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- any news on fixing the spectacularly annoying issue where opening a thread you haven't read before on mobile takes you to the end of the thread and you have to scroll up / page back to get to the beginning? dhutch said:
miniman said:
Does anyone employed by PH actually use the forums? When you visit a thread you haven't seen, it jumps to the end. When you visit a thread you HAVE seen and WANT to go to the end, it goes to the beginning. Surely this can't be hard to resolve!?
Literally the most annoying forum to use ever. I enjoy bits of the car chat, and the diy&garden area, but use this forum far less because it is so unfriendly and annoying to use.I also do not upload many images I usually would, because the 'beta' image snap system is also a royal pita piece of dirt from the dark ages which is slow, clunky, and can only upload one file at a time.
Daniel
Honestly someone at Cargurus should listen to the Chris Harris / PetrolTed podcast to try to understand what they've actually bought.
ApexCult said:
miniman said:
Honestly someone at Cargurus should listen to the Chris Harris / PetrolTed podcast to try to understand what they've actually bought.
Do you have a link to this podcast? A Collecting Cars ones?https://collectingcars.com/podcasts/
I suspect this started happening when the mobile UI was simplified and the "go to new posts" icon was removed, with the href for that object being incorrectly applied to the thread title link.
The problem and solution is super simple. Here's what happens on Desktop:
You can see the HREF for the text is going to the base URL for the thread - i.e. page 1 (depending on what sort order the user has set as their preference). On the "goto newest" link, you can see the &d=xxxxxxx#separator part of the URL that drops to the last page and to the red separator.
Here is the mobile markup:
You can see very clearly that the "last page and separator" link is applied to the whole block which is what you get when you click the title.
If you remove &d=14940.67920#seperator from the href when the user has not visited that thread before (which I assume you know because of the class "topic unread", it will work fine.
I've done the diagnosis for you, are you going to fix it Matt?
The problem and solution is super simple. Here's what happens on Desktop:
You can see the HREF for the text is going to the base URL for the thread - i.e. page 1 (depending on what sort order the user has set as their preference). On the "goto newest" link, you can see the &d=xxxxxxx#separator part of the URL that drops to the last page and to the red separator.
Here is the mobile markup:
You can see very clearly that the "last page and separator" link is applied to the whole block which is what you get when you click the title.
If you remove &d=14940.67920#seperator from the href when the user has not visited that thread before (which I assume you know because of the class "topic unread", it will work fine.
I've done the diagnosis for you, are you going to fix it Matt?
On desktop, it’s easier because you have a separate link for “go to newest posts”.
If you could find space in the UI for a similar link on mobile, that would be your simplest solution. Otherwise you’re going to need to have some logic along the lines of:
If user has previously visited page, insert go to end link
Else insert first page link
Given you can bold / unbold links to shown when they have been visited in My Stuff I imagine you are tracking which users have read which threads but that seems like a processing heavy thing to loop through.
If you could find space in the UI for a similar link on mobile, that would be your simplest solution. Otherwise you’re going to need to have some logic along the lines of:
If user has previously visited page, insert go to end link
Else insert first page link
Given you can bold / unbold links to shown when they have been visited in My Stuff I imagine you are tracking which users have read which threads but that seems like a processing heavy thing to loop through.
Pinkie15 said:
I get this too, it's flippin annoying.
Just visited 1275GT's thread on his Vitesse, I've read all 24 pages previously, takes me to page 1.
Other threads I've never read takes me to the end.
I'd really expect it to take me to the last post since I visited a thread, or first page for one I've never opened.
Does it both on my Xperia XA (Android, chrome) and iPhone 7 (chrome).
Precisely, you're describing exactly what happens now and exactly how logic suggests it should work. Just visited 1275GT's thread on his Vitesse, I've read all 24 pages previously, takes me to page 1.
Other threads I've never read takes me to the end.
I'd really expect it to take me to the last post since I visited a thread, or first page for one I've never opened.
Does it both on my Xperia XA (Android, chrome) and iPhone 7 (chrome).
I don't think PH have any developers to be honest.
Doesn’t really help sorry. Just because I haven’t posted on something doesn’t mean I always want to go to the start of the thread.
The logic should be:
If user has read or posted on thread, go to “new posts” point
If not, go to first post
I guess storing a read / not read status for every post for every user is pretty onerous though.
The logic should be:
If user has read or posted on thread, go to “new posts” point
If not, go to first post
I guess storing a read / not read status for every post for every user is pretty onerous though.
Edited by miniman on Wednesday 6th January 22:30
Works great on mobile, can the #seperator link go onto the last post link in Desktop My Stuff?
i.e. on the "2" on this snippet:
That would then mean
On mobile, My Stuff title goes to last read indicator - great
On desktop, My Stuff final page link goes to last read indicator - great
On mobile, normal listing goes to first page - great
On desktop, normal listing title goes to first page - great
On desktop, normal listing last page number goes to last read indicator - great
(I do realise it's not all about me, of course
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i.e. on the "2" on this snippet:
That would then mean
On mobile, My Stuff title goes to last read indicator - great
On desktop, My Stuff final page link goes to last read indicator - great
On mobile, normal listing goes to first page - great
On desktop, normal listing title goes to first page - great
On desktop, normal listing last page number goes to last read indicator - great
(I do realise it's not all about me, of course
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