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Aquila_Invictus's avatar
Aquila_Invictus
Rising Hotshot
2 months ago

Forum paging is painfully antiquated

Howdy Folks,  one of the things anyone who uses the forums is well aware of is  the pain point that topics with a large number of pages brings.  The "Show More" works if you only have a handful of pages to go through. but on topics with a larger number of posts it is completely inadequate and at a certain point many peoples posts might as well not even exists as most people will probably give up clicking on the "Show More" ad nauseam such as when I get a notification of a new post in the following topic 

Orange Dot Notifications Will Not Clear | EA Forums - 13196010

last night I gave up after click "Show More" 48 times and I was still in posts 3 months old.

The paging this forums uses just does not scale well at all and could use a serious upgrade  such as in the following image

 

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technical issues

3 Replies

  • ohmyiv's avatar
    ohmyiv
    Seasoned Scout
    2 days ago

    I agree about the pagination. It is a ridiculous amount of clicking 'Show more' when trying to browse the forums.

    It's really not user-friendly when trying to read different posts due to, as the other comment pointed out, returning to the top of the forum when using the back button. 

    Those two things combined makes using the forum more tedious than necessary. Thankfully, opening posts in new tabs works as a workaround, but I'd prefer not to have to open and close tabs all the time. 

  • Aquila_Invictus's avatar
    Aquila_Invictus
    Rising Hotshot
    2 months ago

    There is at least the basic sort available that I had not noticed since it is off screen when you are at the bottom of a full page.  This solves the being able to see the new post issues at least. I would like to be able to set how many replaies I see per page as well. The ability to search just within a discussion would be nice too.

     

  • F4cepalm's avatar
    F4cepalm
    New Hotshot
    2 months ago

    It would certainly be possible to display new replies at the top of a thread. It also bothers me that pressing the back button takes me to the beginning of a forum.

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