t sheepishly sets refresh to 5 minutes
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Angus G - Nov 12, 2002 5:32:17 am PST #1439 of 10000
Roguish Laird
Jesse - Nov 12, 2002 7:56:26 am PST #1440 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Seriously, it just occurred to me that really I should have it at "no refresh," because when I needneedneed to see if there are any new messages, I'm checking constantly, but then sometimes I'm not checking for a while, so what's the point of the computer checking for me.
Huh.
Rob - Nov 12, 2002 8:20:54 am PST #1441 of 10000
Is there any way to tell what percentage of our bandwith usage (or even page hits) comes from the message center page?
Liese S. - Nov 12, 2002 5:40:33 pm PST #1442 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I use Read New. I also hit refresh like a maniac. But I'm set at 5 minutes.
Of course, I wouldn't mind it if I could Read New in order of fewest to most new posts. Because when I'm doing it manually, that's the way I do it. But I don't care, because I can do it manually.
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 12, 2002 8:15:55 pm PST #1443 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Moving from Bureacracy, because I'm an idiot that way:
Would it be okay to have a link to Set Profile somewhere at the bottomish of the page, like with the
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things? It'd be a lot of text on that line, I know, especially if you've a small monitor, but maybe we could move one of those things somewhere else, nest it at the top of the page. I'm just wondering-- I'm always going to the bottom of the page to look for it and getting confused.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2002 8:20:55 pm PST #1444 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think we could have the whole Read new/Message center/Set profile/View bookmarks bit at the bottom, but we don't. I don't know why that was done that way.
§ ita § - Nov 12, 2002 8:24:32 pm PST #1445 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You do have read new and message center at the bottom, you realize?
Burrell - Nov 12, 2002 8:37:13 pm PST #1446 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm not seeing a great need to move Set Profile, myself.
Michele T. - Nov 12, 2002 8:47:34 pm PST #1447 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I think we could have the whole Read new/Message center/Set profile/View bookmarks bit at the bottom, but we don't. I don't know why that was done that way.
A couple of reasons. Two of those links already exist down at the bottom of the page, grouped in with the navigation links. The other two are links you're not going to need for the tasks you're performing at the bottom of the page, which are navigation and posting, and redundancy can just as often be confusing as helpful. That's most of the why.
Jon B. - Nov 12, 2002 9:10:30 pm PST #1448 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
It's also a question of how often you do certain things. I'm often Navigating back and forth in a thread or heading to the Message Center. I rarely need to change my profile.