Display of postings detail by Google Groups

OT, please forgive, but posted here since there are a large no of knowledgable posters here and, hopefully, someone may have an inkling.

Googling etc throws up no reference to this problem.

Google groups correctly shows a full list of threads with titles to select from. But then things go off at half c*ck.

For some time now Google groups has only been displaying around 10 lines of text from a selected thread - though it does allow the postings in a particular thread to be scrolled through.

This happens on both computers I use - o/s Vista on the older, win 7 on the newer. IE9 on both.

TIA for any clue as to what's up.

Reply to
jim
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It's because google groups is crap. use a newsreader to read newsgroups, websites aren't suitable for this

Reply to
Phil L

Are you using 'new' groups interface?

Is there an 'expand' link somewhere near the top?

Owain

Reply to
Owain

When you view the uk.d-i-y page, it seems you need to toggle the blue

topic list "topic summary" link,

directly under the "discussions" grey bar.

michael adams

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Reply to
michael adams

If I am interpreting this correctly, try clicking the expand / collapse all= icon on the RHS of the thread. There's a chain-link icon, then an envelope= , and the one to the right of that is the expand all (box with levitating l= ine, containing a downwards-pointing arrow) / collapse all (box with levita= ting line, containing a upwards-pointing arrow) icon. Give that a jab.

FWIW, I found the new Google Groups interface to be utterly loathsome, but = now I've been using it for a couple of weeks and figured out a few of its q= uirks, it actually seems better than the old. A steeper-than-usual learning= curve for a Google alteration, it would seem.

Reply to
David Paste

There's a pop-up help screen from the '?' key, maybe there's keyboard shortcuts for some of those mouse acrobatics?

Reply to
Andy Burns

Google could not be aresed to test it. Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

you want 'topic list' not 'topic summary,' near the top

NT

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NT

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