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bilky asko
dosxuk posted:
bilky asko posted:
TVnut15 posted:
I really like it, well done. I have already been busy adding tags to my most visited discussions. Speaking of which, at the moment when you add tags they continue in a list off the edge of the screen, involving sideways scrolling to get rid of it. Is it possible to change this so that it goes downwards when it reaches the screen boundary?


It appears to be a bug in that awful browser Chrome. Opera users like me don't have it.


Looking at the code, it's Opera which is rendering incorrectly.

The tags are rendered with an <a> tag, with white-space: no-wrap applied to the contents. This stops the line of text from wrapping in the middle of a tag. However, instead of providing some white space between each tag (which would be able to wrap), the space is added with padding-right: 5px - which can't wrap.

So with tags not being able to wrap inside the text, or after each tag, a correct rendering would produce them all in one long line, as Chrome, Firefox and IE are all doing.


Surely as nowrap doesn't apply to the div, but to each a, then the tags should wrap.
DO
dosxuk
bilky asko posted:
Surely as nowrap doesn't apply to the div, but to each a, then the tags should wrap.


Only if there is white space between them, which there isn't. The illusion of a space is created with padding on each link.

After all, if you had some text which went heresa<a href="">link</a>insomereallylongtextwithnogaps , you wouldn't want the text to wrap where the tag is.
PE
Pete Founding member
is there a way to keep the classic forum view turned on without having to add ?=classic to my bookmark? And by "my bookmark" I mean "the Metropol menu" as I treat that as my bookmark </selfish>
PE
Pete Founding member
Actually regarding the "updated" button.

Is it possible to have a "mark forum read" button?

I, for example, clicked the daybreak thread just then. I expected it to show me the posts since my last visit to the forum however it actually shows the posts since the last time I read the thread.

Logical yes however the last time I read that dreadful thread was page 23. Meaning I'd have to catch up with several months of tripe before reaching today's posts.

Can we not have say a timeout of a week or something?
AS
Asa Admin
Default version when live will be the classic one, I've redesigned the extended one to essentially be the same as classic but with the topic snippet and list of tags - the current layout doesn't seem to have worked too well. Although if you're logged in, it should have remembered which you chose anyway?

The next update will have "mark forum read" + "mark all forums read" which should also help with that issue of browsing on several PCs. As to a timeout, I'd set it as a month in case people don't read whilst on holiday but maybe a week is more practical to help regular users.
DO
dosxuk
Can I request a feature? That when people change thier username, the old one(s) appear in thier profile, and for a short time it appears in the little popup on their posts.
PE
Pete Founding member
Asa posted:
Although if you're logged in, it should have remembered which you chose anyway?


I should point out that I have got into the habit of running a customised CCleaner task after closing my browser which wipes the TVF cookie (but leaves most other login ones) due to the multiple login issue. Might be causing my own bug there.

Agree with reducing it to a week. I did think there might have been a timeout as sometimes it would go to the middle of a thread I'd never touched.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
dosxuk posted:
Can I request a feature? That when people change thier username, the old one(s) appear in thier profile, and for a short time it appears in the little popup on their posts.


I'd like to second that. Some users have changed their username so many times that I no longer know who I'm interacting with. Maybe such anonymity is what they want, but it doesn't help to build up a community feeling. Being able to see the entire history of a user's usernames would certainly be very useful.
JO
Jon
I'm not sure people should be judged on silly sounding usernames they thought of when they were 14 though.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Jon posted:
I'm not sure people should be judged on usernames they though of when they were 14 though.


Don't see the problem really. I've had the username 'itsrobert' since 2001, when I was 14. Hasn't done me any harm.
JO
Jon
itsrobert posted:
Jon posted:
I'm not sure people should be judged on usernames they though of when they were 14 though.


Don't see the problem really. I've had the username 'itsrobert' since 2001, when I was 14. Hasn't done me any harm.

There are others who have haven't made such sensible decisions. Look at the guy who was called 'mefornina' or something like that in honour of the newsreader Nina Hussain, you'd hope he'd be really embarrassed about that now.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
Jon posted:
itsrobert posted:
Jon posted:
I'm not sure people should be judged on usernames they though of when they were 14 though.


Don't see the problem really. I've had the username 'itsrobert' since 2001, when I was 14. Hasn't done me any harm.

There are others who have haven't made such sensible decisions. Look at the guy who was called 'mefornina' or something like that in honour of the newsreader Nina Hussain, you'd hope he'd be really embarrassed about that now.


Well, if I'm honest, I don't really like 'itsrobert' these days, it does sound like (and in fact was) something that took a 14 year old 2 minutes to come up with. But I've had it for so many years that it would be just wrong to change it, if for no other reason than I'd suddenly become unknown.

I'm not advocating that usernames can't be changed. Just that it would be handy to have the option to see a user's username history somewhere on their profile. I really don't think people would be judged on old usernames when most people probably wouldn't even bother looking. It would just be handy for regulars to be able to check who someone is/was after a username change to enable continuity.

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