Would be nice to see full title instead of shrinked. Any chance?
Thanks.
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Would be nice to see full title instead of shrinked. Any chance?
Thanks.
What are you referring to?
In the "User CP" the Reputation notification area is called: "Latest Reputation Received".
So, there is a column "Thread" and text is srinked... You've managed to overlook something very obvious, have you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwalker83
I don't think it is possible to display the full thread url because it would cause the table to go off the page. That is unless the staff don't wrap the url o it would be all compressed in to the thread column. However, that would look ugly and would add to the vertical scrolling of the page.Quote:
Originally Posted by RhinoBull
I believe RB is refering to this:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwalker83
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4750/usercpfj2.jpg
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/usercpfj2.jpg/1/w587.png
About 30% of the columns width is used..it could be atleast a bit more. I agree that it would look nicer being able to see more of the thread title. Just seeing "[RESOLVED] [2005]" as you can see in the image isnt really helpful.
How is it different from displaying full text on the "main" page? Who's using 800x600 screen resolution these days? Especially geeks like us? ;) Common, most have widescreens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightwalker83
That's precisely what I'm preaching :) . Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Atheist
Btw, here's what I see.
It seems ridiculous but I can't find any setting that controls this.
:confused:
edit: Just looked at the code — it's a hard-coded limit of 25 characters.
Obviously, the width used is different! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by RhinoBull
What width? It's a table so it's rendered by a browser and text is wrapped as necessary just like on the main page.
But you know, I didn't open this thread for arguments - it is addressed to forum admins/moderators mostly.
Thank you.
Thanks pen for looking at it. Do you think that number can be increased?Quote:
Originally Posted by penagate
I'm afraid the answer is most likely to be 'no' since we don't generally edit the files directly and any changes would be lost with the next upgrade.
Brad or Joe would have the definitive answer for you though.
I agree that the current length is unreasonably low.
Alright, thanks.
Perhaps if vB at least gave us a tooltip that displayed a longer thread title or even an admin cp setting allowing the size to be set properly.
Tooltips were soooo annoying Brad turned them off - although, tooltips would show thread content [I think].
Well to each his own but I have seen some forums where the tooltips are a user cp option. Obviously a custom hack but rep thread title length in rep listing could be done. Up to Joe ultimately.
Let's see if we can get Joe and Heidi to look into this. It is just a simple little number, so maybe we can get it updated..... :)
Brad!
Actually, I looked at this closer. The reason that is reduced is because the Comment column uses the most space.
What browser are you using? In IE, my 'thread' column is much skinnier than what you are showing (there isn't the white space).
Personally, I'd rather have the width in the comment section. The thread column is a point of reference you can always click if you really need to know what it is. It make sense that this is only 25 characters.
Brad!
Thanks Brad.
I'm using IE and to make a point I'd rather see more than 25 chars (sorry but limit does not make sense to me) than navigating to that thread (that's what we have to do anyway for now :) ).
That's basically the reason I opened this thread.
Thanks again.
The 25 character limit is really only an issue because we put "[resolved]" and "[year]" at the front of the theads. If we didn't do that, it wouldn't be so bad.
Regardless, let's see if Heidi and Joe are willing to make the change.
Brad!
Would have been nice to just do wrapping and have all of it in there. Then you'd set percentage width on the table to allow it to work in all browsers. You could even use JavaScript to clean it up and truncate text if necessary.
Thanks for looking into this though; it has always bugged me.
I would use not truncating, then set the CSS style for that col to a fixed width, with the overflow set to truncate.... allow the comment col to be fluid... seems to me, more often than not, the title is longer than the comment anyways. But that could be jsut me.... (as a side note, what IS the max length for a commen anyhow?)
-tg
EDIT: Something I just noticed... in my recent reputaion list, I have one that is "titled" "[3.0]..." ..... it just so happens that I know the thread because of the poster... but that's hardly 25 characters.... -tg
It may always add the ellipses to the end of titles regardless of length (is the thread just called "[3.0]"?).
Joe suggested we simply remove the reputation system as that would eliminate this issue as well ;) :D
Brad!
we could just abbreviate the words resolved as RES., and also truncate the version designations, which would by default show more of the thread title.
I didn't think it was just [3.0], but I double checkedQuote:
Originally Posted by Kasracer
Nope.. full title is "[3.0] Compiling/Building and custom build events"
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?p=3440150
Brad - you know how it is, we're never satisfied uness we're complaining about something ... it least it's over something trivial. :D
-tg
Hah... Someone's finally agreed with me on this one very old topic. :D Truly historic moment! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
I've always agreed with you on this.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by RhinoBull
Thanks JP. :wave:
I disagree! *runs*
you'll never outrun me in cyberspace!:D
The way PHP handles the truncation is it will cut the off at the last word that is full. For example:Quote:
Originally Posted by techgnome
"I loooove taking long wal<>ks on the beach at night"
Notice where i put <>, that is 25 characters, so the truncated version would be:
"I loooove taking long..."
So for that thread title:
"[3.0] Compiling/Building <>and custom build events"
hmm... odd now that i see that... When i saw it, it looked as if the 25 limit were in the "Compiling/Building" area...
Any other explanation?
dclamp - yeaaaah.... see now? very strange....
-tg
So JP, any chance to get that limit increased to say 50 chars? Apparently there is plenty of room left for any screen resolution.
Btw, if you look at the source there is "nowrap" all over the place - can you guys let it wrap instead?
I mean, it's one of those "no biggy" things - rather little convenience. If it's not going to happen then it's alright.
Thanks much again.
I don't care as much for the length of the title, even though I have a wide screen (1680x1050) and plenty of room to display the full title.
But, related to this: it would be nice if we could have the full history of the reps received.
Btw. Here is how it looks on my screen. Some people wrote very long comments, so it could have been even more wide if comments were shorter.
The length is hardcoded, and the company doesn't generally like to hack the files directly. A better solution would be abbreviating the words resolved and VS/VB version to allow more of the title to appear
I agree. Occasionally I'll get a funny rep and when I try to go back to it at a later time it's gone because it's too old and I can't remember why it was funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by CVMichael
You see, I don't have that many reps, so I can see all of mine. As such, the system seems perfect to me - no need to increase it at all ;) :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Kasracer
Brad!
(Hmmm.... Could this be a hidden attempt to fish for pointless reps? :thumb: )
The previous post was a joke. I don't care that much about reps. In fact, I consider reps like thank yous and thus don't need to see a thank you again from three weeks ago. The sheer fact it was originally given is appreciated.
Being serious for a moment, I think we increased the number of displayed reps at least one or two times before. If I increase it by a couple more, can we move on to some other topics to debate about?
There - I changed the display from 25 to 50, so it is more than double. Seems like it was something like 10 at one point.....
Brad!
NICE ! Thank you :wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
I like to read the comments I get, it brings back memories.
I agree 100%. I just like to look at some of the funny ones given to me by the likes of Mendhak and others who think they're comedians; they're always entertaining :).Quote:
Originally Posted by brad jones
Thanks
First of all I would like to apologize to RhinoBull for changing the subject, it is not the first time I did that. Sorry :(
But I have another idea, and nice one (I think), and I would like approval first.
To me reputation is more than that (besides bringing back memories :) ). Some of the comments are very nice, and very appreciative, and it is really encouraging to help more on the forums.
So with your permission, I would like to create a thread (maybe in CC forum), where I copy and paste some of the comments I got from reps (now that I can see 50 reps in User CP :D ), but without the persons name (or any indication who made the reputation), and have other people who got reps with nice comments to post there also.
This way other people who did not think about helping, could be more encouraged to help others. And also people can see just how much it means to others when saying "thank you"
Though (if approved) I don't know how to start the thread to make it as more meaningful as possible. Maybe someone else wants to start ?
And Kasracer, you can post your funny comments from Mendhak :p
I was expecting everyone to jump and say: sure, yea, good idea...
But I guess it was not such a good idea... nevermind...
I don't see a problem posting them in your own thread. I might contribute some but I never really cared enough to post the comments; some it may be difficult to explain context anyway.
Brad and Joe,
thank you for your responds and considerations.
As far I'm concerned I've got my answers so I'll mark this thread as "resolved" but you guys can keep discussion live if you fish. :wave:
Thanks again.