Improved handling of displaying new posts

Broken link? Feature request? Anything related to the Spectrum Computing website here.
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Ast A. Moore
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Re: Improved handling of displaying new posts

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Okay, hikoki provides this link, which explains the intended behavior: https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... #p14760126

It’s still a half-backed solution, unfortunately, because it doesn’t work for threads with no new posts. For example, to make this post I had to find this thread, and the only way to take you to the last post is to click that tiny arrow on the right. It’s an awfully small target. Pretty frustrating that while people behind pdpBB are, I’m sure, good programmers, they are abysmal at GUI design and have never heard of Fitts’ law.

Oh, well.
Every man should plant a tree, build a house, and write a ZX Spectrum game.

Author of A Yankee in Iraq, a 50 fps shoot-’em-up—the first game to utilize the floating bus on the +2A/+3,
and zasm Z80 Assembler syntax highlighter.
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