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

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• AJA says:

  11 Oct11 October 14:33

  Would it be possible on the mobile site to have a home button at the bottom of the comments on each article to take you back to the home page? Or fix the head for points banner so that it’s always visible as clicking that also takes you to the home page. Its a pain having to scroll all the way to the top to then go home.

  • Sam says:

    11 Oct11 October 14:50

    +1

    • Rob says:

      11 Oct11 October 15:06

      There is one 🙂 Scroll a bit further down – it’s under ‘Content’. I know what you mean though.

      • AJA says:

        11 Oct11 October 15:50

        I never noticed that before! Actually hadn’t noticed the Content block either 😉 Thanks for that shortcut.

• Pangolin says:

  11 Oct11 October 15:23

  (1) Too many page breaks – make the number of comments allowed per page larger than it is now.
  (2) Ability to get notified when someone responds to your comment.
  (3) Default to page 1 for comments.
  (4) Get Nadal to lose a few games so my bet on Djokovic to win the French has a chance of coming in.

  • AJA says:

    11 Oct11 October 15:52

    Good luck with point 4! 🙂

  • Reney says:

    11 Oct11 October 17:58

    +1 for point (2) pls

  • Marcelo C says:

    11 Oct11 October 18:11

    +1 for 2

  • Callum says:

    11 Oct11 October 22:43

    I can’t describe it well, and don’t know exactly what is happening, but the order of replies often seems jumbled up to me when there are lots of comments in one thread.

    • Floyd "Money" Mayweather says:

      13 Oct13 October 10:03

      +1

  • Floyd "Money" Mayweather says:

    13 Oct13 October 10:05

    1, 2 & 3 👍

• Reney says:

  11 Oct11 October 18:16

  I am currently on my laptop and noticed an error. When you enter into an article, if you click the hyperlink for comments on the left, it scrolls down little. Only if you click it again does it take you all the way down to the comments.

• BJ says:

  11 Oct11 October 20:17

  Demanding, difficult to please bunch…

  • mr_jetlag says:

    11 Oct11 October 20:35

    rob & rhys know what they’re in for when they ask for feedback 😉

• Charlieface says:

  11 Oct11 October 20:59

  One thing I wish, but have a feeling would be difficult coding-wise, is to highlight new comments on a page you already visited

  • mr_jetlag says:

    11 Oct11 October 21:44

    Highlighting wouldn’t help. What might be helpful is if a comment with replies were bumped to the end of the comments list (ie, comment on page 2 out of 5 would drop to the end of page 5 when someone responds to it)

  • Crafty says:

    16 Oct16 October 09:41

    It’s almost like an integrated forum with a “view new posts” feature would be helpful…

• Hugo says:

  12 Oct12 October 09:48

  Dear HfP

  A “historic timeline of promotions” per airline is something that would go a long way to helping me plan my travel and when/how to book it

  e.g. right now I have a safari holiday booked to Tanzania for next year, ideally I would want to pick up one of the Qatar 2for1-in-business promos but I can’t remember what time of year they usually do them and whether Tanzania was ever included. I try to search history of promos on the internet and scrawl through HfP but it’s incredibly hard. Similarly in the past I have tried very often to search the history of BA Avios promos (like the current 50% off one) and such and always found it hard.

  Something like this would help readers quickly see when these promos tend to be run and what they tend to be like, so for their longer term travel planning it would help a lot considering whether to wait for a promotion or book straight away.

  Maintaining such a list wouldn’t be hard either as it would just be tagging posts appropriately whenever a promotion comes up (although creating it I know would give you some work of trawling through old posts)

  To be clear also I am referring only to promos for buying flights – whether by point or cash.

  Thanks!
  Hugo

  • Floyd "Money" Mayweather says:

    13 Oct13 October 10:09

    +1 This would be great help to also people like myself who aren’t so clued-up (wether due to lack of experience, time, effort or general smartness!) to the points/promo game.

• Gin and Tonic Please says:

  12 Oct12 October 10:06

  Don’t know if it’s just me, but when reading comments on my iPad, I see the date twice against every comment, and two icons/avatars (one small, one large) when they exist. Doesn’t happen on iPhone.

  • Rob says:

    12 Oct12 October 10:21

    You need to clear your cache.

    Try this: Settings, Safari, Advanced (at the bottom), Website Data then delete the HFP line.

  • Pangolin says:

    12 Oct12 October 10:25

    You need to clear out your cache – which you can do by going into Safari settings on your iPad.

    • Pangolin says:

      12 Oct12 October 10:26

      Ninja’d by Rob.

• cinereus says:

  13 Oct13 October 12:53

  a) Dark mode
  b) Reply notification
  c) Deeper comment threading
  d) Comment pages start at page 1
  e) Still can’t work out how to get avatars in comments
  f) So far all the reasoning for not having more comments per page is based on misconceptions. There is no good technical nor usability reason for not having 100+ comments per page?

  • Rhys says:

    13 Oct13 October 12:59

    If you want an avatar you need to set your Gravatar. http://www.gravatar.com

    • Rob says:

      13 Oct13 October 13:21

      We’ve done a dark mode trial and it works. We’re just going to tweak it a bit – we’d like the gridlines etc to appear as well. At the moment it is only switching the colour of letters.

      • cinereus says:

        13 Oct13 October 14:51

        Please review some best practices for dark mode design (i.e. don’t just invert the colour scheme and don’t overdo contrast).

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