Side scroll bar date missing

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The discussion revolves around the missing date on the side scroll bar in the forum, which was first reported by Slowhand. awesomerobot explains that the date disappears in two cases: megatopics with over 10,000 posts and when post count wraps onto multiple lines, causing overlap with other elements. A CSS fix is provided to resolve the wrapping issue. Slowhand also notes the scroll bar is narrower than before, with excess white space. awesomerobot confirms this is a bug related to a missing notification level button, which will be fixed in the next update. Slowhand confirms the issue is resolved after the update, expressing gratitude 7.

1

Starting today, December 12, the date is missing on the side scroll bar.

Here on Meta, the date is visible

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However, on my forum, the date is missing. This is troublesome on some of the longer threads.

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2

There are two situations where the date becomes hidden —

  • Megatopics - when a topic has over 10,000 posts some information is reduced to improve performance

  • Post count wrapping onto multiple lines (the case above) - this is because the amount of content on the scroll handle can overlap other elements like the back button and the date at the bottom of the topic

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The second case can be undone with CSS:

.timeline-container .topic-timeline { 
  .timeline-ago {
    overflow: visible;
  }
  .timeline-scroller-content {
    overflow: visible;
  }
}

One thing we can consider in the future is improving this case, perhaps we can only hide the date when the timeline is at the bottom :thinking:

3

I also noticed that the side bar is narrower than it was yesterday (or maybe the day before), I have no screenshots to support this, but it seems to be closer to the edge than it was.

There’s a ton of white space between the scroll bar and the posts, could it just be widened?

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4

Yeah the handling of the width there can probably be improved too — though in this specific case with the difference from yesterday is a bug because there’s a notification level button that went missing (should be fixed the next time you update)

5

So this is something that can be fixed with an update and I don’t have to find someone to do it?

6

Yeah the recent narrow bar issue should be fixed if you update

7

It’s back!

Thanks so much!!!

:sparkler: