Forum improvements?

[Veikko]

Please use this thread to talk about how these forums can be made better. I have 'lived' here many years, so maybe fresh eyes can spot the holes more easily.

Any comments are welcome!

[Rubi]

Here's one: is there a way to change it so that when you click a link it pops a new tab or window instead of redirecting you from your current window? It's kinda annoying.

[101reykjavik]

Yep, I've always thought that with this and the old forum actually. Other forums open a new browser window, which is much easier. Currently I have to alt click to choose to open a fresh window.

[Veikko]

Nice to see some activity in this corner!

I'll think about changing the behavior of links. It's a bit tricky decision, because lots of people (and most guidelines) prefer that the links should open in the same window on a typical website. But with forums it may be a different thing.

[tom_cas1]

Surely this is a browser preferences thing and not the forum?

[101reykjavik]

Surely this is a browser preferences thing and not the forum?

Not for me least. I can switch to a different site on the same browser and the link behaviour is different.

[TripleJay97]

I can set it so that every link I click opens in a new window on every website, but not specific to certain sites.

I'd just prefer to be able to click on YouTube links and for them to open separately, so I can comment on them while I'm listening to them without having to go back to the previous page, interrupting the music.

[Rubi]

I'd just prefer to be able to click on YouTube links and for them to open separately, so I can comment on them while I'm listening to them without having to go back to the previous page, interrupting the music.

Exactly.

[Veikko]

TripleJay had a good point and I've made it now that the links open in a new tab.

Try for example this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo55vzp ... u.be&t=25s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

However it doesn't work with existing posts at the moment (I'll see if I can change that).

[TripleJay97]

TripleJay had a good point and I've made it now that the links open in a new tab.

Try for example this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo55vzp ... u.be&t=25s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

However it doesn't work with existing posts at the moment (I'll see if I can change that).

Thank you Veikko!

[101reykjavik]

TripleJay had a good point and I've made it now that the links open in a new tab.

Try for example this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo55vzp ... u.be&t=25s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

However it doesn't work with existing posts at the moment (I'll see if I can change that).

Thank you Veikko!

Yep, cheers for that!

[Veikko]

No problem.

[Rubi]

That's good enough, Veikko. Cheers.

[sara-m-a]

I've seen other forums with this very same system, that have a mobile option, would you consider adding that option? is like an aditional skin or layout or somthing to that effect, I'd make the mobile experience much better =)

[tom_cas1]

A mobile option would be great, I use my iPhone a lot to browse the forum but it's quite hard to post, especially when you want to cut, paste, use bold and that kind of stuff.