The only difference between the front page and the Message Center is that the former shows all threads while the latter shows only your subscribed threads. For those with no subscribed threads, the coders had a choice to make with respect to the Message Center--- either show no threads, or show all threads. For usability reasons (no one wants to see no threads) they picked the second, but rather than mess with the message center code, they decided to throw those users to the front page, since it does the same thing. I suppose we could have a warning message ("You have no subscribed threads"), but maybe you don't want any subscribed threads. In that case, the warning message would get annoying fast.
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
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Jon B. - Nov 30, 2002 6:02:01 pm PST #1791 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
John H - Nov 30, 2002 6:24:04 pm PST #1792 of 10000
rather than mess with the message center code, they decided to throw those users to the front page, since it does the same thing.
Absolutely fine, and I agree, but the point I was making is that, despite the fact that I have metric shitloads of subscribed threads, if I start my browser and go straight to the message centre then I get kicked back to the front page.
For some reason, I seem to be erroneously failing the "user has at least one subscribed thread" test at that point.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2002 7:27:12 pm PST #1793 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John, your code is old. That bug has been fixed for most people. In fact, I wasn't aware that anyone was still experiencing it.
Can I have your OS/browser info again? And does it happen with all combos thereof?
John H - Nov 30, 2002 9:38:21 pm PST #1794 of 10000
I'm on MacOS 9.2.
I just tried it in Netscape 4.5, Opera 5, and IE5, and they all do the same thing.
In case there's any confusion, what I did was
- Launch browser and log in.("Remember Me" is enabled)
- Make a bookmark for Message Centre
- Quit the browser
- Start the browser up again
- Click on the bookmark
John H - Nov 30, 2002 9:42:43 pm PST #1795 of 10000
Just tried it in (Virtual) Windows IE5 and the same thing happened.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2002 9:43:40 pm PST #1796 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aha. What I hadn't realized (read: skimmed past) was that you were logged in when you hit index.php.
I think the PHP upgrade bit us. The version when the code was started handled session variables differently. This version seems to have switched over to just one way. Which is good, if I'd actually caught all the instances of the old way.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2002 9:44:24 pm PST #1797 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's fixed now.
John H - Nov 30, 2002 11:49:31 pm PST #1798 of 10000
Bless you, so it is. Good work.
And I never would have whinged about it if it was just the minor annoyance, it was the bandwidth thing too, lots of extra hits on the front page I never needed to make.
Jon B. - Dec 01, 2002 1:35:38 am PST #1799 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
S'probably obvious, but I'm not seeing any images all of a sudden.
esse - Dec 01, 2002 9:04:24 pm PST #1800 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I just realized that in the four months or so we've been here, we've never had a post burb. We've never lost posts, or been stuck offline for more than a few hours -- and even then, it was a one time thing. All our threads are working, the interface hasn't crumbled, and we've been able to discuss or repair any difficulties we've had with the board calmly and rationally, like the intelligent people we are.
I'd just like to thank ita and those who worked on the board again, for the hard work and talent you've put into creating our home. You have my everlasting gratitude, guys. This is still the most amazing thing we as a community have ever accomplished.