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The TechRepublic comment layout sucks.

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by jasonbenci

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

In the comments section of each article, There are heaps of great comments hidden in there but its such a pain in the ass to click each topic and subtopic wait for a new page to load for 2 to 3 lines of text.

Am I alone with this?

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by oh smeg

But you have to remember that the Articles are by Paid Staff and what you call the comments are placed there by other Peers who are neither paid or in any way connected to TR other than being a member. Depending on what they consider an Article to be in relation to their own experiences their comments vary accordingly.

There is also the [b]Print View All Posts[/b] option that will show you the entire contents of the list in 1 page that you can scroll down so you don't have to wait for the undervalue pages to open or load.

That may be a better way for you to view comments that are added to Articles that are posted on TR. ;)

Col

by rob miners

clicking on Print/Preview all Posts. That will open them up and you can scroll down as you go.

by .martin.

is how I combat this whenever I go over my download limit

by rob miners

Col's the only one that has the Print View All Posts close to being right so far. Well pretty close he just left out the / and it should be Print/View all posts. I click it every day and still don't know what it says. LOL :D

by larryd4

Its still clunky and slow. Their are much better forum engines then this, that display much more quickly.

by older mycroft

I've never found TR to be "[i]clunky and slow[/i]."

Temperamental SURE - but neither clunky nor slow.

Most of the other forum engines that I've seen might appear faster but navigating around them is pitiful, and maintaining [u]who said what (and when)[/u] and [u]who's replying to which previous post[/u] is simply a nightmare. I simply cannot abide the forum engines that HAVE TO quote the previous relevant post, just so's you can keep track of what's happening.

Then there's the utter numpties that populate these sites. That is where a site falls down - not whether it's faster or slower. ;)

Typo.

by rob miners

'Print/View all posts' option LOL

Santees gonna have a feild day ROFLMAO. :D

night, Mate

Rob

by larryd4

But in my opinion, PhPBB is a much better forum engine.

by poppatab

Sure it sucks if you are not having what ever browser open next page in a new tab. IE8 drove me nuts launching a new page all the time. Firefox and Opera just take me to the next post via the Next button. Not much else I can add here!

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