I am not being facetious, but as a non-techno person, I don't understand what a threadsuck would be if it wasn't downloading the thread to my computer so I could read off-line? What is the other option?
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Sophia Brooks - Dec 29, 2002 6:29:41 pm PST #2459 of 10000
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John H - Dec 29, 2002 7:12:14 pm PST #2460 of 10000
The two options are
- you see the thread as a very long page in your browser, and then you save it to disk using the File menu and "Save As" or whatever
- instead of seeing the thread, that little box comes up which comes up when you download software, which says "what shall I do with this file?" and you choose "save it to disk" which means that it could chug away quietly downloading in the background, without having to be displayed
Sophia Brooks - Dec 29, 2002 7:13:53 pm PST #2461 of 10000
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OH-- OK-- that makes sense. You could do the first by setting your posts per page to 10,000, though, right?
John H - Dec 29, 2002 7:19:36 pm PST #2462 of 10000
You could do the first by setting your posts per page to 10,000, though, right?
Yup, but the proposed Jon B version of a threadsucked thread has lots of stuff removed, like the links on the sides and in the posts and whatever, it contains just the basics of the posts themselves.
There's a link to a demo of this somewhere, but I'm too lazy to find it for you...
Sophia Brooks - Dec 29, 2002 7:24:06 pm PST #2463 of 10000
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That's OK John-- I just like to get it straight in my head. I have never threadsucked before, lacking the ability to run the program, so my only interstion with the threadsucked threads are the one DX zipped.
Jon B. - Dec 29, 2002 9:09:45 pm PST #2464 of 10000
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lots of stuff removed, like the links on the sides and in the posts
Just f.y.i., any links within posts will not be removed. That would involve doing some sort of regex to each post which I don't want to get involved in. Plus, I would think we want the links that folks post about in the threadsuck.
John H - Dec 29, 2002 9:20:46 pm PST #2465 of 10000
Sorry, I should have said.
The links like the number-link, edit and delete and mark and whatever in the header.
Jon B. - Dec 29, 2002 10:39:22 pm PST #2466 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Got it. That is correct.
Betsy HP - Dec 30, 2002 1:57:19 pm PST #2467 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Look where ww.buffistas.org goes. Is this fixable? Yes, I am a stupid typo-head.
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2002 2:46:19 pm PST #2468 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. Dunno. Will look into that.