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Difficulty reading private messages due to layout of the website (on tablet and laptop)

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This website is infuriating sometimes. I'm trying to access my private messages and reply to them.

If I use a mobile device, the text entry box covers up a good chunk of the most recent messages so I can't read what I'm replying to.

I've now tried it on the laptop and the text entry box covers up the scroll bar on the right hand side. So I can't scroll up and down between the previous messages to see what I'm replying to.

Am I the only one having difficulty? I don't contribute that much on here but when I do, I seem to have one difficilty after another. It's enough to put me off using it altogether.

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  • I'm using a desktop pc and I can't scroll down far enough to read the newest message - I get the notification but don't get to  ever read the message - Useless!

    I've tried to delete older messages in the conversation thread to see if it's thread-length thing but it makes no difference - just can't get to see the newest messages.

  • in reply to Plastic

    report the defect  to the community manager at 

    community.manager@nas.org.uk.

  • in reply to aidie

    To be honest, I can't be bothered trying to solve all the errors on this site - I'll use what works and forget the rest.    I just can't understand how badly a simple forum system has been implemented on this high-profile website.   

    If I were the NAS management, I'd be constantly embarrassed at the incompetence of the coding - and if they paid for this garbage, I'd be sacking someone. 

  • in reply to aidie

    I'm not going to waste my precious last months dealing with a useless bureaucracy for no reason.

  • in reply to Plastic

    report the defect  to the community manager at 

    community.manager@nas.org.uk.

  • in reply to aidie

    Even the basic layout is a joke - on a 22" monitor with a tiny font that I can only just read, the active area of the forum is about 6x6" so the vast majority of the screen is just logos and dead space.     If I up the font size, it just means I get less words in the tiny window I'm looking at.

    On my netbook, the active window is about 3x2" - totally unusable.

    I'm a member of a couple of nerd sites, each run by a single person - and the guys who run those sites do everything - and they all just work perfectly - so it can't be that difficult with all the funding and resources for the NAS to get its act together and demand the contractors fix this mess - I assume there was a contract and a specification?.

    I'll guess someone's cousin is laughing all the way to the bank.

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  • in reply to aidie

    Even the basic layout is a joke - on a 22" monitor with a tiny font that I can only just read, the active area of the forum is about 6x6" so the vast majority of the screen is just logos and dead space.     If I up the font size, it just means I get less words in the tiny window I'm looking at.

    On my netbook, the active window is about 3x2" - totally unusable.

    I'm a member of a couple of nerd sites, each run by a single person - and the guys who run those sites do everything - and they all just work perfectly - so it can't be that difficult with all the funding and resources for the NAS to get its act together and demand the contractors fix this mess - I assume there was a contract and a specification?.

    I'll guess someone's cousin is laughing all the way to the bank.

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