I try to do this, not always successfully, but it is still a By-Our-Lady nuisance. I have suggested before that the header drop-down be activated by a click, and not by the mouseover event which is causing the trouble.
I find it easy to avoid, but I suspect we all have different mousing habits. I do not have any need for my cursor to be that high while reading and posting.
And, for me, what we are seeing is typical ribbon behavior so I am not surprised by it.
I would not have any objection to the behavior to be changed from mouse-over to deliberate selection however.
Spot on. Doesnāt matter how carefully one does this as soon as the mouse gets close to a heading at the top of the pageā¦ Down it falls.
It is a NUISANCE, neednāt be. Just revert to clicking the mouse on said headings.
As the layout is so inefficient, most of screen being white space, I doubt I read much of the content of a thread as so much scrolling is involved, and it is so difficult to see who is responding to what.
It was bad enough before. Now, if you go to the end of a thread, which is where I go as it has the most recent content, the lower half of the screen is taken up by āSuggested topicsā and a load of other stuff that should not be there, and then if you move the mouse too ar I get the same problem as @dirk, losing the top of the screen as well to a drop-down banner.
Basically, I get very little content on a screen and it is very difficult to read in context, so I donāt bother.
Just about every other forum Iāve ever been to gets far more information on a page. The only forum Iāve seen that uses the same software is Roon Labs Community, and their footer is smaller and they donāt have drop-down banners.
If. like me, you use different tabs for different browser windows, you canāt avoid moving the mouse to the top of the screen. So if you are on another tab and you click on the PS Audio Forum tab, as soon as you move the mouse the banner comes down. Itās unavoidable.
Again, has there been any change to the layout? It appears the same to me as before, as are the Suggested Topics.
Clicking on a topic should go to your next unread post, again as before, and thus Suggested Topics will not appear unless the last read post is small enough to allow some or all Suggested Topics to display.
None of this is new.
The Roon Labs Community you mention uses the same amount of white space displaying their threads and includes the same Suggested Topics, displaying five threads of potential interest - just like this website. (My cynical evil twin Ricky observes it is highly unlikely you have posted these complaints on the Roon Forum, even though they use the same software and format . . . )
At least on my browsers, mousing up to a tab activates the ribbon drop down as I mouse over, but the tabs for other websites remain unmolested and can be easily chosen.
Agreed! And for me at random times it seems to get āstuckā and remain there for several seconds regardless of how I reposition the cursor.
The new website seems to have ended up tilting towards āslickā rather than basic functionality.
Just one manās preference, of course, but I absolutely hate āmystery meatā navigation where s**t pops up as a result of a mouse over instead of requiring a definitive action (a.k.a. a āclickā) to drill down to further levels.
Do you not see a line under the topic headings? If you stay below this line, the drop down does not trigger.
At least on my browsers the trigger location is very precise. If this line is not displayed on your browser I can understand the sense the trigger is random.
I have the feeling folks are talking past one another based on what the site is being viewed on. I have all of the stated issues on my primary means of viewing and posting, which is an iPad Pro. On a desktop or laptop, not so much.
Are you using Safari on your iPad Pro? The forum looks the same to me on my iPad Pro and my 27" iMac. I am not seeing all that wasted space that Steven showed above on the forum or the regular PS Audio website. Are you guys using Google Chrome by chance?
Safari. The new site is a fair bit less broken (for me, in My Setup) than it was initially, but lately there have been new wrinkles like the dropdown top thing. I also suspect some of it may have to do with the many different ways one can navigate on a touchscreen device vs. a mouse-based thing orā¦etc.
Iām certainly not going to discount the possibility that some wierdness is due to the fancy iPad keyboard I got to replace my beat-to-death one, which has a trackpad built into it. Iām so used to navigating by touching the iPadās screen from years of habit, that the touchpad on the keyboard is more in the way and a problem rather than a bonus. I find I randomly trigger things because my thumbs hit it when typing. The cursor will suddenly jump somewhere else - because I didnāt realize Iād touched the trackpad. Annoying!
So, taken with that grain of salt, Iād say that even when Iām careful, things donāt work as expected. One new oddity is that if I try to edit this text in the entry box (the bordered area in the lower left one types in when creating a post) by tapping where I want to select something, it is often off by a couple of lines. You can correct for this by literally tapping two lines below where you want to select. This is I suppose where I should learn to use the trackpadā¦
Yes, precisely why I ask for what people are viewing the forum on and what do they see - such as whether there is a line on the top of the page which triggers the drop down.
If you only navigate and trigger the Web Pages via precise and traditional means such as a mouse with a constantly present onscreen cursor - that tells you some things. Which these days, is perhaps a tiny subset of Users given how many are accessing it Globally on multiple manufacturerās phone and tablet platforms, which use a bunch of other forms of input. Primarily fingers on screens.