Its not the bookmark John. If you manually type your message center URL into the browser window it still bounces you to the home page. I think what is happening is that logging in is transferring you to the home page.

Makes sense does it not? You go the message center, not yet logged in. The board detects your cookie and logs you in. And that puts you at the home page, just as if you did not have "remember me" checked and logged in manually.

So "remember me" doesn't remember me then does it? It's really "log me in automatically" which I subconsciously want to happen transparently no matter which page I go to.

But we had this argument, or one like it, in August 2001 so let's not revisit it.

Actually, it depends on the page. Try going straight to this one -- does it kick you back anywhere?

I'm not sure what the difference is -- probably that you're not allowed on the message centre unless you're logged in, and it's checking for that before it remembers you.

I'll have to look.

it depends on the page. Try going straight to this one -- does it kick you back anywhere?

No, it doesn't. I copied, quit the browser, started again and pasted, and it took me right back here.

Right. It's the placing of the "are you logged in" code, I'd bet. The admin pages will probably kick you back too. I'll go look.

One thing Rebecca and I were discussing the other day about the board is the titles of windows.

I pretty much know that I'm John H, so putting that at the top of every window is redundant, though not a problem.

What would be immensely cool is if the Message Centre had, in the title bar, some indication of new messages.

Message Centre: No New Posts

changing to

Message Centre: 10 New Posts

or just

Message Centre: New Posts!

as soon as any of my subscribed threads had new material in them.

That way, I could keep it in the background while working and only flip to it when there was stuff to read. Kind of like that "beep for new messages" thing that WX offered, only, not annoying. And it would actually work.

At the moment, the code is constructed so that the page doesn't actually know if there are new posts (the middle column of the main table is returned as HTML from a function). Which also means that the title bar is written before the check is actually done.

Sooooo ... major structural recoding.

major structural recoding

No big deal, just a thought.

And, am I seeing new quotes turn up or am I just dreaming that?

Jengod sent me over a hundred new quotes which have been massaged and entered (porn!) for your viewing delight.