A quick look at navigation on the new app...
After you log in, you see the major forum groups:
Selecting the group gives you forums:
Selecting the forum shows you the list of topics. (All of these are scrollable, of course)
You then select page number, and scroll to posts. It seems to have set me at twenty posts per page (which isn't my usual setting); I don't know whether this is configurable. Scrolling is easy and fast. When there are unread posts in a forum, click the post number (with a a dark background) takes you to the first unread.
The posts look like this:
Note that clicking that image in the last post (mine) took me to a blowup of the image.
To reply, click on any post to quote it and reply:
I don't see a way to multiquote, nor to reply without quoting someone, though they may be here. If not, it's a weakness, as we don't always want to quote someone, but frankly I'm probably just missing it.
The message composition window:
Initial impressions:
- It's incredibly easy to use.
- It looks great on an iPhone 4. My iPhone 3, with the lower-resolution screen, isn't connected to a network any more but I can still use it with WiFi, so I'll be trying it later.
- It's hella fast, at least on WiFi.
- There seem to be some functions that one might like but that aren't available. I may simply not have found them yet.