Some proposed Discourse improvements for TDWTF

Onyx

BTW, That controller you see is your standard Atari Jaguar controller.

Yup. And while my FPS game troll was pretty much directed in the same way @Maciejasjmj interpreted it, I did remember the Jaguar had this in the very least:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs_Predator_(Jaguar_game)

No idea if there were any more FPSs on it, but honestly, it's probably better if I didn't know.

Filed under: It probably had Doom; everything has Doom, I have Doom on my microwave

Maciejasjmj

@Frank said:

I never played the Jaguar system so I have no first hand knowledge. I actually never saw one in real life.

As far as consoles go, I've only ever had this thing:

I do have a pad connected to my PC, but I only use it for old emulators. It also works for some platformers (though not much better than the keyboard).

Filed under: childhood memories

Onyx

Is that a SNES/Super Famicom-looking Famiclone, with a gamepad that looks like an aborted child of a SNES controller and what an iPhone would look like in early 90s?

...

I'm in love, where can I get one?

Maciejasjmj

Sort of. And those controllers were actually the best ones - the replacements were even crappier.

Getting a working one is kind of difficult, and they're pretty expensive for Famiclones (cult status et al), but they do sometimes pop up for just under $100.

dfcowell

Due to the whole show-the-target-post-in-the-middle-of-the-screen you get some really weird behaviour when using this.

I asked to go to post 80, but the menu bar says 79, the green box (which was the last UI element I interacted with) is off by one (up to two in the case of the editor being closed) and it's kinda jarring. I guess this is a low priority bug, but I'm still left wondering where I am. It could probably be mitigated by showing a post number in the thread view, or by "pinging" the requested post with a background fade after navigation.

end

Requested posts are always background faded on arrival. As for the "load in the middle top of the page rather than the top", yet again, that is @riking's change so you'll have to ask him.

I don't necessarily object to the change but it does result in a lot of questions and commentary about the different positions on the page, to wit:

URL is shown as topmost post
progress bar is shown as bottom most post
navigated post target is middle top of page

That's three locations in play, instead of two if the target post loaded at the top.

ender

@codinghorror said:

Requested posts are always background faded on arrival.

Maybe for people that don't use high contrast mode.
@codinghorror said:

As for the "load in the middle top of the page rather than the top", yet again, that is @riking's change so you'll have to ask him.

That's intentional? Because it's annoying as hell, and contrary to all my expectations.

Arantor

If everyone else did it, I wouldn't be so annoyed by it but I don't know any software that does this on the web.

I actually think I'd have been way more amenable to changing the web if you guys had done it one step at a time.