Microcosm Feature Suggestions

There was a question there.
Am I a complete idiot?

The answer is thankfully no.

With Chrome on a Mac the screen cuts off the far right, so you don't see the send message functionality.

Unless you select to go to macs 'full screen' mode - which noone ever does.
I wondered if it was due to screen resolution, but even when I drag it across to my main monitor I still don't see it.

Screen shot attached

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My laptops screen resolution for disbelievers who want to test.

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Your screen is small, or low resolution, or you window has been resized so that it is not full screen.

Microcosm uses a responsive layout, and whilst the full functionality is offered in every size, the way this functionality is accessed differs depending on the size of the window accessing Microcosm.

The code:

/* Extra small devices (phones, less than 768px) */
/* No media query since this is the default in Bootstrap */

/* Small devices (tablets, 768px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-sm-min) { ... }

/* Medium devices (desktops, 992px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-md-min) { ... }

/* Large devices (large desktops, 1200px and up) */
@media (min-width: @screen-lg-min) { ... }

The view you are seeing is the tablet one, it's for windows/devices with a display area between 768 and 992 pixels wide.

Stretch the window wider than 992px to see the desktop version, and view the site in a window above 1200px to see the expanded desktop version.

On the following page could we have a filter on the right hand side also showing a count of each type of item from the list

i.e.

New conversations 234
@ Mentions 3
Messages 2
Sticky 22

Filters may come, but counts will not.

The only place where counts are shown are where we never really need to calculate the number for you. i.e. on the home page where we show the total number of comments on the site (irrespective of whether you can actually see them according to your permissions).

And the only number we will ever calculate and show for you, is the number of unread messages.

Apologies if this is in the wrong thread and also if it's offensive to those outside London, but the list of subforums now runs to two pages. Could all the regional subforums be collected into one link which then take them to the list of regional pages, or listed like previously? I feel like the same consolidation could happen for the three polo forums as well. Just a thought.

Won't happen. Hierarchies are broken by default in all but the most boring edge cases. (Such as this one, coincidentally)

What mashton says ^^^

Though when we add ignore (after finishing all these small bugs and papercuts) you'll be able to hide everything you're not interested in that is on page 1 such that whatever you are interested creeps onto page 1.

Ah ok great, cheers.

In answer to your question elsewhere, Velocio, the @ reply thing is pretty redundant for me. If someone replies to something I have written in a thread I am following them I don't need to be notified, I will read the reply when I next read the thread, The notification just makes my 'following' page more cluttered when what I want is for it to be less cluttered - for it to include threads that only have new posts in them , as the old subscribed threads in CP used to do.
The @ reply thing no doubt has uses for some people who use the forum in different ways, or maybe get very excited that someone has replied to them, or mentions them, or something, but it would be great if we could opt out of it.

but it would be great if we could opt out of it.

That's not a bad idea.

We already have notification preferences for emails on these events, nothing to stop us from offering preferences for whether the update appears on the "Following" page.

At the same time I am also not getting any fonder of the @ reply rather than quote. It's more cumbersome and has the effect of creating private exchanges in the middle of 'conversations'. Also, as I just found out in the news thread, if you don't notice the @ it makes someone seem like they are saying how enjoyable they found a beheading video.

the @ reply thing is pretty redundant for me

It's giving him the rage.

I don't suppose there will be a "less bothered" option along with full on ignore. I don't really want to ignore anything but there are things I only check at 0300 when I can't sleep and have looked at everything else, if this could be pushed to the bottom or something that would be pretty sweet.

^^^^ that would also stop people giving in to the urge to spam my 'following' page when I set an obvious trap for myself - Apollo., Snottyotter and Emyr. All polo players, you can draw your own conclusions.

No.

There will be a "hide stuff" button, or you see it. There's not going to be a "37% hidden, show me it sometimes" option.

Fair enough, I mainly look at stuff through all the today/following/usercp type things, I'm sure I can deal with stuff not being ordered to my personal preference for the odd occasions I use the main page.

I just tried to respond to @Velocio in my "following" thread, which is not possible. Instead I had to click the thread title, then click reply etc...

Would be nice if you have a targeted (and highlighted) message you could just click reply right there without having to open the threads.

hmm perhaps an actually bugs/rfe system rather than just pages of posts I cannot be bothered to read ? :)

Bugs and feature reqs are tracked on github I think.

https://github.com/microcosm-cc/microweb/issues

Not ideal, since you need a github account to create them. But that's where things go if we're working on them.

You need the thread context in case there are other un-targetted-but-relevant replies.

Github Issues is the place if you really want to ensure we don't neglect to do it. We go back and work through that list constantly.

doh, yup totally forgot about github! thanks :)

didn't think of it that way, but my initial reaction was to click on the text / look for a <- Reply option