In the olden days, you used a double click for action, but these days a double click gets you into all kinds of trouble.

For example, if you click on "New Posts" and maladroitly double click , you get a stern reprimand "This forum requires that you wait nn seconds between clicks, and you didn't so you are hereby scolded and reprimanded", screenshot attached (I hope). [Nope, the screen shot won't attach, I tried 3 times, I give up.]

Why can Mr Mayor not just wave a magic wand and have ehMacLand ignore the second click that occurs a couple of nanoseconds after the first? Surely that is easy to script, and would be much kinder all round.

Since the early 90's when it was introduced HTML links have been single click, it's not an ehMac thing, it's a whole Internet thing.

it's not an ehmac thing, it's a whole internet thing.

+1

+1

+2. Change your habits.

I think you're missing the point Dr T is making

For example, if you click on "New Posts" and maladroitly double click , you get a stern reprimand "This forum requires that you wait nn seconds between clicks, and you didn't so you are hereby scolded and reprimanded"

Although links only require a single click, nothing strange should happen if one clicks twice by mistake.
I tried that on a dozen websites and all of them react correctly with either a single or a double click for a link........including ehMac.
I double clicked on "New Posts" and the list of new posts came up - no "reprimand".
The "reprimand" only comes up when one tries to do a second search to quickly.

I don't double click, but have certainly been caught out by the 10 second wait to perform a new search.

The mandatory wait between searches can be changed, but there may be performance issues for the site if the interval is reduced to 0.

Best not to double click. ;)

I just played with this some more and there is a problem with ehMac.

But it;s not the double click on either Search or New Posts; on Search, a double-click just opens and closes the search window, trying to search within the 10 second window is not allowed and brings up a warning - that's fine, but the problem is that going from Search and clicking on "New Posts" within the 10 second search window also brings up that "Please Wait" message.
That should not be - one should be able to go from a search request to a 'new post' request immediately; somehow it seems that 'new posts' is tied into the search function as well.

+2. Change your habits.

Yeah. Like, you're holding it wrong. :lmao:

I just played with this some more and there is a problem with ehMac.

But it;s not the double click on either Search or New Posts; on Search, a double-click just opens and closes the search window, trying to search within the 10 second window is not allowed and brings up a warning - that's fine, but the problem is that going from Search and clicking on "New Posts" within the 10 second search window also brings up that "Please Wait" message.
That should not be - one should be able to go from a search request to a 'new post' request immediately; somehow it seems that 'new posts' is tied into the search function as well.

New Posts is simply a custom search function and falls under the same Search restrictions as standard searches.

New Posts is simply a custom search function and falls under the same Search restrictions as standard searches.

Yes, I know that, but that is from a technical point of view but not from a "non-technical"user perspective.
If this were my product, as Product Manager I would have that fixed, but that is obviously up to ehMac.

Isn't it a forum security measure to prevent DOS type attacks?

Don't think so - this 10 second window only applies to the search function (and new post function), for everything else one can double-click to one's hearts content.

My impression is that it's there to manage load and traffic for the forum's software. As we all know, the search isn't particularly robust. On heavily-trafficked forums, it can bring the server to its knees.