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Splodge in post 87346 said:

postal in post 87341 said:

Although it has been fixed in the past, I think a previous problem has recurred. When I am logged in and click on a topic which has "New" postings it seems to be random whether I am taken to the new posting or just to the top of the first page of the topic.

Anyone else seeing that?

Yes, started this weekend.

There have been no changes to the forum software this weekend. If your browser doesn't scroll to the correct topic, please copy the URL from the address bar and what you clicked on to get the link (eg the topic title in the common left bar latest posts, or the Latest Post link in the latest posts page). Thanks.

GeoffM in post 87347 said:

Splodge in post 87346 said:

postal in post 87341 said:

Although it has been fixed in the past, I think a previous problem has recurred. When I am logged in and click on a topic which has "New" postings it seems to be random whether I am taken to the new posting or just to the top of the first page of the topic.

Anyone else seeing that?

Yes, started this weekend.

There have been no changes to the forum software this weekend. If your browser doesn't scroll to the correct topic, please copy the URL from the address bar and what you clicked on to get the link (eg the topic title in the common left bar latest posts, or the Latest Post link in the latest posts page). Thanks.

Geoff

The correct topic is opening. However, the view is not always defaulting to the latest posting when the topic is marked as having new postings. Instead you sometimes get taken to the original posting in the topic.

Problem with Alternatives Rule a... (https://www.SimSig.co.uk/Forum/ThreadView/42020?postId=-1) has "New" icon attached in left hand side bar. Clicked on topic in side bar and was taken to https://www.SimSig.co.uk/Forum/ThreadView/42020 at the very top of the topic rather than any new postings.

Geoff (and Barry)

I reported the "big white space" problem weeks ago when folks were discussing the appearance of the site on mobile devices, but no-one picked up on it. As Barry says, it is not just confined to the home page. On my desktop machine I'm writing this reply in a box that is below the left-hand sidebar and which has a huge amount of empty space above it at the right. The problem arises on some pages if the window is less than 1200 pixels wide. Instead of collapsing nicely, the right-hand main panel drops below the left-hand one. If you decrease the width yet further the dropped right-hand panel loses the "Welcome to SimSig" rotating banner and continues to shrink "normally" - just in the wrong place! So far as I can tell, Chrome and Edge behave identically. I'm pretty certain that this will turn out to be another css problem but my expertise in that area is not good enough to pinpoint where, I'm afraid.

Richard

Geoff (and Barry)

I reported the "big white space" problem weeks ago when folks were discussing the appearance of the site on mobile devices, but no-one picked up on it. As Barry says, it is not just confined to the home page. On my desktop machine I'm writing this reply in a box that is below the left-hand sidebar and which has a huge amount of empty space above it at the right. The problem arises on some pages if the window is less than 1200 pixels wide. Instead of collapsing nicely, the right-hand main panel drops below the left-hand one. If you decrease the width yet further the dropped right-hand panel loses the "Welcome to SimSig" rotating banner and continues to shrink "normally" - just in the wrong place! So far as I can tell, Chrome and Edge behave identically. I'm pretty certain that this will turn out to be another css problem but my expertise in that area is not good enough to pinpoint where, I'm afraid.

Richard

Having had a play at clicking on the various links, I think that accessing the topic from the left-hand sidebar takes you to the latest posting (whether new since the last time you accessed the topic or not). Clicking on the topic in the list of latest posts in the main body of https://www.SimSig.co.uk/Forum/LatestPosts takes you to posting #1 whether the "New" icon is displayed or not.

The page you mention has a link called "Latest post" which would take you to the last post.

GeoffM in post 88369 said:

The page you mention has a link called "Latest post" which would take you to the last post.

Thanks. Never noticed that before - perhaps the facility could do with a bit of publicity!

postal in post 88372 said:

GeoffM in post 88369 said:

The page you mention has a link called "Latest post" which would take you to the last post.

Thanks. Never noticed that before - perhaps the facility could do with a bit of publicity!

The old site had the same facility, but the old site also had one feature not here, that when you click on 'x NEW' [just 'NEW' on new site] (x= any number from 1 up) it took you to the 1st new post from when you looked at a forum topic or been on site.

for example on old site if this topic when signed off had 100 posts, and when I signed in agin it had 107 posts, it would didplay '7 new' it would of taken me to post 101 (the first new post in the forum topic). That has not transfered to this new site, which is a shame, (I am not being critical as I appericiate all the hard work gone into this new site)

It is working now. Many thanks for your replies.

Barry

Barry, Mark, Geoff

I don't think it's a browser issue (I've tried it in Chrome and Edge with identical results), I think it is purely related to the window width and the way the css parameters deal with that in terms of collapsing the display. As I noted earlier, the messy collapse starts as the window goes below 1200px wide.

Barry, Mark, Geoff

I don't think it's a browser issue (I've tried it in Chrome and Edge with identical results), I think it is purely related to the window width and the way the css parameters deal with that in terms of collapsing the display. As I noted earlier, the messy collapse starts as the window goes below 1200px wide.