In alt.usenet.offline-reader.forte-agent, on Mon, 03 Aug 2020 06:31:25
+1200, Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> wrote:
Ralph, I don't know what you mean, display and type full unicode?
Will I be able to display alphabets that are even more different from
Latin than French is, like Urdu, Arabic, and Hebrew?
Surely not Japanese and Chinese.
I ask because I've been reading a forum on Facebook that uses such
alphabets. and Facebook is a terrible format for serious discussion. It
has no more than 2 levels of indentation and you very often can't tell
who is answering whom. Even if you can tell, the two posts can be so
far apart that you can't go back and forth. If you click on Reply,
sometimes it puts the name of the person your replying to as the first
word in the answer, and sometimes it ignores the name. If it doesn't
put the name in, often when it takes you to the bottom of the list,
you'e so far from the post you're answering, it's not possible to go
back and find the name!
If you click on a link, when it comes back, you've lost your place in
the long list. You very often can't "find" something because it only
fetches some of the threads, until you get to the bottom of the list and
then it gets more. If I use someone's name, there is immediately a
popup box with everyone by that name who has ever registered for that
Facebook forum.
It will only display the last two items of a thread, the ones posted
most recently, but there will be a line to click on 80 previous items.
Click on that and 15 will display and it will display 20 and say 60
previous items if you want to see the rest. You may have to click 3
times, maybe more. Sometimes it will say 3 items and if you click you
only get 2 of them and have to click again for the thrrd. Finally when
the thread is all expanded, there is no way to collapse it again.
There may be more things wrong with it I've forgotten.
I know it was designed for dithering teen-agers, who can't stick to a
topic for more than 10 seconds, but with a little work and the abiility
to choose options, it could have options that serve everybody. it's
incredicile** that with a billion users and making that much money, it's
so bad.
**A typo but it's a cross between incredible and imbecile.
That's why I'd like to talk this one forum to moving to Usenet, but
that.
Thank you fo all your hard work on this; and for all the questions you
answer for me and so many others over the years.