#12: Add "next/previous conversation" links

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by Jon Stahl — last modified Jun 11, 2006 12:22 AM

Add UI feature to let users quickly jump to previous/next conversation.

Proposed by: Jon Stahl, ONE/Northwest
Seconded by: Marshall Mayer, LiveModern.com
Proposal type: User interface
State: being-discussed

Motivation

This is a minor-but-handy UI feature that will allow frequent forum users to avoid a lot of extra mouse clicks, and encourage forum readers to explore more deeply.

Proposal

Add a simple UI element to the conversation view (at top and bottom of the page?) that will skip to the previous/next conversation (by date)

Comments (5)

Alex Limi Oct 19, 2005 05:43 AM

...don't do the faux pas that 90% of boards are guilty of, where the "Next conversation" link is placed exactly where the "Next page of the current conversation" would be located.

These are two different concepts, and have to be visually separate.

Jon Stahl Oct 19, 2005 06:18 AM

...but I probably should have. Maybe another PLIP is brewing here. ;-)

Marshall Mayer Oct 19, 2005 04:39 PM

It seems there are plenty of precendents in Plone and some products for organizing how these are displayed (and going to the next page of posts).

Tannic Jul 13, 2009 09:17 AM

This comes up all the time as a missing feature.

Tannic Jul 13, 2009 09:18 AM

If it could be handled by Plone 3.3 folder type preferences, that would be great.