topic Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone in Community Site Feedback

Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:55:06 GMT

When viewing a topic, before the title of each post we used to have an icon which had a link to the post itself so that we could post links to individual posts.
It's gone walkabout - can we have it back please.

Moderators note by James (James_H) : This topic has been merged with another - apologies for the confusing order of some of the posts.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:57:27 GMT

This wouldn't be the very, very,very useful icon that gave you the link to an individual post would it?

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

Chris — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:00:21 GMT

Oh yeah, where's that link gone? It does get used when referencing a single post across a long thread.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:09:01 GMT

For some reason the display of the title and the ability to enter a different title when posting a reply has gone as well.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

Chris — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:11:17 GMT

Isn't the reply #1 link directly to the posts
this should go to your first reply on this thread.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

Chris — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:15:18 GMT

Just to make it clearer, at the top of the post there should be a link like this.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:19:02 GMT

That's the trouble with the wishy-washy colours - I hadn't spotted that that was a link. I've just compared it with the PUG forums and on there (where we still have the icon and title) it is not a clickable link which is probably another reason why I didn't spot it.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

James — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:22:01 GMT

Ah, but it would be boring if everything were the same
We'll all get used to the differences in the Community Site and it'll end being like riding a bike.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:26:53 GMT

I actually link the way TBB does this with "[link to this post]" in the headings of every post. I think a lot of people are unaware (both in SMF and phpBB) that you can link to an individual post (or see such a link posted and wonder how it was done).

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

James — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:59:54 GMT

Or could we just keep it to one thread rather than three?

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:13:32 GMT

To complete this topic in case anyone reads it because of the title:
Chris spotted that the < Reply #nn at the top of each post is now a link to that post. Linky
I'd prefer to see something more obvious such as the "[link to this post]" that TBB has.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:14:54 GMT

I'm not very impressed with the

Quote
« on Today at 15:55 »

which appears on the first post of the topic!

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:15:42 GMT

A topic specific to discussion of the link is here

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:16:19 GMT

Quote from: James
Or could we just keep it to one thread rather than three?

Just for you, I've linked the main two together.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

Chris — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:19:41 GMT

Or a friendly passing mod could either lock one or merge the 2 together

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

Tamlyn — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:01:45 GMT

Apologies for the confusion folks. I removed the message icons as it was felt they didn't add any value while cluttering up the display (in topic view, forum view and compose view). I think the current linked text, while less obvious for regular users of SMF, is probably easier to spot for other users as it is 'link coloured'. Of course, [Link to this post] would be even easier to spot!

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

Chris — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:04:05 GMT

TBH Tam, I think even though it is link coloured, it is still quite hard to spot due to the colours used

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

Tamlyn — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:11:17 GMT

Quote from: James_H
Any chance of running with Jelv's suggestion of changing the link text?

Sure, don't have time for it this week but leave this topic open and I'll get round to it next time I'm a-tweakin' the community site.

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

James — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:15:17 GMT

Jelv also raised a valid point about "on Today at"
Would we be able to drop the "on" bit for posts on the same day?

Re: Icon with the link to the current post gone

jelv — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:27:59 GMT

You've missed the point of what I was saying. Where you usually have <Reply #nn on, on the very first post in the topic it is blank. Perhaps it should say <Started on (or something similar).