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TechRepublic's official feedback thread for the 2011 upgrade

I often wished in the old style that a latest post carried a parenthetical hint, like (close to the top), or (near the middle), or (at the bottom) for longish threads, like this one is getting to be. The hyperlink would take you right to it.

I also miss knowing who made the latest post.

I have missed not being able to see the name of the last commenter on a thread as well. There are people I tend to prioritize reading and I don't want to have to search on that person in order to find their posts when I am actively reading the site.

I would like to see the newest response that shows up on the front page of the discussion carry a hyperlink to where the response is added (See my comment, "Context is evereything").

However. When I click on the link, it takes me to the post, but everything in the thread but that post is collapsed, despite my default setting of 'Expanded'.

Nice to see you good folks working on navigational things, for sure. Thumbs up!

When I click on an active discussion, the first thing I see is the top rated post and the next is the most recent post. When the top rated post is truncated, I can hit "Read Whole Comment" and see the whole of the post but I have no idea where to actually find that post. The same thing goes for the most recent comment- I have to go digging to find it.

It would be great if the title appeared as a hyperlink to the actual post so that I can see what the post is in response to without having to go digging.

the top rated post is rated negatively. Not sure how a negatively rated post is worth that much attention. (Whether I'd read those anyway or not)

If you're simply counting vote clicks, there may wind up being a lot of that.

Top rated is consistently out of whack with any logic.
Sometimes -4 is better than +1 and sometimes +1 is better than +2.
Whatever algorithm is doing the comparison isn't properly insulated.
Maybe it adds the votes of a reply to the votes of the post it replied to... or something.

there's also a serious lag going on somewhere?

messing around with arcane arithmetics again....

Look at the unofficial poll; last I looked it was 7 to 2 in favor of good, but bad was still "top" rated.
I guess it could be browser cache issues, but if not, then it must be doing something just plain wrong.

I saw that and wondered if I was going a bit strange. Or if it was something that only I was seeing. If the PTB are hoping that posts that fall beneath the negative rep tolerance don't get read, why put them on the front of the discussion as "Top Rated"?

As with any change this sweeping, I know that there will be some "shake out" time.


ETA: This post should have been in reply to Boxfiddler above. Not sure why it ended up where it did.

*sigh* Off to reformat the entire post before saving...

below the narrow blue bar, I suspect we're going to be seeing even more Questions in Discussions from newbies. Had I not known to look around hard, I would have never seen them there. To deal more effectively with that long standing problem, those links need to be WAY more noticeable.

typo

I've selected the ALL option for the thread because, like others, I'd rather scroll than click. But, since I can't expand the posts, I have to click next on each post. But when the page redraws, it falls from all posts to 100.

Even more interesting, the All option doesn't appear to be displaying all posts. Jason's introduction isn't visible at the top of the list.

This is something that's not working right and is a bit frustrating. We're going to make the UX for this part smoother and more intuitive.

I have both the Expand/Collapse option and a static page now. Search by date works, so I'm all set...for this discussion.

Now, if only I knew which of the other discussions I've subscribed to have been updated...

I came into this discussion this time from the Discussions front page and everything is working fine. I clicked on a post title to spawn a second tab and guess what? Same old, same old: collapsed posts with no option to expand. Screen shot

This is the URL for the full, expanded thread: http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340633?count=all&view=expanded&tag=discussion-thread;thread-sort

This is the URL for the thread, from Jason's first post, as accessed from links to individual posts: http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340633-3412071?tag=discussion-thread. This thread, on my system (WinXP SP3, FF 3.6.13, NoScript allowing all except Google-Analytics and admeld), displays collapsed, doesn't give me the Expanded/Collapsed option, but allows me to display all posts.

Added: Interesting. Stripping out what appears to be the post number ('-3412071') and refreshing the page gives me everything I'm supposed to get.

I left a comment in the other thread http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-340622 so I won't repeat it here.

Another annoyance (perhaps it is just me), is that I have to click "next" or specific comment links twice (double-click) or the page just sits there. This new interfacve may be "modern" and cutesy but it is a PITA, in colloquial acronyms.

For those who have login or permission denied messages when trying to psot comments, if you logout, delete all techrepublic.com and techrepublic.com.com cookies and then login in a new window the problems go away (or have so far).

Kinda too bright, after reading thru this thread, my eyes seem more tired than they should.

Any thoughts on a less bright white, turned down the brightness but still I think a less white, white would be better for reading.

the longer one looks at it.

Losing the blue post titles might help that. Or making it a deeper, 'grayer' blue, like what's in the 'Power Users' box.

the page vanishes is and the title in the tab just changed to a URL

At the moment I am on Ubuntu 10.04 with Firefox 3.6.13, editing works fine.

I had heard of folks having trouble with formating when editing but not just vanishing.

wait let me edit, the format problem is fixed?

Motorola Bravo, Android.

Doesn't show all posts in a thread. Definitely the new format, didn't have that problem with the old.

typo

a lost post Boxie?

from multiple discussions.

I read in the water cooler, I will have to look again.

No, guess I have bugs, not the site.

My Touch isn't having that issue so far. Major difference is that my Touch uses the house wireless connection.

I have to wait until May to get an iPhone on Verizon. Early adoption would cost me around an additional $100 a month, so I'll wait.

*sigh*

I should check the other way, too, though. It's the last thread in a 'section' that's missing.MJ's post above you, for example. I'll have to do some more fiddling in that area. I found the darned thing highly useful for alleviating boredom in several recent long drives.

I'm seeing a lag in the last two hours or so between posting and smart device updating. I think that they are trying to stabilize things and possibly resulting in breaking others.

Please report this Bug here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2

To reproduce:

1. I set my preferences to be "Expanded".
2. View thread
3. Set thread to "Collapsed"
4. Click a page number at the bottom

Result: Go back to the first page, in expanded again. This is NOT consistent, I don't know why. It's a now and then kind of thing.

J.Ja

To the Bug sheet here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2

I know they are working on the site- I have discovered new behaviors as well. If they are on the sheet, we can track resolution.

Can you please make the post with the bug-sheet link sticky?
Mark it editors choice or something, so that it'll be on the top of the first page.

Thanks for the repro steps. I noticed something funky with this tonight as well. Thought it was just my lack of sleep from launch day at first. I'll make sure it's logged.

Yuck!

Roughly every ten or so minutes.

I'll add it to the Bug sheet.

Bug sheet is here: https://spreadsheets1.google.com/ccc?hl=en&hl=en&key=tyt9_mAgySTdvb1ot3cL2Wg&authkey=CJmbw7sB#gid=2

Because No One loves you.

There couldn't possible be a issue with the New Site Design as it's been fully tested.

God help me I'm sounding like a M$ Representative at a Product Launch.

Col

And I am past caring.

I think that the anomalies are to do with trying to keep the site stabile. I could be wrong.

I do believe that I have reached the magic place called "Exhausted". I need to sleep now.

let us know if this helps. if there's any steps to reproduce, or browser/OS let us know!

From Original Thread:

My Links
Please tell me you didn't get rid of the My Links section! I had several articles bookmarked and tagged there and now I can't find it under My Stuff anymore...

[Reply from Jason Hiner]
It's still there
Go to your profile. Go to My Stuff. Go to My Favorites (that's what My Links has been renamed to).

[My reply]
No, actually it's not
Yes, I looked there already. I looked everywhere. All of my links are gone; there is nothing listed under My Favorites.
Can you tell me how I might get them back? Please?

EDIT: Issue added to Bug Sheet (Bugs - line 39)

I've set my preference for expanded

but when I navigate via links in my stuff

the pages always open collapsed