But you read here, so you know when a new thread is created. I assumed that people who cared when new threads come about would read where they're created, or scan the list periodically. Otherwise it's an inefficient sort of caring, bound for disappointment.

I don't think that's necessarily true. We have the odd few Buffistas who, due to work pressures or such like, simply don't get to post here as much as they'd like, and when they do they have to make the most efficient use of their postage.

Plus, people who might feel a bit more peripheral (eg only post as a rule in the show threads or certain non-NAFDA discussions or such like) should be reasonably served by the set-up here too.

I guess my basic feeling is that threads don't get created very often, such messages aren't likely to clog the Sunnydale Press, and there may well be certain community subsets for whom it's useful.

Whatever the community wants goes.

For continuations I think it's redundant, but since my issue is *not* seeing them, it's not like I find it cluttering SP. I just eyeball the front page periodically. And didn't feel disenfranchised doing it, even when I was behind here.

For continuations I think it's redundant, but since my issue is *not* seeing them, it's not like I find it cluttering SP.

Maybe just for new topics, rather than for continuations of existing discussions. Which would make the Firefly notification unnecessary, but not announcements of the Vale 2002 or the LOTR threads.

I think that's ideal, billytea.

Maybe just for new topics, rather than for continuations of existing discussions. Which would make the Firefly notification unnecessary, but not announcements of the Vale 2002 or the LOTR threads.

I could get behind this.

Another adminstrivial question. Should we change the titles of closed threads to indicate that they are no longer active? What I'm thinking of is adding something similar to the [NAFDA] legend to either the end of the title or the slug, such as [closed]. Mostly so newcomers can tell what's active and what's not.

Also, do we want to put a '1' in the first Firefly thread title, so it matches Buffy 1 and Angel 1?

At the end of the title, I think. Because people probably (I'm GUESSING) don't read the slug too many times after they know the gist of the thread, so the eye's more likely to catch a title change.

What happened here on the 23rd of October?

Here are our hittiest days:

DateHitsKB 9/19/2002103544847956 9/25/2002104537868133 10/23/2002105084870213 9/18/2002108371951327 12/16/20021151191110344 12/13/20021206961114530

edited to remove time travel

That was the day after the Anya backstory episode. Also, there was a big snowstorm in the NE.

Um... 2003? Are we getting ahead of ourselves or something?

Closed at the end of the title seems like a good plan. There are a lot of threads and it would make it clearer to new members.

Seems to me an announcement of a new thread meets the definition of Press. FWIW