AJAX

DougCooper

Any plans for AJAX - auto scrolling of posts as you scroll down the page.

As the PAGE 123456 box is so 1990 !

Bleistivt

I have written a plugin for that:

http://vanillaforums.org/addon/infinitescroll-plugin

Looks like the 90s are still in style though

hgtonight

@DougCooper said:
Any plans for AJAX - auto scrolling of posts as you scroll down the page.

As the PAGE 123456 box is so 1990 !

I really appreciate @Bleistivt‌'s plugin, but god do I hate infinite scroll sites. I just feel... lost when I am on a site with infinite scroll. There is no end and it messes with my browser scroll bar.

/rant

Bleistivt

Yes, I actually don't use it on my own site. Was worth a try, but I noticed I don't really like it for forums myself.

The only place I like it is tumblr, where you don't really need a reference to where you are on the page, the content is near endless anyway.
It's a time sink too, you basically scroll until your browser crashes.

phreak

@DougCooper: It's beautiful, but a horrible experience for regular users. They will end up searching things for quite some time. Pages give them orientation as every forum (depending on activity) has it time and speed. For example in my board, everyone knows 1-3 covers about 24 hours. if they wanna check something 2 days ago that might not have received an answer they know to go to pages 6-9. Postet in the morning it might be on page 9.

DougCooper

Belisivt ! PERFECT ! thanks so much that's just what I needed

@bleistivt google is so 1990 too lol