Fiona, when you register or go to your profile page to change a tagline, it says to avoid spoilery taglines for the sake of UnAmericans. I think people who ignore that and use spoilery taglines should get a thwack^H^H^H^H gentle suggestion from the Stompy Feet that their tag should be changed.
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Jen - Sep 19, 2002 9:07:37 am PDT #229 of 10000
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Angus G - Sep 19, 2002 9:09:21 am PDT #230 of 10000
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Connie, you do realise that threads with new messages are towards the top in Message Centre (sorry, I physically can't spell it the American way), right?
Which reminds me, I have a suggestion: how about categorised threads on the front page, non-categorised threads in the Message CentRE?
Rebecca Lizard - Sep 19, 2002 9:14:27 am PDT #231 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
I do like Angus' second suggestion, and was going to make it myself, if it were easy to implement; but, er,
Connie, you do realise that threads with new messages are towards the top in Message Centre (sorry, I physically can't spell it the American way), right?
that's not in my experience-- it seemed to be that the last one I looked at was at the top. So I could have a 0 New above one with 16 New.
But the Read New button fixes all that. Especially cool (I think) how it doesn't have to take you to the next one in *that* thread-- because I always have three or four windows open, reading more than one thread at once.
It's so shiny!
DXMachina - Sep 19, 2002 9:20:11 am PDT #232 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I had a brainstorm this morning, I don't know if others would find it useful or not. When I click on Message Center, I'd find it really useful if the threads where the message count wasn't "0" were presented with a different color for their title, or message count. So that my bleary eyes, running down the page trying to figure out which thread gets priority would be drawn to the ones that are ripe for plucking.
I was going to suggest this, too, but I was thinking of it more for Beep Me and Press, because they don't ever show up at the top of the message center, and it would be nice to have a visual clue that would draw your vision to them.
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 9:58:40 am PDT #233 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.
Hey, question about read new: when you click on it, how does it decide which thread among those with new messages to bring up?
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:03:55 am PDT #234 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Most recent post. So the top of the message centre/home page is the thread with the most recent post, whether you've read it or not. Same with "read new".
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 10:12:48 am PDT #235 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.
Most recent post. So the top of the message centre/home page is the thread with the most recent post, whether you've read it or not. Same with "read new".
That's what I thought. I'm having trouble with that. I'm trying to use it to catch up with all the posts I missed last night, but every other time I click it it's putting me back in Natter. Older threads miss out completely; I've started going off the home page again.
Would it make sense to have it either go with the oldest non-zero thread, or to go through them all in a set order? Or is there another reason to do the most recent?
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:17:28 am PDT #236 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The reasons for most recent are lost in the mists of time. I do remember it being discussed, but I'll be damned if I recall justification either way.
You need to learn to read faster, dude.
billytea - Sep 19, 2002 10:28:04 am PDT #237 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.
Harumph. I'm reading plenty fast. We wanted a board kicked up to turbo, an' that's what we got.
Jesse - Sep 19, 2002 10:28:21 am PDT #238 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Fiona, when you register or go to your profile page to change a tagline, it says to avoid spoilery taglines for the sake of UnAmericans.
I don't think that's what Fiona's getting at, actually. If someone's tagline is "Here we are now, entertain us," that's not spoilery, per se, but when it airs, she's thinking, "Hey! That was a tagline..who's was it? Huh..." rather than just thinking about watching the show.
If I read Fiona's post right.