ASF 'How do I do it?' thread

[Logique]

When posting an announcement/website/thread link, instead of it reading like this,

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20130405/pdf/42f2ydwl9wxvhl.pdf
How do I make it into the simpleer version that some people use of
'click here'
The 'click here' actually takes to the page, instead of using the monstrous length of the proper link.

Links are automated. Just use the Link button in the Reply toolbar. Highlight some text > Click the Link button > Paste in the URL > OK.

 

[Julia]

Hi coolcup, I just did a little digging and think I may have found a solution to your problem. I have modified an admin setting that will hopefully make ASF work the way you want it to.

See how it goes over the next 24 hours and please let me know one way or the other by posting in this thread tomorrow sometime. Fingers crossed!

I don't know whether it's due to the change made or not, but I'm finding it irritating that the icon preceding the thread title which has always taken me to the first new post in a thread since I logged off, is now taking me several pages back. Only way I have been able to avoid scrolling through several pages that I've already read, is to click on the last post and retrace upwards.

I would much prefer it to be how it was, something that seems to have worked well for everyone as far as I know for years.

 

[Trembling Hand]

I don't know whether it's due to the change made or not, but I'm finding it irritating that the icon preceding the thread title which has always taken me to the first new post in a thread since I logged off, is now taking me several pages back. Only way I have been able to avoid scrolling through several pages that I've already read, is to click on the last post and retrace upwards.

I would much prefer it to be how it was, something that seems to have worked well for everyone as far as I know for years.

Yeah. +1

 

[MrBurns]

Yeah. +1

It's not supposed to work like that, need a fix.

When you are notified of a new post that's where the link should go.

 

[Trembling Hand]

It's not supposed to work like that, need a fix.

When you are notified of a new post that's where the link should go.

Thanks. I know how it works but to be taken back to May 25th for a thread I've posted in yesterday makes me think something is wrong although you would know better as to what I am seeing

 

[MrBurns]

Thanks. I know how it works but to be taken back to May 25th for a thread I've posted in yesterday makes me think something is wrong although you would know better as to what I am seeing

I just said something is wrong

 

[CanOz]

Interesting, its working ok for me...

 

[MrBurns]

Interesting, its working ok for me...

Now ...it's working.

 

[Joe Blow]

Keep the feedback coming everyone. I need to understand how this new system is working for people and whether it's an improvement or a step backwards.

I'm wondering whether it takes a day or two for the new system to completely change over from the old one. Perhaps there are some teething problems during the transition period? Anyway, time will tell.

 

[coolcup]

Keep the feedback coming everyone. I need to understand how this new system is working for people and whether it's an improvement or a step backwards.

I'm wondering whether it takes a day or two for the new system to completely change over from the old one. Perhaps there are some teething problems during the transition period? Anyway, time will tell.

This is awesome and much more consistent with how many other forums on the internet operate. It really does assist the people who check in from time to time on smart phones rather than having to go through every unread thread in the fear of missing something when they come back later. I really am supportive of this change.

 

[nulla nulla]

I'm thinking, after reading the posts since the change, that maybe we could do with three options:

1. The previous "New Posts" format that only showed the new posts since your previous llogin:
2. The existing "Todays posts" (in the "quick link" menu) that showed the new posts since your last login and the preceding posts over the last 24 hours: and
3. The new altered "New posts" format that has everything but is basically an extended version of the "Todays Posts" but includes threads that have been updated over a longer period, which could also go in the "Quick Links" menu.

By segregating the options, regular visitors would be able to focus on those threads of interest that have been updated since their last recent visit and where desired, have options to go back per option 2 over the preceding 24 hours or option 3 for longer periods to review a thread they were interested in, in the recent past, without having to resort to the search facility.

Just my two (2) cents worth.

 

[Julia]

I don't know whether it's due to the change made or not, but I'm finding it irritating that the icon preceding the thread title which has always taken me to the first new post in a thread since I logged off, is now taking me several pages back. Only way I have been able to avoid scrolling through several pages that I've already read, is to click on the last post and retrace upwards.

I would much prefer it to be how it was, something that seems to have worked well for everyone as far as I know for years.

Above function now seems to be working normally.
I'm not sure what exactly what Cool Cup had a problem with in the old format. Seems to have worked pretty well for all of us for a long time.

 

[coolcup]

Above function now seems to be working normally.
I'm not sure what exactly what Cool Cup had a problem with in the old format. Seems to have worked pretty well for all of us for a long time.

Hi Julia

I don't mean to bring change for change's sake and I am very conscious that I am very new to this forum, so I don't mean to break established ground. I was asking because:

1. I am a bit of a forum addict across many other topics and many other forums which have a similar layout (maybe engine?) to ASF follow the format I described in my earlier post. I was just wondering whether it was able to be changed in a user setting or if it was a global change

2. I don't really see the advantage of ASF unbolding all the posts you haven't read just because you logged in on a particular occasion. If you prefer it to work this way, to me it appears easier for you to use the "mark all posts as read" at the end of the particular time you use the site, whereas I have no such function to enable the forum to behave the way I would like and many other forums work.

I don't mean to change the world for established members, but it is a bit of a different approach to every other forum I have seen around which may take some getting used to for new members. And I can't really see the advantage that the current approach brings, which is why I asked the question. I also am finding under the new system that when I click a new thread, it is taking me to the latest post which is fine by me.

 

[Country Lad]

I can see where coolcup is coming from. This forum was handling the read/unread posts differently to nearly all other forums, certainly compared the the most widely used forum software, MyBB and phpBB.

Now that Joe has made the changes, the handling of the posts are now the same as the other forums.

I think that what coolcup is saying and now the effect of the changes may not be clear.

It was the case that when we read posts, they continued to show up if we refreshed, where on other forums they are deleted from the list.

To demonstrate:

A refresh or "New Posts" shows:




I read the posts marked with the cross, but don't have time to read the rest and log out. Previously, if I logged in again those post I have read (and which do not have any new posts since I read them) would still show up.

Now, with the changes, the same thing happens as on other forums where the read posts are no longer on the list, so I don't have to think about whether or not I should open them






If I go to "Today's posts" the threads I have read are no longer in bold so I can see which ones (in bold) I have not read.




As normal, if I click on "Mark All Forums Read" then there will be no posts on the New Posts list.

Now we are the same as the most used forum software so people new here can more easily navigate.

Cheers
Country Lad

 

[nulla nulla]

If read posts drop of the display list after you read them, should you want to go back to them for what ever reason you have to search for them. Far better you have it remain on the list in "unbold" format.

Also if "New Posts" only lists the new posts to threads since your previous log in, you don't get a list of all the threads you chose to ignore last time you logged in and you don't have to go through the rigmarole of marking them as read to get them off your list.

I found the previous "New Posts" format much easier to use and less cluttered with threads that I have no interest in.

Sometimes it is the differences in a forum that make them stand out from the rest and a pleasure to participate in (heaven forbid that you revert to the hotcopper styles).

 

[Julia]

If read posts drop of the display list after you read them, should you want to go back to them for what ever reason you have to search for them. Far better you have it remain on the list in "unbold" format.

Also if "New Posts" only lists the new posts to threads since your previous log in, you don't get a list of all the threads you chose to ignore last time you logged in and you don't have to go through the rigmarole of marking them as read to get them off your list.

I found the previous "New Posts" format much easier to use and less cluttered with threads that I have no interest in.

Sometimes it is the differences in a forum that make them stand out from the rest and a pleasure to participate in (heaven forbid that you revert to the hotcopper styles).

Agree 100%.

 

[Trembling Hand]

LOL who deleted all the two bob screamer stock threads?

I know they were all rubbish but ya didn't have to delete them.

 

[Country Lad]

LOL who deleted all the two bob screamer stock threads?

I know they were all rubbish but ya didn't have to delete them.

Joe, the trouble with making changes is that people don't like any change or do not try to understand what the changes actually are.

For example, although nothing has changed in this case, we have an assumption that posts have been deleted without understanding that the listing is in chronological order so the complaint should have been that nobody has made a post in the cheapies lately.

Go down a bit further and PEN, OSL and all the others are there.

Cheers
Country Lad

 

[Trembling Hand]

Joe, the trouble with making changes is that people don't like any change or do not try to understand what the changes actually are.

For example, although nothing has changed in this case, we have an assumption that posts have been deleted without understanding that the listing is in chronological order so the complaint should have been that nobody has made a post in the cheapies lately.

Go down a bit further and PEN, OSL and all the others are there.

Cheers
Country Lad

I guess the real assumption is that people have a sense of humour. Clearly thats a very poor one on my part.

Problem is as outlined in the pics,



I know they haven't been deleted FFS. They just don't show up any more in the alphabet stock list that they should.

 

[Country Lad]

I know they haven't been deleted FFS. They just don't show up any more in the alphabet stock list that they should.

Aha did you hear that? It was the sound of a penny dropping.

Cheers
Country Lad