On 2001-06-27 11:17, NancyF wrote:
Can you make new messages appear at the top of the topic list so you don't have to scroll down?
It's <i>possible</i> (but anything's possible when you have the source code!) -- but the idea is that the conversation develops top to bottom, which is how we're used to reading. If you're re-reading a thread after each message posted, then the scrolling can get tiresome, but when you stop by the board hours later, being able to read down through the multiple new messages in a thread should seem more natural than having to scroll <i>up</i> one message at a time.
Another question for you, Rich. Are there forward and back buttons that can appear so that we don't need to go back up to the topics before going to the next message?
There aren't -- and there isn't really a "forward" or "back" in topics, since the topic list always shows the most recently active one on top. (No more having to look through pages to find the one new post!)
What I've been doing is to go into a topic, read it, then use the "breadcrumbs" navigation at the top to go up one level, choose the next topic, and so on.
In addition to what was called the 'breadcrumbs' method of returning, if you've not posted a reply to the topic you can just hit your browser's 'back' button to return to the topic list.