Imagine trying to find a thread when you don't know the title

extreme_one

Let's imagine we're trying to find a thread that was posted 19 hours ago, we don't know the title so we can't search, so we're going to try and find it.

In the past you'd skip back a couple of pages, look at the twenty or whatever threads and then skip back another page until you find the thread, it didn't take long really, but now you can't do that.

Now, instead you have to scroll ... and scroll ... and ...

Let's scroll together ...

Keep going ...

Nope, still more scrolling needed...

😐

Maybe a scrubber for thread view might be useful?

keithctaylor

extreme_one sorry for my less than helpful response in the General Discussion thread about this. I see exactly what you mean now. So I agree that a "scrubber" feature is important for the topic list view.
Alternatively, or even additionally, it would be useful to have options on the "load more" button. Such as "x hours" and "x days".

endorphin

extreme_one I don't know if it's always been the case but you can now page through the thread list by appending ?page=x to the end of the tag view URL eg https://community.giffgaff.com/t/feedback?page=4

a bit of a clumsy workaround but easy to do on desktop.

extreme_one

Cheers guy_ow It wasn't a thread I started so it doesn't show in my discussions.

In any case, I'm taking about general day-to-day functionality really.

And I've talked to Dez, thanks. 👍

I don't get notifications from most PDs even when I've been @mentioned 🙁

guy_ow

extreme_one Ok, ignore me reading into things wrong (thought was referenced to your thread in GD)

extreme_one

guy_ow That's OK, I borrowed
the same screenshots just to illustrate the point.

Just a thought though, I use Desktop view very rarely, is there the equivalent of the scrubber when in desktop view?

guy_ow

extreme_one (it's been a long day sorry lol) - when you say scrubber, what do you actually mean?

extreme_one

guy_ow This is what it looks like on the mobile site, but it only works in a thread, to navigate through the posts within.

Apparently it's called a scrubber. 😂

guy_ow

extreme_one Ah you are on about that (phew) - there isn't anything as far as I'm aware to go through the discussion boards, it is at present only within threads.

extreme_one

guy_ow Thanks. I think it might prove useful in the long run.

keithctaylor

endorphin I love it! ❣️
It works fine on android when I open in chrome. Auto correct adds spaces but I'm used to deleting those when typing in URLs. So I think I'll be playing with '?page=' a lot. Thank you. 👍️

endorphin

keithctaylor it works for paging through a thread as well for those particularly lengthy discussions. 😉

keithctaylor

endorphin yes, I've been honing my binary search skills all morning! 😆

endorphin

keithctaylor ah the good ole binary chop! 🙂