Oh exCUSE me! 😂
May 21, 2023
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Bob, I think I read earlier that you guys are working with the original developer as well? Wondering: are the changes you’re making/ planning going to go back into the general open src release of the software? I’m assuming so under open src principles. Seems like that would help the overall long-term viability & maint of the changes & therefore be good for our Community. Also: above sounds good to me!
Cheers!
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My 2c* worth on threading. It seems to me that at the former site it was the viewer's choice of "flat" or "threaded" view. I thought that worked well. Could that work here?
Another comment. There seems to be a line's worth of space below the title of the original post. Couldn't that be used to list the original poster and the date&time of the original post?
Since such comments seem to be being discussed here . .
Lynne
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WN - looks like you hit on a popular topic here, thanks!
It is great that AlanSh and Bobn2 picked right up on it, and I enjoyed reading their and the other's comments.
I'm very much enjoying using this site, and look forward to the enhancement threaded view will bring to the table with the logical branching of conversations being much easier to follow and participate in.
Like you WN, I'd like to see the original poster's name and date shown in the header of each thread as well as the most recent poster.
The site has come a long way with both navigation, image display, and other options in the fairly short time since DPR's demise.
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What's wrong with ¢ ?
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We're following on the open-source principles, so our mods (at least the ones that aren't out and out hacks) will be going into a fork of Misago, which will be open source. Meanwhile, Misago itself has a plan for something much grander than threaded view, but I think it could be a while. Threaded view is apparently problematic, in that it becomes computationally very expensive in a large forum - which maybe why DPReview is so slow these days (and also the real reason behind the 150 post limit)
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And here I thought the reason for that was to keep the lunatics from beating a dead horse to a bloody pulp. 😉
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In theory you already get that.
The spech-bubble icon to the left is filled if there's new posts and empty if not. It's just that the post tracking algorithm is a bit wayward. That's why we put the 'mark all posts read' putting, to give it a kick. -
I wonder how well the ageing demographic of these forums, adapt to these types of modifications/changes after years of a pavlovian process/format like DPReview?
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I'm finding that I've adapted to DPRv too quickly. I botched a post the other day at DPR from clicking the wrong reply option.
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It took a few posts to get used to, but I far prefer the editing flexibility of this forum to the old DPR.
I also like this forum's gallery view of larger versions of all the photos in a thread.
And I like being able to see which threads have been responded to since I last visited and being able to click the link to go to the latest posts immediately - this almost makes up for not having a threaded view (yet).
And it's really nice the developers are listening and interacting with users and making changes that benefit all of us quite quickly!
Of course, I'm only 73, so probably much younger and more tech adept than those you were referencing. -
Great re: misago fork. Interesting re: the grander misago plan - will be interesting to see what develops. Thanks for the reply.
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Don't have it on my tablet.
Lynne
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WN, there's another advantage with threaded that I forgot to mention. It makes it easy to keep track of which individual posts one have read.
As for me now. I've been preoccupied with that darn real life and have limited my visits here. But I've looked at some threads and read a few responses. There is no way for me to know which responses in a thread I've already read. I have to read them all again if I want to catch up. Or like you may ignore a "fork", a sub discussion, when I thread is new but want to come back to it later. Very hard to find and follow those things with flat.
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That you need an American keyboard layout to find it. 😛
You can't use keyboard shortcuts and the like on a tablet, right (I have never had one)? Like ALT + 0169. And I guess there is no charmap.
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The keyboard has a lot of interesting symbols on two alternate keyboards, ♤♡◇♧ ☆ $€£¥₩ +×÷= among others, but no cents sign.
Lynne
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If you're on the page where the posts are listed, and are signed on, threads that have replies you have not read have a blue square to the left. If you click on the square, it takes you to the first of the replies on that thread that you have not yet read -- at least that's how it works on my tablet 👍
Lynne
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Yes, but I cant see exactly what posts I've read, as with threaded (visited link colour if nothing else).
On my Swedish keyboard I have €, £ and $, but no fraction symbols. But I do have charmap. 😁
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Once you're in the thread, posts you haven't read are marked "new post" in a blue rectangle in the upper left corner under the poster's name.
Lynne
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It's not the same thing. The blue icon just tells me those posts have been added since I last loaded the page. That doesn't mean I have read all those that don't have the blue icon, just that they were there the last time I loaded the page.
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Oh. Since I don't follow a lot of pages (3, in fact) and I always read all the new posts, I didn't know that's how it actually works. Thanks for explaining.
Lynne
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I don't read all. At DPR I could for example read the initial post and most of the direct answers to that and maybe add may own. Later in the evening or another day I could return and check if some interesting side tracks had spawned. And I could see them without wading through the posts I had already read and they were nicely grouped together. It's just more manageable - I think that's the word that describes it. Saves time too, even if it requires more clicks.
