On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:46:11 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:37:20 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
>>> It appears the horizontal split puts the latest thread at the bottom of the list instead of the top.  I think that should be reversed.
>>
>> I think not, as that would mean that threads are sorted in one direction, but posts within a thread are sorted in another.
>
> That seems natural to me.

Consider the space bar's current functionality: it jumps to the next unread post. How would it work in this scheme? Would it go down within a thread and then jump up to the next thread? Or would it keep going down, going through older posts within a thread but newer threads?

An option to reverse sorting direction could be added I suppose, but... why do you say that your proposal seems natural? Is it implemented that way elsewhere?

The horizontal-split mode (and its sorting direction) is not new, BTW.

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/

In threaded view, when viewing any post except the original post, and then clicking the leaf breadcrumb at the top, the following appears:

Post #0 of thread <mkpqgo$41n$1@digitalmars.com> not found

On 6/4/15 5:08 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:06:04 UTC, Charles wrote:
>> Any change of making the D Logo redirect to dlang.org rather than the
>> forum itself?
>
> No, I'm very used to clicking the logo to back to the forum index, and I
> suspect so are many others.
>
> You can use the "D Home" links to go to dlang.org.

Speaking of home - currently the table at http://beta.forum.dlang.org allocates disproportionally large space for the first column, and squeezes the second (interesting) column into a relatively small space.

I also figure the font used throughout is just _big_ - I have the reflex of pressing Command-0 to reset it to normal after zooming. But it's not zoomed. It's just big.

Also, after thinking today about the universe and everything, I concluded that that's without a doubt the ugliest bold font created by the human civilization.


Andrei

On 6/4/15 5:49 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:46:11 UTC, Mike wrote:
>> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:37:20 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>
>>>> It appears the horizontal split puts the latest thread at the bottom
>>>> of the list instead of the top.  I think that should be reversed.
>>>
>>> I think not, as that would mean that threads are sorted in one
>>> direction, but posts within a thread are sorted in another.
>>
>> That seems natural to me.
>
> Consider the space bar's current functionality: it jumps to the next
> unread post. How would it work in this scheme? Would it go down within a
> thread and then jump up to the next thread? Or would it keep going down,
> going through older posts within a thread but newer threads?
>
> An option to reverse sorting direction could be added I suppose, but...
> why do you say that your proposal seems natural? Is it implemented that
> way elsewhere?
>
> The horizontal-split mode (and its sorting direction) is not new, BTW.

It's one of those human things - what's logical is not the most intuitive. -- Andrei

When one clicks "create thread", focus should go on the post title, not the post body. -- Andrei

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:49:48 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

>
> Consider the space bar's current functionality: it jumps to the next unread post. How would it work in this scheme? Would it go down within a thread and then jump up to the next thread? Or would it keep going down, going through older posts within a thread but newer threads?

I think spacebar should just go down the list linearly however they are sorted.

> An option to reverse sorting direction could be added I suppose, but... why do you say that your proposal seems natural? Is it implemented that way elsewhere?

The threaded view is implemented that way, only its split between two pages (page 1 lists threads latest first, page 2 sorts them hierarchically.  That's natural to me.

>
> The horizontal-split mode (and its sorting direction) is not new, BTW.

I know, but I prefer the other views given its current implementation (maybe others do too).  But I would prefer the horizontal-split if it worked more like threaded.

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:50:17 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 15:04:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/
>
> In threaded view, when viewing any post except the original post, and then clicking the leaf breadcrumb at the top, the following appears:
>
> Post #0 of thread <mkpqgo$41n$1@digitalmars.com> not found

Fixed.

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:10:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> When one clicks "create thread", focus should go on the post title, not the post body. -- Andrei

Fixed. (You have an eye for details!)

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:05:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/4/15 5:08 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 00:06:04 UTC, Charles wrote:
>>> Any change of making the D Logo redirect to dlang.org rather than the
>>> forum itself?
>>
>> No, I'm very used to clicking the logo to back to the forum index, and I
>> suspect so are many others.
>>
>> You can use the "D Home" links to go to dlang.org.
>
> Speaking of home - currently the table at http://beta.forum.dlang.org allocates disproportionally large space for the first column, and squeezes the second (interesting) column into a relatively small space.

Why do you think the second column is interesting? The only thing that doesn't fit is thread subjects, which can be very long and you can read them in full once you click through. The group descriptions in the first column, on the other hand, are not visible elsewhere and are more interesting for newcomers.

> I also figure the font used throughout is just _big_ - I have the reflex of pressing Command-0 to reset it to normal after zooming. But it's not zoomed. It's just big.

Perhaps simply because it's bigger than on forum.dlang.org?

> Also, after thinking today about the universe and everything, I concluded that that's without a doubt the ugliest bold font created by the human civilization.

Except for the bold part, believe it or not, it's exactly the same font as we use on dlang.org, size and all (Verdana 14px). And as for the bold part, it doesn't look so bad on Windows, so what does that say about the famed OS X font rendering? :D

On 5 June 2015 at 01:04, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
> http://beta.forum.dlang.org/
>
> Many major and minor improvements.
>
> Some major ones:
>
> - dlang.org theme, fully responsive and mobile-friendly
> - keyboard navigation in all views
> - automatically saved post drafts
> - get notified of new posts and replies with subscriptions
> - full text search
> - by persistent request, a new view mode (vertical-split)
> - post to mailing lists
> - even faster, believe it or not.
>
> This update is the sum of 256 commits over 34 days of development.

Awesome stuff! Looks great, and it's fast!

Incidentally, I have a bug.
If I click to select some text, the page bounces downwards on the
mouse-up event.
If I click again to select some other text, the page bounces back
upwards again to it's original position (again, on the mouse-up).