It might be a bit jarring but I appreciate the separation it provides. It could be toned down, but I’ll take it as it is over what it was prior to the update.
March 28, 2023
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Yes, I too appreciate the separation.
I would give it some time.
Humans are the most adaptable species, ...so they say. lol -
Forgive me if this exists and I cant find it.
What I am looking for is a means of going directly to the first unread post in a thread. (i.e. the first one I havent already visited).
At present, I have to scroll down until I reach it.
By the way, I think this group has the potential to be much better than DPR ever was!
Thanks,
David
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In theory, if you click on the blue icon on the LH side of the thread title (in the forum list), it should take you to the first unread. At leats that is how I understand it. I'm not sure if it works that way or not as sometimes it shows me posts from days ago that I have already seen. But I know the unread algorithm is changing, so maybe it's better now.
Alan
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Clicking the time stamp in the right column also works. Yeah, it seems a little quirky.
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Yes it does! I wish I had known that days ago! It turns out that there is more functionality in this software than at first appeared. I wonder if there should be something, somewhere which explains how to use the forum - not a forum/thread for members’ contributions but a simple list for things like navigation and the difference between the various ‘reply buttons, the various image post options etc. for the guidance of new users?
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I think alternating colours for the posts is a good thing™, but I agree with the others that the gray is too dark. A light gray shade would be super.
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But it’s all mixed in with feature requests etc…. Admittedly, I just skimmed through it, but there doesn’t seem to be any reference to the ‘next unread’ feature which Alan just mentioned (for example).
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I wrote earlier: My initial impression of the alternating grey-white background was… hummm, ‘that’s a bit dark’ !
but, it (renders great) works very well when viewed on my iPhone.
I've got used to it already.
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I think this has been requested before but hovering over an image and seeing the EXIF data is nice, like it works at DPR.
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Thanks, Alan. It seems to work fine! Why did I not know that?
David
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You took the words out of my mouth!
David
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I just noticed after I licking the “blue thing” I was taken to a post that I’d previously read (and replied to) that had been edited in the interim. I wonder if modifying the post is playing a role in some cases? Will try to pay closer attention when this happens.
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It seems to be better now at marking posts as read, but you still have to scroll past each one - so if it's a multi page thread you've got to click + scroll, rinse and repeat.
I'd prefer if it kept track of when I'd last been in the thread, rather than individual post tracking - but it seems that's just how the system has been designed.
In lieu of that, a simple "mark thread as read" button would be handy, so you could reset the blue marker yourself without click + scroll...
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This new gray/white apperance of the forum threads is quite annoying to me. If there were slightly more visible separation lines in between the posts, the color alteration wouldn't be necessary.
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It doesnt show up well in Firefox with its black background on the titlebar, or on Safari on my large iPad.
David
