Well, you can reduce the number of reloads by enabling the Node navigator nodelet in your User Settings.

You still have to wait for the same page to reload after you click "Vote", but at least you can go directly to the previous or next question (or meditation or discussion or ...) without going back to the section node.

It's true that this doesn't do everything you're suggesting, but it's already in place. ;-)

++fokat - Mozilla's tabs have completely changed the way I use a browser; for this scenario, I tend to open all the new nodes in separate tabs, so after voting I usually plan to close the tab immediately - given the option, I'd usually prefer to get back nothing but a blank page.

Another area which bugs me is that log hv out throws me back to The Monastery Gates, which is usually a big node with nothing on it that I want to see (having already read all the nodes).

I usually click on the link to the next page that I want to go visit (or I cast my votes), then change screens (WindowMaker on Red Hat 8), returning a few minutes later .. so the delay while the server tallies my occasional votes is quite tolerable.

Another strategy is to right click on a link, open in a new tab (using Galeon browser, but also available in Mozilla) and while that's working, look at the original tab, read the article and the replies, vote, then flip over to the new tab which by then has finished. Once there, I delete the original tab.

This type of strategy is preferable to opening lots of pages all at once -- that puts a big, fat load on the servers all at once, for a series of pages that will be read over the next ten or fifteen minutes.

Please, be kind to the Monastery servers. :)

Nice idea, and would probably be an asset, but personally, I'm a big fan of Opera's mouse gestures..click 'Vote', then right-button down and *swish* *swish* - back to SOPW or wherever in a flash. Apparently more primitive browsers have something called a 'back button' :)

Cheers,
Ben.

So then the answer is to make the form handler do what he suggested.

Adding a drop-down combo box with "This thread","Newest Nodes", "Front Page" next to the vote button (defaulting to "This thread" to keep current behaviour) would submit the selected combo box entry along with the votes when "Vote" is clicked.

The vote-handling code could then perform the requested redirection.

Of course, I'm suggesting all this in blissful ignorance of the code base :)
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No, he's not talking about clicking on a link.. he's talking about having a pulldown menu next to the vote button that lets you select where you want to go after you vote.

While this is easy to implement at first, it leaves a usability bug for users who do not actually want to use it... (what should it be by default? the current node? the main section that node is in?) This probably can be specified in user settings but I think that it is too much trouble and, if accepted, will have a very low priority.

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While this is easy to implement at first, it leaves a usability bug for users who do not actually want to use it... (what should it be by default?

By default, it should perform exactly the way it currently does. Then you have an added feature at no cost to those who don't want it.



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