Eh, I don't mind either way but I can see how this would help; ctrl+f is great but it does find timestamps as well and you have to re-do it for every 6-7 pages. I'm not too lazy to do it, but I can see how this way would facilitate things.
Find is a pain in the ass if you are looking for more than one secret number. You have to keep doing the numbers every page or go through 12+ pages numurous times. This way is so much simpler.
And I still haven't figured out how it takes longer, especially as most the people saying it are the ones who are quite happy to wank all over a FS post. Surely having all the comments they want to wank at in one neat thread would save them time.
It's more work for us. Is there suddenly something wrong with Edit>Find (CTRL F) in everyone's browsers?
You're wrong on the former and let me explain the latter:
I'm interested for some reason in the responses to secret #110, #123, #156, #159. To find all the responses to these four secrets I have to CTRL F at least 10 pages of comments. That means either back/forward button abuse and loading every comment page at least 4 times or changing the CTRL+F input 40 times.
With the new system I know that all of #110's responses will be on the first page, #123's on the second and #156's and #159's on the fourth. I can skip page 3 entirely and don't actually need to hit CTRL+F once because scrolling to the appropriate thread takes actually less time.
And that's assuming that none of the people responding forgot to list the secret numbers in their subject header or decided to get creative and put everything in Roman numerals or similar silliness.
Using Ctrl+F is not only time consuming when you're looking for threads about multiple secrets, it's prone to missing some of those threads when people aren't all following the same labeling conventions.
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It's more work for us.
Is there suddenly something wrong with Edit>Find (CTRL F) in everyone's browsers?
I still vote no. Old way is fine.
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(Anonymous) 2009-04-05 11:49 am (UTC)(link)And I still haven't figured out how it takes longer, especially as most the people saying it are the ones who are quite happy to wank all over a FS post. Surely having all the comments they want to wank at in one neat thread would save them time.
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(Anonymous) 2009-04-05 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)Is there suddenly something wrong with Edit>Find (CTRL F) in everyone's browsers?
You're wrong on the former and let me explain the latter:
I'm interested for some reason in the responses to secret #110, #123, #156, #159. To find all the responses to these four secrets I have to CTRL F at least 10 pages of comments. That means either back/forward button abuse and loading every comment page at least 4 times or changing the CTRL+F input 40 times.
With the new system I know that all of #110's responses will be on the first page, #123's on the second and #156's and #159's on the fourth. I can skip page 3 entirely and don't actually need to hit CTRL+F once because scrolling to the appropriate thread takes actually less time.
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(Anonymous) 2009-04-06 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)Using Ctrl+F is not only time consuming when you're looking for threads about multiple secrets, it's prone to missing some of those threads when people aren't all following the same labeling conventions.