Where do we report issues with the new forum?
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I've noticed sometimes when scrolling in a thread on Android the page gets completely frozen. It looks like this might happen if one of the fly out side bars gets barely activated in the background by a finger swipe that isn't perfectly vertical. The page can be unfrozen by properly swiping left or right for one of those side bars to fully extend and then just pop it back to the side.
Clearly this isn't a big deal since I know the fix, but is there some tolerance that can be adjusted on those side bars being activated?
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@pechelman Same issue on iPhones with the same fix as mentioned.
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@five-pocket Sorry to hear. Is it specifically on your phone that it's jumping? Presume you're referring to the loading of images in to a thread which moves you around?
The devil is in the detail..
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@five-pocket - I would suggest turning on pagination in settings as well, this will put 20 posts per page rather than having all posts load in one continuous scrolling page which can be difficult to scroll as it loads hundreds of posts.
@gmac_ironheart
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Just did this - thanks, @Graham!
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@Graham thanks so much for this suggestion, incredible!
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@AdamJ Hi Adam, thanks for your answer. I use browser and if I start reading the last posted and scroll up to read the previous, it just jumps way back and I have to scroll back and forth to get back in the line of posts.
@Graham ´s suggestion to turn on pagination in settings did the trick, now I can go back and forward page by page, much like the old general setting I guess.
Thanks very much
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@goosehd infinite scroll is default because that's what the developers (of NodeBB) intended for the ever scrolling, conversational element of the forum. Granted, they likely didn't have beautiful denim wearing enthusiasts in mind when doing this.
At this point, I'm not going to change any defaults, as that will equally irk the non-pagination leaning users. Hopefully we can improve the lazy loading and reduce the impact of images further still
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It's not an issue per se, but more of an update/improvement I'd like to see: I noticed that one can only reply to one forum member at a time by clicking the "reply" button at the bottom of their message.
This also means, however, that forum threads get cluttered with a single person "flooding" the thread, i.e., replying to each forum members' message one by one creates a lot of messages posted that may or not be of interest to other readers who are interested in navigating the respective forum thread quickly.
So: Is there a way to add a function that makes it possible to reply to multiple forum members at the same time in a single message? Of course, quoting multiple forum members' messages and "combining" them in a single reply is an option, but it's not the best option, as it requires a lot of editing (e.g., deleting the parts that you don't want to quote which also add to the bulk of the final version of the message one posts) and it's probably not as intuitive for some forum members.
In my opinion, it's one of those "would be very nice" kind of functions to add to the forum, but not necessarily a "could not live without".
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@cityofdelusion I don’t know if it helps, but you can physically tag as many users as you want in a post. It does have to be done manually though.
Just a thought.
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@goosehd Thank you for your thought. I've tried that before, but I tend to forget the points that I want to address in each forum members' post in my reply. Especially if I'm replying to messages that are rather a few pages back. Also this way, the respective forum members wouldn't know which post of theirs I'm referring to, again, especially if the messages are a bit older. The "reply" function on the other hand makes it clear which post I'm referring to.
