These forum pages all start with the OLDEST posts at the top and the most recent at the bottom. I simply wanted to read the release notes for the latest server release under Announcement. It took me five minutes to scroll to the BOTTOM of the page to find the most recent post. My finger was cramped from spinning the mouse scroll wheel. At the top of the page was posts from 2013 for version 0.97. Who cares? Does Plex not value my time? Can it be any more user UN friendly? Every forum is like that, oldest at the top. I click on TOP POSTS, it shows me top posts for all time, going back to 2013. Useless. Iâve been in the tech and software industry for over 40 years, to think that noone at Plex thinks this is just awful UI experience? You want my Plex Pass money? Give me back my five minutes.
On a Windows keyboard, you can use the Home and End keys to immediately move to the first and last posts in a thread.
You can also use the slider to move from the first to last post by moving the mouse/pointer a few inches instead of scrolling through the entire thread.
Clicking on the date at the bottom of slider also goes there.
There is no slider visible on my system. Mac Tahoe, Firefox browser. And the most recent date isnât visible to click on. BUT EVEN if there was, this layout makes no sense, and it shouldnât be necessary for the 99.99% of the users who are interested in the most recent, not the oldest, of any topic, any forum. You are requiring the user to execute additional action that shouldnât even be necessary. Not just once, but supposed I wanted to look at multiple topics. It also forces the user to wait on your server to load the backlog of information of which 99.99% users are not interested in.
If someone opens a post for the first time they should read the first post. Else they have no idea what is going on in the conversation and make a reply or ask a question that has already been asked and answered.
Try to convince me that makes any sense in the forum Announcments, that the first thing I see is an announcement about the release of version 0.97 from 2013? So I should read through 13 years of conversation to see if the question I have is already addressed, to save Plex Support the inconvenience of having to possibly having to answer the same question again? I grew up doing tech support, if ten customers ask the same question, even if the answer is already in front of their eyes, you kindly and patiently answer it ten times. thatâs what support is. Lastly even if by some chance my answer is somewhere in that back log of THIRTEEN YEARS and literally hundreds of releases, itâs probably regarding a recent release, not ancient ones. Donât bother replying, looking at other posts under âRelated topicsâ, Iâm not the first user to bring this up, and which tells me this input has been ignored for years and there is no intention of changing it. Lastly, as I mentioned, there is no slider visible, using Firefox 146 on Mac Tahoe 26.3
This is this very post on Mac Tahoe, Firefox browser.:
âŠyou can see the slider on the right and the date â5h agoâ at the bottom. Hope this helps
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I get what you are saying but this forum software just does not do that. We havenât had this forum software for 13 years. I donât think the previous ones did either. It will go the the last read post since most forum software is for discussions.
The server shows the latest info about release, if there is a newer one, in the server settings via a âwhatâs newâ button.
I am also on Tahoe and this is FireFox for me. Possibly some browser extension or security setting is removing page elements.
You can also click the last activity time/date here in a topic list to open it to the last post.
