Pretty much all topics on a board I admin are over 5k, so there’s no way to apply a blanket generalisation. In addition, there are lots of different mobile screen sizes, so the minimum movement varies.
Some people have reasons for finding specific posts depending on what that forum’s purpose is - I can’t imagine it, but it was an established function already in Discourse.
Clicking in a space or on specific text is a smart idea I think, the initial overlay just needs to be smaller (as above - skinny/horizontal) though so that during scrolling enough content is visible.
It incorporates both jumping and sliding really well.
I think the slider works great for a right hander (which I am), but it seems as though that ‘touchable area’ to the left of the text has gone (previously to the right of text) for a left hander to scroll and still see post number?
Still in transit so can’t make a video, but it totally freezes up my entire iPad safari browser if I click on the timeline, as if to skip ahead to an arbitrary position. Not saying I want that to be a feature (it should do nothing) but right now it appears a misclick in this spot causes havoc.
I’ve tried rebooting, quitting Safari as well a “Clear History and Website Data”. It still happens every single time I click directly on the timeline, i.e. roughly this space:
How many additional mobile requests is this generating, though? Seems weird to have this kind of real time content pull on mobile where bandwidth / requests are expensive. What is the behavior when the network is bad or slow?
For this page 2 requests totalling approx 7k. If network is bad or slow there is no real downside it is simply not displayed, we never make parallel requests for excerpts.
