Site Suggestion - Latest Responses

Mick,

I think they mean highlighting the latest response within a specific Thread.

At the moment there isn't any easy way to find it.

Ahh gotcha GB. It's only the long ones that tend to be a PIA in that regard. I wonder if you could include a link in the post heading to open the thread and take you to the latest response in much the same way the follow-up email notifications occur. Of course if it's a very active thread you're still going to have to scroll anyway.

Food for thought.

Cheers Mick

You beat me to it Gone Bush. I was about to reply but the site went down again. Take the Site Problem thread, there was a response at 1900 but didn't know if it was new post or follow-up. I had to scroll to the very end to find it. It is worse if there are a number of follow-up blocks. It is easy to miss them.

David,

I peruse several Forums, one of which is here:

Caravaners Forum

You can see the View: options across the top.

Maybe some sort of variation on those?

cheers

I am also a member of the Caravaners Forum. The 'View New Posts' is the same as the EO 'Response Time' option. I remain logged on all the time. When I click on the icon next to a thread the CF 'remembers' the last post I viewed and opens the next one. The drawback with the CF system is that it can be harder to see which post another post is referring to, in this regard the EO follow-up system is better. In an ideal world a combination of both would be the best. But how it could be done is beyond me.

This doesn't really help Rod's question/suggestion, but another good feature on the Caravaners Forum is a search box to search each individual thread, so if it is very long, you can find the part you are looking for quickly by searching for key words.

When we get an email notification of a reply, clicking to open in EO takes us to the start of the thread, and a similar long search for the reply we have received. Didn't it open the thread at the reply notified before all the changes? Or am i dreaming?

Yes Rod, a combination of the good points of both forums would be ideal. They both work on very different systems. The trouble is, the more forums we visit, the more 'good ideas' we see.

Motherhen

Hi David,

It would be great if every reply or followup within a post, newer than the last logon, was highlighted - basically the same way "forum updates" works. This way every change within the updated post is included.

Also, while looking at improvements, how about if there is a 6 digit number it is automatically linked to that thread ID? There are oftem many threads where someone quotes a thread ID but you have to copy the number, open a new tab to ExplorOz, go to the forum and then paste the ID in the field - much simpler to click on a hyperlink, same as hyperlinked keywords :)

Cheers

Captain

Thanks all got it will add some of these and see what it looks like - I like the auto replace of a numeric string to the thread id. I will see about that one as old threads started at say 2 so it would not be easy to sort this out if it is a thread link or just typing a number - but I will test it looking for 3-6 digit numbers and test of the thread exists then auto link.

I think I will have a look at latest update highlight via the last login time of your browser - if this does not work we can change it but it is going to be the easiest for me to implement and test. We can gauge the worth of this update once it is loaded and we have had a chance to see how it performs.

I must however today go back to the tedious task of reading every line of code to try to find where the intermittent site pause problem is coming from.
David

PS: If I get bored looking at code (and I do quickly) I will start installing some of these updates plus finish the blog look and feel I started yesterday, plus blogs and site search - it never ends...........................