ahmad wrote:Another observation (not sure if it's specific to this forum, or to this version of phpbb forums in general), if I click "post reply", start typing a reply then I want to check a point in the topic I click Back to see it, on clicking Forward, all the text I've typed is gone and the post area is clean, the same if I refresh the page.... this is a big annoyance, given that I can type a reply in bugzilla (which uses https://) and save the session in firefox, then continue typing as the text isn't gone from the report. The same applies if I "post reply" -> type some text -> refresh the page..
broadstairs wrote:I notice that on this forum (unlike others I use) when I click on View Unread posts I see the list of topics OK, however if I read a topic and the click Back on the browser it seems to remove the just read topic from the list, normally I go back to an unchanged list of Unread posts (at least on other boards). This is a trifle annoying as sometimes I want to re-read a post but cannot see it in the list. Can this be changed so the list of Unread Posts only updates if you actually refresh it?
Stuart
Max wrote:ahmad wrote:Another observation (not sure if it's specific to this forum, or to this version of phpbb forums in general), if I click "post reply", start typing a reply then I want to check a point in the topic I click Back to see it, on clicking Forward, all the text I've typed is gone and the post area is clean, the same if I refresh the page.... this is a big annoyance, given that I can type a reply in bugzilla (which uses https://) and save the session in firefox, then continue typing as the text isn't gone from the report. The same applies if I "post reply" -> type some text -> refresh the page..
Why do you need to click "back" to see the topic?
Below the reply text box there is a scrollable window with the past 50 posts in this thread. It's hard to imagine needing an earlier post than that, but if you do, contact a forum administrator and that can be changed in the Administrator Control Panel.
Max wrote:broadstairs wrote:I notice that on this forum (unlike others I use) when I click on View Unread posts I see the list of topics OK, however if I read a topic and the click Back on the browser it seems to remove the just read topic from the list, normally I go back to an unchanged list of Unread posts (at least on other boards). This is a trifle annoying as sometimes I want to re-read a post but cannot see it in the list. Can this be changed so the list of Unread Posts only updates if you actually refresh it?
Stuart
If you're looking for threads containing your posts you can click the "View your posts" link on top of the page (right next to your messages).
Another way to do this is to look at the icons of a thread.
A blue icon means that there are no unread posts in this thread (or forum).
A red icon means that there are unread posts in this thread (or forum).
A red star in the icon means that you posted in this thread.
If you found a thread with new posts that you want to read you can click the little orange box, and that will take you to the first unread post.
juergen_harms wrote:This discussion has turned from "in this forum you quite often lose your draft" to "why do you need to go back to read your posts " (exagerating to make my point).
juergen_harms wrote:... - it is to check in threads, in other forums, or elsewhere whether my reply is based on sound facts: that is when my drafts have a tendency to go south.
broadstairs wrote:juergen_harms wrote:This discussion has turned from "in this forum you quite often lose your draft" to "why do you need to go back to read your posts " (exagerating to make my point).
Sorry but my original point was about losing the post from the unread list so I cannot go back to it.... the lost draft came along second. Both are valid points, losing the draft is annoying just as losing an unread post. Sometimes there are multiple posts about a subject in different theads and I want to read all before commenting, so I want to be able to go back to the same initial screen which displays all the unread posts, read all of them and then decide which one I want to return to and comment (or not). The missing draft is to me slightly less of an issue as some other forums do do this and I have gotten used to copying my text so I can paste it back when I return.
Stuart
broadstairs wrote:Sorry but my original point was about losing the post from the unread list so I cannot go back to it....
Germ wrote:broadstairs wrote:Sorry but my original point was about losing the post from the unread list so I cannot go back to it....
Why not open the link from the unread post page in a tab instead of the original window?
broadstairs wrote:Nice idea but I dont always know I want to re-read an unread post when I first open it, usually its something in a subsequent post makes me want to go back and read an earlier one. Just dont know another forum which does this....
Sorry for my slow understanding, you are right, I just tested it here and on mandrivauser.de (also running phpbb3). It is exactly like you described. Hitting the Back button in mandrivauser.de shows the list with the post still marked as unread. I did not understand because I never worked that way.broadstairs wrote:You miss the point, I know if I click on Unread posts again it will not show up. However this is not what I am doing. I first click on Unread Posts, the view a post and the use the Back button on Firefox but when I do this the list of unread posts is updated to remove the one I have just viewed. This does not happen on other forums.
Stuart
I find this a trifle annoying too and this is the only forum I visit which behaves this way.broadstairs wrote:I notice that on this forum (unlike others I use) when I click on View Unread posts I see the list of topics OK, however if I read a topic and the click Back on the browser it seems to remove the just read topic from the list, normally I go back to an unchanged list of Unread posts (at least on other boards). This is a trifle annoying as sometimes I want to re-read a post but cannot see it in the list. Can this be changed so the list of Unread Posts only updates if you actually refresh it?
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