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? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
posts: 1292
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Yeah...

yeah...............

It's inevitable that inset stuff like that (they're called floats in CSS) causes problems with box layouts. You wouldn't think they would, but they do! This is why Wikipedia doesn't float its tables of contents.

I'll rework the layout on news posts to have a bigger header, but there will probably always be at least one way to make ugly box-layout-related messes.
? Torco Learner of Stuff
posts: 220
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you know what sucks? when you get into a thread and someone just made the first post of a thread.
You know what would be cool ? that whenever the browser renders the page, it showed the last, I don't know, 17 posts or something. I mean the whole numbered pages thing is an atavism from the paper days, right?
<well, no, it would make indexing the board hard as fuck, but you can still create links to specific posts, so...>
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
posts: 1292
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Done. Last 20 posts will be shown when you click on the thread title.

EDIT: or the "newest post" link at the bottom of the forum's home page.
? Torco Learner of Stuff
posts: 220
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an excellent solution, keeping the page system alive but just having paged and pageless ways to see a thread.
10/10 would suggest a feature again
? Jipí der saz ûf eime steine
posts: 291
, Transition Metal message
quoting Torco:
I mean the whole numbered pages thing is an atavism from the paper days, right?
<well, no, it would make indexing the board hard as fuck, but you can still create links to specific posts, so...>

Alternatively, you could dynamically load posts as you scroll up or down with some jQuery magic, like Twitter does. However, at least on my 6 years-old computer, this is also what makes Twitter slow as a snail.

Also, Torco, just to tease you: Your post count would probably increase if you entered some gibberish into your user profile. Doesn't have to be any specific information, just asldfjalsdkjflökasjflkasjdflökasjflaskjföalsjf.
? Torco Learner of Stuff
posts: 220
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quoting Jipí:
Also, Torco, just to tease you: Your post count would probably increase if you entered some gibberish into your user profile. Doesn't have to be any specific information, just asldfjalsdkjflökasjflkasjdflökasjflaskjföalsjf.

I know, why do you think I don't
What? it makes me special!
? Travis B. posts: 603
, Crystallogen message
I now am sometimes seeing posts well before any unread posts when trying to read unread posts in a thread. I know that this was somewhat intentional, but for me at least it doesn't seem to be having the effect that would be desired.

Furthermore, threads should show what the current page is when you are in them. I noticed that when I was in a thread I had no way of telling which page I was on at that moment. This is something that should be changed, e.g. by delinking and bolding the number of the current page. (Okay, now I can see it, but it seemed like it was not doing it before.)
? Nessari ?????? ?????? ????????
posts: 932
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quoting Travis B.:
I now am sometimes seeing posts well before any unread posts when trying to read unread posts in a thread. I know that this was somewhat intentional, but for me at least it doesn't seem to be having the effect that would be desired.

You're seeing freshly-edited posts. I saw 3 new posts in one of the conlang fluency threads today, and was a little shocked. Turned out you'd edited 3 posts.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
posts: 1292
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Yeah, that is also a possibility; by design the site notifies you when something has been edited. I need to do a thorough revisiting of all things related to new forum post indicators.
? Torco Learner of Stuff
posts: 220
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WF Markup guide doth noth exist.
? Nessari ?????? ?????? ????????
posts: 932
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quoting Torco:
WF Markup guide doth noth exist.

stopgap until there's a redirect: ID number!
It's also at  Page Title!
? Travis B. posts: 603
, Crystallogen message
quoting Nessari:
quoting Travis B.:
I now am sometimes seeing posts well before any unread posts when trying to read unread posts in a thread. I know that this was somewhat intentional, but for me at least it doesn't seem to be having the effect that would be desired.

You're seeing freshly-edited posts. I saw 3 new posts in one of the conlang fluency threads today, and was a little shocked. Turned out you'd edited 3 posts.

Maybe we should have separate messages for edited posts separate from new posts, to avoid such confusion, both at the forum top level and at the subforum level?

(And yes, whenever I make any changes to my conlang, I do go back and modify all my previous posts in my conlang so as to be consistent with the changes.)
? Travis B. posts: 603
, Crystallogen message
quoting Nessari:
quoting Torco:
WF Markup guide doth noth exist.

stopgap until there's a redirect: ID number!
It's also at  Page Title!

I should note that page does not display properly on smaller screens, such as on my Kindle; the formatting breaks quite horrendously on here, actually.
? Torco Learner of Stuff
posts: 220
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hey! now that i have a profile, the board tells me where there exist posts i have not read! neato
? Travis B. posts: 603
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Having no profile considered harmful.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
posts: 1292
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Fixed the link to the markup guide. (Oops.)

And yes, without a profile page the site can't calculate how long it's been since your last visit!

The guide should look less squashed in general now.
? Nessari ?????? ?????? ????????
posts: 932
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Just had reason to open up an edit Language page window in Chrome, and the Highlight page checkbox is missing (all the text related to it is in identical places to Firefox).
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
posts: 1292
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Good catch—all radio buttons and checkboxes were missing due to sloppy CSS. Fixed.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
posts: 1292
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User-to-user private messaging system implemented. See news post.
? Jipí der saz ûf eime steine
posts: 291
, Transition Metal message
quoting Rhetorica:
User-to-user private messaging system implemented. See news post.

I think the user list shouldn't distinguish between uppercase first letters and lowercase ones?