ita,
Heh. maybe I should leave that pic up on WX as the last natter post (for now) on WX.
Jayne: We was just about to spring into action, Captain. Complicated escape and rescue op. Wash: I was going to watch. It was very exciting.
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DCJensen - Feb 22, 2003 5:40:28 pm PST #3157 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Burrell - Feb 22, 2003 5:51:58 pm PST #3158 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Daniel, when I hit that link it gave me your WX identity. You might want to go back in and take out the text between the @@ signs so it won't do that anymore.
jengod - Feb 22, 2003 6:14:52 pm PST #3159 of 10000
ita, big love.
Jon B. - Feb 22, 2003 6:31:28 pm PST #3160 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Basically, it's a HTML link, taking you right to the next post. I think it could be a middle ground between the current setup and a full-fledged MARCIE, which some might consider too agressive.
Depending on how tall your browser window is, and where the post falls on the page, it may not do anything for you. For example, in my browser window right now, when I'm scrolled to the bottom, I see the last five posts. If an annoying post was the fifth-to-last post on a page, clicking skip wouldn't take me any further down the page since I'm already at the end.
t edit and smooches to ita.
DXMachina - Feb 22, 2003 6:36:07 pm PST #3161 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Natter 8 doesn't appear to be locked anymore.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2003 6:41:46 pm PST #3162 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hokay. I've manually bumped all non zero under five refreshes to five, and changed the code.
I've laid the groundwork for archiving threads, plus changed the code to automatically display [closed] next to closed threads.
At the moment, if you have a posting box, you can post to a closed thread¹. So if it closes Tuesday,and you've had it open since Monday, you can post Wednesday. Jon, I'm thinking the simplest place to put an error message a la "Whoops too late" is in the space where the posting box would go, if someone tries it.
Could you make that pretty? Both words and appearance?
¹: I'm not sure if that's how Elena's husband got the last post in N8.
DXMachina - Feb 22, 2003 6:44:57 pm PST #3163 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I'm not sure if that's how Elena's husband got the last post in N8.
Beats me. I just had Charpe check, and there's no posting box. Maybe he really does have a deal with Cthulhu.
Jon B. - Feb 22, 2003 6:59:33 pm PST #3164 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jon, I'm thinking the simplest place to put an error message a la "Whoops too late" is in the space where the posting box would go, if someone tries it.
Testing my understanding: Someone posts to a closed thread (because they've had the page open since before it closed). When they hit "Post message" you want the showthread page to appear as it does now, but with an error message somewhere on the page indicating why the user's post ain't there?
I think it should be higher up on the page than the posting box. I think the error message would be more visible if it were nearer to the top of the page.
§ ita § - Feb 22, 2003 7:08:02 pm PST #3165 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I was trying not to mess with the unchanging parts of the design. Everything from the thread title down to just above the last HR is generated together. So the variations, according to current coding principles have to happen outside that.
Jon B. - Feb 22, 2003 7:18:14 pm PST #3166 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I see. How about just above the last HR then? i.e. right after the
"Read New | Message center | ..."
Also, how hard would it be to make the post a page variable that displays with the error message? I'd hate to spend a lot of time posting a message only to find that it errored out and is lost in the ether.