Feedback on vertical timeline

This is a huge improvement, thanks a lot!

I’m still not happy with the placement of the thing (and will soon loose the reg flag because I nearly stopped reading threads), but the new colour makes BBS a Better Place™.

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Yeah, I like the grey button. Much less of a eye-catching distraction.

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We have significantly improved the back button, which now appears on both the desktop / tablet vertical timeline as well as the mobile horizontal progress bar. It is also way more likely to appear if you…

  • enter a topic at the top (do this by clicking or tapping on the last post date, or post count)

  • scroll up while reading a topic, especially on longer topics

Give it a try and see!

(Note that the nomenclature is always “lowest read position.” We technically do keep track of all unread posts in a topic but dealing with a Swiss cheese of unread posts “reading holes” in a long topic is tough from a UI perspective.)

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I like it!

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I just noticed, on the desktop view, that little dark-blue tick which marks your “lowest read position.”

I like that, too!

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We technically always did this (well, since 1.6…), but it was very hard to trigger the conditions necessary for it to appear.

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