Sounds good. The only things I've got outstanding are the threadsuck utility and the list-userids-and-emails thingie. Are there others?
Hell, I don't know. If I had wanted schooling, I'da gone to school.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 4:02:35 pm PST #2208 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2002 5:34:33 pm PST #2211 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are a whole lot of requests that people have made that I've completely forgotten to keep track of. I tend to prioritise by a) coolness to code or b) easiness to code, and that's no good.
Michele T. - Dec 21, 2002 6:27:55 pm PST #2212 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I'm comfortable having my last name used, actually -- I keep saying I'm going to reverse-engineer wireframes (information design schematics) from the GIFs I did and put them in my portfolio...
§ ita § - Dec 21, 2002 8:13:39 pm PST #2213 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Speaking of requests -- there have been a couple requests to change the behaviour of the thread links on the RH column -- which take you only the last post of the thread in question.
I'd like to throw this up for some more feedback. I never want to read the last userpagelimit - 1 posts, and always scroll straight to the bottom every time I click on a link with no new posts. So, selfishly, I'm very happy that these don't make me have to do that.
I'd been assuming that since no one mentioned it until just a while ago, that it was accepted behaviour.
Is this true, or wishful thinking?
Elena - Dec 21, 2002 8:41:34 pm PST #2214 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
If I want to find a specific post in a thread with no new posts I'll scroll back. Or, if I was smart, I'd bookmark it in the first place. Usually when I click on a thread with no new posts it's because I want to post something. It's easier to have just the last post on the page.
Sue - Dec 21, 2002 9:44:35 pm PST #2215 of 10000
hip deep in pie
I'm in agreement with what Elena said. Also, when I'm at home on my slow dial-up, and trying to catch-up in Natter by having my posts-per-page limit set at 100, it is quite annoying to have to wait for a page of one hundred already read posts to load.
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 9:58:13 pm PST #2216 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I like having the context of the last bunch of posts, rather than just the last one.
Whatever is decided, I think it should be consistent between the main threads and the ones on the right side.
billytea - Dec 21, 2002 10:57:45 pm PST #2217 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I like having the context of the last bunch of posts, rather than just the last one.
I lean this way too, though it doesn't cause me much distress. Consistency is a worthwhile goal regardless.