Would it be difficult to put a “hop to forum” drop-down at the top of the page as well as at the bottom? That would make things a lot easier.
From the thimblefull I know about HTML, it shouldn’t be too big a deal. But then again, it could be a bear for all I know.
In any case, I just wanted to throw that out there, just to see what happens. I think it would be great to not have to scroll to the bottom of the page to hop to a different forum.
Yours Truly,
Lexicon
~Slacker Extraordinairre
You most certainly may!
Interresting suggestion, Lexi. I never use the Forum Hopper myself - I’m weird that way. I backspace to the forum menu and click the next desired forum. Maybe irrationally, I think that this gives me better control over the “changes since you last visited” tags in front of threads. In other words, a Forum Hop to MPSIMS also alters the tags in, e.g., GQ. I don’t think backspacing does that. I don’t even know if this is true. Any techies out there who got the skinny?
Also, I have never used the “Todays active threads” feature. Ever.
Anyway, we’ll see how many more people think this is a good idea, and if there is enough grounds for it, and there are no technical barriers, we will likely take it into consideration.
How’s that for covering ones ass 
One vote here for implementing Lexi’s suggestion. I use the forum hopper all the time, and it would save many, many nanoseconds of frustration, as when I open a thread, discover immediately “oh, spit or swallow WAS about that, after all,” and I’m done in that forum and ready to move on, but I have to scroll all the way down. Chug chug chug. To the end of the thread. Chug chug chug. With a 14400 modem. Chug chug chug. I love the “49 replies” threads. Chug chug chug.
I could use my History folder from yesterday, but I don’t always think of it, I’m so used to using the hopper. I get halfway down the thread and I realize, “Hey, I could’ve just used my History folder”.
I don’t pay attention to the “changes since you last visited” tags anyway, since I hop around a lot.
You could always just use the End key which zips you down to the bottom of the page instantly.
Eh?
I’m using NutScrape at work, and the “End” key does nada. Although the PageDown key DOES work.
Is this an IE thing? I got that at home.
I don’t know. I use IE so it probably is. (God why oh why am I going into IT??? )
Home brings me to the top of the page.
In Netscape, you use Ctrl/End to go to the bottom and Ctrl/Home to go to the top. With IE 5.0, you can use the Ctrl combinations also.
Jim
This might be an easy change, but then again it might be a hard one to implement. Pages are being generated dynamically by the vBulletin software, and maybe there is no easy way in vBulletin for adding that to the top of each page.
Yojimbo, that only works when the page is fully loaded. DDG is having to wait a while for a text-heavy page to load completely on her 14.4 in order to get to the bottom of the page.
That’s a good suggestion. I’ll see what we can do about it.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
I happened to remember that this has been suggested before in http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25262
Using IE, there is another way to navigate between forums without using the “back” key. Open the forum menu page, and then right-click on the forum name, and then select “open in new window” from the context menu.
That should be
Also, it would probably clearer if I completed my explanation.
When you’re finished with that forum, just close the window, and select from the forum menu again.
zyg: That’s what I do.
“end” works in AOL, BTW.
So, any news? Anything? What ho?
You know, the thought occurs to me that if I bug about this too much, something undesireable may happen. For example, I can see the mods conspiring to spite me by naming the darn hop to menu after me.
Can’t you see it? At the top of every forum:
Lexicon’s Top Hop-to Drop Down Menu (for lazy people only)
D’oh! That would suck.
In any case, please make no mistake, I am only inquiring as to what has been said, and what has been thought of and so on in regards to my little suggestion/request.