combo boxes to jump the pages

Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback

Post 1 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Monday, 17-Nov-2008 15:54:52

hey this is just an idea, but how about in board topics you can have a combo box to jump from page to page?. this might work for users who are reading a topic (for example a game) and let's say you are on page 3 and there's 13 pages... in sted of jumping from 3 onwards (and clicking a few times) it would be cool if we had the option to just select the numbered page we want from a list. not only would it help the people playing the games, but also if you want to read the topic from page 1 and you're on like page 20 it would take like ages to get back

Post 2 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Monday, 17-Nov-2008 20:15:49

I like that idea. Wonder how easy/difficult it would be to implement?

Post 3 by Stevo (The Established Ass) on Monday, 17-Nov-2008 23:27:18

That's a good idea. I can't see it being too difficult to code.

Post 4 by SEPTEMBER-TWILIGHT (CAN I TALK? PLEASE?) on Monday, 17-Nov-2008 23:57:48

that is a really good idea. would be grate if it did happen. it doesnt sound that complicated. but ... i dont know coding, so yeah, lol

Post 5 by illumination (Darkness is history.) on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2008 0:41:39

That idea reminds me of blink nation.

Post 6 by cumbiambera2005 (i just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2008 5:04:04

Lol it kind of does! Nah but dont they have links to each page? But yeah that doesn't sound too bad! Like at the end, you have something that says "Go to page", and then a combo box type thing! Hmmmm, like it!

Post 7 by andrew1989 (Account disabled) on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2008 18:51:39

wow, for once someone actually made a good suggestion. Let's move this to the top, right above three suggestions for free features on the zone.

I love the idea. It would be nice if that were in board topics as well as in posts contained in the topic. You know how some boards have ridiculous amounts of pages dating back to god knows when.

As long as it's not one of those annoying combo boxes where as soon as you go down one, it automatically loads the page. But no, they've managed so far with the user combobox, so why not...

Post 8 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Wednesday, 19-Nov-2008 0:53:31

Yes, when I first read this topic, I thought of Blink Nation, too. I dont' like the way Blink Nation was set up at all, and so my first thought was to oppose this suggestion. But when I read Dan's post more carefully, I figured out that he was only talking about combo boxes as it pertained to navigating the boards, not all the links, like Blink Nation does. God, I pray this place never looks remotely like BN's set-up. Yuck.

Post 9 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 19-Nov-2008 8:36:55

thank you andrew, and yes... i do hate those type of boxes that you are talking about, nothing worse than trying to select an option and the page loads while the list goes right to the top, and no matter how hard you try you just can't select it

Post 10 by The Elemental Dragon (queen of dragons) on Wednesday, 19-Nov-2008 13:24:24

the chapter combo boxes are like that on fictionpress and fanfiction, you just have to be in forms mode and hit ALT plus the down arrow to stop that. I do agree that this would be a good idea, so you don't have to go through a tone of page links just to find the last page thingy.

Post 11 by andrew1989 (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 19-Nov-2008 14:49:36

definitely. I don't see how that would be difficult.

Post 12 by changedheart421 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Sunday, 23-Nov-2008 17:35:24

love this idea especially for the endless game topics lol.

Post 13 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Sunday, 23-Nov-2008 18:23:55

As I understand it, this will be implimented at some point in the near future (when admin gets to it.) Good suggestion.

Post 14 by Shadow_Cat (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 23-Nov-2008 19:28:42

Cool. I'm glad to hear that.

Post 15 by The Elemental Dragon (queen of dragons) on Monday, 24-Nov-2008 9:59:56

yeayh me too!!

Post 16 by changedheart421 (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Monday, 24-Nov-2008 17:19:16

me three

Post 17 by illumination (Darkness is history.) on Monday, 24-Nov-2008 21:29:56

Me four.

Post 18 by JH_Radio (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2008 13:54:53

ME 5.