Currently, the forum threads are divided into "pages" that one must navigate by selecting "Next" or a page number. This selection overhead is unnecessary and undesirable. From my point of view, a thread should be one entity or "page". I am quite accustomed to selecting a thread and striking Control + End to get to the latest entry. On a tablet, it's much easier to keep stroking the screen than to select a tiny number or word "Next".
No hurry. When you get a round tuit.
Tossing in my vote for one thread per page, too. Really amazing that MAGIX cooked up their own forum recipe rather than pull something off the shelf. I did notice that in Chrome, the scroll bar is now thicker than a whisker, perhaps in response to comments in another recent thread.
+1. Without that at least let us choose how many per page with a big number option.
Really what I would want is a "first unread post" option. That way I don't have to remember what I last read, and also scroll looking for the last post I read from memory.
and a mark thread read please
The emails sent should include the post topic.
would be nice to have an option to go to the first unread message in a topic already viewed that now has new entries.
Plus what I already asked for" Magix, please just implement forum selection for jumping staight back to a forum listing (it would be the same forum in most cases) form the very end of sometimes very long thread - or at lest a single "UP" button to move as from such a long thread buttoms back to its headere where selecting another or the same forum listing...
Piotr
and a mark thread read please
The thread subject font becomes less bold after you read the new comments in it. But currently you have to reload the page to make that happen by either clicking the forum section heading again or using F5 etc.. The difference in font weight is pretty clear.
yes, i realise that but if i'm simply not intersted in a thread....
Ah, got you ushere. Yes that would be a useful feature. Would you prefer to be able mark a thread as read (so it stays unbolded and doesn't rise to the top) or hide it completely? In the 2nd case I suppose it would be useful to also have to be a switch to "show hidden threads".
i think the first option - the less clicks i have to do the better ;-)
Thank you all for the suggestions. We will have to see what we can realize.
I did notice that in Chrome, the scroll bar is now thicker than a whisker, perhaps in response to comments in another recent thread.
Yes, we implemented that after we got the feedback.
Regarding read/unread threads: please note that there is also a circle next to every unread thread. (also this will be less transparent in the future)
Mathias
"Really what I would want is a "first unread post" option"
+1
"and a mark thread read"
+1 ... Most fourms I frequent do this this automaticlly
- Numbered comments would be nice to refer to
- As would " Mark forum as read"
Thanks Mathias
Regarding read/unread threads: please note that there is also a circle next to every unread thread. (also this will be less transparent in the future)
Mathias
Well aware of unread thread display. I was talking about unread posts within a thread.
Right now you have posts grouped into pages. Therefore I have to go through each page looking for the last post that looks familiar to what I have read previously. Of course one can just jump to the last page and read posts backwards until something seems familiar. If all posts are on a single page then this searching for a last read post becomes easier since there is no page clicking to search.
The old Sony forum did not have a last read post feature so you had to do the browse looking for a familiar post. There are other forums I frequent that also do not have such a feature. Fred Miranda comes to mind. That forum is like this one. Post separated on pages and no memory of what the last post read was. I just read that forum backwards and it is tedious compared to most other forum software.
Contrast this with the Hitfilm forum. When I open a thread where I have previously read posts it automatically jumps to and displays the last unread post within the thread. That forum also displays posts by page but I don't really care since it always remembers what I have previously read and jumps to directly to it.