'View New Content' preceded by huge list

[Puffling]

For the last few days, "show new content" shows a huge list at the top, requiring me to scroll down to find the first post. This behaviour is the same on mobile and desktop versions of the site. The list, if it must be shown (and I doubt anyone needs it) should be by default collapsed, with an arrow to expand it.

 

[Ray T]

I have this too.

 

[Tony Brooks]

Ditto, and on a small laptop it's annoying, goodness knows how those who use phones get on with the need to scroll down.

[Ange]

Agreed, I browse on my phone and the list takes up the entire screen.

[Alan de Enfield]

 I do not have a "View New Content" button, I have (and use) "New Posts" (Right hand side below "search") and do not have the same huge list - it goes straight into the list of new posts since my last visit.

 

 

Edited September 28, 2022 by Alan de Enfield

[mrsmelly]

It must have been fixed, mine is as normal?

[MtB]

 

My whole small laptop CWF screen. No room left for any actual content!  

 

 

 

[mrsmelly]

Weird innit. Just looked on my android fone and thats normal as is my wonderful chromebook. It must be how we all have our settings or somett?

[David Mack]

I set up my own custom VNC Activity Stream some time ago when the default VNC was not working. That still has the compact header, but if I try the default VNC I get my screen filled as others have.

[MtB]

9 minutes ago, David Mack said:

I set up my own custom VNC Activity Stream some time ago when the default VNC was not working. That still has the compact header, but if I try the default VNC I get my screen filled as others have.

 

It's not just the unnecessary huge list of boards that is disappointing, it's the whole layout o the home screen with its acres of wasted space.

 

I've commented on it many times over the years but I think its a function of the forum software rather than how the technical mods have it configured. I think the Invision programmers assume everyone views the forum on a 26" desktop monitor. 

 

 

[David Schweizer]

31 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

It's not just the unnecessary huge list of boards that is disappointing, it's the whole layout o the home screen with its acres of wasted space.

 

I've commented on it many times over the years but I think its a function of the forum software rather than how the technical mods have it configured. I think the Invision programmers assume everyone views the forum on a 26" desktop monitor. 

 

 

 

I watch it on a 22"desktop monitor, and it takes up the entire screen. Very annoying, and completely uneccessary

[Athy]

I too have had this "feature" for the last few days. I wonder id RichM can help.

[mrsmelly]

7 minutes ago, Athy said:

I too have had this "feature" for the last few days. I wonder id RichM can help.

Its not fair, I havnt got it. What equipment do you use fort forum?

[Athy]

5 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Its not fair, I havnt got it. What equipment do you use fort forum?

A Dell desk-top computer with a 17" screen (if such screens are measured diagonally, as I believe they are).

[mrsmelly]

2 minutes ago, Athy said:

A Dell desk-top computer with a 17" screen (if such screens are measured diagonally, as I believe they are).

Its weird then. I use a 14 inch chromebook and a cheapo android fone, no change with either.

[Tony Brooks]

8 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Its not fair, I havnt got it. What equipment do you use fort forum?

 

A 14" Lenovo laptop and 22" monitor on a home brew desk system. Both running Linux and Firefox browser.

[Rob-M]

11 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Its weird then. I use a 14 inch chromebook and a cheapo android fone, no change with either.

Are you using the default VNC or your own custom VNC...?  A custom one does not have the comments added that the default has and it looks like something has changed to start displaying the comments.

[Jerra]

20 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Its weird then. I use a 14 inch chromebook and a cheapo android fone, no change with either.

Same here apart from the laptop being a Toshiba.  I have had no problems (so far !)

[Athy]

31 minutes ago, Jerra said:

Same here apart from the laptop being a Toshiba.  

Drat! That blooming advert will be going through my head for hours: "Hello Tosh, got a Toshiba?"

[mrsmelly]

48 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

Are you using the default VNC or your own custom VNC...?  A custom one does not have the comments added that the default has and it looks like something has changed to start displaying the comments.

I am not tech savvy?? I doubt I would no how to customise anything?? although I may have followed some good advice back in time you gave about how to do it. I do recall Ive set mine so the Politics section isnt accessed with VNC, I have that seperate.

[Hudds Lad]

This has happened before, either that or something changed in the Matrix  

You can scroll down the Technical & Account Support category and find similar quite easily.

Might need turning off and back on again.

 

 

11 minutes ago, Athy said:

Drat! That blooming advert will be going through my head for hours: "Hello Tosh, got a Toshiba?"

Don’t start thinking about the Scotch skeleton singing “re-record not fade away” then  

[Ray T]

1 hour ago, Hudds Lad said:

This has happened before, either that or something changed in the Matrix  

You can scroll down the Technical & Account Support category and find similar quite easily.

Might need turning off and back on again.

 

 

Don’t start thinking about the Scotch skeleton singing “re-record not fade away” then  

 

The late Dereck Guyler.

 

 

Edited September 28, 2022 by Ray T

[Hudds Lad]

5 minutes ago, Ray T said:

 

The late Dereck Guiler?

 

 

Happy days, Mum bought a three or five pack from the supermarket on the strength of that advert, i can still remember the biblical telling off i got for recording eps of The Power Hour over a re-run of Brideshead Revisited she’d wanted to keep  

[mrsmelly]

5 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:

Happy days, Mum bought a three or five pack from the supermarket on the strength of that advert, i can still remember the biblical telling off i got for recording eps of The Power Hour over a re-run of Brideshead Revisited she’d wanted to keep  

Bloody hell was that 35 years ago  I was just a baby in my thirties then, it seems like that ad was only on yesterday lol.

[Richard10002]

4 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 I do not have a "View New Content" button, I have (and use) "New Posts" (Right hand side below "search") and do not have the same huge list - it goes straight into the list of new posts since my last visit.

 

 

Looks to me like you're getting the same as everyone else, but you have slimmed down the number of forums that you get stuff from?