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Subject: Having to refresh for threads to update

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Would be cool if there was a little refresh button which refreshes only the topics section of the page when clicked, rather than having to reload the entire page.

  • 06.16.2012 11:57 AM PDT

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  • 06.16.2012 12:24 PM PDT

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Perhaps this will be among the updated designs and features in the site's upcoming re-unveiling.

I myself don't like auto-updating. So if this feature is added, hopefully it can be toggled off.

  • 06.16.2012 6:35 PM PDT
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What? Got something against Yetis?

I'd like to see an auto-refresh every fifteen seconds WITHIN the thread. I don't like the idea of the whole forum/thread list having that, but having individual threads having that when you enter it, would be cool.

  • 06.16.2012 9:07 PM PDT

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Heaven forbid having to press F5 to update the thread. I know it is a painful and arduous task.

  • 06.16.2012 9:32 PM PDT

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Auto-refresher every 60 seconds with manual override to immediately refresh or stop refreshing altogether.

  • 06.16.2012 9:39 PM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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Believe there's a script that does that.

  • 06.16.2012 9:43 PM PDT
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It would strain weak connections, so it would have to be an option.

[Edited on 06.16.2012 9:46 PM PDT]

  • 06.16.2012 9:46 PM PDT

Posted by: wth182
It would strain weak connections, so it would have to be an option.
Compared to manually refreshing as you do now? No. Absolutely not.

If you load a page in a topic which has 20 replies on it, then refresh to load another reply, you're loading 21 replies in the one request.

If you load a page in a topic with has 20 replies on it, then have a mechanism running which polls the server for more posts every so often, you're only loading those extra posts and not the entire page in the request because there is a focus on only loading the relevant data (see: JSON, XML, YAML, etc...) rather than the data, page structure, scripts, stylesheets, images, and other objects (especially if they're not cached).

In an ideal situation, an "automatically refreshing" page is almost always going to be far less taxing on the client and server than an "F5 refresh".

  • 06.17.2012 12:47 AM PDT

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I can see through windows.

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Like they always say, "You mess with the Helix Nebula, you get the WinyPit82."

Hi there! be sure to click that homepage link!

Yes, there is a JS, and there's also a greasemonkey script.

It's called 'Shi'.

  • 06.17.2012 1:29 AM PDT

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I look at it as being a little bit pointless to add something in like that, that isn't a big issue. I personally don't have a problem with refreshing because i'm constantly going through threads if i'm on the forums. If i were to be just watching one thread in particular, i guess it would be kind of nice to have that feature.

And btw, what's up man?! I remember you in AoA.

  • 06.17.2012 10:53 AM PDT

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  • 06.17.2012 11:52 AM PDT

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5 more posts since you started viewing. Show them. Update automatically.

  • 06.17.2012 12:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: SonicJohn
5 more posts since you started viewing. Show them. Update automatically.
Ummm, I don't know if you've noticed, but if we implemented something from YouTube, then this would turn into YouTube. Then everyone would be posting videos and we wouldn't be able to do talk about Halo anymore. /satire

Good idea, SJ.

  • 06.17.2012 12:23 PM PDT

It works for that 4chan plus script, so I don't see why it wouldn't work here. I'm all for it.

  • 06.17.2012 12:37 PM PDT

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I never liked auto updating because it kills my laptop's battery life

  • 06.17.2012 2:02 PM PDT

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I wouldn't care for it.

  • 06.17.2012 2:04 PM PDT

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:lol As opposed to F5, not killing your battery life?
Posted by: Grimick
I never liked auto updating because it kills my laptop's battery life

  • 06.17.2012 2:04 PM PDT


Posted by: Grimick
I never liked auto updating because it kills my laptop's battery life


What

  • 06.17.2012 5:48 PM PDT

Wheres Meh Sniper?

Youtube page

I don't mind refreshing. To be honest, that's how it has always been for me. Are there actual forums that update real time without refreshing?

  • 06.17.2012 6:17 PM PDT


Posted by: blindx1
I don't mind refreshing. To be honest, that's how it has always been for me. Are there actual forums that update real time without refreshing?


Its not really a forum but it works the same as one.

4chan with 4chan x

  • 06.17.2012 6:18 PM PDT

I suspect llamas are secretly wizards. I <3 poptarts n' milk. I like me. Grimick is defined as: a logical parodox, the act of funnaling a potato down your throat, and a deliciously flavored muffin (with pecons and blueberries). Norway is the Swedish word for 'moron'. My sister has cancer, so i get to use handicap parking and cut small children in line at Disneyland.

"Don't eat doughnuts on thin ice."

"The pancake, my friend, has officially been flipped."

See the thing is: hitting F5 is optional and I can do it as often or scarsley as I want to. Auto refresh (assuming you can't turn it off) is not optional. This means that I could not leave my computer on this website for an hour and come back because the battery would be draining seeking new information from the internet that I don't care about. Manual>Auto

  • 06.17.2012 8:57 PM PDT

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