Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

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§ ita § - Jan 22, 2003 6:10:44 pm PST #2872 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

No -- content is deleted when a post is deleted. Gone, bye bye, forever.

And although I coded it differently at the outset, Gud convinced me otherwise, and I stand by that.


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 22, 2003 6:12:02 pm PST #2873 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

• Automatic subscription transitions. When one natter thread dies, another is chosen. I'd love to automatically be sub'd to the new one. And maybe once you finish a closed thread (10000+) you're automatically unsubbed? • A sub/unsub button/link at the top of all threads. So if I wander into say, the Due South thread, and I want to sub, I don't have to go ALL THE WAY OVER TO THE SET PROFILE LINK--it being so unbearably far away, you see.

I love the second (yes! it is so far and so many pixels away! do not make my mouse click through to the Set Profile screen!) but am not sure about the first. It can be kind of desirous, I think, to stay subbed to inactive threads-- so I can use the "search only threads I'm subscribed to" option in the Search tool, when I'm not sure whether a particular Trudy quote is from Bitches One, Two, or Three. And I'm itchy, I guess, a little bit, about ever subbing people to things they didn't explicitly ask to be subbed to. A Subscribe/Unsubscribe link at the top of the page would make it easy to sign up for the new Natter-- but having it done for you automatically seems a little... over-much.

Btw? Can I say something? I love how when I ask it to mark a post for me, it doesn't reload with the marked post at the top, but instead the same posts displayed as there were a second ago. It's very neat and non-confusing for those of us who read with two windows open at the same time and the "Read New" button instead of the "Next".


§ ita § - Jan 22, 2003 6:19:06 pm PST #2874 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The subscribe link request is on the list already.


amych - Jan 22, 2003 6:23:30 pm PST #2875 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

RL, how would you feel about a modified version of jengod's first proposal -- say, if you weren't automatically unsubbed from the old thread but had to do the housecleaning yourself if you wanted, and you had to click on the Special Magic Link to get subbed to the new one (Note that I have no idea if such a link is even possible) rather than going straight through to it?

I'd love to be able to sub to new threads without having to go through the home page and then my profile, especially since I never even look at the home page but use the message center instead, and I only change my profile every few weeks.

And a much more do-able request wrt new threads -- can we reverse the order of the threads in the profile page so that new threads appear at the top of the page rather than the bottom? Now that the complete thread list is several screens long, it's getting to be more of a pain to get to the right checkbox.


§ ita § - Jan 22, 2003 6:25:03 pm PST #2876 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Now that the complete thread list is several screens long, it's getting to be more of a pain to get to the right checkbox.

Hmm. I like it that way, since I have to be down there to click the button anyway. I just scoot to the end of the screen, check, click, move on. Otherwise you have to stop midway down the screen, and then again at the bottom.


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 22, 2003 6:32:20 pm PST #2877 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Hmm. I like it that way, since I have to be down there to click the button anyway. I just scoot to the end of the screen, check, click, move on. Otherwise you have to stop midway down the screen, and then again at the bottom.

This makes sense to me.


Jon B. - Jan 22, 2003 6:32:21 pm PST #2878 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

No -- content is deleted when a post is deleted. Gone, bye bye, forever.

I stand corrected! (guess I oughta take a better look at the code, eh?)


bon bon - Jan 22, 2003 6:53:31 pm PST #2879 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

On Monday we hit 700; now I'm seeing 722. What are we up to now, and does this mean that celeb posts mean an almost exponential increase in registration ("and they told two friends, and they told two friends...")?


Jon B. - Jan 22, 2003 6:59:25 pm PST #2880 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

722 userids are out there but admin is user #1 and a few folks have multiple IDs for Sang Sacre.


Betsy HP - Jan 22, 2003 7:23:36 pm PST #2881 of 10000
If I only had a brain...

I just put stuff in brackets when I edit it in. Saves typing.