Yup, I was just able to threadsuck Natter 1. Cool.
Don't do this at home, kids...
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
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DXMachina - Dec 07, 2002 2:48:39 pm PST #1908 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 07, 2002 2:53:43 pm PST #1909 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
Posts per page! Excellent. Thank you guys!
And, as a side note, I fiercely love being able to italicise in my tagline (I don't really see why being able to make it *bold* is relevant, though, because tags are already bold, aren't they?); and I think quickedit could be an elegant solution as long as it were still possible to get around it some way-- if you wanted to have a tagline that started with a lowercase "i", like, you could put a space before that and it would work?
Kat - Dec 07, 2002 2:56:24 pm PST #1910 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Thanks for the posts per page. I'm a happy girl.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2002 3:02:16 pm PST #1911 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Yup, we can now give more precise instructions for the John H. natter diet. Set the number of posts displayed in your profile to fifty (50), or any other convenient quantity, go to the natter thread, and then click 'Recent'. Voila! The last fifty posts in one convenient place.
John H - Dec 07, 2002 3:08:55 pm PST #1912 of 10000
Oooh, I don't think that's a good idea. Not everyone wants to download a page that size, or have all their threads read in 50-post chunks.
I'm still voting for the JHND to be added as a feature one day.
A box that says:
Skip to [NUMBER] from the end
or
I want to read the last [NUMBER] posts
or something.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2002 3:13:03 pm PST #1913 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You can always change it back to a more manageable number when you've caught up. I had mine set to 10100 to try the threadsuck, but I changed it right back. And fifty at a time on a cable modem seems pretty quick, especially compared to 5 x 10.
edit: That said, I like your idea, too. Should be doable, no?
Kat - Dec 07, 2002 3:14:17 pm PST #1914 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm on a slow dial up and I personally prefer 50 at a time (which is what I'm set to now) rather than 10. It does take less time in my head because it doesn't have to reload everything else. Plus if I hate, I can change it.
John H - Dec 07, 2002 3:15:13 pm PST #1915 of 10000
My figures give a value of roughly 0.8K per post, and an overhead of roughly 10K per page, so a fifty-post page would be the other side of 50K, which isn't great, but still pretty cool.
Kat - Dec 07, 2002 3:17:25 pm PST #1916 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Even at 50K it loads much faster in the long term v the short term.
And, this increases my scrollability which is important to facilitate my skimmability.
DXMachina - Dec 07, 2002 3:18:03 pm PST #1917 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
That's about right. Natter 1 came in at 9058 KB for 10024 posts.