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[stensson]

Hi!

Could you please consider to add

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to every page.

Now we got to go back <- to check more new post , muck easier to have that navigation link always present.

Also.
when you click on a link that go outside this forum you are going to leave this forum. Why dont open a new window by default.

[MatsP]

I agree with both of these.

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Mats

[Suckermouth]

I dunno about the new window as a default. I think that might be something that makes some people happy but not others. Personally I like choosing myself using either a click or a shift+click (or ctrl+click) to open a new window/tab, though, however I probably open new tabs myself anyway.

[Jools]

I think I'd be comfortable with an offsite link opening in a new window or tab, but not outside the forum. However, I am not sure how hard this would be.

I will look into both suggestions in terms of the amount of work.

Jools

[Jools]

View new posts

However, there is a design issue here. The reason it is where it is is because it applies to all forums. If you then add it further down "the tree" then you have a link that seems to suggest it will show new posts in the current forum but will show new posts.

Furthermore, it seems a little odd to me (then again, I never use it, I use RSS which I find much better). The point is that you read the post you went to first, then you have to scroll all the way back up to the top of the page to click on the link for the list of new posts!

What you might really want, I'd suggest, is a link to the next unread post. You want to browse along the list of new posts and preview each one. And that's EXACTLY what RSS does...

Jools

[FuglyDragon]

Maybe im just being dense but i cant find the RSS feed icon, where is it hiding ?

[Jools]

There are four which are linked on every page, the forums ones are on the front page (with a link to a tool that allows you to make custom feeds for whatever selection of forums you wish to monitor) and there is an article for them in the general section of the site. Here: http://www.planetcatfish.com/general/ge ... +RSS+Feeds

Hope that helps,

Jools

[FuglyDragon]

doh!! knew it would be staring me in the face.

When i try to subscribe to forums I get an IE error

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed

This feed contains code errors.

subscribed to article and image updates ok.

Windows 7 IE 8.0

[Jools]

doh!! knew it would be staring me in the face.

When i try to subscribe to forums I get an IE error

Internet Explorer cannot display this feed

This feed contains code errors.

subscribed to article and image updates ok.

Windows 7 IE 8.0

Can you raise a separate bug report for this? I've just quickly tried it and it works fine in windows 6 (vista) and IE 8.0

Jools

[FuglyDragon]

done

[Jools]

Note to self re links: http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/links-o ... w-windows/

Jools

[stensson]

Both suggestions is easy to do in phpbb. ( outside link + new post )


and the new post, yes it will show all new post on all forums, that´s the idea.

Not sure if there is a new post function for certain forums?

[Jools]

Both suggestions is easy to do in phpbb. ( outside link + new post )


and the new post, yes it will show all new post on all forums, that´s the idea.

Not sure if there is a new post function for certain forums?

OK, so, off-site links in a new window/tab I am happy with from the point of view of not confusing other site content with ours. You mention this is easy to do - do you have experience in this or a link to a mod or suchlike?

As to the new posts, I think this adds unnecessary clutter to an already busy area, and is bad design from the point of view of showing an out of context link. I would expect if in a forum that clicking on new posts would show new posts for the forum and not the whole forum (that link being at the top level). Anyway, that feature is already there - use the RSS or atom feed links which are available on any page. I plan to show these in action in a video soon too.

Jools

[stensson]

Yes!
I have done both on some forums.
will pm you

[Jools]

OK, so there isn't a (published) different way to achieve it other than the hack we found above. So, not a validated mod, it breaks W3C compliance, it can't differentiate between offsite or onsite links and it only works once I make the change (e.g. isn't retrospective - you have to reedit a post and submit it for the behaviour to work in past posts).

So, I'm not going to do it unless a clean mod is published.

Thanks for your help in looking at it.

Jools