2019 Board Improvement Thread

[immamac 42864]

Hey guys, with the new year I wanted to spend more time on the site improving it from a usability perspective.

Main things I'm thinking now are better twitter integrations and possibly a new way to interact with the game thread that feels more like "chat" but keeps the same layout/format

[Hugo Stiglitz 23367]

This is going to be an unpopular suggestion but it would likely improve page load times while increasing clicks.

Set the posts per page to 25 or 30 instead of 50

[TKthunder2 4992]

No solution, but to add to page load time issue above, the most frustrating thing about the board is when you jump to a new post in the middle of a thread full of tweets/images and the page jumps around on you multiple times while you’re trying to read.  Especially frustrating when it’s a single piece of content thats simply being quoted by multiple people and loading over and over again.

[spystud13 2371]

Get imgur to work. 

[spystud13 2371]

And ban kopp0e. Jesus fuck, he’s a beating with the tweets. 

[RPM 26322]

Can you find a fix for the double post glitch? Seems to happen when you post a reply from a page that isn't the last page in the thread. The page does nothing so you can't tell you already posted and like a dumbass keep hitting submit.

I like the new touches with the forum names. Might I suggest a Sugar Bowl Bevo background? 

Edited January 3, 2019 by RPM

[Grippe 313]

7 hours ago, spystud13 said:

And ban kopp0e. Jesus fuck, he’s a beating with the tweets. 

/thread.

Suriously.

[EuroHorn 3265]

11 hours ago, spystud13 said:

And ban kopp0e. Jesus fuck, he’s a beating with the tweets. 

If so, you might want to add Hugo.    Or at least call the Cloak Room "Twitter"

Edited January 3, 2019 by EuroHorn

[immamac 42864]

20 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:

No solution, but to add to page load time issue above, the most frustrating thing about the board is when you jump to a new post in the middle of a thread full of tweets/images and the page jumps around on you multiple times while you’re trying to read.  Especially frustrating when it’s a single piece of content thats simply being quoted by multiple people and loading over and over again.

I don't experience this often, but I have in the past. If you just let the page load it actually scrolls back to the intended spot automatically. 

I'll look into something that will improve this behavior though. 

[TKthunder2 4992]

3 hours ago, immamac said:

I don't experience this often, but I have in the past. If you just let the page load it actually scrolls back to the intended spot automatically. 

I'll look into something that will improve this behavior though. 

You’re correct, if I wait it’ll fully load and put me at the right spot.  The problem is that I’m an impatient asshole and even though I understand what happening when the page is loading in the browser I still try to read the posts before it’s fully loaded.

The only thing I’ve thought that could help with this is the same unpopular suggestion listed above my first post, or if you had the functionality to auto collapse quote windows like spoilers.

This is not that big of a deal, but if you were asking for improvement suggestions that is the biggest one in my opinion.

[spystud13 2371]

It’s noticeably bad on iPad, less so on PC. 

[SquishMitten 10415]

It’s awful on my MacBook. And it often doesn’t take me to the intended spot even if I wait til it fully loads

 

 

[SquishMitten 10415]

Also, has the time to edit been increased yet? Not only does it seem like it’s really short, but I liked in the past that it didn’t notate that the post was edited if you fixed something in the first couple minutes.

[tokamak 6431]

Not so much a request as a question, but is there a way to see how many times I (or anyone) have posted in a given thread? The old board had that feature and I used it occasionally.

[spystud13 2371]

Agreed, that was a good feature. Made it easy to find a specific post you remembered. 

[George 493]

Curious if there’s a way to increase the font size. It’s hard to read the Surl while driving with my fading eye sight and random pedestrians on the sidewalk jumping out in front of me. 

[Whitman 694]

1 hour ago, tokamak said:

Not so much a request as a question, but is there a way to see how many times I (or anyone) have posted in a given thread? The old board had that feature and I used it occasionally.

Hugo broke that function.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

I've noticed lately when I try to expand a quote it sometimes takes me to the top of the page instead. Mildly annoying.

[miguelito 11266]

We need more better posters.

[miguelito 11266]

The side menu says "Daily Texan" and "Best Buy Coupons," but the top of the screen says "Current Events" and "For Sale."

[NameAlreadyInUse 5114]

I'll second coming up with funnier names for the different areas.  Its a lot more fun to go to RC Didn't Offer than it is to go to Recruiting. I'm unfortunately not bright enough to come up with better names, but surely someone here is.

[Goo Punch 4275]

On 1/3/2019 at 12:53 AM, spystud13 said:

And ban kopp0e. Jesus fuck, he’s a beating with the tweets. 

the NBA season thread has been overrun with these tweets, and despite everyone not named vic asking him to stop over and over and over, it only continues. we've even made a dedicated thread for nba social media and memes, but he and vic think it's just hilarious to piss everyone off, so the nba thread remains cluttered with social media shit that nobody wants to see. 

Edited January 7, 2019 by Goo Punch

[Goo Punch 4275]

On 1/4/2019 at 3:06 AM, spystud13 said:

It’s noticeably bad on iPad, less so on PC. 

i use my mobile browser and it's terrible. 

[spystud13 2371]

On 1/4/2019 at 7:55 AM, SquishMitten said:

I liked in the past that it didn’t notate that the post was edited if you fixed something in the first couple minutes.

Also, this. The first minute or so to fix a simple typo doesn’t need the notation. It’s pretty irrelevant. 

[DDD Dad 14339]

Ability to delete posts?  That would be nice.  Especially when I make 4 or 5 duplicates by mistake.

[DDD Dad 14339]

Ability to delete posts?  That would be nice.  Especially when I make 4 or 5 duplicates by mistake.

[DDD Dad 14339]

Ability to delete posts?  That would be nice.  Especially when I make 4 or 5 duplicates by mistake.

[DDD Dad 14339]

Ability to delete posts?  That would be nice.  Especially when I make 4 or 5 duplicates by mistake.

[immamac 42864]

report the tweet spammers and I'll get them taken care of. 

I'll open a ticket with invision to see if there is a way to keep the board from jumping around while it's in the loading phase.

[spystud13 2371]

He’s not technically spamming, he just never posts an original thought. Every single tweet he sees that could potentially be relevant to any thread gets posted. He’s the main reason most of us have the page-jumping problem on football & basketball threads. 

Here’s just one very small sample. 

 

[immamac 42864]

BTW, you can integrate your twitter with surly now in your profiles if you so choose. You can also log in with twitter instead of username/password!

[DDD Dad 14339]

5 minutes ago, immamac said:

BTW, you can integrate your twitter with surly now in your profiles if you so choose. You can also log in with twitter instead of username/password!

You're trying to dox us all, aren't you?

[KYHorn 17076]

On 1/7/2019 at 2:01 PM, Goo Punch said:

the NBA season thread has been overrun with these tweets, and despite everyone not named vic asking him to stop over and over and over, it only continues. we've even made a dedicated thread for nba social media and memes, but he and vic think it's just hilarious to piss everyone off, so the nba thread remains cluttered with social media shit that nobody wants to see. 

 

On 1/7/2019 at 2:15 PM, immamac said:

report the tweet spammers and I'll get them taken care of. 

I'll open a ticket with invision to see if there is a way to keep the board from jumping around while it's in the loading phase.

The ignore function would fix this for those annoyed by it, would it not?

[immamac 42864]

it would.

[Goo Punch 4275]

15 minutes ago, KYHorn said:

 

The ignore function would fix this for those annoyed by it, would it not?

it's an awful lot of people to have on ignore just for one thread.

Edited January 8, 2019 by Goo Punch

[Digdogger 1344]

Not directly a board issue, but maybe do some sort of contest that the winner gets a penis enlargement.  I mean I wouldn’t enter, but I have a friend who posts that could use it

[bernorange 8362]

I'm might be the only one here that would like this, but I would appreciate an option in my profile/settings to disable embedded tweets entirely.  I'd rather scroll past a link to twitter that I won't read than have all that embedded shit cluttering up the page.

[SHOOTER12 8810]

On 1/7/2019 at 4:02 PM, DDD Dad said:

You're trying to dox us all, aren't you?

DDDon't you know it!!!!!!!

[SHOOTER12 8810]

Can we please stop the consistent "allow notifications, yes, not at this time" from popping up every time I go to a new page or forum?

[markstanco 12577]

Texas vs kansas is a sticky on the football forum from November for some reason on tapa.

[DCLonghorn 244]

Imma:

Thanks for all the hard work man... It's such a great place for the surly to hang out.

I've been having a Tapa issue lately on multiple Android devices. Whenever I try to go to Timeline or Unread in Tapa, I get a memory allocation error. I also get the same error when I try to search the board for posts on this...searched "memory error" and got a memory error. Brilliant troll!

I'll reply to this with a screen grab...device hopping.

[DCLonghorn 244]

I'll reply to this with a screen grab...device hopping.

[Homercles 10206]

it's an awful lot of people to have on ignore just for one thread.

[Homercles 10206]

Double

[elfenix 34307]

On 1/7/2019 at 1:09 PM, spystud13 said:

Also, this. The first minute or so to fix a simple typo doesn’t need the notation. It’s pretty irrelevant. 

i doubt that's something that's changeable. 

 

 

for tapa issues, if you haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling tapa, do that first.

 

 

On 1/6/2019 at 4:59 PM, George said:

Curious if there’s a way to increase the font size. It’s hard to read the Surl while driving with my fading eye sight and random pedestrians on the sidewalk jumping out in front of me. 

on firefox and chrome use ctrl and + to make things bigger.  works on a per site basis and remembers.  i've got this place set at 120%. 

[spystud13 2371]

2 minutes ago, elfenix said:

i doubt that's something that's changeable.

Well, you also have to realize not a single thing since this thread or the other one were started has anything changed. We're pretty much just banging our heads against the wall anyway. 

[George 493]

1 hour ago, elfenix said:

i doubt that's something that's changeable. 

 

 

for tapa issues, if you haven't tried uninstalling and reinstalling tapa, do that first.

 

 

on firefox and chrome use ctrl and + to make things bigger.  works on a per site basis and remembers.  i've got this place set at 120%. 

I’m referring to safari on iPhone. I rarely, if ever, pull up the Surl on my computer. 

[Continental Op 3934]

On 1/8/2019 at 5:41 PM, Digdogger said:

Not directly a board issue, but maybe do some sort of contest that the winner gets a penis enlargement.  I mean I wouldn’t enter, but I have a friend who posts that could use it

The first poster to promise to violently rape Digdogger after getting the penis enlargement wins?  

[The Dude 1246]

SSS pls

[DDD Dad 14339]

SSS pls

Your S key appears to be stuck. There is no SSS. It’s a myth.