TR giveth; TR taketh

Ansu's post at top: Just in. But it looks like they are poking around with the site design, because bits are displaying like crap (esp. preference boxes expanded) and the Just In is now in a thread-width lime-green bar.

edit: LOL, it now has a Go To Comment function, but clicking it renders the comment on a page all by itself, now completely devoid of context. (Hard to get less context than before, but somehow this was managed.) But I assume this is still a work in progress.

We'll get to see if it is bad by design or bad because it is half-functional and in transition later. I still grant the benefit of the doubt. My ability to do that, however, is wearing quite thin.

Personally, I hate the Just in feature. If you can click it and find the location of the post, that would be great. otherwise, it is pointless to me. I'm glad the other top rider is gone - most popular or whatever it was.

edit again: I see Top Rated is now back in another thread. *sigh*. If you have fifty comments rated +2, and 2 is the highest rating in the thread, how is "top rated" determined? Not that it matters: How does it make any sense, and why would anyone care?

What's happening to TR?

OH I see another upgrade but at least this time no more screen real estate has disappeared.

But maybe I speak too soon. :D

Col

i set my preferences already to open discussions and questions in "expanded view"...stop making me change it now every time i open a new one!!!!!!! It's aggravating!

I like a nice, clean, orderly website, not this nonscense drively type stuff my 7 yr old would create because it was "pretty". I distaste flashy ads, ads that pop open at the top of my page making me have to close it and scroll back to where i want to friggin' read, useless flippin' toolbars at the bottom of my page that don't do a damned thing near as i can figure (if i want to read that particular blog, i'll see it when i go to the blogs tab), and the green friggin' ribbon around the two top comments looks like something else my 7 yr old would thing was pretty. I'll tell ya, if you're looking to alienate the ole faithfuls, you're doing a bang up job. Where's my steeltoed shoes so i can kick the kid that thought "this is just what ppl need".

Once again, there's my two cents worth that will be ignored by TPTB :(

Go into Community Preferences and unpick the box beside Automatically notify me about discussions that I participate in. Well it's something like that.

If it's actually working I think you'll find that it stops subscribing you to every thread you make a post to. ;)

Col

Test, test, test.

I've tried this once, but it didn't appear after reloading the page.

Edit - okay it worked this time. Have we been able to go down seven levels since the overhaul? Have I just missed it, or is it new / returned? Is it only at the Water Cooler, or can we go that deep over in the regular Discussions?

is that the Down arrow remains in relative position. If you click it, it remains under your cursor regardless of the length of the post. When you're ready to move to the next post, you can click again without repositioning your cursor. Just keep clicking and the subsequent posts will continue to open.

They're also present beneath each expanded comment, but those adjust to stay positioned beneath the bottom margin of the comment. That means they don't stay in the same place relative to the cursor. Still, it's nice to see them on either side of the comment.

so it is for me. Clicking the vote box loads me a 404 page as well.

I guess I'll check with other browsers, but I'm not avoiding my main just for TR. I hope everything stays functional for you.

I think TR used to have something like 4 levels back in the olden days. Maybe that means they will finally get rid of the "take offline to the water cooler" thing which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. All you end up with in the water cooler are random posts that don't mean anything because it doesn't reference the originating thread.

I would think the 7 level change is sitewide, though I haven't tried it out yet.

AV

I found a link that takes you back, though...sort of: View entire thread.

Edit: Although it doesn't seem to be happening any more. At least it didn't hapen with this post.

2nd edit: I did have to add three more websites to my Noscript whitelist to get the pages to render correctly, though.

If you are in collapsed view and you click on a post, it shows you the post without changing your position in the thread. The up and down arrows can take you up and down through every post in the thread, without losing your place. Thats a good change, because in the past, you would just lose your place if you clicked on a link.

The collapsed view is definitely easier to navigate.

AV

edit: added "in the past"

I just have a lower capacity to handle parallel data feeds.
I can only properly take in a few posts at a time, so that's why I prefer the collapsed view.

Since January we've been limited to (four?).

'Take Offline' falls into the category of 'It seemed like a good idea at the time'. It's one of those things that looked good on the drawing board but proved ineffective (at best) when implemented. Nobody uses it except vulpine.

I'm a developer w/ the site, and we have just pushed out several fixes in response to some of the bugs reported in this thread. We've worked hard on the new features, which are an attempt to provide a more usable discussion experience. I still see a few areas where we can make big improvements, but we are getting there. We've added the dynamic navigation element (arrows, auto-scrolling, keyboard commands, etc) to the expanded thread, as well as collapsed. If you don't like using the navigation, you can just ignore it and use the expanded view. The navigation will skip over items that are below your vote threshold.

Tip: Try navigating via the right and left arrows on your keyboard.

Fixes:

- Clicking 'Go to comment' on featured messages now takes you to the proper context in the thread. This also goes for the My Disucssion area. I did notice this still needs to be fixed on Contacts tab on the discussion door (will get that fix our shortly).

- Alert on reply was stuck in an "on" position. Check box should now always pull from your Community preferences. Sorry about that ;)

- Auto scrolling not correctly calculating on first comment

- Styling fixes (few more to come)

Please continue to let us know about any problems you find. Thanks for your help.

https://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-347450?p=2&messageId=3489894
See if it displays wrong in your browsers too.
What I get is that when I scroll down, the black bar (sound of cursing) is stuck about 1/3rd of the way, and after that the thread continues. However, after the bar nothing is clickable, the page display buttons at the end ([1] [2] [3]) aren't working either.

.. as well? If so, is it possible to change that? Them cookies are holding onto your settings (as has been explained to me)

-Tammy [_]3

That some time through the day around midnight TR Mothership Time that the TR Discussion & Question pages revert back to postings that are quite some time old?

Then when you go to the [b]View More[/b] the postings there are all over the place according to the date that they where posted?

On the Question side of the Forum the shown questions are again old and when you click on the [b]View More[/b] there are no questions.

It's beginning to drive me nuts as all of the existing Questions/Discussions from that day just disappear and are unfindable again unless you know exactly what they where headed where you can Google them.

Col

I've deleted all but 17 alerts (again). Let's see if I get auto-subscribed to any new ones.

Thanks.