'Time Bomb'
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Should the post-splitter (for posts longer than 4K) [A] mark the sub-posts as read and take the author to the last post of the entry, or [B] should it leave the author at the first post?
If we use [A], there is some small chance that another poster might make an entry on the thread that could be posted "between" two sections of the long post, so the author of the long post might miss something someone else said.
The [B] scenario may not seem intuitive.
I like [B] better, actually. It doesn't seem counterintuitive because normally you get reset to the beginning of your post, and a multipost is just a really long post.
I think leave the author at the first post. When you go back to a thread in which you were the last poster the last time you read it (I don't know how to say that better) the first post shown is always your post.
It doesn't seem counterintuitive because normally you get reset to the beginning of your post
It depends how you look at it. You also get reset to the end of your post, and a multipost is just a really long post.
I like B.
Don't we usually get reset to the post above our own most recent posts?
You also get reset to the end of your post, and a multipost is just a really long post.
Don't we usually get reset to the post above our own most recent posts?
I wanted to say yes to both and wondered how it could be, but then I remembered: Cindy's right about where the thread page begins, and ita's right about where you are on the page.
Don't we usually get reset to the post above our own most recent posts?
Yes. But when you post just one post, that's one post above the next post.
When your post gets broken into 30, that's a few pages away from the next post.
I want to make sure everyone's aware that they won't just be reading one of their posts, as we are accustomed, but a potentially large number of posts lie between them and the end of the thread.
If one of my long posts got split into bunches of posts, I'd want to come back to the beginning of the whole slew, to see all those errors which hide while I'm checking it over, and then leap at me, only after the post has been submitted.
Well, when you put it that way...
ita, Those changes are in.
postProcess.php and post.php have been altered. I didn't move tagpairs. Whatever you want to do about that could be applied to the arrays in _quickedit(), as well, I reckon.