topic Re: Post editing in Community Site Feedback

Post editing

rongtw — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:55:26 GMT

I have just realised someting else is missing from new forum

on old forum if you replied to a post and someone else did at same time , we used to get a warning than while you were typing another post appeared , which gave you a chance to edit your post ..

We seam to be missing this on Lithium

Re: Post editing

Oldjim — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:13:45 GMT

we know and despite a lot of gripes during beta testing it couldn't be fixed

Re: Post editing

jaread83 — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:14:21 GMT

This is something we flagged up early on in the project as its very useful to know if someone else replied to a thread during the time you were composing a reply.

The system currently doesn't do this so we found an idea from other users requesting this and we all upvoted or commented on it.

http://community.lithium.com/t5/Product-Ideas/quot-New-post-made-while-composing-quot-notification/idc-p/213617#M9965

Re: Post editing

rongtw — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:56:21 GMT

JIM i thought we were STILL Beta testing !

Re: Post editing

MauriceC — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:58:36 GMT

Access to that part of the forum not allowed.

Re: Post editing

rongtw — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:59:25 GMT

Another SILLY thing which i find annoying , when i reply to a Post ,,,,,, Whats the point of clicking GO TO YOUR POST

when i know what i just posted and can see it

Re: Post editing

rongtw — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:01:48 GMT

Maurice SEE i typed a reply when you did same !! no warning

PS yes i saw link didnt work it said LITHIUM

Re: Post editing

Anotherone — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 17:46:05 GMT

@rongtw wrote:

Another SILLY thing which i find annoying , when i reply to a Post ,,,,,, Whats the point of clicking GO TO YOUR POST

when i know what i just posted and can see it

BECAUSE it marks the post as Read and you can also see if someone else beat you to a post but you can also check again for typos, which despite checking previously I've found sometimes I still have some

Re: Post editing

Mav — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 20:33:49 GMT

@rongtw wrote:

Another SILLY thing which i find annoying , when i reply to a Post ,,,,,, Whats the point of clicking GO TO YOUR POST

when i know what i just posted and can see it

Also you can click Reply to a post earlier on in the thread so as to make quoting easier and you are returned back to the post to which you replied which could mean your reply post is not actually visible.

Re: Post editing

rongtw — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:27:16 GMT

On my local Paper forum , when you reply to a Post it simply puts the post under the post i replied to slightly off set and no space between posts

siimple and easy

SEE below ,, easy to use forum

Re: Post editing

spraxyt — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 17:48:37 GMT

Personally I hate such threaded view forums. Replies often end up in the wrong thread, but maybe in some cases one would never know.

Re: Post editing

jaread83 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:04:05 GMT

@rongtw wrote:

On my local Paper forum , when you reply to a Post it simply puts the post under the post i replied to slightly off set and no space between posts

siimple and easy

SEE below ,, easy to use forum

We had the option of doing this from an early stage of development but it was universally hated. There was even an option in the system to convert the entire community over to do this for any user who wanted to have it displayed this way. We asked for this to be removed as most would see the forums in the normal way and it would get confusing as people would just hit the reply button anywhere in the flow to create a response to the last post.

Re: Post editing

Oldjim — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:10:50 GMT

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com is an example of that and personally I always use flat mode

If you look at this thread http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/plusnet/t/4480654-plusnet-well-do-you.html?o=31&vc=1 in flat mode and threaded mode you can see the effect

Re: Post editing

rongtw — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:46:37 GMT

Sorry Jaread83 ,,,, BUT at the moment THIS forum is universally hated in its present form !

Re: Post editing

Anotherone — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:56:44 GMT

That's not true with regard to the points you've recently made. There are "features" missing that we want adding, and there's a lot of good stuff some of which needs some "fine tuning" to put it politely. There's things like the Spam filter that need fine tuning (addressed elsewhere) and there are a limited number of things that need changing. There are of course the reported bugs that need fixing - but were were reminded about all the bugs there were with SMF when it was first introduced in 2007 - though I still reckon there are more bugs here
The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that is totally abysmal at present is the search engine.

Edit: And the "work-around" to your original issue until the correct feature is provided, is to "View discussion in a popup" just before posting to check there are no new posts.

Re: Post editing

jaread83 — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 12:55:38 GMT

Sorry to hear that @rongtw. It's fine to have an opinion but I would appreciate useful discussion rather than comments that add nothing to what is being talked about.

Re: Post editing

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:04:31 GMT

@Anotherone, did I miss something ?. what has miraculously improved in the last nine days ?

Why nine days ?, I seem to remember that things were so bad that you were seriously considering chucking in the towel !

This forum is in it's tenth week and barely anything has been resolved, reporting errors has become pointless as there is no concerted effort to fix anything, constructive suggestions are ignored, Lithium seem uncontrollable and unaccountable, and the Rich Text editor still hasn't been replaced with something that actually works.

[edit] even posting this reply the bloody Rich Text editor did yet another (new) stupid error which I could only resolve by POSTing and then coming back in to re-edit my reply.

Re: Post editing

Anotherone — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:19:15 GMT

You obviously need to get a focus

Re: Post editing

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:21:43 GMT

and Plusnet management need to get a grip !

Re: Post editing

MauriceC — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 15:37:47 GMT

@Anotherone wrote:

The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that is totally abysmal at present is the search engine.

To this I would add the port of the 'Community Library' facility from the SMF forum without its underlying structure and search. Reported in the first few days in the life of this new beast. The posts all have the same date and many items e.g. 'Windows 95 Dial up' need to be pruned. You can use 'Search' (though I use the term with caution ) to improve the results. Back to your problem No. 1?

Maurice