Forums » Suggestions & Development Discussion » What about a 'Minimize All' option?

Just a little feature I have been thinking about for a while. I don't know about anyone else, but I love going back and rereading my rps. Sometimes I have to search through pages to find certain information to make sure my continuity is accurate. Stuff like that. When I do, it's usually easiest to use the 'expand all' feature found at the top and bottom of the posts. But then I run into the problem, especially on my phone, that I want to get back up to the top, but there's no way to minimize it all again. I just have to scroll through everything to get back to the top. It can get a little old. It's certainly not a game breaking feature (or lack there of) so I don't imagine it would bear any sort of priority treatment. It would just be convenient if, after you clicked 'expand all' it then gave you the option to 'minimize all' in its place. I feel like it would just really help with maneuvering through old posts/pages.

I can only second this. This is a good idea that I always thought of but never bothered articulating since I mainly use pc and have a mouse but yes, it such a feature would certainly be convenient and nifty.

You know, I've always thought of this too, but I never considered actually making a forum topic for it. I say it's a great idea.

I agree. It's especially painful if you're on mobile to scroll up after clicking expand all.

As someone who's had some really lengthy PM convos where this is a real issue, yes please!!

I am assuming you mean basically putting a minimize all button at the corner of all messages? I feel like unless it's just a tiny little bar like the minimize bar for a browser, it would look to cluttered. There's already a whole lot going on in the message boxes, having the words 'Minimize All' in the corner would be too much. So, I'd only be up for this if it was just a little button without words.

No, no, that's not what I mean. I mean, when you hit 'expand all' that the option then be replaced with the option to 'minimize all'. That's it. Simple. No need for any clutter at all. Right now, when you hit 'expand all' the words just vanish. So the room is there. And then everything would close up again and the whole screen would be easier to navigate across once more.

I mean, yes, if you are in the middle of the page you would still need to scroll up or down for a bit to get where you need to go. So this wouldn't solve all the issues inherent in having everything expanded. But, if you get to the bottom of a page and decide you're done and want to go to your inbox or your home page, as it stands, you've got a long slog to get back there. If you're already in the middle, the problem is a lot less...problematic, I guess, as you are already half way there.

Having minimize all at the bottom wouldn't do anything for being in the middle of the page though. As mentioned. You'd still have to scroll down the same amount you'd need to scroll up now.

What I do when I am on my phone is after I find the info I need, I just reload the page. When it reloads it'll be all minimized again with no scrolling just clicking the address bar and enter. If I have a message already typed out, I just make sure to copy it before doing so.

Just testing this idea -- wouldn't a "back to top" button affixed to the bottom right of the screen actually be a more efficient way to accomplish this for mobile users?

I think a back to top button would be absolutely useful, but when you've exapanded all of the previous posts in a PM conversation, it can be annoying to try and get them to all collapse again. I think both features would be extremely useful.

Edit: Unless you go the round about way that Damnation explains. However, simplicity is all that's being asked in that case.

That would be a great way to fix this inconvenience for mobile users!

Yeah back to top on mobile would be nice, so I'll second that! Or however manyth that it is.

Why not have both? A Back To Top and a Minimize All button?