I didn’t mean this topic. Nah, nothing offended me, I just got fed up with one thread, but having looked at it a couple of times, it keeps suggesting I read it again.
I did not know I could mute topics, so thanks! Although it’s still there in the list.
The topic should not show up in your Suggested Topics list
The blue and grey circles should no longer show on it, it should not be in the unread tab anymore
If either of those things are not happening… then Huston we have a problem.
It’s like the Family Circus comic strip…it’s always there, in the lower right hand corner, just waiting to suck. But yet, I can’t look away. I hate it, but I’m strangely drawn to it.
Reminds me of this animated gif I saw today (in link form only to protect you)
@daneel is referring to other BBS topics. I think I know which one. But please DO flag things that you feel are over the line in terms of personal attacks and general rudeness.
In general I feel there is not enough flagging going on. Flags tell mods where to look and possibly intervene to keep things civil. Flag often!
Looks fine to me One warning: I feel very strongly we should avoid lists that are so widely spaced with CSS that they look like they have physical lines between each item. In other words:
This
Has an extra line
Between each item
versus
This
Does not have any extra lines
Between each item
In my experience using CSS to make super-spaced lists causes a lot of confusion with users entering posts who think those are real lines between the items.
Expanding posts to read replies is great. But then seeing the same replies again in the main thread is really confusing. I just think people are double posting. How about a modification where if I expand a particular post to read its replies, these replies disappear from the main thread?
Definitely on our list for consideration. One difficulty though, once these pre-read replies are collapsed downstream, you can’t reply to them, like them, or otherwise interact with them. You’d have to re-expand them to do that.
This is definitely on our list; we need a way to perform multiple actions (of any type: delete, recategorize, change status) on multiple topics at once.
Some of these complaints exist because the UI offers conveniences that suggest threading that is not actually present. An effective solution would just be remove it and impose a completely simple, flat view. I guess in that case, what would the “replies” buttons do? It could filter out all non-replies, perhaps, instead of duplicating the replies into a pseudo-threaded thing. Or it could just be a hint of what’s below, e.g. “This post has 10 replies”
Filtering is possible. We have very robust topic filtering support already, some existing filters:
filter by specific users (expand the topic map at the top of this post then start clicking avatars)
filter by “best of”, available only on longer topics
It would be rather a lot of work (for the user, not for us) if a filter was engaged every time you clicked on “10 replies”, since you’d then be in a filtered view of the topic, and you’d have to click again to disable the filter to get back to where you were. This would not solve the problem of “I see stuff I have already read” either.
There is a hellacious amount of clicking involved in any threading model (expand, collapse, etc) so maybe the clicking wouldn’t be objectionable, not sure.
We’re going to try to get to the improved “in reply to” expansions this week, so clicking on “in reply to” at the top of a post will show you the entire chain of replies in a flat manner.
no, don’t do what he’s asking. your difficulties list is relevant. if a user cannot recall that he expanded a response from upthread and instead thinks it’s a double-post, the problem is with the user, not Discourse.
now that I’m up to speed on the thread, I wanted to suggest that the favicon for BBS be changed from the current one that is for BB proper. my current work-around is this