NEW FlyerTalk mobile skin update 9 January 2018
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NEW FlyerTalk mobile skin update 9 January 2018
In the NEW mobile skin, we have made it easier for you to navigate on FlyerTalk Forums! For example, on the main forum page you will be able to expand and collapse forum headings to access subforums within (with out loading another page like before).
These changes are designed to be small, incremental improvements to make it easier to differentiate different types of forum text content, and make browsing easier on your mobile device.
Please let us know if you have any issues or concerns.
We’ve also made some improvements to the sub-forum pages where you can start browsing different threads in a much cleaner lay out with segmented color coded sections.
These changes are designed to be small, incremental improvements to make it easier to differentiate different types of forum text content, and make browsing easier on your mobile device.
Please let us know if you have any issues or concerns.
#2
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Playing around right now and at first glance I like it.
Only issue I have encountered that is: Unread posts are as usual bold, however clicking on them does not jump to the last unread post. It takes you to page 1 out of x and then you have to start searching for where you last read up to.
Only issue I have encountered that is: Unread posts are as usual bold, however clicking on them does not jump to the last unread post. It takes you to page 1 out of x and then you have to start searching for where you last read up to.
#3
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Playing around right now and at first glance I like it.
Only issue I have encountered that is: Unread posts are as usual bold, however clicking on them does not jump to the last unread post. It takes you to page 1 out of x and then you have to start searching for where you last read up to.
Only issue I have encountered that is: Unread posts are as usual bold, however clicking on them does not jump to the last unread post. It takes you to page 1 out of x and then you have to start searching for where you last read up to.
#4
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From the subscription page, in the mobile skin
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/subscription.php
1. Tapping on a thread with new activity brings me to the first post in the thread, instead of the first new post. Granted, once I'm on the first page, the "view first unread" link works, but it's an extra step, extra page loading time, and the old behavior is a nicer experience.
2. Perhaps related, in the same subscription view, it shows the original poster of the thread. I wouldn't swear to it but I feel like it used to show the most recent or perhaps first new poster, which IMO is more interesting/useful
unrelated to the recent changes, but as long as I'm posting, my other top mobile skin related feature requests would be
3. add similar "tools" capabilities to the mobile skin that are present in the desktop site, specifically the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe to a thread. This could perhaps go in the "+More" menu.
4. Add a way to search only within the currently viewed thread again similar to what you can do in the desktop site.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/subscription.php
1. Tapping on a thread with new activity brings me to the first post in the thread, instead of the first new post. Granted, once I'm on the first page, the "view first unread" link works, but it's an extra step, extra page loading time, and the old behavior is a nicer experience.
2. Perhaps related, in the same subscription view, it shows the original poster of the thread. I wouldn't swear to it but I feel like it used to show the most recent or perhaps first new poster, which IMO is more interesting/useful
unrelated to the recent changes, but as long as I'm posting, my other top mobile skin related feature requests would be
3. add similar "tools" capabilities to the mobile skin that are present in the desktop site, specifically the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe to a thread. This could perhaps go in the "+More" menu.
4. Add a way to search only within the currently viewed thread again similar to what you can do in the desktop site.
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You can subscribe to threads from mobile; just hit the yellow star next to the title to subscribe/unsubscribe.
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1. Tapping on a thread with new activity brings me to the first post in the thread, instead of the first new post. Granted, once I'm on the first page, the "view first unread" link works, but it's an extra step, extra page loading time, and the old behavior is a nicer experience.
You may also tap the thread title, which takes you to the first post, and below the title once you are in the thread you'll see a link to "View First Unread" which disappears after you've viewed the thread again.
Last edited by IBobi; Jan 9, 2018 at 6:16 pm
#7
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This change was deliberate -- now you can tap the thread title to go to the first post, or tap the "Last Post" arrow underneath the thread title and go to the most recent post. I realize that's not exactly "go to first unread" but our data shows that this is closer to what most forum users wanted out of mobile browsing.
Great, another step and another wait for another page to download. Not impressed.
#8
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Really??? If I haven't read a thread for a few days (or even overnight in Australia while there's a lot of activity from other time zones), there can be a lot of posts to catch up on. I don't want the most recent post, I want to pick up where I left off. I can't be the only one...
I get it that most people browsing non native forums may want to jump to the end. But if what is wanted is to get people to continue discussions in the threads they feel at home in, I want to continue from where I last stopped. That is why you leave a bookmark in your book. You don't flip to the index and then figure out what page you were on last... neither do you open to the book on the last page and flip backwards looking for where the page had a crease.
#9
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We seem to take data speeds for granted... If I am on the road in Indonesia and want to catch up on FT discussions, there is nothing worse than unnecessary loading of pages I don't actually want to go to.
#10
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This change was deliberate -- now you can tap the thread title to go to the first post, or tap the "Last Post" arrow underneath the thread title and go to the most recent post. I realize that's not exactly "go to first unread" but our data shows that this is closer to what most forum users wanted out of mobile browsing.
#11
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 2,494
FT mobile site take me to page one instead of the last unread post of thread
I noticed the new "skin" on the mobile site, and when I open a thread it now starts at page one instead of the last unread post... am I doing it wrong? What should I do different.
Thanks,
Q
Thanks,
Q
#12
This change was deliberate -- now you can tap the thread title to go to the first post, or tap the "Last Post" arrow underneath the thread title and go to the most recent post. I realize that's not exactly "go to first unread" but our data shows that this is closer to what most forum users wanted out of mobile browsing.
You may also tap the thread title, which takes you to the first post, and below the title once you are in the thread you'll see a link to "View First Unread" which disappears after you've viewed the thread again.
You may also tap the thread title, which takes you to the first post, and below the title once you are in the thread you'll see a link to "View First Unread" which disappears after you've viewed the thread again.
#13
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Update for like-minded folk:
Here's the desktop site. We're referring to the blue square arrow next to the thread title, yes?
Mobile format. No arrow.BUT!! That envelope icon, where it says "Notification: None" (and possibly the entire line) serves the same function.
If you tap that, instead of the thread title, it takes you to the most recent post. apparently it takes you to the last post, not the first unread
I still think the "data" supporting the change in default behavior is BS but at least there's a way to get what we want (pity it was not clearly communicated)
Mobile format. No arrow.
If you tap that, instead of the thread title, it takes you to the most recent post.
I still think the "data" supporting the change in default behavior is BS but at least there's a way to get what we want (pity it was not clearly communicated)
Last edited by Zorak; Jan 9, 2018 at 8:41 pm Reason: correction
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Yes, and No. Clicking that "None" line takes you now to the latest post (time wise). That is not how it used to be. In a fast moving thread, like some of the OMNI ones, you want to read from where you last shut off. So in the past mobile skin, clicking on "last post" (I think it was called), took you to the post that came immediately after the last one loaded the previous time you went into the thread. That no longer happens.
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Yes, and No. Clicking that "None" line takes you now to the latest post (time wise). That is not how it used to be. In a fast moving thread, like some of the OMNI ones, you want to read from where you last shut off. So in the past mobile skin, clicking on "last post" (I think it was called), took you to the post that came immediately after the last one loaded the previous time you went into the thread. That no longer happens.