At the end of the first and posts in a thread, there’s a link to see all the frequent posters in that thread. When you’re on a computer, if you click on one of them, it gives you the option of seeing only their posts in that thread. It makes it easier to track down a post you’re looking for in a very long thread.
This no longer works on my android phone. It hasn’t for quite awhile. It shows the posters, but there’s no option to filter just the one you want to see. I know that I can go up to the search magnifying glass and do a search, but I wonder why the option to just click on the avatar isn’t there on cell phones (or at least, mine).
Thanks for posting this. I had noticed this shortcoming some months ago and had wanted to ask about it too. It’s not available on mine either (Chrome on Android using Discourse-classic theme).
It seems the [filter] button is simply absent from that user profile pop-up on a mobile, but not a PC.
On a related note …
On a PC (Win 11 + Edge in my case) that same user pop-up does have the [filter] button. As noted above.
Unless the poster in question only has 1 post in the thread. Then the [filter] button is absent. That seems like a pointless bit of special-casing. The user’s goal is to see all the posts and only the posts by other User-X. Frustrating that goal when User-X only has 1 post seems utterly pointless.
Just so I can be clear, are we talking about how beneath the first and last posts there’s a list of avatars representing the most frequent responders? Because if I tap on those on my android tablet (phone is charging right now) it brings up the usual micro summary of the poster in a pop-up, and at the top right corner of the pop up it gives me an option to message them and just below button listing their posts in topic, which works fine for me in Chrome at least.
Just because I may be mistaking what’s going on. FTR though, I use “Dark” theme, not any of the SDMB or other, older themes. So at a guess, it’s another theme related issue. I did my testing in the Anti retirement support thread, to make sure it had enough posts to have said icons.
Yes. That’s exactly what we’re talking about. But on a phone it looks like this:
Just so I can be clear, are we talking about how beneath the first and last posts there’s a list of avatars representing the most frequent responders? Because if I tap on those on my android tablet (phone is charging right now) it brings up the usual micro summary of the poster in a pop-up, and at the top right corner of the pop up it gives me an option to message them and just below button listing their posts in topic nothing else. The [(funnel icon) N posts in topic] button simply isn’t there.
Thank you, I was pretty sure, but sometimes that’s just a way to misunderstand with confidence.
Since my phone now has a usable amount of charge, I checked there as well. First, I found that I didn’t get the icons at all in portrait mode, but they are there in landscape (new info for me!) with a working funnel icon. Pixel 8a, Chrome, signed in, same “Dark” theme.
What I see:
(using myself, don’t want to do so for others).
So yeah, betting it’s a Theme issue. I am using Imgur to share, since the alternates are so buggy to me as to be pointless - sorry for all our posters who cannot currently see such content.
D’oh. As noted before I use DIscourse-classic theme.
Landscape on phone has the set of poster icons below the first and last posts and the poster popups include the filter button. If the poster has >1 post.
Portrait on phone doesn’t have any of that. No poster list, no popups, no filters. I’d swear that up until recently (yesterday?) portrait mode had the set of poster icons but not the filter button.
I never use landscape on the phone. So I’m pretty confident of my assertion about how portrait used to work. But now it has no user roster at all. Ughh. That’s not an improvement.
Once you pull up a user popup, theres a button that says [N posts in topic]. Clicking that filters the thread to just that poster’s posts.
There’s an icon inside that button near the left edge. It’s a representation of a funnel. Which is the pretty universal computer icon for a filtration function.
In the screenshot I took in my prior post, inside the user pop-up box, there’s the “412 Posts in topic” with the funnel icon for filtration to the side. If the pic loads of course. I figure in the event of confusion, it’s easier to see an example.
You’re correct. I’ve been playing with this for the last 2-3 days to post about and so specifically remember them. Pretty sure (but not positive) they were present this morning.
