Best way of viewing new posts on NSC

[ngood77]

Dear Mods,

Is it possible to add a link directly to the posts that scroll round on the Spy page ? It shows you part of the post but when you click on it it takes you to the first post in the thread, rather than the post itself.

I know you can link directly to the latest post from the What's New page but this requires manual refreshing.

Ta.

 

[Nottseagull]

I've never heard of the "Spy page". I've searched for links to it but there don't seem to be any. Care to elaborate?

 

[ngood77]

It's under the Community menu...

 

[ngood77]

Dear Mods,

Is it possible to add a link directly to the posts that scroll round on the Spy page ? It shows you part of the post but when you click on it it takes you to the first post in the thread, rather than the post itself.

I know you can link directly to the latest post from the What's New page but this requires manual refreshing.

Ta.

Any mods that can make this happen ? Ta

 

[brakespear]

It's under the Community menu...

oooh, so it is.

I find it vaguely unsettling for some reason.

 

[Braders]

"best way of viewing new posts on NSC"

being drunk normally helps..

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

"best way of viewing new posts on NSC"

being drunk normally helps..

And posting

 

[Bozza]

For me, clicking on a post in the Forum Spy takes me directly to that post in the thread - the complete opposite of what you describe.

 

[ngood77]

Not for me on Safari...

 

[Bozza]

Copy and paste a destination URL from the spy please.

 

[Bozza]

It's Safari.

This URL - Best way of viewing new posts on NSC - in Safari anchors to the first post in the thread, whilst in Chrome it goes to the post.

(I ditched Safari for Chrome on my Mac a while ago)

 

[ngood77]

Hardly right to blame Safari ! The site should be compatible with all the browsers. Appreciate you taking a look anyhows, cheers.

 

[ngood77]

The below links go to the same post, the first link is the URL from the main forum page (when you click on the arrows icon by the last poster's id), the second link is from the Spy. The first one works, the second one doesn't...

Best way of viewing new posts on NSC

Best way of viewing new posts on NSC

 

[Bozza]

The 2nd URL redirects to the first URL. For some reason Safari doesn't handle that re-direction.

It's a free off-the-shelf plugin. I've raised it with the developer - we'll see what happens but I'm not going to sweat too much on a minor feature.

(I was also going to say "...on a minor browser", but Safari is used on NSC quite a lot, which is surprising...

1. Internet Explorer 42.99%
2. Safari 19.81%
3. Firefox 16.71%
4. Chrome 13.75%)

 

[ngood77]

Interesting, thanks Bozza. The high Safari %age is not inflated by iPhone usage, is it ? That is a surprising figure