More HfP redesign tweaks – let us know what you’d still like to see

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• Tom King says:

  11 Oct11 October 05:00

  Forum Forum Forum

  • Lady London says:

    11 Oct11 October 14:14

    Did you say Forum ? 🙂

• Gareth says:

  11 Oct11 October 05:46

  Can you make the page remember where you last were on comments? Eg if I’ve read up to page 4 of comments then when I reload the page later it should take me back to the last comment I got to rather than back to page 1?
  Also notifications of replies to your original comments? I write a comment but then to save me constantly checking for a reply could I receive a notification(since you have my email address anyway).
  Final idea… why don’t you have an app? Would allow for push notifications then

  • Lady London says:

    11 Oct11 October 13:51

    Good idea. Not sure Rob wants to go another round of costs right now though… let’s get the site get settled in first 🙂

• ChrisBCN says:

  11 Oct11 October 07:53

  Some way of knowing who has replied to a comment I have made please!

  • cinereus says:

    13 Oct13 October 12:52

    +1

• johnny_c-l says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:02

  Great to have latesf comments back, could we have it on the homepage too? Used to go to the homepage then click on latest comments to keep up with the chat during the day.

  Secondly, I keep hitting the reply button by mistake when scrolling, would be better if it was further to the left.

  I’ve gotten used to the all white look now, but still miss the old HfP logo!

  • Wollhouse says:

    11 Oct11 October 08:07

    +1 on the hitting the reply when scrolling. Constantly do this when looking on my iPhone. First world problem, I know…..

    • Colin MacKinnon says:

      11 Oct11 October 08:32

      +2 !

      • Optimus Prime says:

        11 Oct11 October 09:01

        +1!

      • Chris K says:

        11 Oct11 October 09:18

        + 3 did it just now when scrolling to get here!

        • Max says:

          11 Oct11 October 11:16

          +4 biggest bugbear of the new site for me

    • ChrisW says:

      11 Oct11 October 09:30

      I came here to post the same thing. Constantly hitting the Reply button by accident with my right thumb while scrolling.

      • Rob says:

        11 Oct11 October 10:21

        But we put it there because everyone wanted it moving from the left!

        • Peter K says:

          11 Oct11 October 10:46

          I scroll both left and right handed I’ve discovered so whichever side you put the reply button I hit it by mistake 🙄

        • Mr(s) Entitled says:

          11 Oct11 October 10:52

          There are a lot more right handed people.

        • Rob says:

          11 Oct11 October 12:15

          But your thumb, if right handed, would swipe on the left of the screen unless you have Trump-style baby hands.

        • MD says:

          11 Oct11 October 11:02

          As a right handed person who typically holds the phone and scrolls through comments using my left hand, the change to move the reply button to the right side has been a vast improvement.

          On the rare occasions I hold the phone in my left hand and scroll using my right, it tends to be with my right thumb and more in the middle of the screen. I don’t know how these people are accidentally hitting the reply button now. Are you all left handed?

          It would seem strange to me for a right hand dominant person to hold the phone and scroll in your dominant hand, tying it up whilst your non dominant hand can’t do much.

        • KBuffett says:

          11 Oct11 October 11:49

          Still badly positioned. Use some software that will tell you how many times it’s hit without a comment being typed

        • Andrew Mc says:

          11 Oct11 October 11:54

          Just to the left of the date stamp?

        • AJA says:

          11 Oct11 October 14:03

          You can’t win. You can’t please all of the people all of the time. I am happy to have reply on the right as it is now. The only other option is to have it in the middle.

          I think the changes you’ve made are great. TBH I’ve forgotten what the old website looked like. The only thing is like is a chat forum which would facilitate seeing replies to my comments but appreciate that’s for the future. Keep up the good work.

        • Callum says:

          11 Oct11 October 22:41

          That’s interesting. My hands are (genuinely!) very, very big but I always scroll on the right hand side of the screen with my right thumb.

          If I scrolled on the other side then my thumb would be covering up the content – I assumed that was the “normal” way to do it, but maybe not!

    • Harry T says:

      11 Oct11 October 13:05

      +4

      • Lady London says:

        11 Oct11 October 13:53

        +5

  • Rob says:

    11 Oct11 October 10:24

    No space on the home page!

• GW says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:23

  Yes, do a dark mode!!!

  • Optimus Prime says:

    11 Oct11 October 09:01

    +1

  • Rahaney says:

    11 Oct11 October 09:15

    Seconded!

    • Sundar says:

      11 Oct11 October 09:56

      +1for Dark Mode

      • Peter K says:

        11 Oct11 October 10:47

        Who’d have thought so many Sith lords would read HfP?

  • Nick S says:

    11 Oct11 October 10:22

    +1

  • Harry T says:

    11 Oct11 October 13:06

    Dark mode, so it matches my PACS system, please. I also read HFP during my breaks on night shifts and the white hurts my tired eyes.

• KBuffett says:

  11 Oct11 October 08:44

  Full forum functionality
  Old logo
  There is more valuable than active members for when you sell up Rob, I’m. It sure number of comments is as useful.
  Active members are a different ballgame.
  You can offer members special offers etc too

  • Lady London says:

    11 Oct11 October 13:55

    would be so nice to find a place to integrate a mini version of the old logo and strip sometimes.

  • cinereus says:

    13 Oct13 October 12:51

    Old logo is trivially achievable with a greasemonkey script if it makes a difference to you.

• Louie says:

  11 Oct11 October 09:48

  I’d like the comment page numbers at the top of the comments as well as the bottom…. if you read the article later in the day you get to the bottom (of the article) and then have to go to the bottom of the comments to click on page 1 if you want to read them in order.

  • RussellH says:

    11 Oct11 October 10:39

    Yes please – anything to make it easier to start at the beginning and not the end.

    TBH I really do not understand why the site (or, presumably, Wordpress) would be designed so that comments did not always start at the beginning!

    And fewer, longer, pages would, IMHO, be better than lots of short ones. For myself, I do not see the attraction of separate pages when sites list things (though they all do – I would prefer one page of 200 comments rather than ten pages of 20 comments.)
    As a temporary work around you could put the /comment-page-1 link that in in the chat text at the top of every page.

    Newspapers have the main headlines at the font, not inside back page.

    • Bagoly says:

      11 Oct11 October 15:26

      I share your point of view, but we are in a minority.
      Much of the world consuming media now cares only about what is the latest, not about a forward flow of logic, questions, challenges, and answers.
      I suppose it is true that yesterday’s newspapers aren’t on the stand at all!

• Doug M says:

  11 Oct11 October 09:55

  Latest comments was good. Agree a dark mode would be nice.

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