Website feature requests

[Gaultheria]

In the forum — eg, in “Board index ‹ Once Upon a Time” — is there a way to display just the active topics section, without the sections that come before it?  When I use the forum, I almost always do so by way of the active topics.  It would be very convenient to not need to scroll down first thing each time I load an index page.

On the live video page, is it possible to put the text entry box at the top of the page, beside the video, and have new comments appear at the top of the list and scroll down?  The way it is now, the text entry box and new comments don’t fit on the screen at the same time as the video frame.

[hjbau]

I don’t know if this is helpful, but there is a first unread post button at the top of the first post that if you press will take you to the first unread post so you don’t have to scroll or find your place.

[obisgirl]

@Gaultheria wrote:

In the forum — eg, in “Board index ‹ Once Upon a Time” — is there a way to display just the active topics section, without the sections that come before it?  When I use the forum, I almost always do so by way of the active topics.

A preview of active topics in the forum would be helpful. I always click on ‘active topics’ instead of browsing through the forums.

[Gaultheria]

@obisgirl wrote:

A preview of active topics in the forum would be helpful. I always click on ‘active topics’ instead of browsing through the forums.

Ah, I see… Near the top of each index page is a line of links:

“Unanswered posts • Unread posts • New posts • Active topics”

…and the one on the right does exactly what I need.  I’ve bookmarked the active topics page for the main board index…

https://oncepodcast.com/forums/search.php?search_id=active_topics

Thanks, obisgirl, for pointing this out. And thanks, ONCE crew, for including this option.

@hjbau wrote:

I don’t know if this is helpful, but there is a first unread post button at the top of the first post that if you press will take you to the first unread post so you don’t have to scroll or find your place.

I knew about that one, but thank you, hjbau. That’s a very useful feature.

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[obisgirl]

I’ve been offline for a day because of the big thunderstorm we had here late Friday night and just logged on today because we got power back last night and noticed the Fan Creations forum 😀 Yay! Finally, thank you Daniel. That forum has been a long time coming!!

[Daniel J. Lewis]

A note about the “active topics” section: keep in mind that anything from a dedicated “spoilers” section will not appear in the active topics list. It’s on my to-do list to create two Active Topics lists: one with spoilers and one without.

So know that if you want to see spoilers, most of them won’t appear in the Active Topics.

@Gaultheria wrote:

On the live video page, is it possible to put the text entry box at the top of the page, beside the video, and have new comments appear at the top of the list and scroll down?  The way it is now, the text entry box and new comments don’t fit on the screen at the same time as the video frame.

Noodle.mx/live/ is what’s called a responsive design. It responds to the size of your browser. If you have a really narrow browser (like a smartphone), the video will display at the top and the chat at the bottom. If you have a standard desktop screen, the video will display on the left and the chat room on the right. If you have a large desktop screen, the video will be very large with the chat room under it.

Tell me what browser you’re using, how big it is, or just email a screenshot to [email protected] and I’ll retest in your environment.

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