The latest changes seem to have taken away a relatively new feature - I'm hoping it's coming back.
I'm referring to the number of posts that were visible when you respond to a thread. It recently changed to be the last x posts (I never counted, so I'm not sure how many) and was great because I could refer back to posts as I crafted my response without having to have the thread open twice. Now it appears that if I'm making the second post on a page, I'm only going to see the immediately-preceding post. If I'm making the fifth post, I'll see the four preceding posts, etc. I'm hoping we can get the expanded list of previous posts back - that was really a good thing, at least in PBP.
Also, I think this was discussed and was listed as resolved, but I liked the new feature where the profile used in that thread would be at the top of the list of choices. That seems to have gone back to previous behavior of falling in alphabetical order - which isn't bad, but it was nice to have the page recognize what profile I was probably wanting to use; helps me show the right face in the game, you know?
Thanks for all you do, the site rocks. I just wanted to toss some feedback in. I do like what you've done with the place. I just like some changes more than others.
The latest changes seem to have taken away a relatively new feature - I'm hoping it's coming back.
I'm referring to the number of posts that were visible when you respond to a thread. It recently changed to be the last x posts (I never counted, so I'm not sure how many) and was great because I could refer back to posts as I crafted my response without having to have the thread open twice. Now it appears that if I'm making the second post on a page, I'm only going to see the immediately-preceding post. If I'm making the fifth post, I'll see the four preceding posts, etc. I'm hoping we can get the expanded list of previous posts back - that was really a good thing, at least in PBP.
Also, I think this was discussed and was listed as resolved, but I liked the new feature where the profile used in that thread would be at the top of the list of choices. That seems to have gone back to previous behavior of falling in alphabetical order - which isn't bad, but it was nice to have the page recognize what profile I was probably wanting to use; helps me show the right face in the game, you know?
Thanks for all you do, the site rocks. I just wanted to toss some feedback in. I do like what you've done with the place. I just like some changes more than others.
This is a problem for PbP sadly, although I think if you reply by quoting someone you still get the old behaviour. For the pbper's, we've lost the excellent alias defaulting to the correct campaign behaviour we had for our default reply, and we have to make extra clicks and open seperate windows to see posts on the previous page for a good 10-15% of our posts. Sad face.
Oh, and if you want the old "add new post" behavior, just click the preview button without typing anything in the box.
You can also Reply to the last post and then delete the text, but that's an extra step. If you treat the Preview button as the old Add New Post button, you can get the old behavior, with the default PbP alias and the 25 most recent posts.
Yay!! Both of the items I asked about seem to be back!!