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Indecent Act said :
- Split Screen (forum navigation on left, thread view on right) Done.

So I was reading through the thread again, and I noticed that little bit there. It sounds sooo lovely, but I don't see an option for it .

Was it alongside the bookmark testing you did, and is out for repairs for now?

-Slides some hot chocolate over since it's nearly bed time, or perhaps is-

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13-Jan-2014 14:20:58

Keighlea said :
Indecent Act said :
- Split Screen (forum navigation on left, thread view on right) Done.

So I was reading through the thread again, and I noticed that little bit there. It sounds sooo lovely, but I don't see an option for it .

Was it alongside the bookmark testing you did, and is out for repairs for now?

-Slides some hot chocolate over since it's nearly bed time, or perhaps is-

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I have to assume that was the Side Bar that she had briefly added as beta.
That's what it sounds like what you quoted anyway, it's the only thing I remember that would fit the description.

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13-Jan-2014 16:10:30 - Last edited on 13-Jan-2014 16:20:52 by Klyntar

Keighlea said :
Indecent Act said :
- Split Screen (forum navigation on left, thread view on right) Done.

So I was reading through the thread again, and I noticed that little bit there. It sounds sooo lovely, but I don't see an option for it .

Was it alongside the bookmark testing you did, and is out for repairs for now?

-Slides some hot chocolate over since it's nearly bed time, or perhaps is-

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~~~~~Zaros will return!~~~~~
Are you prepared for his might?

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Aww sorry you missed it

This what it looked like...
http://puu.sh/6jE0l.jpg

The threads would load and fade in rather than reload page when clicking links on the left hand side.

The left side always showed the content of parent directory, so no matter where you were you could navigate without reloading the entire page. The page nav buttons and links faded the content in and didn't reload the page.

The main forum section was editable so you could remove categories if you wanted.

The left side would silently refresh periodically (depending on how active you were) so the list of threads was constantly changing if both you and the forums were active.

Because you never had to navigate back to thread sections to go to a new thread, the end result was actually less requests to the server even with the semi-auto updating of the parent directory.

I learnt a few things about how people use the forums. Seems many regulars don't have the browser maximized even with high(ish) res monitors. I got a number of comments saying it was cool, but they wouldn't use it because they prefer to not maximize browser window.

The split screen required at least 1024 res, seems I underestimated the screen real estate side of things.

I will keep working on it, but it's low priority with so few users.

13-Jan-2014 16:51:39 - Last edited on 13-Jan-2014 16:55:04 by Indecent Act

Continued...run out of space.

I did get plenty of good feedback, and those that used it seemed to make good use of it. I have got a big to-do list of features to add to it.

It was well worth while trying it out, and it was hard to go back to single screen once I removed it, so that alone says it's something I need to continue with

13-Jan-2014 17:06:03

13-Jan-2014 17:28:04

I think the reason why a lot of us don't maximize the browser, is because if anyone is like me, I like the browse the forums while I afk train something on RS, and having a smaller browser allows me to see my inventory.

I do miss the side bar though, I had used it a few times... But, sometimes I forgot it was even there.

13-Jan-2014 19:09:09

13-Jan-2014 19:29:35

Indecent Act said :
Keighlea said :
Indecent Act said :
- Split Screen (forum navigation on left, thread view on right) Done.

So I was reading through the thread again, and I noticed that little bit there. It sounds sooo lovely, but I don't see an option for it .

Was it alongside the bookmark testing you did, and is out for repairs for now?

-Slides some hot chocolate over since it's nearly bed time, or perhaps is-

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~~~~~Zaros will return!~~~~~
Are you prepared for his might?

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Aww sorry you missed it


I missed this too! Sounds like a great feature, and one I'd definitely make full use of - hope it makes a comback in the future

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13-Jan-2014 20:37:39

Keighlea said :
If not for that, I'd play with the browser shrunk down because there's no point having dead space on both sides of the forum:

The side bar took up all the dead space on the left. Poor Keighlea, missing out

13-Jan-2014 20:51:03

Toastcrumbs said :
Keighlea said :
If not for that, I'd play with the browser shrunk down because there's no point having dead space on both sides of the forum:

The side bar took up all the dead space on the left. Poor Keighlea, missing out

-makes sniffly face-

Hmm it's about time to make Indy some coffee.. -gets on that-

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13-Jan-2014 21:31:41