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.

After the first 5 days, I'm still in love. The category thing would be nice, but not essential. I miss spell check, but you'll all just have to live with my typos.