NI Discussion Forum Upgrade - November 2, 2007

[tst]

Thanks for the changes, Laura.

Of course, the one we still really need is the "New replies to threads I posted to" section in the main page.

A couple of other problems:

I see a situation similar to this, except there are some differences.
Essentially, if I go into a page and go back before the page loads, the message is still marked as unread in the board view. The system knows the message was read, but it doesn't display it.

Differences from the issue in the other thread:

• IE 6.1 instead of Firefox.
• Waiting until the thread page fully loads seems to work fine.
• Clicking the back button twice (to get to the main forums page) seems to work fine, where the other problem seems to be specifically FF not refreshing the page at all.

The board floating order got messed up. I guess I'll just try to reorder it, but I would have prefered not to, since it's a bit unpredictable.

[tst]

It also seems that after posting a new reply the browser doesn't jump to the new reply automatically.

After testing, this is indeed so - the browser is brought to the reply which was replied to (or the first one if the thread's reply button was used).

Another point - I don't particularly like the white font for the options button. It doesn't really work with the rest of the color scheme.

Message Edited by tst on 11-03-2007 06:22 PM

[tst]

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tst wrote:

Essentially, if I go into a page and go back before the page loads, the message is still marked as unread in the board view. The system knows the message was read, but it doesn't display it.

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I didn't stress how much of a problem this is, because I only posted after reading a few threads, so I'll do it now - this is a serious usability issue. It means I don't really know which threads I did or did not go over, since it seems that this sometimes happens even if the page does fully load. I'm not sure what causes this, since it doesn't always happen.

I'm guessing no one else saw this, since I didn't see anyone mention it.

[Ben]

tst wrote "I'm guessing no one else saw this, since I didn't see anyone mention it."

Naw, I'm seeing it also.

I got board of reporting bugs by then.

Ben

[tst]

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tst wrote:

The board floating order got messed up. I guess I'll just try to reorder it, but I would have prefered not to, since it's a bit unpredictable.

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OK, I tried reordering it and it doesn't work. In the past, floating and unfloating board would change the order seemingly at random. Now, the order doesn't change, but is stuck at some order which I can't figure out. It doesn't seem to be alphbetical, by section or by the order in the main page.

[chilly_charly]

one more :

Keep telling me I'm logged out when I click on the "User Profile", something crazy since when logged out you can't access this setting !

[tst]

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tst wrote:

Essentially, if I go into a page and go back before the page loads, the message is still marked as unread in the board view. The system knows the message was read, but it doesn't display it.

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Note - this seems to work fine in IE 7.

[Ray.R]

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parthabe wrote:

So, you celebrated the Halloween & changed back your logo to your older self... ?!

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Yes... Now I have to find the time to "spruce up" my icon 😉

I see that Ben is making use of all those icons submitted by CC!  😄

I have to look at them as well  😄

They're fun.

One thing I noticed... I gave stars to people in this thread, but they didn't show up as they normally do..  What's going on?

RayR

[Ray.R]

What the ???!!!!???

Where did all those other posts come from???

Okay, so I'm not the only one with the stars issue => just read Ben's post!

[chilly_charly]

Hello Ray,
Apart not reading other's posts, do you ever open your mail box ?

😄