What would you like to see on the touch site?

Fluorescence

Add page links to the top of the page in thread view

The only thing I voted for was PM notifications. Please get them in ASAP! :P

From the added suggestions, I'd love a "Go to first unread post" option and for the report button to be moved/made more obvious. As for the rest, it can wait for another day :pac:

TheBazman

Marlow wrote: »

Howdy,

when I click on a link in my mail and it redirects me to the touch side, i always get send to the first post of the thread, not the newest not read post, like normally.

I'd say that's something that should be massively high on the fix list.

(Phone used being Samsung GS3)

/M

I find that if you click the thread title it brings you to the first post in the thread, however if you click to the right hand side of the thread on the menu it brings you to the last post on the thread that you viewed. On SGS2

cyrusdvirus

Can we make the 'My Threads' shortcut as a permanent button on the top bar?

When I make a post, the buttons are forums, pm's, my account.
Having a my threads one will speed up the navigation.

Unless I'm doing it wrong of course!!

Oh yeah, add the smileys too please. I don't know the keyboard shortcuts for them all!! :-(.

MarkR

havana wrote: »

Probably the only thing that really bugs me is when you're in 'latest posts' busy threads will reoccur over and over - and as there are only 7 pages this greatly reduces the number of threads you can view.

Probably not the best explanation but hopefully that makes some sense!

I think this is the worst part of the touch interface.

Overheal

I havent used it on Windows 8 in a hot minute but I'm just going to remind you I found plenty of bugs with how IE10/IE-Touch handles the touch version of the boards website, navigation is near impossible.

I'll get back to you though. That is however a concern of mine. Keep in mind, Windows 8 officially launches in 3 weeks from today. No bueno if people can't navigate the site on their new hardware if they adopt early.

donalg1

Add a "Mark Forum as Read" button

Sort the quotes out please

Steve

On behalf of the users of Airsoft adverts (and indeed this forum) can you please consider getting the thread prefixes to show up on touch?

In particular, the adverts forum is difficult to use unless the prefix is visible as there's no other way to tell if the thread is about a wanted / for-sale / sold item etc.

Thanks

Mrs OBumble

Add a "Mark Forum as Read" button

ArtyM wrote: »

Maybe I am missing something but is there already a way to jump to the latest/last post in a thread on the touch site?

Click on the date/time next to the last posters name.

Ebr sniper

Add a "Mark Forum as Read" button

Speaking as an Airsoft adverts user an option to add attachments would be great. Sick of not being able to upload pics off my phone to adverts

.E_C_K_S.

A dark theme would be nice If it isn't there already.this is my first time posting.on.a mobile and its just that bit too bright.I know its probably not as big an issue as the others but just a suggestion all the same

Scioch

Add a "Mark Forum as Read" button

How about drag to next page in thread/next subscribed forum when in forum view ?

Or is that crazy talk ?

CIE

The "View Poll Results" link lists every username that voted. I grew up with secret balloting, so that makes me averse to this poll.

oscarBravo

CIE wrote: »

The "View Poll Results" link lists every username that voted. I grew up with secret balloting, so that makes me averse to this poll.

So don't vote. That said, I don't see why you'd have a problem with people knowing what features you would like to see developed.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Add a "Mark Forum as Read" button

2 issues that annoy me:
- If I scroll half way down a page while viewing a forum, then I click on a thread, read what I want to read, click back, the page automatically goes back to the top of the page, it's highly irritating!
- When I click and hold on a thread and tap "open in background/new tab" it never scrolls to the latest post, it always goes to the top of the page that the newest post is on

Wee Willy Harris

Add page links to the top of the page in thread view

Suits me alright... no problem as it is.

Prefer it to classic, too. PM indicator maybe

Dogwatch

Steve wrote: »

On behalf of the users of Airsoft adverts (and indeed this forum) can you please consider getting the thread prefixes to show up on touch?

In particular, the adverts forum is difficult to use unless the prefix is visible as there's no other way to tell if the thread is about a wanted / for-sale / sold item etc.

Thanks

+1 on this

Optimalprimerib

There is no ignore function on the touch site.

El Guapo!

Provide access to social groups

Thanks for starting this poll!
Great to see the community being included.


Some suggestions for next time:

I'll give a big +1 on getting rid of a quote automatically multi-quoting the whole conversation. Extremely irritating.
Also could we actually get a proper multi-quote button so replying to more than one post is possible?
The mark all forums read button is a good idea too. I miss that on the touch site.

K.Flyer

Provide access to social groups

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

The Great Chinholio wrote: »

Can it be stopped from quoting every post in a trail? If I'm quoting someone I don't need what they and the person before them quoted

This + 100

ibarelycare wrote: »

Please please PLEASE swap the "Report" and "Quote" buttons around. They're on the opposite sides to what they are on the normal site, and it's causing a lot of inadvertent reporting of posts. Alternatively, make the "Report" button on the touch site red, or highlight it in some way so that people don't automatically press that instead of the Quote button!

I started a thread about it in here before and Danny said he would look at it

This +1000000

Sometimes I hit the report button when scrolling.
Please if nothing else move this button.

Giblet

Remove as much JavaScript as you can. You currently have close to 100 listeners on any thread view.

RevBlueJeans

This msg appears at the top of boards.ie threads today 6/Oct/2012.

Hello all,

The Tech Team are looking at the Touch Site at the moment and want to make sure any changes they make are in accordance with community wishes.

So, we'd like your help in prioritising the work - you can see the details here.

But what is the touch site? Is it the same as regular boards.ie? If its something differrent does it have a FAQ?

K.Flyer

Provide access to social groups

RevBlueJeans wrote: »

But what is the touch site? Is it the same as regular boards.ie? If its something differrent does it have a FAQ?

Its Boards.ie, but scaled down for use on Mobile Phones, Touch being the reference to Touch Screens.

Jsmurff

Atari Jaguar

Probably i tiny thing that will be looked over but when going through forums that have thread prefix's it would be nice to actually see them... and to search for a specific thread prefix within that forum e.g. if i was in an advert section i would like to be able to vie all the [WANTED] threads

Sully

I appear to be able to vote more than once on this poll lads! Also I cant view the results as they are to wide.. galaxy s ii.

El Guapo!

Provide access to social groups

Sully wrote: »

I appear to be able to vote more than once on this poll lads!

It's supposed to be that way.
As per the opening post:

Now as this is a multivote poll there is nothing to stop you just voting for everything, I can only ask that you limit yourself to 3-5 features. Voting for more will make preferences less apparent and will invalidate the whole exercise.

pipkin12

Boards.ie: Paddy wrote: »

It has been brought to our attention that community members feel they don't have enough input on how new features for the site are being selected and prioritised. With a view to addressing this we have decided to give you guys some input on how we prioritise our next batch of updates to the touch site.

This is a first stab at improving community involvement in the future of the site. If it is successful we will look at improving and extending the process in the future.

So without further ado, I present you with a poll of features and improvements suggested by both the community and internally by boards.ie staff. We ask you to vote for the improvements you would most like to see. Whatever wins the poll will be implemented first and we will continue on down the list implementing features in the order that the community wants.

Now as this is a multivote poll there is nothing to stop you just voting for everything, I can only ask that you limit yourself to 3-5 features. Voting for more will make preferences less apparent and will invalidate the whole exercise. The poll is also entirely public so any shenanigans or attempts to game the poll will be visible to all. So no shenangians.

More detailed descriptions of the features are below and as always any suggestions for how we can improve this process are very welcome.

Thanks
Paddy

Make the site faster, it's too slow
This will involve reducing the average page size and reducing the number of requests made to our servers when you load a page. It's difficult to say in advance how much of an improvement we can make but if you feel that page load times are big problem then vote for this.

Add support for attachments
More and more touch devices are adding support for file uploads in their browsers. If you find yourself wishing you could upload pictures to the site directly from your phone then vote for this.

Add an index to the forum list
One of the most common complaints we get about the touch site is that the Forums page is a pain to use because it involves so much scrolling to get down to forums further down the list. If this irks you too then vote for this.

Add a forum hierarchy breadcrumb
On the main site we have links at the top of every page that show you what forum you're in and where that forum lives in the over all forum heirarchy. For example when you're in Site Development it says: "Home > Sys > Site Development". On the touch site we just show you the forum you're currently in. If you miss this when using the touch site vote for this.

Add an unread PM indicator
When using the touch site the only way to find out you have a new private message is to actually click on the PM link at the top of the page. If you'd like something to indicate you have new PMs on every page then vote for this

Add page links to the top of the page in thread view
On the main site we have links to the pages of a thread at the top and the bottom of the page, on the touch site we only have them at the bottom. If you'd like us to add them to the top on touch vote here

Add more and better client side validation
Touch currently doesn't validate that you've filled out a form correctly before sending it to the server. So for example if you try to start a new thread and forget to set a thread title the page will send off a request to the server, then wait for a response, then tell you you made a mistake. If this is annoying you vote for this.

Take forum specific BBCode settings into account
This is fairly self explanatory. Some forums don't allow some BBCode but touch will ignore this and show everything.

Improve search options available on touch
The main site has an advanced search form but this hasn't been added on touch yet. Also the main site allows you to find posts that quote you, posts that were thanked by you and posts of yours that have been thanked. If you want to be able to do all this on touch vote for this.

Have option to increase number posts per page.
On the main site you can change the number of posts shown on a page, this setting currently has no effect on the touch site. If you'd like to have more posts on a page on the touch site vote for this.

Add a "Mark Forum as Read" button.
Fairly self explanatory, if you want to be able to mark forums as read with one tap then vote for this.

Provide access to social groups
There is currently no support for social groups on the touch site, at the moment we have no plans to implement this because we don't think social groups are very popular. If you think we're wrong then vote for this. I will caveat this option by saying that unless we see very strong support it will not be implemented as it involves a significant amount of effort.

Allow us to actually create new threads from the mobile app. 3 devices I have won't let me post on the mobile type app

locum-motion

Just my tuppence worth: "touch" sites are worse than useless, in general. On every website that I visit on my iPhone, the first thing I do is look for the "View Desktop version" (or equivalent). I never use mobile/smartphone versions of any website including Boards.ie.

endswell

once im in a subforum there is no link for me to go to the main forum. i have to use search bar to get to it.

Sully

Dean09 wrote: »

Sully wrote: »

I appear to be able to vote more than once on this poll lads!

It's supposed to be that way.
As per the opening post:

Now as this is a multivote poll there is nothing to stop you just voting for everything, I can only ask that you limit yourself to 3-5 features. Voting for more will make preferences less apparent and will invalidate the whole exercise.

I already picked my choices and voted. Allowing me do so several times skews results:)

El Guapo!

Provide access to social groups

Sully wrote: »

I already picked my choices and voted. Allowing me do so several times skews results:)

Ah now I get ya. Apologies.