My understanding was that 'search by thread' meant some way in which you could use the search engine to search only one thread, without having to muck around changing your subscriptions first.
You can:
With the thread id# where I have the ##.
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
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Jessica - Dec 27, 2002 8:19:33 am PST #2366 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 27, 2002 8:23:58 am PST #2367 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
In that case, I can take it off the list of things people want added. Thanks, Jess.
John H - Dec 27, 2002 2:49:55 pm PST #2368 of 10000
Lowest priority: Formatting of posts or board (more allowed tags
Can I just say that one request is for "s" to be added to allowed tags, which ought to be a relatively quick fix, and it's already an allowed tag, just not in its abbreviated form? It's short for STRIKE if you didn't know.
And about the missing email addresses when people write to admins to change passwords or whatever, wouldn't having a form, with required fields, be a better organisational solution to that? If I wrote to you it wouldn't be from the address I used for this board anyway.
Jon B. - Dec 27, 2002 2:53:27 pm PST #2369 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
wouldn't having a form, with required fields, be a better organisational solution to that?
Some people, for whatever reason, don't use forms. The just email directly to the admin address.
John H - Dec 27, 2002 3:08:37 pm PST #2370 of 10000
Then we should spank them.
Or we could reply straight away and say "if it's about changing your password, you have to use this form".
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 3:13:39 pm PST #2371 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If I wrote to you it wouldn't be from the address I used for this board anyway.
Well, you're speaking as someone with more than one. So far I haven't fielded a request with the wrong e-mail address.
Besides we shouldn't force people to mail from the form. It's bad usability. That's why there's also a mailto: link on the e-mail admins page.
As for t s -- I don't know if it's still true, but as of a year or so ago, it showed up in fewer browsers than t strike -- meaning I was getting some fuckedstrange posts displayed.
Jessica - Dec 27, 2002 3:14:16 pm PST #2372 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Maybe I'm missing something, but "change password" is already in Set Profile.
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 3:18:36 pm PST #2373 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This is for people who don't remember their passwords.
John H - Dec 27, 2002 3:19:18 pm PST #2374 of 10000
we shouldn't force people to mail from the form
The only benefit is you can force people to tell you all the stuff you need to know. I use forms for this at work because there's always something they forget. But there's a lot more data required in those work situations.
You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?
<s> -- I don't know if it's still true, but as of a year or so ago, it showed up in fewer browsers than <strike>
Really? Hadn't heard that. OK ignore me then.
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 3:22:41 pm PST #2375 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You can construct the mailto: link so that it it adds the username into the subject of the email, how about that?
With some e-mail clients. With others, it slings a lot of stuff in the to line, and you have to edit it out.
However, if they've forgotten their password and can't log in, the board doesn't know who they are.