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Buttons On The Bottom

One thing that I noticed was that all of the buttons when reading posts have been moved to the bottom of the post. Weren't they at the top before. If you don't know which buttons I am talking about they are the Profile, Quote, Edit, and so on buttons. Have they moved or is it just me?

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Yep they were moved to the bottom. No specific reason, it is just the default layout of the discussion board.

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that could be confusing to some people ... now, if you click on the "profile" button that's at the top of the name, it'at actually the profile of the member who posted the previous message ...

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Originally posted by namja
that could be confusing to some people ... now, if you click on the "profile" button that's at the top of the name, it'at actually the profile of the member who posted the previous message ...

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Yo. I like them on the bottom. Keep it.

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Originally posted by namja
that could be confusing to some people ... now, if you click on the "profile" button that's at the top of the name, it'at actually the profile of the member who posted the previous message ...

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I did this too...

It's not the default position on the Bulleting board. Every other install I've seen of vB 2 has the buttons on the top of the post. I personally would recommend moving them back. Unless you have a really good reason for doing so, moving key elements like those around is sort of an architectural no-no.

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Also, is it me or did you get rid of the "go to first new post" choice within a thread?. Really liked it for those threads that get to be pages long.

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Originally posted by Anomaly
Also, is it me or did you get rid of the "go to first new post" choice within a thread?. Really liked it for those threads that get to be pages long.

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Originally posted by creole
I did this too...

It's not the default position on the Bulleting board. Every other install I've seen of vB 2 has the buttons on the top of the post. I personally would recommend moving them back. Unless you have a really good reason for doing so, moving key elements like those around is sort of an architectural no-no.

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Originally posted by Yorick

It's still there, I just used it moments ago.

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Yep they were moved to the bottom. No specific reason

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No specific reason?! Marcus, marcus, marcus...don't you know that the first rule of interface design is to have reasoning behind your interface design decisions?!

I don't see any advantages to moving them to the bottom. I DO see a major disadvantage...it confused everyone!

How about moving them back?

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For the record, I don't mind the buttons at the bottom. Certainly, the Quote button should be there. What's bugging me is the post date and time being at the bottom. I prefer it be at the top of the post.

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How about a new frontpage poll to decide?

...Is there enough traffic to warrant a more frequent frontpage poll change?

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Originally posted by Anomaly
Umm, actually it's not, but I just saw in another threaed that it's the little down arrow next to the topic name on the topic list page.

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