Posts by matthewbuchanan
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to 3410,
Seems you probably have JavaScript disabled, which might exhibit both those behaviours.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Paul Williams,
Hi Paul, we’re aware of the IE problem, it’s proving tricky to remedy but we’ll have it fixed as soon as we can. Sorry!
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Angus, this is due to a change from the old site where we only listed one post per blogger. We now show all posts chronologically (with featured posts moved to the slideshow at the top). Russell is dominating the homepage due to being prolific, rather than a bug. :)
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Sacha, there’s a timeout on post counts being calculated to provide better performance.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Sacha,
Sacha, that’ll be improved shortly.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to 3410,
Pretty sure that it did. I remember seeing at least three rows of page numbers on threads that got up to 60 or 70 pages.
Perhaps initially, but I seem to recall we reduced it down to a single line after you guys extended yourselves in a few threads. ;)
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Gareth Ward,
The credit for that little piece of magic is due to Mike Harding, one of my deputies. It uses CSS media queries to rearrange page elements based on the device’s screen width. Will only work in so-called “modern” browsers, but support is increasing all the time.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to 3410,
It is simultaneously more complicated and less usable.
Displaying all page numbers doesn't scale to 20, 30, 40 pages of comments (the previous site didn't behave that way either). We may be showing a couple less either side of the current page now, which was partially to save space on smaller screens. What's your use case that requires all page numbers to be visible?
Why not the link from the words “Last Post” which is what the user wants?
Good call, this is in the works to be changed and standardised on all views.
Where the link, on PAS, that used to say “Read Original Post” (or some such) used to be, it now just has the title of the post.
There's also a "Read Post" link right up there by the date. :)
Once again, apologies for the apparent negativity; I’m just trying to make note of issues that are performing sub-optimally, so that performance can be made better for everyone. :)
Loving all the feedback! We've addressed a great deal of it and will continue to monitor and improve where we can. A permanent fix is now live for when the Reply To is on the same page.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Sacha,
Sacha, just a preference on our part as it's visually less cluttered and (for me and others) easier to digest without having to perform any date calculations. We'll talk further with Russell on it.
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to Rowan Crawford,
Nice addition Rowan, we'll look at doing something similar. The pagination size for comments was upped to 50 in the past and there was outrage from the readership, so we left it at 25.