Forum related discussion

[cascader]

This thread is intended to be a place for users to post about forum (the website itself) related stuff.


As a first post, I thought some members might have had the same unfortunate experience I have had a few times - one writes a longish post and before submitting, the web page suddenly resets, and everything is gone.  Somehow a second writing never seems to capture all the same thoughts in the same way as the first, which might be good or bad :-) but it at least feels bad.

One can write up posts in other tools etc., (I started to use apple notes)  but often (for me, anyway) a shortish reply grows in both length and writing time as references are found and details are added and a post such as this one is written directly in the forum thread tool.

I recently discovered that under profile-> edit profile there is a setting to enable drafts, which states it will periodically save a post.

While I haven’t actually seen whether this solves the “lost post” issue yet, I thought it was exciting enough to mention.  I hope it helps someone.

[cascader]

The search function seems not to be working 100% on the forum. I am finding it unreliable.
When looking for a post with a specific word in it e.g Rodney, that I knew I had made, it found zero results.  I eventually found the post searching other words.  I subsequently had similar issues with other searches.  

[cascader]

At the bottom of the main page (touch “home”) is a “recent posts” button that can be very helpful in finding posts that have been updated and are buried lower in the hierarchy within the various sub menus and sub forums.

[chris]

I don't know if it's possible due to how this message board is made, eg with Proboards, but it'd be nice if thread pages were shown at the bottom of a thread page so that I don't have to scroll to the top just to click the next page button.

[silver]

I'd like to receive "Push Notifications". These are pop up notifications which appear when new content is entered, and which pops up on your browser even if you are not on this forum at the time.

[chris]

I know this thread is a little old at this point but I just wanted to add that when using the search function, it'd be nice that when clicking a relevant result, it'd be nice if the link took you to the post within the thread instead of to the OP of said thread.

There is no indication in the search results of what page a matching result lies within a thread so why link to the OP. If the thread goes for many pages, that's a real choir to navigate through just to see what you searched for.

[silver]

I'd be happy to advance to the next (or previous) page from the bottom of the current page, rather than having to go all the way back up to the top of the current page whereby to do so.