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Ashar Kor-Azor

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Thread and page navigation buttons.
« on: 18 Apr 2010, 14:21 »

When I see:
« previous next »

On about the same line as a list of pages, I don't assume they refer to threads.

So I click them, expecting to go one page forward or back in the thread.

Instead, I am catapulted to a new thread, screwing up my read/unread flags and generally confusing me, the user.

I suggest either adding a couple of 'previous PAGE/next PAGE' buttons RIGHT NEXT TO the page selection at the bottom of a thread if the SMF fans are amenable, or altering the function of the « previous next » buttons to work with pages, if phpBB-fanboi hegemony is unopposed and palatable to the SMF crew.

I do so because the stuff that I intuitively feel should act a certain way isn't, rather than because I want more familiar shit from phpBB. The less things one has to learn about and conform to that don't feel natural, the better. But the validity of such a complaint is determined only by community opinion.

Soooo. Yeah.

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Re: Thread and page navigation buttons.
« Reply #1 on: 18 Apr 2010, 14:42 »

Good suggestion; looking into it now :)
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Re: Thread and page navigation buttons.
« Reply #2 on: 18 Apr 2010, 15:08 »

Thanky. I feel like I should start trainin' my forum-fu and do this with yew >< I keep making threads on here and demanding shit.

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« Reply #3 on: 18 Apr 2010, 19:01 »

Changed it so it says "previous topic || next topic" instead of just "previous next".  Will look at the in-thread page navigation in a bit.
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Re: Thread and page navigation buttons.
« Reply #4 on: 18 Apr 2010, 23:00 »

Win \o/