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Still issues with Fluid View

KT Walrus

By KT Walrus

  • Status: Pending

I thought the fix to add a refresh icon to the PWA nav bar would give a workaround to the issue of needing a manual refresh when filtering the list by tapping on the forum link under the topic titles and then unchecking that forum in the “Showing 1 forum” filter. But, the whole Fluid View still has several UX issues. After unchecking, the correct message of “Showing all forums” is shown as the current state of the filter, but the topics list still shows only topics from the single forum.

No auto-refresh was done. If I then click on the new refresh icon, the page is reloaded but the list and filter again show only 1 forum’s topics.

If I reset the filter again to uncheck that single forum, but then tap the Forums link in the breadcrumbs, the list is reloaded properly showing all forums again.

Another related issue is it is very difficult to tap on the Forum link under the topic titles now. I think the Forum link and the Topic area link to view the topic might be too close for touch devices. Not sure on that one.

Frankly, you should either fix the UI to work properly or not have a forum name under title be a clickable link at all. It would probably be better to tap the “Showing all” filter and select the forums you want to see. This filter seems to work as expected, I think.

I am using an iPhone 16 Pro Max and the PWA. I haven’t tried this in the browser or on another device.

For the GA, I vote to make the forum links inactive so the only way to filter Fluid View is through the Show filter dialog.

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    Just tried it again after changing from expanded view to condensed view. Same issue except for 1 or 2 times it worked properly.

    I noticed, I think, that when it worked properly, the underlying list seemed to refresh as soon as I unchecked the single selected forum in the filter and not wait for the popup to be dismissed.

    So, this might be a timing issue in JavaScript on very fast devices and might not be reproducible on slower devices.

    I’m not sure what is happening but since there is another similar bug in showing the last edit changes after submitting the reply, these two problems might be the same issue.

    Sometimes, these JavaScript gets the refresh wrong after changing something without a full page reload.

    Also, condensed view has the forum link after the poster/post date and the expanded view has this link before the poster/date.

    The forum link is much easier to tap in condensed view.

    Shouldn’t both views show the forum link in the same position, maybe to the right since it is easier to tap there?