ELynah Forum Update

[CowbellGuy]

I don't mind the names below too much. I preferred the old way but that's probably mostly out of habit and not true preference. I find the views column distracting though. At the very least, it'd be better to the right of the posts column. I care much more about how many posts are in a thread than how many views it's gotten.

Seems kind of nitpicky to me, but I changed it. =P

[CowbellGuy]

New post count added to subjects in list view. Happy now?

[Jim Hyla]

New post count added to subjects in list view. Happy now?

Yup, thanks.

[jtwcornell91]

This may go in the "wishlist" category, but it would still be nice to have some sort of "go to next new post" feature in threaded view.

[jtwcornell91]

The moderation buttons look like morse code (see attached screenshot) unless I mouse over them.

I think I can fix that. But I'm afraid to ask what browser/OS you're using though, because I tested all the obvious ones.

Oh, right, sorry:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009091010 Iceweasel/3.0.6 (Debian-3.0.6-3)

(Basically, Firefox/Linux.)

[andyw2100]

I can see the value in it, at any rate. I'll take a look at it next week.

New post count added to subjects in list view. Happy now?

Hey, you said you were going to do it next week, and then you went and did it sooner. What gives?

Seriously--thanks. Unread post counts are good.

[jtwcornell91]

Unread post counts are good.

It must be Halloween.  I read that as "Undead post counts".

[Ronald '09]

I think it would be nice if the window was the proper width for a Blackberry screen.  Other than that it loads great on my Tour and looks exactly as it does on the computer. The countdown clock even works without refreshing.

Just to clarify, the site looks great on my Tour.  The point I was trying to make was, when I zoom in close enough to be able to read the text, I am required to scroll to the right to read the end of each line.  In a perfect world, a new line would start when it gets to the right of the screen so I could just have to scroll up and down to read the site.  I don't know anything about the technology, so I have no idea if this is something that is easy to do or not.  Other than that, it loads great, so I don't think mobile platform is really necessary.

On my old 8830, I used to have to scroll through all the links on the right of the page to get to the actually forum.  Amazing the improvements RIMM has made to the browser.  So if there are lot of people trying to access this site on older Blackberry models, they may appreciate a mobile format of the site, but with the Tour or the Bold, it's not necessary.

[CowbellGuy]

Actually, the forum is variable width. I believe I those cases the BlackBerry browser just assumes some preset window size. The iPhone uses 800ish pixels. Not sure what the BlackBerry uses, but it's nothing I can control.

[pfibiger]

The iPhone template is great, thanks!

[David Harding]

The Edit, Report Message, and Follow Thread choices at the bottom of the message pane don't seem to be attached to anything except reading the current message.

[marty]

I agree that the iPhone version allows for great reading of posts, but I can't follow the threads with regard to who is responding to who.  Is there a setting to help?

[Chris '03]

Try using the bolt browser for BB. It scales much better than the BB browser.

[Chris '03]

:-}Thank you! I can go back to ignoring the view count now.

[CowbellGuy]

The Edit, Report Message, and Follow Thread choices at the bottom of the message pane don't seem to be attached to anything except reading the current message.

Fixed (this was only broken in threaded view for those wondering why yours might have worked).