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.

How wonderful and beautiful, new quotes!

I just want to add that on *this* computer, when I dial up and ask IE (5, on Mac OS 9.2) to go to read_new.php, it takes me to a thread; but on the other computer (IE 5.5 I think, on 10.1.4) it takes me to the home page regardless of whether I type in message_center.php or read_new.php or index.php. Both times it recognizes me as Rebecca, but it doesn't take me to the same place.

If that's at all helpful.

OK, am I the very first person to get a fatal error message? If yes, do I get some sort of prize?

(It was while trying to post a message. I wasn't able to recreate it).

Sorry, Fiona, not the first. I've gotten it a couple of times while posting, as have others.

I love it ,too. My only quibble with read new is that I wish it would stay in a thread until you've read all the posts in the thread, rather than jumping around each time you click. But then I suppose it wouldn't actually be Read New. :)

I support the current behavior because it lets you slog through one thread with Next, or keep abreast of the flow of Natter with Read New. But I usually read when Natter is not flowing fast.

What is it about the word "one" that made it disappear when it was "between" the <>s?

Which reminds me, I have a suggestion: how about categorised threads on the front page, non-categorised threads in the Message Center?

Seems logical. Categories help newbies get a mental map of the board, and help you if you decide to just go to the show-specific threads today. When you check for new messages, then you want the newest listed first.

And the real thing that brought me to the thread: the t center tags got stripped out of Noumenon "The Quotable Angel: Can I say it? I wanna say it." Sep 22, 2002 8:04:15 am EDT. Is that one of the dangerous tags?

JohnH, if you can get GetWX to work on Phoenix, that would be great. I think on a big new project like this, you never really know if there's a Groundhog Day lurking in the works. Threads with important things in them, like Buffy 1 after Tuesday, it would be nice to threadsuck them just in case. Or maybe there are backups on the server.

We don't need one of those here, Nou. I can pull stuff straight from the DB.