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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.


Michele T. - Nov 12, 2002 9:12:12 pm PST #1449 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

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.


Rebecca Lizard - Nov 12, 2002 10:44:16 pm PST #1450 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

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.


Jesse - Nov 13, 2002 7:39:36 am PST #1451 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.


Liese S. - Nov 13, 2002 6:07:09 pm PST #1452 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Has there been love in here lately? Because I love this board. It's like, instant feature gratification for the obsessed.