[RESOLVED] Latest Reputation Received: Thread Title

[RhinoBull]

Would be nice to see full title instead of shrinked. Any chance?

Thanks.

[Nightwalker83]

What are you referring to?

In the "User CP" the Reputation notification area is called: "Latest Reputation Received".

[RhinoBull]

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?

[Nightwalker83]

So, there is a column "Thread" and text is srinked... You've managed to overlook something very obvious, have you?

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.

[Atheist]

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.

I believe RB is refering to this:



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.

[RhinoBull]

I don't think it is possible to display the full thread url because it would cause the table to go off the page...

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.

[RhinoBull]

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.

That's precisely what I'm preaching . Thank you.
Btw, here's what I see.

[penagate]

It seems ridiculous but I can't find any setting that controls this.




edit: Just looked at the code — it's a hard-coded limit of 25 characters.

[Nightwalker83]

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.

Obviously, the width used is different!

[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.

[RhinoBull]

edit: Just looked at the code — it's a hard-coded limit of 25 characters.

Thanks pen for looking at it. Do you think that number can be increased?

[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.

[RhinoBull]

Alright, thanks.

[RobDog888]

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.

[RhinoBull]

Tooltips were soooo annoying Brad turned them off - although, tooltips would show thread content [I think].

[RobDog888]

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.

[brad jones]

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!

[brad jones]

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!

[RhinoBull]

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.

[brad jones]

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!

[Kasracer]

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.

[techgnome]

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

[Kasracer]

It may always add the ellipses to the end of titles regardless of length (is the thread just called "[3.0]"?).

[brad jones]

Joe suggested we simply remove the reputation system as that would eliminate this issue as well

Brad!

[JPnyc]

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.

[techgnome]

It may always add the ellipses to the end of titles regardless of length (is the thread just called "[3.0]"?).

I didn't think it was just [3.0], but I double checked
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.

-tg

[RhinoBull]

Joe suggested we simply remove the reputation system as that would eliminate this issue as well

Brad!

Hah... Someone's finally agreed with me on this one very old topic. Truly historic moment!

[JPnyc]

Hah... Someone's finally agreed with me on this one very old topic. Truly historic moment!

I've always agreed with you on this.

[RhinoBull]

Thanks JP.

[Atheist]

I disagree! *runs*

[JPnyc]

you'll never outrun me in cyberspace!

[dclamp]

I didn't think it was just [3.0], but I double checked
Nope.. full title is "[3.0] Compiling/Building and custom build events"

The way PHP handles the truncation is it will cut the off at the last word that is full. For example:

"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?

[techgnome]

dclamp - yeaaaah.... see now? very strange....

-tg

[RhinoBull]

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.

[CVMichael]

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.

[JPnyc]

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

[Kasracer]

But, related to this: it would be nice if we could have the full history of the reps received.

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.

[brad jones]

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.

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

Brad!

(Hmmm.... Could this be a hidden attempt to fish for pointless reps? )

[brad jones]

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!

[CVMichael]

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

I like to read the comments I get, it brings back memories.