I think so. On a mobile device, you cannot simply hit CTRL-A and DELete, to select all text and delete it. I noticed with my cell phone one day that I could get into a text selection... thing by holding my finger down on some text. It highlights one word, but I can drag one of the "things" to cover all the text, then tap on an icon to delete the highlighted text.
I really don't know how the whole "forum experience" is on anything other than my laptop. Having a 15.3" screen, a mouse(-pad), and a physical keyboard... It makes things easier for me. So does the ability to open each person's post as its own reply in separate Firefox tabs, cut, paste, and reply to same to my heart's content, and then post the result. That will always be easier for me. For the difference in screen size, if for no other reason. I guess I'll have to wait for holographic keyboards and large projected three-dimensional displays
.I, too, miss the "Cancel" button. That's one reason I like to open post replies in separate threads; I can then close one or all of them without losing my place in the thread. (And one more reason why I don't "do forums" via a mobile device.)
Thank you for the kind words (and for another fossil to add to my growing collection). But I am not even 1% the beta-tester that I once was. I once spent the best part of a week, awake and actively testing firmware for a consumer electronics device. That developer probably ended up hating me, lol. I think he might have been supposed to get paid when I and the other handful of people on the testing team smiled, nodded, and said it was ready for release. But when thousands of people are likely to immediately grab something like that, install it on blind faith, and then come to YOU with their complaints instead of hassling the developer, well... I think he rewrote the firmware 15 or 20 times. I wasn't one to be distracted by new features (or "features"), and neither were most of the others. So we ended up hammering away until he addressed the functionality (/etc.) aspects to our satisfaction. And the many thousands of people who then "consumed" the firmware must have been greatly satisfied. I seem to remember getting thanked two, maybe even three times
.Something else that I, as a "regular computer" user, did not experience. The forum was ALWAYS prompt for me until shortly before the software switch. But I have read enough complaints that I believe the issue was real for many. And there were multiple entities that could have caused or contributed to slow response times (the mobile app was (apparently) created in the PRC so who knows what it was busy doing in the background, some folks probably used their devices possibly crappy default web browsers, cellular network speeds vary wildly from location to location, their carriers might have had a hand in it either due to negligence (IOW, they might suck in general terms) or by design (annoy people enough and they stop using so much data, lol), et cetera. It might actually have seemed like scrapping the previous version of the forum altogether and coming up with something different instead of simply addressing the mobile issues might have been the best option. IDK.
Where'd I put my tinfoil hat? Seriously, though, you must have been reading my mind, because I not only thought that - I almost typed it
. I figured someone might get, you know... annoyed. Plus, I've been trying to become a better person. Which is a completely different thing than wishing to be perceived as a better person, I'll admit. But, still...I had something like 70 subscribed threads with new content. Some few of which had hundreds of posts that I hadn't managed to read yet. Now, if/when I find my subscribed threads list again (I really, REALLY should have written down the directions to that last night when someone explained how to get to it
), with the markers for which was the last post that we've read in a thread having been lost (err... I think?), I'll have some difficulty trying to figure out whether I was on post 652 of a 2,000-post thread or on post 514. Possibly even enough difficulty that I'll end up never going back and catching up in those threads.I actually briefly considered checking each of my subscribed threads and writing down the post number that I'd read to. Seemed like a waste of time - at the time. <FACEPALM> .
I hope to see both (reasons previously mentioned). Someone else, I think, suggested an "anti-like" button (they didn't call it that, lol). I see such a thing as being a potential source of trouble. In theory, it could be a useful thing. But I've seen it elsewhere, and it was often used as sort of a passive-aggressive flaming tool. Therefore, I don't expect to see one appear here.
Some kind of ShoutBox would be nice to see, since us "heads" do like to jabber from time to time. But I can see such a thing being an unending source of hassle to the staff (/admin/owner). It would really end up having to be constantly monitored, IMHO, for rules violations, and I do mean constantly.
LMFAO. If I wanted to have a bunch of people that can't seem to think for themselves do my thinking for me, to routinely delete auto-generated emails containing links to malware from a bunch of people I don't even particularly want to receive emails with content that they actually created from, spend my days watching videos of people doing incredibly stupid things without even prefacing them with the standard "Hey, y'all, watch this!" and then seemingly getting severely beaten on the skull with hammers until they actually thought it was ever going to be a good idea to post examples of their lack of brain cells, et cetera... I still wouldn't "hang out" on Facebook. IMHO, the so-called "social" websites are the most improperly named class of things in the entire universe. The term ranks right up there with "politically correct."
For all that the statement reads like it came from a 99¢ greeting card at first glance... I like it! (Please don't tell anyone I said that, it'll ruin my image
.) It manages to express the feelings that I have toward some of the members (and staff+). It also speaks of the general spirit of this virtual place, and of its members.
emoticon, it would be appropriate here! )
(Still maintain the request to have that page navigation at the top as well.)
