Gentle suggestion: move "About this site" above "FAQ" on the home page. It gives a nice introduction and defines some of the acronyms that the FAQ launches into but doesn't define until later.
Well, other bands know more than three chords. Your professional bands can play up to six, sometimes seven, completely different chords.
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Java cat - Dec 20, 2002 7:12:57 pm PST #2201 of 10000
Not javachik
John H - Dec 20, 2002 7:22:19 pm PST #2202 of 10000
Good call, Java.
In fact, more to the point, if we replaced "Read the FAQ, then join in" on the front page with "Read About This Site, then join in", that would resolve all my issues with the fact that the FAQ is long and obscure.
Or perhaps just make that sentence less of an imperative? A person I wanted to introduce here was a bit frightened off by the FAQ, and was only reading it because it unequivocally instructs newbies to read it first before you join in.
I hope she didn't come by during the Tourette'sSyndrome!Rio period...
DXMachina - Dec 21, 2002 5:40:36 am PST #2203 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I was looking at the "About this site" page, and I noticed that the credits include Michele T's, Tom W's, and Jesse's last names, which none of them use over here. Are you guys (Michele, Tom, and Jesse) comfortable with that?
Also, my name shouldn't have a space in it.
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 9:28:41 am PST #2204 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Good point, DX. I'm assuming they're not and I fixed it.
DXMachina - Dec 21, 2002 9:52:38 am PST #2205 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You da man!
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 3:46:22 pm PST #2206 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I've been thinking about the requests/complaints about the posting font. I'm pretty sure I could write code that would allow a user to override that font with his/her own choice of face and size. I'd put two selection boxes in the Set Profile page (one for font face, the other for size). If they're filled in, There would be an extra couple lines of code at the top of every page that would redefine the default style. I should probably do the same for the fixed-width font style so that they stay consistant.
This would require adding a text field to the user class. Let's call it "css" or "custom_css". Length 255 would be sufficient.
ita - Is this a project I should take on? If so, can you add that field to the user array?
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2002 3:51:04 pm PST #2207 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Before we start on anything, we should get a list of all outstanding requests, and stuff that's been partially implemented. I can say up front that I'm absolutely terrible at that sort of listkeeping. But right now we have competing code trees, and I'm way out of touch on what's considered priority.
Then we can get back into mods. And hopefully in a less ad hoc way, with actual releases or somesuch.
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 4:02:35 pm PST #2208 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Sounds good. The only things I've got outstanding are the threadsuck utility and the list-userids-and-emails thingie. Are there others?
Noumenon - Dec 21, 2002 4:10:54 pm PST #2209 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I think the ability to view 10000 posts at a time covers threadsucking, though I haven't tried it.
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 4:27:20 pm PST #2210 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I think the ability to view 10000 posts at a time covers threadsucking
It's OK as a workaround, but it's not so user-friendly to do it that way. I've written some functions and designed some pages that will be much easier to use.