New Home Page Design

[beelzebub 23,383]

just a thought...as it appears , the new front page shows thre collumns..all fine.. showing the ranked threads...all fine.. However the link goes to the first post... Any chance of including a link to the last post. This is much better when your trying to follow things. You can always scroll back a few posts but its cumbersome when having to start at post 1 , especially on a phone.

just a thought

[Vagg 2,439]

... Any chance of including a link to the last post.

Hey, Belzebub! How come you want a link to the Last Post? Is it Anzac Day already?? lol

[Demonland 73,161]

Any chance of including a link to the last post. This is much better when your trying to follow things. You can always scroll back a few posts but its cumbersome when having to start at post 1 , especially on a phone.

sorry. Nothing I can do about that. I tried to do that but the software didn't allow it.

[beelzebub 23,383]

sorry. Nothing I can do about that. I tried to do that but the software didn't allow it.

oh well.. cheers

[Demonland 73,161]

oh well.. cheers

Actually it can technically be done but I don't like the way that it outputs.

In order to display the recent post and hence once clicked on it goes to the most recent post it displays like this:

The way it currently is it displays the most recent topics that posts have been made in like this:

There is no way to make it display the most recent posts (and display that topic only once) and be able to click on it and take you to either the most recent post or the most recent post since your last visit.

[beelzebub 23,383]

bugger !!! thanks for the effort of investigating...If I was a betting man Id think this will be one of those things that will irk and warrant a look at from time to time as possible updates arrive...unless the code simply doesnt support it in th emanner we'd like.

Im not a coder...so will accept the limitations

[Demonland 73,161]

bugger !!! thanks for the effort of investigating...If I was a betting man Id think this will be one of those things that will irk and warrant a look at from time to time as possible updates arrive...unless the code simply doesnt support it in th emanner we'd like.

Im not a coder...so will accept the limitations

That's the frustrating thing. There is a way to do it, I just don't know how and don't have enough expertise to work it out. I'll keep trying though.

[beelzebub 23,383]

That's the frustrating thing. There is a way to do it, I just don't know how and don't have enough expertise to work it out. I'll keep trying though.

i had a funny feeling you might hehe

[Demonland 73,161]

i had a funny feeling you might hehe

I worked it out and it was by accident!

Now the question is .... What do people prefer?

Homepage recent forum posts links:

A. Link takes you to the first post in the thread

B. Link takes you to the last post in the thread (ie: most recent)

Either way you might need to scroll up or down or navigate to another page to see the last post you read - (And before you ask I'm looking into that but that is a whole new can of worms)

I think it's going to be a case of the regulars wanting the most recent posts and the newbies or not so regulars reading topics from beginning to end rather than linking straight to end.

I might need to start a new poll on this.

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Personally, I find that little tab next to the thread in the forum index that links to the last postin a thread is fine.

[Demonland 73,161]

I actually think i just worked it out.

Theoretically when you click on a thread from the homepage (if you are logged in) it will take you to the first new post since your last visit. Not sure if that includes whether you have visited that thread or not. That is if you've never been in a particular thread but it has been around for a few times that you have been logged in and then you visit that thread for the first time I'm not sure whether you will go to the newest post since your last visit or the newest post that you have seen (in the case of a first viewing you will be taken to the first post of the thread). Confusing I know but I won't be able to tell until more people other than myself post and it is 1:00am and there are not many people around at this time. Tomorrow morning I will know more so bear with me.

Anyway, if you are not logged in and you click on a thread on the homepage your computers cache should remember that you have visited this thread on this computer and should take you to the newest post since you were last at the site. More confusion but it makes sense to me. Ah technology.

Not sure how this all work across different computers and devices that you are visiting Demonland with.

I'll keep you posted and go back to rambling and talking to myself.

[beelzebub 23,383]

Knew you'd do it !!!! lol

[Demonland 73,161]

Knew you'd do it !!!! lol

The funny thing is the customer support were adamant that it can't be done.

in the code itself pasted above there is nothing you can do.