Thread read-status tracking on short threads
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@ben_lubar Tracking is still buggy though:
It should probably check for the bottom of the last post too, it doesn't seem to.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19560/testing-read-tracking if no one else posted and messed it up.
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@ben_lubar Good, now try not to buttume everyone uses 1366x768 resolution. My viewport is 952px high currently and that second post ain't gettin' read.
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@Onyx does it really matter if both posts are contained within your viewport anyway?
Making assumptions about which post the user is reading is how Discourse fucked everything up. NodeBB just says that the posts that start above the middle of the viewport are the ones being read.
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@ben_lubar Kind of, yes. I've had it not letting me read the second post because the first one was long, second one was short but it just about reached the bottom of the screen. Then, upon returning to the topic, "go to last read" thing returned me to post 1, and post 3 was pushed just off-screen. It's confusing because it seemed like there's nothing new.
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@ben_lubar said in Can we have an official NodeBB-Stylish topic now?:
NodeBB just says that the posts that start above the middle of the viewport are the ones being read.
That's a reasonable approach, unless you've scrolled all the way to the last post, in which case, you've probably read it, even if it doesn't start above the middle of the viewport. Which it probably doesn't, because unless it's a long post, you can't even scroll that far down. Alternatively, we could just pile a bunch of crap on the bottom of the page like did.
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@anotherusername said in Can we have an official NodeBB-Stylish topic now?:
Alternatively, we could just pile a bunch of crap on the bottom of the page like did.
That's actually one of the few things I miss from Discourse. That, and thread muting.
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@RaceProUK It wasn't a terrible idea, but like everything else in the problem was in how it was implemented.
The list of suggested topics at the bottom of the current topic that you were on sometimes showed topics from different categories, but then when you visited one of them, the list only showed topics from one category. Maybe it was just the sub-categories confusing it, but it was annoying because I'd always have to go back to find the other topic that I wanted to get.
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@anotherusername That's because it showed you new and unread threads regardless of category
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@RaceProUK Yes but when I clicked on one of them and read it, the list always seemed to suddenly only show topics from the same category as that one.
It was annoying enough that I generally just ignored it and used the topic list.
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@anotherusername Best I could tell, it preferred the current category. So if your category had no unread topics, it'd grab a selection from random categories, but if you clicked on one, and that category had a bunch of unread topics, it'd fill the whole list with them.
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@Yamikuronue disco-consistent. Of course.
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@RaceProUK and @anotherusername and @ben_lubar and @onyx
Would you guys kindy take this discussion into another topic?
I usually don't mind derailing, but in case people keep posting great stylishs, I feel like having to wade through a lot of posts about tracking and positioning that we can't affect is going to ruin the flow.Filed Under: Maybe I can ask for Jeffing? @Mods
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@abarker@Yamikuronue Are you sure you Jeffed this right? The forum didn't disappear for half an hour…
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@RaceProUK According to @Onyx, it was actually @Yamikuronue who jeffed this.
[20:02] <Onyx47> 'twas Yami [20:02] <Onyx47> I got a notification
Filed Under: So... yeah, thanks!
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@ben_lubar said in Thread read-status tracking on short threads:
does it really matter if both posts are contained within your viewport anyway?
It's nodesistent that I don't get the post highlighting on a short topic that I do on a longer topic.
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@boomzilla said in Thread read-status tracking on short threads:
It's nodesistent that I don't get the post highlighting on a short topic that I do on a longer topic.
That's because it detected that you're already on the target post, so the auto-scroll-to thing doesn't add the highlight class to it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Thread read-status tracking on short threads:
That's because it detected that you're already on the target post, so the auto-scroll-to thing doesn't add the highlight class to it.
I know. That's what I'm saying is wrong. It's just like discourse deciding not to show to whom you replied if it was the post right before you. Inconsistent user experience leading to confusion.