How do I get to the 'last post' in a thread?

The click on date to get to the last post is welcome- but there is still scrolling to do as all I get are those annoying recommended and related lists- can these be turned off? (or how about just a button to click for each- See Related Threads and See recommended Threads and let me choose when to look at them)
All this information being dished up whether I want it or not is annoying (I get that it is an attempt to be helpful- but let me decide).

Unknown said:

The click on date to get to the last post is welcome- but there is still scrolling to do as all I get are those annoying recommended and related lists

Not quite sure I am following what you describe... selecting the link on the date of the last post should get you to the last post without scrolling, not the Recommended or Related content -- that will appear below the thread list. At least that is how I see that using the current released versions of Chrome, Firefox, and IE. If you are seeing something different, then more details would be needed to understand what to look at to figure out what needs to be sorted.

Unknown said:

recommended and related lists- can these be turned off? (or how about just a button to click for each- See Related Threads and See recommended Threads and let me choose when to look at them)

The Related/Recommended content "widget" on this site has two presentation modes -- slider and list. For the former, that "slides into view" every time you scroll towards the bottom of something (e.g. forum thread, wiki article, blog article, etc.) That's how it was configured by default, but was getting in the way, so was switched to "list presentation mode". The latter can either be put in a narrow column to one side of the application window or at the bottom of the content. Although where it should appear is subjective, the information it includes is exactly as its name indicates... related and recommended. It has been my experience over the years that static (and otherwise non-descriptive, generic) hyperlinks are most often not clicked on. Given the relevancy (and importance) of the content these things present, we are planning to keep them enabled and work on improving their presentation.

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2. There is a lot of white space and much too large font; on my 15" notebook not very inviting to browse...

There is also too much green and blue of the home page which fills my phone and tab screen.

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For me, click-on-date works (in Ffox) to take me to end of latest post, not to end of Related and Recommended.
But I too would like to know how to move the latter to side column.

Unknown said:

is this [put in a narrow column to one side of the application window] a user setting? If so, where can I change it to 'a narrow column (etc)'? 

This is a "page layout" for each application -- there are currently well over a hundred of these, noting the difference between community homepages, forum lists, forum thread lists, forum threads, blog lists, blogs, wikis, wiki lists, etc. So each one would have to be configured to account for this. As mentioned previously (in other similar discussions), we are looking at the possibility of changing things to work better, but the results may actually not work out at all.

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Some of the articles are really old(> 5 years), and might concern problems that no longer exist, solutions that no longer work, etc. So relevancy is not always the case. It would help if each item showed a date of either start of the question or last reply.

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Seems like it is then working on other browsers- so wider testing may be needed

Just wanted to point out percentages of some of the browsers (on various OSes) used to visit Bentley Communities in 2014:

• Internet Explorer: 44.3%
• Chrome: 35.7%
• Firefox: 15%
• Safari: 3.4%
• Opera: 0.5%

There are other ones, too, which is why those percentages do not add up to 100%, but I wanted to provide some scale of where browser use stands. This is not meant to disparage any of them, only to identify what we are looking at for prioritization. We know that more and more access will be on non-Windows, "mobile", and will look at testing on wider platforms accordingly.

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 We know that more and more access will be on non-Windows, "mobile", and will look at testing on wider platforms accordingly.

That would explain why the site looks terrible on my mobile and tab! Definitely need more testing.

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Unknown said:

 We know that more and more access will be on non-Windows, "mobile", and will look at testing on wider platforms accordingly.

That would explain why the site looks terrible on my mobile and tab! Definitely need more testing.

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Thanks for your opinion. Although this is veering off-topic, I actually think the site looks pretty decent on mobile platforms. Not perfect, but usable with a few things here and there that we have identified as needing to be looked into.

OK terrible perhaps is an exaggeration but with the blue/green banner filing the screen it doesn't look good. 

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