XF 2.3 Enabling seeing who last posted in a thread on mobile...

[zzlpolitics]

On mobile, you are unable to see who last posted in a thread unless you turn your phone sideways. I learned this from a thread in 2020 on the subject.

This uhh seems pretty wild to me. People, including myself, aren't going to want to turn their phone sideways to do something as that defeats the functionality of using your phone with one hand, among other reasons.

So, has anyone come up with a solution in the last 4 years or could that conceivably be an add-on made?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Old Nick]

Adding this to your extra.less template will display the last post user avatar.

@media (max-width: 650px) {
    .structItem-cell.structItem-cell--iconEnd {
        display: table-cell;
    }
}

 

[zzlpolitics]

Adding this to your extra.less template will display the last post user avatar.

@media (max-width: 650px) {
    .structItem-cell.structItem-cell--iconEnd {
        display: table-cell;
    }
}

Wow. Thank you. This is definitely adequate but out of curiosity, would there not be "code" to display the username instead of the avatar? Just curious as being a newer forum, I do not have everyone's avatars recognized yet.

Either way, thank you for helping me and my forum users!

 

[Old Nick]

Yes, but you would then have to make some modifications in the forum_view template which would complicate things a little. Just with a little CSS code it's also possible but the result would be truly disappointing because the place taken by the username would further reduce the space reserved for the title of the discussion... It would be quite a user experience bad, even very bad.

With the avatar it is always possible to display the user panel with a long press on it.

 

[zzlpolitics]

Yes, but you would then have to make some modifications in the forum_view template which would complicate things a little. Just with a little CSS code it's also possible but the result would be truly disappointing because the place taken by the username would further reduce the space reserved for the title of the discussion... It would be quite a user experience bad, even very bad.

With the avatar it is always possible to display the user panel with a long press on it.

Makes sense. I appreciate the help.

The forum we are migrating from has it set up like this:


You can see it was started by TokyoJayhawk and that JMoschitta last replied 13 minutes ago. That is of course available on desktop view or whatever here but people just are use to being able to see it on mobile like above. I guess I thought the small addition of a text word wouldn't take up much real estate in that box but I also don't know this stuff like you guys do so, I understand.

Thanks for all the help!

 

[Old Nick]

This is what I told you above, it is possible to add the username there but this requires modifying the original template, it is not just an addition of code to the extra.less file. If you really want to achieve this result, it's playable but it requires more work because the template in question is not structured to allow this easily.

 

[zzlpolitics]

Understand. Thanks for the help. Perhaps I'll put it up as a job if the users revolt enough as I'm definitely not modifying a template lest I break the entire forum.

Really appreciate the info!