Is there any way to prevent the page jumping around as I write a response?

Do little jumps yourself as you sit, cancel it out. :¬)

Write short quips quickly.

Or you could always compose the quip in Notepad and then cut and paste the whole shebang into the comment box. I do that sometimes when the server (either Fluther’s or my own) is being flaky.

We have a solution for but it’s on the back burner for now.

If you use Firefox and Greasemonkey I wrote a script that fixes it.

@johnpowell – am looking into that, many thanks. Also, hadn’t thought about composing in write or similar, live preview works fine, but that would help solve it @CyanoticWasp, and I occasionally do indulge in a short quip… But I don’t quite feel up to @ucme‘s suggestion, although it’s probably very good for the gluteals!

Do I take it @timtrueman that this is a common complaint? It is not the notification so much as the size of the box that appears, and the jumping. On the case now…

Well there’s a flickering bug that I believe we can now fix given some newer technology but we also were playing with a design where there was only a single line for everyone that’s composing a response (so less up/down action as people start and/or abandon their responses).

@timtrueman, sounds like those changes would serve, the current ‘leap’ as the box appears is a big disturbance to a mediocre typist like myself. Suddenly my words have done a bunk… Oh, they’re back again… then they’re not! If I feel up to it, will give @johnpowell‘s code a go, although I don’t think individual jellies should need to do this.

Ta very much all for responses, :o)