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First, thanks Rodney, for the time you have taken to explain the things that inconvenience you. I don't think your post is negative, I think it's informative and accurate and it will help us to make the site better.
> 1) why were any changes made without WARNING us? The world can be confusing enough anyway .....
As Fred said, we have tried to make changes as invisible as possible. We haven't entirely succeeded, but it is very hard to meet everyone's expectations when trying to improve a well loved and established system.
> 2) why is that little "end" always there? It doesn't seem to serve any purpose? Or does it have a purpose different from what was there before "last". When one clicks on "end" most often all you get is a repeat of the single page thread or the 2nd page. So it looks like "end" is just wasting band width by being a duplicate.
'end' takes you to the last message on the last page, not just the last page. It's very convenient if you can see that only one or two comments have been added since your last visit. It will be increasingly useful as we lengthen pages in the future to reduce server load.
> 3) the change in the way thread pages are shown is a lot more inconvenient than it used to be. We used to be able to open say pages 1,2,3,4 of a thread directly from the thread first page. Now we can only open 1,2,3 AND we have to wait for page 3 to load before getting the priviledge of opening page 4. etc. And one can't be on page 3 and then open pages 4,5 directly to different tabs. Pretty inconvenient in many cases.
The page number links are slightly a work in progress. They are better than they were, but I note your request for 4 page numbers at the beginning and end of the thread, and I see no reason why not. I agree. I think it would work well like this, and we have the space: 1 2 3 4 ... 48 49 [50] 51 52 ... 95 96 97 end
>4) while the "<" and ">" carats are useful they are most often a duplication.
While the arrow link and the link to the next or last page number DO the same thing, they do not LOOK the same. Many people use other web sites that have a paging system, and in many cases those people will be used to looking for forwards/backwards arrows. There is no harm in having two links that go to the same place, and therefore it makes sense to provide links that are effortlessly recognisable to visitors with different expectations.
> 5) when one first opens a thread and is on page 1, the option of going to page 1 is shown exactly the same as the option to go to page 2. There is no indication that one is already on page 1. Now it mught seem that it is pretty obvious, but the [1] should be at least be a different color like the [2] is when you're on page 2.
This is a bug, plain and simple, and i will fix it as soon as possible.
> 7) After editting my own message, the line entry "editted by xxxxx on ..." is not displayed for me as long as I am logged on. If any part of a post shows to anyone, it certainly ought to be displayed for the person who posted it.
Thanks for spotting that. I will investigate.
> Sorry if this seems trivial. But when a system is improved, it should not be taking more effort to use it. So I hope this post will be useful to "the powers that be".
Not trivial - very useful feedback. Thanks Rodney. Please don't hesitate to mention any other improvements you would like to see.
Cheers
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