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Recent Topics paging, uploading images and preview bugs require a patch which has not yet been released.
Bugs Reporting and Suggestions
11 Feb 2015 13:05 #197422
by ubarose
That's a good question. And of course I like discussing these things. First, keep in mind that the banner is not behaving the way I want it to, and I am working on getting it changed.
The banner is supposed to be dynamic. If you scroll down it disappears. If you scroll up a certain amount it reappears. Why do this? The site transforms to an increasingly vertical layout as the screen gets smaller. So by the time you are on something like an iPhone reading the forum looks like this:
Reading the front page looks like this:
Once you have read halfway down the page on a phone, if you decide you want to navigate somewhere else, you have to either scroll all the way to the top to the menu, or all the way to the bottom to the "return to top" button. Either way, in Trash Talk, it is a lot of scrolling on a phone. Furthermore, with content as link dense as the forum, every time you touch the screen to scroll, you run the risk of accidentally tapping a link and opening a page you didn't really want to open, which is not only super annoying, but if you are not on an unlimited data plan, can start getting costly as well. Therefore, the dynamic header; as you start scrolling up, bingo, the menu appears. Scroll down a tad, it goes away. Additionally, when your keyboard pops up, is should force whatever you have in view up as well. This is interpreted as scrolling down, so even if you accidentally had the header in view due to say scrolling up a tad to click a reply button, as soon as the keyboard bounces up and pushes the screen up, the header disappears. So the only thing visible on your screen should be your keyboard (for about 50% or less depending on the device) and the input box (for whatever is left).
Of course, it takes a bit of getting used to, but it becomes second nature to people who regularly use a phone for browsing the internet. Tweak a little up to get a menu. Tweak a little down to make it go away. It's almost expected that sites will behave that way. Twitch up and don't get a menu drop, and people are like, "You gotta be kidding me. What is this? 2010?"
As I said, this is not functioning correctly right now. I'm working on it.
Replied by ubarose on topic Bugs Reporting and Suggestions
Sagrilarus wrote: what purpose is the floating banner serving?
S.
That's a good question. And of course I like discussing these things. First, keep in mind that the banner is not behaving the way I want it to, and I am working on getting it changed.
The banner is supposed to be dynamic. If you scroll down it disappears. If you scroll up a certain amount it reappears. Why do this? The site transforms to an increasingly vertical layout as the screen gets smaller. So by the time you are on something like an iPhone reading the forum looks like this:
Reading the front page looks like this:
Once you have read halfway down the page on a phone, if you decide you want to navigate somewhere else, you have to either scroll all the way to the top to the menu, or all the way to the bottom to the "return to top" button. Either way, in Trash Talk, it is a lot of scrolling on a phone. Furthermore, with content as link dense as the forum, every time you touch the screen to scroll, you run the risk of accidentally tapping a link and opening a page you didn't really want to open, which is not only super annoying, but if you are not on an unlimited data plan, can start getting costly as well. Therefore, the dynamic header; as you start scrolling up, bingo, the menu appears. Scroll down a tad, it goes away. Additionally, when your keyboard pops up, is should force whatever you have in view up as well. This is interpreted as scrolling down, so even if you accidentally had the header in view due to say scrolling up a tad to click a reply button, as soon as the keyboard bounces up and pushes the screen up, the header disappears. So the only thing visible on your screen should be your keyboard (for about 50% or less depending on the device) and the input box (for whatever is left).
Of course, it takes a bit of getting used to, but it becomes second nature to people who regularly use a phone for browsing the internet. Tweak a little up to get a menu. Tweak a little down to make it go away. It's almost expected that sites will behave that way. Twitch up and don't get a menu drop, and people are like, "You gotta be kidding me. What is this? 2010?"
As I said, this is not functioning correctly right now. I'm working on it.
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