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".
Saffron: I'll die. Mal: Well, as a courtesy, you might start getting busy on that, 'cause all this chatter ain't doin' me any kindness.
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§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:03:55 am PDT #234 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
brenda m - Sep 19, 2002 10:43:03 am PDT #239 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Which, unless I have a breakthrough, will have to wait until jon comes back.
Jon will be at my house tonight. You want I should tell him to check in?
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2002 10:46:02 am PDT #240 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Could you ask him to e-mail me the test password?
Theodosia - Sep 19, 2002 11:15:14 am PDT #241 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yeah, I'm getting the "not every 0 count topic at the bottom of the Message Center" thing sometimes. It maybe my browser (Opera) not refreshing completely... I will test this theory out in another browser.
Fiona - Sep 19, 2002 11:28:13 am PDT #242 of 10000
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.
Jesse got it exactly right. Sorry if my post wasn't very clear. I realise that people are asked to avoid spoilery taglines, but they still quote (non-spoilery) lines from the shows, which I can totally understand, 'cos they're usually really good lines. But when I watch the show weeks after you guys, every other good line is an, "oh, that was so-and-so's tag! And that was such-and-such's!" Which tends to rip you right out of the show besides killing much of the Good Line Enjoyment.
Last year I just got around the whole issue by turning off the taglines.
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2002 12:11:46 pm PDT #243 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Maybe if, instead of threads saying "67 messages, 0 new" or whatever, it could just say "67 messages" if there aren't any new ones, the way it was at WX (and, I think, TT). That way, to find threads with new posts, you can just quickly read through the thread list for the word "new."