up with thousands of smashed threads over time.

Please explain how discord will deal with and make sense of these numbers without becoming a pigs breakfast?

aandrew:

--- Quote from: drussell on April 26, 2021, 01:28:41 am ---
--- Quote from: aandrew on April 25, 2021, 11:21:22 pm ---...no way to archive the site as it is so it could be searched on something like the internet archive.
--- End quote ---

wget?

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Post back when you've tried to archive anything on an SMF site with wget.  :-DD

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