http://www.idkfa.com/v3 idkfa: syndicated http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3159 Thank goodness, having to click was tedium. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:27:45 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3159 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3157 muy bueno! Governator@idkfa.com (Governator) idkfa Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:17:03 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3157 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3156 Er, discovered that I'd left a "debugging mode" feature in the system which disabled the marking of an entire thread as read upon thread display (for anybody except for my user account, that is). You... should be able to read threads much faster now. Sorry for the convenience. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:43:08 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3156 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3133 You're such a gentle TYRANT. Scrotor@idkfa.com (Scrotor) idkfa Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:21:41 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3133 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3132 *cough* And I've also made the alternate view now the default for guests, as well as switched guests to "absolute" time differences (rather than relative ones). We'll try this for a while, see what people think about it. If it's too disruptive, I can pretty easily change it back. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:15:20 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3132 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3128 Also added the "current message" and "latest message" coloring to the new view, which makes it easier to visually identify the latest thing talked about, as well as what you clicked on (though, what you've clicked on is automatically scrolled to, pending browser compatibility). kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:01:35 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3128 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3123 It's been slow at work, and I found a new way to approach this project. Under Settings > Thread Display, I've added an alternative viewing options for threads.Effectively, this viewing mode addresses the cumbersome "one post to read per mouse click" people have expressed frustration towards. Now when you click "into" a thread (that is, when not just browsing an item, or looking at the stream), you'll see the full contents of the thread, rather than just the post you clicked on. For this mode, I've also added "inline" comments, such that you'll have to click on "reply" in order to reply to a specific post, as you'll no longer be viewing one post at a time. The comments box should appear below the post in question, and you should be able to preview and submit from this comment box as well. Currently, you can only work on one comment box at a time, and drafts are disabled for this particular view (though, if you click through to preview mode, it'll come back). I had to do some pretty drastic changes to the idkfa backend to get this going, and I'm not super confident that it didn't break things for either classic or the "firehose" view. I've done testing in a few browsers, but please let me know if you find something strange. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:26:56 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=3123 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2408 Oy. It's looking like it was going to be pretty difficult to have alongside the current format. I'd have to break a lot of things if I were to get this to work. And probably more than I'd care to fix in the long run. Maybe if I'm looking to redo the entire thing I could go at it with both of these things in mind, but as it stands, idkfa would be unusable until I figured it all out if I took this down now. Alas, my design could only go so far. I did, however, find a way to adjust the aesthetics portion to draw a dotted line to give a better idea as to the shape/depth of the threads. I also added a few more characters to signify the latest and current posts (asterisks and the arrow quotes, respectively). At least that's something. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:14:05 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2408 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2405 Similar. Definitely not the "message quoted in a message" type of thing, but something to the degree that it shows the structure at the same time it shows all of its contents. What I might do is stick with the "classic" method of just showing excerpts on the Discussion Item pages, and then let people have a user option for the thread views. Will have to figure something out for the seen/unseen functionality, though. Hmm. kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:31:36 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2405 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2404 do you mean something similar to the way email clients nest previous emails in a chain. Like gmail does for instance. I like it because it is in fact nice to not only review the previous post but others in the chain as well when replying. I currently just open up another tab and browse around in there if I want to look at something while replying. A different system would be pretty sexy. MrFood@idkfa.com (MrFood) idkfa Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:47:13 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2404 http://www.idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2403 Thinking on some potential UI changes for displaying threads. Currently, we view 1 post at a time, with slight indications elsewhere in the thread as to where the message is that you're viewing. I have it this way for a few reasons: Each post can be read without distraction from other posts. Upon accessing each post, it is unmistakable which post you are reading. You aren't presented with a wall of text upon clicking on something. There is always one location on the page to read a post, not several, and you'll never have to scroll to read what you're going after. I'm proposing to find a way to display all posts, in their entirety (or at least, in their entirety without having to navigate to a different page), for the entire thread. This is because in trying to reply to a number of posts recently, I've wanted to review something in a previous post in the thread, but I didn't want to navigate away from the page I was currently on. Other threaded comment systems (see: Reddit) do something similar, but then sort by popularity, which is often pretty irritating if you're trying to read the progression of a discussion. Anybody have any thoughts on this? Like the system the way it is? Wish it was different? Care at all? kaiden@idkfa.com (kaiden) idkfa Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:53:54 -0800 http://idkfa.com/v3/v_thread.php?thread_id=2403&msg_id=2403