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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.
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.
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.
You do have read new and message center at the bottom, you realize?
I'm not seeing a great need to move Set Profile, myself.
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.
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.
Right, that's another reason why it makes sense to have it (a) in a prominent place but (b) out of the way of the things you're more likely to want to do.
It's also a question of how often you do certain things.
Oh, wrod, of course. I change my tagline wicked often, so it feels all problematic and urgent to me. But if no one else feels the same way forget I asked.
You do have read new and message center at the bottom, you realize?
Of course. I was just describing that one group of links, compared to what's at the top left. I like things just exactly the way they are.