For me it is just scroll panel right under my thumb when i use tablet so to scroll the page i need to stretch my thumb which is not very convinient. Would be cool to replace it on the left side for tablet but i guess no one cares about tablets 
You just click in the end of virtual scroll both on PC or mobile? ) You even have âJump toâ button tto jump to specific page )
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Or (on mobile) hit that blue currentPostNumber/PostCount button to get that bar.
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Unfortunately every Google Link is still broken, finding information / resolving bugs is impossible atm - example:
https://discussions.unity.com/threads/coverage-mode-vs-instance-count-mode.1448842/
I cannot find this topic through search on discussions either
Do you have the original forum link. That one is a malformed one from before we fixed the parsing of the redirect
No, this is returned by Google Search (but I found many more of those links in Google)
But this is the one on Google: https://forum.unity.com/threads/coverage-mode-vs-instance-count-mode.1448842/
Ok we will investigate. Iâll get back to you
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that is the feature of this type of forums, just use the slider to quickly move down to last reply
You all know you can click on that to go to the last post, right? No need for scrolling
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Discourse is built around infinite scrolling. From a practical standpoint a conversion layer that creates a paginated form of the thread should be doable but itâd be very hacky and would likely break with every update. On a related note I went looking through Chromeâs extensions to see if there were one for paginating Discourse but unfortunately most of them were built for paginating Google itself with the remainder being for simple sites.
What about a row of buttons at the bottom that just incremented posts by something like 30 replies per page #. So this page nearing 600 posts would have roughly 20 pages linked at the bottom, showing a few ahead and a few behind of your current place in the page ratio like the old forum, and two buttons on the far left and right to go to the first or last post. Unread pages could be colored blue, read pages could be colored red.
So for instance clicking page 1 of a thread would take you to post 0, and clicking the tiny page â4â button would link you to post 90 of a thread
Not sure how doable this is, but it would be similar to pagination, it would just have an innate pageless mechanism within it. Whatever page ur on could have an outline around it. These buttons would take the place of the current blue box that appears overlayed.
I have no idea how feasible any of this is using the discussions client though, or if it would even be that useful for people who enjoy the pagination.
Iâll do a mock up in just a bit, canât ATM⌠I think this could be the best of both worlds
This is how it works currently on mobile, you have the blue button, if you click it you get enhanced scrolling features:
Below is the proposal. It doesnât change the endless scrolling or any of the functionality of the site, this is purely client side using the same data already tracked and displayed in the post 3, but it takes the post # and determins your page # based on that dividing by 30 and rounding.
This gives you the ability to scrub pages within a range at the bottom by 30 to 60 posts at a time, and allows users to memorize or bookmark specific pages in their mind like the old forum and can also give a better sense of scale of the page, you will now at a glance see how many pages are in a thread, if there are 6 link buttons or more, youâll know itâs hefty or not like the old forums.
Pages you have not read are shown in blue, and pages you have read are shown in red. This data is already loaded in the client with the âlast visitedâ line that draws a line between the posts youâve read and not read.
This is the mockup above, this would function as an overlay just like the old blue bar, but instead of clicking the buttons and getting a new window for enhanced scrolling, they would simply work as hyperlinks, the left arrows taking you to the first post, the right arrow taking you to the last post, and there could be another arrow that i didnât think to include in the mockup that could take you to the newest unread post. Just imagine thatâs there!
The white outline shows the user what âpageâ they are on and updates in realtime as the user scrolls up and down. Every 30 pages, the page #'s update by +1 or -1 one depending if theyâre scrolling up or down.
You guys would need some custom logic for threads under 5 âpagesâ to hide buttons and shift them around a bit, but nothing crazy. And you could experiment with more or less buttons, I just chose 5 kind of arbitrarily to show the concept.
The client already tracks the post youâre on, this would just display it in a manner that converts it to a page by dividing that number by 30. So if you were on what would have been â74 / 200â in the current system, it would simply show youâre on page 3. (Another feature I could have added in the mockups is the final page number which would be 20 at the time of posting on this thread on the far right button to give a sense of scale and position in the total post count).
And if you were to scroll down 30 posts this is what the bar would update in real time to look like, the numbers would simply shift in realtime based on the post number to the left or right:
Now bear in mind, because the buttons would shift to show 2 or more pages either ahead or behind, the user could click those buttons and they would scrub forward, allowing them to go back or forward 30 or 60 posts ahead or back at any time, and even allow them to press the same area on the screen to scrub forward repeatedly until they saw on the bottom that they were nearing an area they have read already in a different color.
Obviously this wouldnât be able to be at the bottom of the âpageâ as itâs endless, but would hover over the bottom, just as the blue box does on the web client.
To give you an idea of how this would function here are some links in text (Just imagine these behave just as the blue bar does on mobile overlaying the text and the user can click them, always at the bottom of the screen)
And if you were to scroll down 90 posts to page 7 in would update in real-time to this:
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Thanks for this. I will add it to my list for feature improvements. As I said in my original post the team is small (one dev) so Iâm not sure when we will get to deep dive on this.
To do this we would need to make it a plug in to ensure that it would work with future updates to the platformâŚ
I will make sure to share what we are doing with you once we get to it. But I cant give you a time frame
Apart from it prob wonât be soon.
Unfortunately thatâs the best I can promise at the moment
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For sure, just wanted to put the idea out there, thanks for taking in the ideas.
Why is the team just one dev? I donât really understand how unity can decide to change the whole forum upside down, and just assign a single dev
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A lot of heavy dev lifting was done by the vendor.
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Thanks for the info, just so Iâm understanding, if you want to make changes, you have to work through the vendor generally? Thereâs not really an internal âwebâ team that does this?
Itâs more a joint effort we have dev and design and we work with the vendor to make changes.
A pretty standard arrangement.
they donât have enough personnel do do actual work because they fired so many people. Iâve already got banned for weeks from posting on forums for saying this even if is not some sort of secret or something. Some of the staff that remained and did not got fired are trigger happy with the community and they surely donât like me.
So, you have one dev because
ONE they donât have enough staff for this because they fired a lot of people to try to keep the company afloat. Obviously the first people you fire are those that donât have power in the company. The workers. Management is the last thing to go, usually when a company goes bankrupt because of bad and malicious decisions taken by some in the upper echelon.
and TWO while internally some understand that a community is very important for a product, especially one that is difficult to get into because you need brain to create games and you need help from people like you. But the majority of management is the same as before, the same that managed to destroy their entire community in a big time. by doing the jawdropping moves they did. So they reluctantly approved the modernization of the forum/consolidate all help resources, to hopefully grow up the community back. But because they are out of touch with the reality, they have decided to use limited resources to do this.
I will keep trying to be transparent and honest and answer questions, but please dont just use this as an excuse to rag on Unity. Thatâs not productive nor does it help anyone.
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