As a moderator, I end up code-formatting the posts of a lot of new (and not-so-new ) users. Generally these people have done an unformatted post of potentially hundreds of lines of server logging. I can usually tell that from the first screenfull. Unfortunately, I have to scroll past all that to get to the edit pencil.
It would definitely ease some UX friction for me if I could enter edit mode for the body from the top of the post too.
I happen to have a find-as-you-type extension installed that apparently blocks that functionality, so that doesnât work for me, but it would have been nice.
As a sidenote, in Jira I get the find-as-you-type behavior and the intended effect of keyboard shortcuts.
Iâm in Chrome, Ubuntu. I got the extension years ago from the marketplace (and I love it). Itâs called Type-ahead-find.
Simple keys. In a list of issues itâs j/k to go forward/back, e to edit, l (lower-case L) to edit labels, c to create, âŚ
In looking at the docs (which I havenât done in literally years) it seems that I can blacklist sites. So⌠Iâve blacklisted and reloaded the window and it still has no effect (with nothing in the console). Iâll try restarting the browserâŚ
To be clear, Iâve blacklisted the forum in the find-as-you-type extension, so itâs no longer blocking anything - if it ever was; as I said, the keyboard shortcuts work in Jira.
Could you elaborate on post selection, please? Once I open a topic, itâs not clear to me how I âselectâ an individual post in it. Iâve tried clicking in the post, but that doesnât seem to select it.
Wow! It seems the only way to âselectâ a post is to âbrowseâ to it using j/k. If I click a post a dozen times it does nothing. Itâs only when I use the keyboard that the red selection indicator is added to the interface! Since I wasnât aware of the keyboard shortcuts it never occurred to me to use the keyboard in this interface. Iâve never seen the red selection indicator before just now.
May I suggest that this facet of the UX be reconsidered?
Iâm coming back to this because the UI continues to surprise.
Iâm scrolled to the bottom of the first/only post in a thread. I want to edit it. My hands are on the keyboard, so I hit âjâ to select it and the first post in the list of âother topicsâ gets the red border instead. So⌠in some implicit yet unusable way, the thread post was already selected?
In this recording you see me scroll to the end of the post. The buttons below arenât even in view. Then I hit âjâ on the keyboard. Thatâs when it jumps abruptly to select the first Suggested Topic
Actually, I was quite surprised by the way that one worked. For very short posts - where I can see the buttons and a good bit of the âSuggestedâ list on first page load, âjâ selects the OP. Hereâs a medium-length example: