New search features

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Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 10:15AM So we launched a bit of a mini-redesign this morning to get rid of the ancient left-nav menu system. We also combined the old left-navigation search features into a new area on the top navigation menu. The new search is far more feature-rich than the old way for users browsing with java_script enabled. It will provide matching suggestions and if you're logged into the site it will remember your common searches and provide them at the top of the suggestion list. We find that people regularly search for the same phrases over and over as a means to navigate to a specific movie or forum thread. (a certain forum member always searches for "pooped my pants") . The new search will make it easier to locate the destination page. The suggestions are rate-limited so it might take half a second or so for it to realize you have stopped typing and go fetch the results from the database. Edited by - Drew Black on Jun 11 2014 Edited by - Drew Black on Jun 21 2014 [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 5:59PM are you saying you used the jump-to-forum select list in the old menu? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 6:00PM a former member wrote: As far as I'm concerned, it already remembered my common searches and provided them as suggestions before the redesign. But maybe this was Safari-related, cuz it usually works differently with different browsers. Click to expand Yes, that is Safari-related. [Link]
killbillvol69 All-Star Member ^Lucy Pinder 18631 Posts 4/08	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 6:25PM Where is the advanced search for movies located now? You know, where you could search for movies by a particular director starring a particular performer, and that kind of thing. [Link]
killbillvol69 All-Star Member ^Lucy Pinder 18631 Posts 4/08	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 6:38PM I don't know whether to post this here or in the thread about images, but with the new layout, when you post several images they all post side-by-side, making the thread infinitely wide. That's a huge problem if anyone posts something worth reading that has more than one short sentence per paragraph. Because now you'll have to scroll back and forth, back and forth, to read each line. Check out the mess this particular page has become (and note that it looked fine yesterday): https://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/porn-stars-getting-sexier-with-weight-gain/3 [Link]

Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 6:40PM killbillvol69 wrote: Check out the mess this particular page has become (and note that it looked fine yesterday): https://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/porn-stars-getting-sexier-with-weight-gain/3 Click to expand I don't see a problem with that page using Chrome. Advanced Search is under Shop. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 7:03PM Drew Black wrote: killbillvol69 wrote: Check out the mess this particular page has become (and note that it looked fine yesterday): https://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/porn-stars-getting-sexier-with-weight-gain/3 Click to expand I don't see a problem with that page using Chrome. Click to expand Using Firefox I several posts are stretching the page out well off the screen. [Link]
Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 7:04PM Drew Black wrote: killbillvol69 wrote: Check out the mess this particular page has become (and note that it looked fine yesterday): https://forum.adultdvdtalk.com/porn-stars-getting-sexier-with-weight-gain/3 Click to expand I don't see a problem with that page using Chrome. Advanced Search is under Shop. Click to expand The "Posted - Jan 3 2014 : 11:28:41 AM" Maddy O'Reilly pic goes way off to the right of the page (thus causing the whole page to become "too wide"). I think it has something to do with the pic being posted to the right of some text (instead of on its own line). i.e. {text} {pic} I bet if Drew or a mod edits that post to put the text and the pic on their own lines that the problem will correct itself. I'm using Firefox 30 on Windows 7. [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 7:06PM [Image not found DB] [Link]
killbillvol69 All-Star Member ^Lucy Pinder 18631 Posts 4/08	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 7:09PM ^ Yeah this is what I see too. Maybe it's a firefox-only problem? edit: and thanks for telling me where the advanced search is. I don't know why I didn't see it before. Edited by - killbillvol69 on 6/11/2014 7:11:01 PM [Link]
killbillvol69 All-Star Member ^Lucy Pinder 18631 Posts 4/08	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 7:16PM Something also happened with the size of the text box you type in when you're posting, so that now when you go to click "Post New Reply", you have to scroll down to find the button. It used to be that the text box was small enough that you could see the button right underneath, without any scrolling. It's a small thing, but it is a pain in the ass. Can the text box size be made slightly smaller to fix this? [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 7:49PM I looked at the Weight Gain thread and see the same thing. Specifically this message: scope21 wrote: Bloody hell...Ava Rose...easily better ''STACKED'' Click to expand I get the same problem using Opera 12. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 8:39PM I'll look into changing the stylesheet to address these layout issues tomorrow. I tend to use Chrome for everything and only do a cursory check with Safari, Firefox and IE. I haven't had Opera installed in at least 5 years since they started including advertising in the browser. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 8:42PM FWIW, this page is rendering fine with Firefox 27. The weight gain thread does scroll to the right. [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Jun 11 2014 : 10:11PM I'm surprised about the adveritsing in Opera, but I forgot that I bought it several generations ago, so maybe it's the free version that has ads. Just to be clear: the page does render okay in my brower, as in I can see all the images. But the images are side-by-side and it's almost triple my brower width (and I'm running full-frame), so side-scrolling must be done. As the text auto-wraps to fit the horizontal width, it means I have to side-scroll to read anything longer than just a few words. I believe that's what killbillvol69 was saying, and I concur. It would be great if there were a max width setting for ADT. [Link]

Joey Starr Senior Member Still wanking after all these years. 8082 Posts 10/00	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 2:26AM I like the new look a lot, very sleek. And no problem so far with Firefox 29.0.1 for Mac. Thanks! [Link]
ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 3:03AM wahine wrote: ^ I actually very much enjoyed the left-nav menu system, it came very handy as a short-cut to check what's going on in Polls and WN&N, with a more detailed view than "Active Topics". Now it has to be done in 2 steps, clicking on the top menu, which brings one into the forum "home" page. Click to expand Drew Black wrote: are you saying you used the jump-to-forum select list in the old menu? Click to expand Yes, I'd like to have a way to instantly jump to a different sub-forum. The sidebar offered that capability. Today, if I'm in PornPool and want to go to Polls or TechTalk or WN&N or whatever, i have to 1. Click 'All Forums' 2. Scroll down the page far enough to reveal the desired sub-forum 3. Click the sub-forum Something similar to the dropdowns for Movie - Pornstars - Shop - Talk at the top of the page would be perfect IMO. Or...replicate the JumpTo: dropdown at the very bottom of the page; thereby having it also placed at the top of the page. Edited by - ninja1 on 6/12/2014 3:36:40 AM [Link]
nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 7:48AM I like the new design. The only thing missing, as has already been mentioned, is the ability to jump from one forum to another. Otherwise I likey, and suspect it's more mobile friendly. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 8:12AM We're going to add a jump-to section to the menu for logged-in users. If you're not logged in you will have the existing menu. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 9:13AM If you're logged in you should see a new FORUMS dropdown as part of the new navigation bar. If you're not logged in you don't get that option. [Link]
nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 1:40PM Drew Black wrote: If you're logged in you should see a new FORUMS dropdown as part of the new navigation bar. If you're not logged in you don't get that option. Click to expand Thanks dude. [Link]
Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 6:05PM Drew Black wrote: If you're logged in you should see a new FORUMS dropdown as part of the new navigation bar. If you're not logged in you don't get that option. Click to expand Fabulous! In general, I think the new look and format is way cleaner, modern, and generally sharp. Nice work. [Link]
killbillvol69 All-Star Member ^Lucy Pinder 18631 Posts 4/08	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 10:05PM Oh God this is killing me. Is there any way to fix this? It's especially bad on a laptop with a touchpad mouse, because then when you finish typing, you have to drag your finger across the touch pad several times to get all the way over the the right and find the scroll down thingy. killbillvol69 wrote: Something also happened with the size of the text box you type in when you're posting, so that now when you go to click "Post New Reply", you have to scroll down to find the button. It used to be that the text box was small enough that you could see the button right underneath, without any scrolling. It's a small thing, but it is a pain in the ass. Can the text box size be made slightly smaller to fix this? Click to expand [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 10:46PM ^ You can get the gist of the message from the first 10 words... [Link]
killbillvol69 All-Star Member ^Lucy Pinder 18631 Posts 4/08	Posted - Jun 12 2014 : 10:51PM ^ Wait, what? Are you saying that my post was clear, or are youaddressing the scrolling issues I brought up in the other post? [Link]

Mass Facialties Deactivated User "Facialized Vol. 7" 2021 AVN Awards Winner: Best Oral Movie 9308 Posts 9/13	Posted - Jun 13 2014 : 2:14AM killbillvol69 wrote: Oh God this is killing me. Is there any way to fix this? It's especially bad on a laptop with a touchpad mouse, because then when you finish typing, you have to drag your finger across the touch pad several times to get all the way over the the right and find the scroll down thingy. Click to expand I'm having the same exact, frustrating problem with the page width being way too wide and having to use the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom of my browser to read every single line of text. And like you, I'm on a laptop computer (Windows 7, Internet Explorer) with a touchpad mouse. I'd like to know if this is a problem with my web browser or if it's just the site layout itself. Quite frankly, I was completely satisfied with the previous site layout; maybe it wasn't the best-looking, but damn it, it was simple and all the functions were easy to use. As the ol' saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" [Link]
Mass Facialties Deactivated User "Facialized Vol. 7" 2021 AVN Awards Winner: Best Oral Movie 9308 Posts 9/13	Posted - Jun 13 2014 : 3:09AM ^ Okay, after posting that, I left this forum and jumped to the Porn Pool and the problem with the extra-wide pages was gone. I also went to other forums like Star Crossed and Porn News & Press Releases and I did not experience that problem in those forums, either. But now I come back to this forum and thread and the problem reappears-both in this thread and when I clicked "Post New Reply" to type this. I'm typing this post in a way-too-wide text box right now. Oh well, as long as I don't experience this problem anymore in the forums I frequent, I'm fine. [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Jun 13 2014 : 10:27AM killbillvol69 wrote: Are you saying that my post was clear, or are youaddressing the scrolling issues I brought up in the other post? Click to expand It was a comment on the scroll. I was trying to make the joke that you can read the first 10 words w/o having to scroll to read the rest. [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Jun 13 2014 : 10:31AM Mass Facialties wrote: But now I come back to this forum and thread and the problem reappears Click to expand It's not dependent on the subforum, it's at the thread level. If someone posts photos that show side-by-side, or otherwise extend past your browser width, the whole thread resizes to fit. Since the text wraps to the width of the browser window, that makes the text too wide as well. If I went back and edited this message to take out three of those four photos above, this thread would fit properly. [Link]
CummingLinguist All-Star Member 5908 Posts 11/11	Posted - Jun 14 2014 : 6:10PM When I go to Talk>Pornstar members, I get this: [Link]
Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10	Posted - Jun 15 2014 : 1:23AM a former member wrote: ^ Why I've been internally cursing posters who post a bunch of unrelated pics in HUGE format in Polls. Click to expand What I really hate are the posts where the poster replies to a post -- "quoting" all 10 huge pics -- just to type a single sentence like "She's so hot." [o\\|] If/when I quote pic posts, I will usually pick just one pic, and "(snip)" the others. If the pics I'm responding to are directly above my new post, I try to skip "quoting" any pics at all. [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Jun 15 2014 : 12:07PM ^ I've bitched about that for years. It's not so bad here; I've quit other forums outright because of it. (But usually they're quoting all kinds of animated signature shit, and it makes threads virtually unreadable). I'd still love to see a quoted image be resized to a thumbnail. Big enough so you know what they're referring to, but small enough not to fuck up the conversation. [Link]
ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08	Posted - Jun 15 2014 : 2:17PM Some forums automagically strip the images out of quoted text. On those forums, it is still technically possible to include the full-size pics in a reply post, but it'd require the re-poster to 'manually' rewrite the link codes and such, which is enough of a PITA that very few people go through the effort. Edited by - ninja1 on 6/15/2014 2:20:31 PM [Link]
ninja1 Senior Member 2939 Posts 1/08	Posted - Jun 15 2014 : 4:16PM Drew Black wrote: The new search is far more feature-rich than the old way for users browsing with java_script enabled. It will provide matching suggestions and if you're logged into the site it will remember your common searches and provide them at the top of the suggestion list. Click to expand The search WORKS GREAT!!! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Link]
joachim Senior Member 03 12 15 16 18 04 07 13 18 2285 Posts 1/09	Posted - Jun 16 2014 : 12:53AM The search bar doesn't work properly when I'm actually in the forum. Instead, it's slightly lower and covers the links on the left and "Search," "Logout," &c. on the right, though I can still click on those even though they're covered. The menu looks like this: MOVIES¡ PORNSTARS¡ TALK¡ SHOP¡ FORUMS¡ Search (Pulldown menu) Search field GO The search function works; the other links do not. To sum, the previous version of the forum worked perfectly well. If it ain't broke... [Link]

Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 16 2014 : 7:07AM joachim wrote: The search bar doesn't work properly when I'm actually in the forum. Instead, it's slightly lower and covers the links on the left and "Search," "Logout," &c. on the right, though I can still click on those even though they're covered. Click to expand Which browser are you using? Do you have disabled? [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Jun 16 2014 : 1:52PM Did you forgot you wrote a filter on the word javascrip*t, Drew? Jacco [Link]
Kimi Lixx Senior Member 2012 Posts 6/01	Posted - Jun 16 2014 : 10:17PM Why do the yellow marked as read topics never go away now? I always use the Active Topics to quickly browse through what's new since the last time I was on, and now it's just an endless list of yellow folders... [Link]
Hardware All-Star Member Your other left 14594 Posts 3/02	Posted - Jun 16 2014 : 11:02PM When I use 'Active Topics' I get a mix of yellow and blue folders. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 7:04AM Jacco wrote: Did you forgot you wrote a filter on the word javascrip*t, Drew? Jacco Click to expand Yep ! [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 7:05AM Kimi Lixx wrote: Why do the yellow marked as read topics never go away now? Click to expand That would be related to cookies. I'm going to PM you a test link, [Link]
Janitor Retired Porno movies, sexy videos, xxx. Adult DVD Talk at your service. 6409 Posts 11/99	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 8:07AM jayo wrote: I'd still love to see a quoted image be resized to a thumbnail. Big enough so you know what they're referring to, but small enough not to fuck up the conversation. Click to expand That's a really good idea. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 8:09AM killbillvol69 wrote: Something also happened with the size of the text box you type in when you're posting, so that now when you go to click "Post New Reply", you have to scroll down to find the button. It used to be that the text box was small enough that you could see the button right underneath, without any scrolling. Click to expand I'm trying to replicate this and not seeing this issue using Firefox 19.0.2. Going to download a newer version and try again. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 8:13AM This post is being made with FireFox version 30. (30? WTF?!) Don't see any scrolling issues. Killbill, can you snap a screenshot? What browser resolution are you using? [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11018 Posts 5/01	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 11:22AM I am not seeing this issue in Firefox 29.0.1 [Link]
Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 1:38PM Drew Black wrote: Kimi Lixx wrote: Why do the yellow marked as read topics never go away now? Click to expand That would be related to cookies. I'm going to PM you a test link, Click to expand To me it seems that the ADTS cookie does not properly update the last visit date. When I go to active topics and I see a lot of yellow I delete that cookie manually and reload and then the last visit date gets updated. The one in the ADTS cookie always seems to be some visits behind. Jacco [Link]
killbillvol69 All-Star Member ^Lucy Pinder 18631 Posts 4/08	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 1:57PM To Drew: Here's what I see if I try to post: Notice that the "Post New Reply" button would be just out of frame, below the shot. Thus having to scroll the mouse over to the scroll bar (or at least out of the text box) in order to scroll down that tiny bit just to get to it. An interesting thing I noticed though, is that this doesn't happen if I go into someone else's post to edit it. See for example if I tried to edit your post above: OK admittedly it's a bit small, but you can see the "Edit Reply" button at the bottom of the screen, without me having to scroll down. I'm using Firefox 29.0.1, screen rez 1366x768 Edited by - killbillvol69 on 6/17/2014 1:58:58 PM [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 5:20PM Thanks for the screenshots and the screen resolution. I'll look into it. [Link]
Kimi Lixx Senior Member 2012 Posts 6/01	Posted - Jun 17 2014 : 10:31PM All I know is that the forum is now pretty nearly unworkable for me - I can't believe I'm getting chased out after all this time by a formatting problem. [Link]
jayo All-Star Member 2117 Posts 7/04	Posted - Jun 18 2014 : 7:26PM Janitor wrote: That's a really good idea. Click to expand [Link]
CummingLinguist All-Star Member 5908 Posts 11/11	Posted - Jun 20 2014 : 4:48PM ^ +1 [Link]