Like a lot of forums I frequent, I expect a link to the first unread post in a thread. I also expect that having read the last post in a thread the display tells me I've been there, seen it. If you click 'Latest Post' it does not mark the thread as read.
I also expect to see in the forum thread listing, separated, the name of the OP, the date of the OP along with the name of the Final contributor and the date of that post. I also want to see how many posts in that thread are unread by me. Far too often I am visiting a thread where I was the last contributor, simply wasting my time.
The menu system is pants. Give us a menu that allows you to get anywhere from anywhere else. Gerard, you stated on November 27th, that navigation deficiencies were to be addressed. January 25th, 2 months later, I have to ask, when?
Cut the white space. I'm not that keen on all the scrolling, form has triumphed over function.
These have all been voiced before and ignored it seems.
Phil1923 said:After five years, you still get double line spacing when hitting ENTER. How hard can it be to fix that. It's one line of code.
Pressing enter does not actually generate a double return, it generates a paragraph break. The problem is that the CSS for paragraph margin needs tweaking to reduce the white space between paragraphs to about two thirds of what it is now. A few weeks ago I did some tests and showed some examples with reduced values. Changing it as suggested would have solved the problem -- it would give the impression of a reasonable paragraph break instead of two line feeds. Here it is again ...
For threads which have an answer -- when you change them to display all replies instead of answers only, they do not have a latest post link. And for the threads which do have latest post links, it would help greatly if that link was moved to the top of the thread, instead of being hidden at the bottom of the first post where it is often not on screen and can be very difficult to find in longer posts.
The today page should have links to each quoted message post, instead of to the profile of the person who posted it. Why would anybody want to go to the poster's profile instead of the post? And in threads which have an answer, the link should still be to the quoted post and not just to the stated answer.
The http://community.coreldraw.com/talk/ page is just totally unreliable. Most of the time it does not work at all, and when it does, the posts it shows are often not unread posts. On the rare occasions where it works, using the [ > ] link at the bottom of the page almost always brings up an error message and renders the page broken again for a couple of days.
When replying to a post, control-click should open the reply in a new tab or window so that you can refer to the full post if needed. That's standard browser behaviour, but there is some user-hostile coding within the forum page that is somehow defeating preventing the browser from working properly.
Rich text reply is still a two step process. That's annoying, unnecessary and needs to be user-configurable as the default reply action.
Gerard Metrailler said:some changes to the font size as well as the spacing between text / sections
The space is now inconsistent for different posts -- because the markup for plain text and rich format replies are different :
For the rich text reply, I would say the line spacing should go back to what it was before -- it is now a little too tight for on-screen legibility. But the space between paragraphs is capable of further reduction to compensate. There is no need to have more than half a line space extra between paragraphs.
For the plain text replies, the site should really be generating <p> tags the same as the rich text paragraphs, and not using <br>. The plain text would then use the same styles as the rich text, including the possibility of reducing the excessive paragraph gap. But if that cannot be fixed, maybe the metrics of the br tag can be changed to make the breaks smaller? The gap between paragraphs cannot be reduced without either changing the breaks to proper paragraphs, or reducing the size of the breaks separately from the text.