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Old Oct 24, 2008, 2:36 am
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jackal
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Can I second every one of jbatl's and thelark's suggestions?

The "new" mobile interface is a vast improvement over the one in use six months ago, but these are things that are huge annoyances when trying to keep up with FT.

It's hard to tell which posts are read and umread without the holding, and the lack of the date/time of the last post makes it virtually impossible without opening the thread.

The button next to the thread title (which didn't used to exist) now jumps to the last page, whichnis infinitely better than the old method of opening a thread to the first page and then jumping to the last page, but having it jump directly to the first new post would be even better (are page anchors not supported under the WAP profile?).

And given the lack of that option, a jump-to-page-bottom would be wonderful for those long pages (especially on the iPhone, since scrolling down requires a lot of finger swiping...Apple needs to fix that, too).

The ability to edit quotes would probably lower the annoyance level of others when reading our posts!

One to add: how about a bigger text editing box? Given that there is no scroll bar in the text box, it is somewhat confining...
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