What is on Your Mind?

Hey v,

1. Please list the order from left to right of how you would like to see the top navbar menu items.

2. I agree with you the user info in the posts needs less real estate and will look into it.

3. Thanks for staying on topic about the UI ! Much appreciated!

Hey Dennis,

Thanks. The reason you were getting some delays is because the site was recently hit by some rogue A6-Index bots which sucked so much data per second that the load average on our mega server shot up to 50+.

This is kinda off topic related to the UI, so forgive me if I sound like a busy developer:

The "New Topics" function is the same PHP function as it has always been and has not changed and is not effected by UI CSS or related JS changes to the UI. "New Topics" is based on a user cookie and the time between your logins, and if there are no "New Topics" because of the timestamp in your cookie versus the time of any newer posts, then you will see a kind of redirection and it has been this way for 10 years, nothing has changed. There will also be issues if, for any reason, a browser has blocked a cookie or a cookie is not set properly due to a time-out or other network issue.

I rarely use "New Topics" for this reason, and I always use "Today's Posts" because this function is not cookie based, but it based on just the days new posts.

These PHP issues (core functionality) are not really UI related, so it should be in a different thread, but I'm trying not to sound like a developer (too much, LOL) who is being too technical.

To be clear, I have not made any changes to any underlying PHP code which effects any functions like search, or posting, etc. I am currently only working on code which effects the browser UI (CSS and Javascript manipulation of the DOM). This is already a monumental task, so I it does help me manage my developing time (which is very busy) if we stick to UI topics for in my UI threads.

Cheers.

Neo,
something along these lines - others may chime in:

Code:

Home UserCP ForumRules FAQ Man Search Today'sPosts NewTopic QuickLinks LogOut

V.

Yep, but that doesn't answer my question. I do a fresh login, assume that I do "mark all forums read", then select "New Topics" and DO NOTHING. It says "Sorry there are no new topics" but should it then move to the "Advanced Search Forums" page after 10+ seconds all on its own?????

Is that behaviour by design???

That is how it has been for years.

If you want to get into legacy functionality, can we please start in a a different thread on that topic?

Thanks.

PS: I agree with you it looks broken, but it's really best for me if we keep this thread about the UI and start a new thread on non-UI related functionality. This thread is already getting too long.

Hey Dennis,

OK. I fixed the redirect to redirect after 10 seconds to the right page. If no "new topics" it will redirect there (to the daily show) after 10 seconds (on desktop, will check mobile later .. Update: working as expected on mobile, but I need to clean up the mobile on these redirections!, LOL).

Code:

https://www.unix.com/search.php?do=getdaily

Thanks for letting me know! Sorry to be so "don't hijack my thread" bad about my focus on UI and CSS. Do open a new thread if you see these kind of none UI/CSS/JS related things, since I'm kinda one track Neo at the moment on CSS/JS issues!

Hey Vlad,

I removed a lot of the extra padding from that the user header in postbit.

We could make this space use even less real estate if we moved some of the info in the right side user info in each post to a drop down menu or pop-up panel:

For example, here his the current info:

Code:

Join Date: Jul 2012
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Maybe make this?

Code:

User Info

.. and then put the info in a drop down table like in the center menu navbar?