Noumenon's "Blinvisible" and "What does this do?" links could simply go to an entry in the FAQ rather than a new page.

Please. I spent the last 15 min typing out a long but very funny lawyer joke. Then I posted it, my page refreshed and I was logged out.

The common practice here is to use a simple text editor like Notepad to compose long posts. It's also a good idea to do it that way when you're writing up your private "watch-and-post" posts. One long post is easier and less confusing to read then a bunch of serial posts.

The common practice here is to use a simple text editor like Notepad to compose long posts.

I know, but that would have required forethought and common sense. Neither of which I had online at the time.
t noted for next time.

Ha. In my case, "the common practice" means "what I always wish I'd done the second after I've just lost an epic post that would have been a turning-point in the entire worldview of everyone who read it, but not to the extent that I can actually be arsed to rewrite the whole thing"

You know, if we turned the caching back on, this wouldn't happen. We'd be able to go back and find our post still in the posting box. It would probably save us some bandwidth, too.

What Angus said.

I still haven't found out how to turn caching on, is the problem -- anyone else know how?

Nou, with your extra interface scenario, we also need errorchecking on the "add user" side, which I was trying to avoid by only allowing you to delete a user from that page. Would that have a negative impact on the usefulness, if you had to see someone's post to block them?

My read had been that you could block a poster from a link in the psot header, and unblock them there too. Which would mean there'd need to be another link to just unhide the post. And there'd be no hiding of individual posts -- just everything by that poster -- the word "hide" is ambiguous to me that way.

This was what I was talking about. We tried it before. It worked fine for me. I think it would have been just a matter of changing a couple of browser settings for others, and it was working exactly like WX.

ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Dec 7, 2002 9:13:10 pm EST

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ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Dec 7, 2002 9:52:12 pm EST

I never untried that, DX.

I never untried that, DX.

I'm not following you. You changed a setting, the board started caching pages, but people were complaining about the Message Center not updating, so you changed it back about an hour later. Am I wrong?