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While we are at it: What's the purpose of the mostly useless (like on these posts here) scroll bars on the right?
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Scroll bars are a bug we introduced yesterday on the technet brand forums, it is already fixed and checked in. Our next deployment is 3/18. I'll pass the font feedback along to the right people.
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We've also fixed a couple style bugs for Forums. Vertical scroll bars are no longer an issue for Forum Threads.
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> What's the purpose of the mostly useless ... scroll bars on the right?

Good point. In this thread with short and to the point posts they stand really out (as being completely pointless).

P.S. A problem with increasing the font size in order to see the threads properly is that when I copy some text from a post in order to use it to refer to another post,, I get a massively large font for the quoted text,

P.P.S. They (the scroll bars) are in Chrome but not in IE8 (for users wondering about the scroll bar comment)
- Edited by Mike Walsh FIN Wednesday, March 3, 2010 12:20 PM P.P.S. revised after checking another browser
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 11:27 AM

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The best part of the scroll bars (btw, using IE8, too) is: Not only they are useless in many cases, they don't seem to work anyway. Even in very long posts you get a long scroll bar but there's nothing to scroll because the moving part between the arrows fills the whole bar and doesn't move.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010 4:47 PM

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It's odd. This copy of IE 8 is showing the bars - I was sure that the copy I looked at earlier, didn't. As you write it's really useful having a scroll bar that is always as long as the thing it is supposed to scroll!
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> What's the purpose of the mostly useless ... scroll bars on the right?

Good point. In this thread with short and to the point posts they stand really out (as being completely pointless).

P.S. A problem with increasing the font size in order to see the threads properly is that when I copy some text from a post in order to use it to refer to another post,, I get a massively large font for the quoted text,

P.P.S. They (the scroll bars) are in Chrome but not in IE8 (for users wondering about the scroll bar comment)

hi ,

no anwser to you particular

your post is the only one that has the small scroll bar on it in this thread while using IE 8 , .... (!!)

for the rest there seem ones again less problems with the technet site , only 1 error compared to the others , ...

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Scroll bars are a bug we introduced yesterday on the technet brand forums, it is already fixed and checked in. Our next deployment is 3/18. I'll pass the font feedback along to the right people.
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hi ,

rather good for long posts but there should be the option somewhere to view the entire post if its to long , ....

pages on the top and bottom after lets say 25 post would be a great benefit for both the forums and the users , with the options to set it at 25 - 50 -75 posts a page , ...

but first please fix all the problems , aldo technet seems to have less problems when posting and reading it still has a few , ...

i dont see the scroll bars as a bug btw

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ps or have the option in the settings for the user to use it or no use it ?

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The scrollbars are not a bug but an eyesore. In the old days when I still did some programming I made those bar appear when needed only.

btw I do not agree with Dabur972's remark about pages. Relevancy of posts is not subject to their position in a thread. Therefor, searching a particular post will not be made easier by introducing pages. I wouldn't like to have to scroll different pages to find something in particular when a simple search function can do the job in a single page.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:48 AM

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The scrollbars are not a bug but an eyesore. In the old days when I still did some programming I made those bar appear when needed only.

btw I do not agree with Dabur972's remark about pages. Relevancy of posts is not subject to their position in a thread. Therefor, searching a particular post will not be made easier by introducing pages. I wouldn't like to have to scroll different pages to find something in particular when a simple search function can do the job in a single page.

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hi ,

pages has nothing to do with search , it would increase the load time of a page for the slower con's and make it easier , now on 450 plus post thread you have to scroll down for a minute on some for example , .... it has nothing to do with search since the search would still look regardless of how the thread is made up or the order of the posts , ....

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Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:22 PM

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Hi,
I tend not to agree, but then I do not have a slow connection. Don't live in america but in good old europe.
As far as searching for something in particular in a page is concerned, 450 posts divided by 25 posts per page give me 18 pages in which to perform my ordinary plain text search.
My assumption: we are both not stupid, so we are probably not talking about the same thing.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:47 PM

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We've also fixed a couple style bugs for Forums. Vertical scroll bars are no longer an issue for Forum Threads.
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Thank you!
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