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Forum Technical Suggestions Thread.

MSE_Martin · 2009-04-17 18:25:28

Hi, I know many regular users have their own expertise with Forum software and want to share or impart ideas which could help all users on here. If you have a technical suggestion that you think could improve the performance/operations of this forum. We'd love to hear it, this is the thread. We currently use the latest…

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BargainGalore Posts: 5,243 Forumite

10 January 2012 at 11:31AM

:spam: post 72

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Candy53 Posts: 2,548 Forumite

10 January 2012 at 9:33PM

When someone starts a thread it would help if the date was under the title, so as you scroll down you can see when the origional post was posted.

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NiVZ Posts: 174 Forumite

8 February 2012 at 3:25PM

Hello,

I know a lot of people have asked previously about an app. I just wondered if the admins had considered the vBulletin Mobile Suite plug-in which lets you compile apps for both Apple and Android, although there is a purchase cost involved.

https://www.vbulletin.com/mobile/

NiVZ

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hatewashingmachines Posts: 504 Forumite

2 August 2012 at 9:37PM

Cant search forums from my mobile- it lets you type the first letter then jumps to something else. Isnt it about time we had a mobile site

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ruoshui Posts: 8 Forumite

17 August 2012 at 10:02AM

What stuff?

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mildredalien Posts: 1,057 Forumite

23 September 2012 at 9:36PM

I have a suggestion - to allow you to jump to 'last read post' when signed in. I'm not a techie, but a brief google search of vBulletin suggests it is an option... it would be very useful for long threads that can span years, and you may want to keep up with for the latest info/tips without having to bookmark or try and remember where you left off.

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nightsky224 Posts: 913 Forumite

1 October 2012 at 11:04PM

hatewashingmachines wrote: »

Cant search forums from my mobile- it lets you type the first letter then jumps to something else. Isnt it about time we had a mobile site

I second that, use my phone a lot to browse the site and it drives me nuts. Would be great if you could sort that glitch even if you are a long way off a mobile site/ap

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One-Eye Posts: 69,885 Forumite

10 October 2012 at 12:28AM

LINK TO A SINGLE POST

If you right click on a post number (eg. the #78 in the post prior to this one) and "copy link address" you get this link:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=56239605&postcount=78 ends with ?p=56239605&postcount=78
Clicking on this link only ever shows a single post.

I find the following link much more useful, as it allows you to scroll up or down the whole thread from the individual post you have selected:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/56239605#Comment_56239605 ends with ?p=56239605#post56239605

Is it possible to make the second link the default when you right click and "copy link address", and if so would you consider implementing it?

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JDPower Posts: 1,689 Forumite

10 October 2012 at 12:31AM

One-Eye wrote: »

LINK TO A SINGLE POST

If you right click on a post number (eg. the #78 in the post prior to this one) and "copy link address" you get this link:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=56239605&postcount=78 ends with ?p=56239605&postcount=78
Clicking on this link only ever shows a single post.

I find the following link much more useful, as it allows you to scroll up or down the whole thread from the individual post you have selected:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/56239605#Comment_56239605 ends with ?p=56239605#post56239605

Is it possible to make the second link the default when you right click and "copy link address", and if so would you consider implementing it?

I second that.

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fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite

10 October 2012 at 7:42AM

I think would rather that stays as it is.

It's convenient to have that link there that only shows a particular post in isolation. Abuse reports, linking to particular posts for people, bookmarking specific posts.

The 2nd link, while it can be handy, depends on the person's browser and attention focusing in and centring in correctly on the particular post. It is not always 100% obvious when clicking such a link which is that particular post you are meant to be looking at. The view single post does not have that problem.

OK. It is swings and roundabout. You gain and lose something in either alternative. But personally I would rather it stays as it is right now as a least when I copy a link I can be 100% sure anyone who clicks on it will end up reading the correct post.

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