Bugs and weird things wanted! - Spot a forum bug? Report it here

[Dan]

We are still working on stuff. It takes ages hence so stressful!

 

[Harvest Fields]

No worries. While I’m on here and clicking buttons. On a mobile is there a way of going back to unread posts once you have read one without going through menu and new posts?

 

[Chuck]

So if you see anything weird going on, or something not working properly.

The 'Resources' list is showing duplicates. Possibly as a side-effect of posts being updated.

I find, 'Resources' a non-intuitive title for what is apparently a 'Find a Plumber' section. I'd expect a 'Resources' section to have things like data tables, specifications, codes of practice, etc. You could call it 'Find a Plumber' and then shorten the subcategory titles to 'In England', 'In Devon', etc.

 

[rpm]

The 'Resources' list is showing duplicates. Possibly as a side-effect of posts being updated.

I find, 'Resources' a non-intuitive title for what is apparently a 'Find a Plumber' section. I'd expect a 'Resources' section to have things like data tables, specifications, codes of practice, etc. You could call it 'Find a Plumber' and then shorten the subcategory titles to 'In England', 'In Devon', etc.

Look again Chuck, no duplicates just different areas covered.

 

[Chuck]

Look again Chuck, no duplicates just different areas covered.

I'm not sure what you see, but when I click the Resources tab I see a list of five 'services' in the main panel. Three of these are unique, two of them (DND Services, Lismore Plumbing) are duplicates differing only in the 'Updated' time-stamp.

 

[rpm]

Lets look at DND then, one is for West Yorkshire whilst the other one is for North Yorkshire hence two listings and the same goes for Lismore.

 

[Chuck]

Lets look at DND then, one is for West Yorkshire whilst the other one is for North Yorkshire hence two listings and the same goes for Lismore.

Ah, I see what you mean. Maybe not a bug, then, but IMO one entry per per provider would be nicer OR filter the list to show only offers available in my region.

 

[Dan]

The 'Resources' list is showing duplicates. Possibly as a side-effect of posts being updated.

I find, 'Resources' a non-intuitive title for what is apparently a 'Find a Plumber' section. I'd expect a 'Resources' section to have things like data tables, specifications, codes of practice, etc. You could call it 'Find a Plumber' and then shorten the subcategory titles to 'In England', 'In Devon', etc.

It will eventually have a few resources and tools in there. The directory is just one category (with many sub categories). It'll have a shop in there too soon. So members can sell stuff etc. That bit is in its infancy so perhaps less bug reports on that lol my bad.

Forum is okay though?

 

[Chuck]

Forum is okay though?

So far so good from my PoV. Only issues/comments I have are matters of taste. For example:

I use a desktop not a phone for access and I'd prefer a bit less white space around things.

I find the pop-up text that snaps up whenever the cursor moves over an element, such as a post title, distracting to the point of being irritating.

The range of font sizes is a bit extreme. For example, the quoted text appears at about half the size of the body text in a post. A 20% reduction in size is enough to be quite noticeable without affecting readability.

The 'sad' and 'angry' flags are not really applicable and convey no useful information. Can they be replaced with 'agree' and 'disagree', please? I think these are both useful in the context of the sort of discussions that are hosted here.

 

[Dan]

Nice feedback. I'll take it on board but not sure I'll be changing the whole forum for one member.

The quoted text is meant to just be a reference, you'd click the post to go to it if you were not already involved in the thread. If you were involved you'd use it as a reference I guess.

The 'tooltip' pop-up text can be disabled. But for people who are scrolling over lots of search results (and thread titles) it can be handy, rather than opening each thread to see whats in it.

So I kinda see where you're coming from, but it's been carefully crafted to be the way it is for the masses I guess.

Keep the input coming though.