Poll: How do you use the forum software?
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Continuing the discussion from What's wrong with this screenshot?:
Some people scroll a page of posts onto the screen, read them all from top to bottom, then scroll another page. Often by using the "Page Up" and "Page Down" buttons. I suspect that's how @codinghorror reads, since that's what the widget seems to be based off: when your eyes reach the bottom of the screen, the widget is conveniently right there to tell you "You just finished post 6"
Other people, like me, keep their eyes in the center of the page, scrolling each post into that region to read it, and only look down when they reach the end of a thread and they can't scroll anymore. I never noticed the widget was there until people complained about it, I rarely look at it, and I never noticed the number was "wrong" because the number is meaningless to me because I so rarely look at it.
This is why usability and eye-tracking studies are crucial when designing a new interface.
How do you usually read the forums today?
- PgUp/PgDn alone to read a page at a time
- Browser scroll bar alone to pageup/down to read a page at a time
- Other "read page a time method" - state below
- mousewheel scroll to keep current post near middle of viewport - / to keep currently read post near middle of viewport - K/J navigation - Other "keep currently post near middle of screen by other method" - state below
- Mixture of page at a time/current post depending on 'reasons' - state below
- FILE_NOT_FOUND
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I scroll with the mouse wheel, keeping the bit I'm looking at roughly in the middle.
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Mixture of page at a time/current post depending on 'reasons'
Depends:
- Work with portrait monitor I tend to read a page at a time
- Laptop at home with landscape monitor J/K
- Mobile - scroll keeping read stuff in middle of viewport
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I usually use both the arrows on the keyboard, and PageUp/PageDown, which happen to be really close on my typematrix keyboard (it also happens to be an intended feature).
It's just my way of having a "forward" and "fast forward" feature, so I can browse and read at different speeds, kind of like on a good ole videocassette player.
Of course, I can't wait for discourse to reinvent the scrollbar so that I can use that instead.
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I have a webcrawler that scrapes all the content, dumps it into an XML file, then sends it to the printer. Interns retrieve the printouts, then lay them out on a nice, clean wooden table, and take high-resolution photographs of them, which are then faxed to my address in black-and-white where I finally read them.
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I mostly scroll since I usually read on a laptop, and combination of sliding my finger and smooth scrolling (one thing FF does right, yay) is pleasing to my senses.
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Usually mouse wheel (if available) or Space/Shift+Space (otherwise).
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I use the touchpad. (Voted for scrollwheel, as the events delivered to the browser are functionally the same, and the reading style is very similar too.)
I occasionally forget myself and try using PgUp and PgDn in a misguided attempt to go faster (when dealing with topics with over 1k posts). I end up regretting it when I do; DC isn't as happy when I try.
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I finally read them.
I receive my content via interpretive dance. They read each post and re-enact it.
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Scrollwheel a bunch of posts into the bottom half of the screen and read them, then scroll more.
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Depending on the mood I either use the scrollwheel and read around the centre of the viewport, or I use spacebar to scroll page-by-page.
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Mostly grinding my teeth.
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Lies. There are no pages in Discourse!
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So, according to the poll results, everyone is doing it wrong?
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Obviously.
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I liked your post, but then I realized I was in the wrong topic for that, so I undid.
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My chromebook doesn't have a wheel, but it does have multitouch.
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I receive my content via interpretive dance. They read each post and re-enact it.
Let's see how they represent this:
Punch @sam in the goolies.
Filed under: Now there's a word I haven't heard or used since I was about 11.
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I use those little triangle buttons on the top and bottom of the scroll bar. Not even click and hold, individual clicks. And type my posts with two fingers.
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Is the edit history thing broken for anyone else? It doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it.
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How do you use the forum software?
Obviously I do it the WRONG way!
Filled under: and being proud of it
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Is the edit history thing broken for anyone else? It doesn't seem to do anything when I click on it.
I noticed it, too, but so far today I've only tried it on posts where the edit was deletion.
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I receive my content via interpretive dance. They read each post and re-enact it.
Can you recommend an OCR package?
Filed under: Orgiastic Content Reenactment
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That depends, do you need the wooden table enhancement software?
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>sam said:
I receive my content via interpretive dance. They read each post and re-enact it.Let's see how they represent this:
Punch @sam in the goolies.
I believe @codinghorror should experience reading the forum in this manner. It might give him an entirely new perspective on use cases he had not previously considered.
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I actually read towards the bottom 1/3 of the screen as i'm scrolling with the mouse wheel, then read towards the middle if i stop / have to read a long post.
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It might give him an entirely new perspective on use cases he had not previously considered.
Or, in fact .... wait for it ... a whole new world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl4hJ4j48s
Filed under: Note to OCR team, please also re-enact my posts
For the purpose of this post please think of @codinghorror as Princess Jasmine
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For the purpose of this post please think of @codinghorror as Princess Jasmine
I like him for the parrot, better.
Filed Under: @codinghorror want a cracker?
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I scroll, but when things get unruly (as they get sometimes), I lean on the summary widget/box thing and constrain stuff that way.
If all posts were loaded (I know is insane in some cases), I would CTRL + F which is a marvel of modern science in itself.
I would use the search, but it doesn't search the way I think it should. I have requested they use the interns to build out a simple circa 1997 search page with some advanced filters, but I don't think there was much interest.
With search Sam made an adjustment to search your likes (my likes if I am searching), so I bookmark (star), like things, and track (sometimes) when things are relevant. I mostly take off the tracking after a few days.
So you asked about scrolling but I went into find relative content. Hmmm. maybe that is for another conversation.
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I'm going to read every @codinghorror post in Gilbert Gottfried's voice from now on. I am not sure whether this is an improvement or not.
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I have a webcrawler that scrapes all the content, dumps it into an XML file
TRWTF is that you could've just appended
.json
to the URL
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But that isn't XML!!!!oneoneone
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https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=json+to+xml
[spoiler]Co-worker of mine uses duck-duck-go religiously.
He also thinks the government is spying on him and paid for a personally encrypted email service....[/spoiler]
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Co-worker of mine uses duck-duck-go religiously.
He also thinks the government is spying on him and paid for a personally encrypted email service....I just like the layout...
Filed under: FUCKING HELL WHY DOES IT QUOTE SPOILERS BUT NOT LINKS?
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I just like the layout...
Filed under: FUCKING HELL WHY DOES IT QUOTE SPOILERS BUT NOT LINKS?
[spoiler]To frustrate you. Isn't that the whole point of Discourse?[/spoiler]
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Awww... can we onebox that? Does Google onebox?
No. Because, I'm guessing:
(And the fact you used .hr and not .com...)
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(And the fact you used .hr and not .com...)
Stupid redirect. Forced to English but can't find the setting to force it to .com
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<i><a>To frustrate you. Isn't that the whole point of Discourse?</a></i>
USTFY (UnSpoiled That For You)The
purposeeffect of Discourse is to be a barrier to discourse.
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The purpose effect of Discourse is to be a barrier to discourse.
... while being very effective at enabling discourse about discourse barriers
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Discourse: enabling irony one HTML tag at a time
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<Discourse><Irony><Enabled=False></Enabled></Irony></Discourse>
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<Discourse><Irony><Enabled=False></Enabled></Irony></Discourse>
snigger
The really funny part is how much tolerance I've been giving Discourse about how not to do XSS.
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Thanks, having to use 'raw' to see what someone is saying is annoying.
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Mousewheel to scroll down about one page at a time. Highlight paragraph I'm currently reading (for contrast, and so I don't have to read a bunch over if I do something else for a minute)
Also, this poll is pretty useless. It's way too easy to game. You can bet a lot of the votes for "keep current post in middle of the screen" are lying, just because it's "contrary" to the Discourse philosophy.
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Welcome to your doom
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That would work better if I recognised more of the games. On the other hand... try this.
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[spoiler]
- Shadow of the collosus
- Legend of zelda ocarina of time
- No idea
- Skyrim
- mortal combat
- Resident evil (according to the caption)
- Chrono trigger
- Not sure
- Final fantasy . . . 4...?
- warcraft 2
- Unreal tournament?
- Super mario 64
- Bastion
- Fallout...?
- max payne?
- solid snake 2
[/spoiler]