If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

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Buffistas Building a Better Board  

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

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Consuela - Mar 15, 2004 9:55:11 am PST #6711 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I think it's probably more a cultural thing than anything else. Most other boards out there allow any old person to start a new thread, and as a result people have more control over what they read, depending on the specificity of the thread topics.

Here, if you want to talk or read talk about Angel, you have to just dive into the thread, and deal with everything that comes up. You can't pick and choose among sixteen active threads, some of which are overlapping or redundant. For myself, I like this version because it enforces some community element: everyone talking about Angel is in the same room.

Anyway, I'm rambling, and this is pretty meta, so I'll stop.


P.M. Marc - Mar 15, 2004 10:01:52 am PST #6712 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

They're right there at the top and bottom of the posts. How much more obvious can you make them, unless they blink?

Hmm. I wonder if having them slightly larger and on their own line would help?


Astarte - Mar 15, 2004 10:05:27 am PST #6713 of 10000
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

I've been on boards with many kinds of interfaces, though never Table Talk.

This set up is clean and very intuitive as far as I can see. I go on the BronzeBeta or another threaded board and it drives me apeshit to try to find and follow a particular conversation.

If I were there all the time, I'm sure it wouldn't be as difficult, and I think the complaints you're reading (without knowing any specifics other than next/previous) are an artifact of getting to know ANY new interface.

That said, if it wouldn't frell something badly, why not just use a slightly larger font for that whole command bar? That might make it a bit easier for newbies to follow without having a blinking trail of pixie dust to follow.


amych - Mar 15, 2004 10:07:30 am PST #6714 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I wonder if having them slightly larger and on their own line would help?

I don't like larger (which may just be my personal interface squick) but having them at either end of the line or on their own line might make them more visible.


Jessica - Mar 15, 2004 10:10:29 am PST #6715 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Rather than changing our interface, could we just add a little mini-screenshot of the navigation bar to the "How to Navigate the Board" section on the How-To and FAQ pages? Currently, it explains how to use all the different navigational options, but it doesn't show where they are.


Typo Boy - Mar 15, 2004 10:16:22 am PST #6716 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I think this is as easy as it gets for non-threaded setups. I like threads, but I'm not only in the minority, but OVERWHELMINGLY in the minority. Liking threaded or not is a matter of preference, not of inherent easiness/difficulty - completely subjective. No reason to acomodate a radically different subjectivty at the expense of most current users.

In terms of table locking - the locking is just one very small table. And for that matter you could create a single non-isam table allowing record locking just for keeping track of posts.


P.M. Marc - Mar 15, 2004 10:24:40 am PST #6717 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I don't like larger (which may just be my personal interface squick) but having them at either end of the line or on their own line might make them more visible.

Own line and bold? (I'm seriously just tossing ideas into the wind here.)


bon bon - Mar 15, 2004 10:28:37 am PST #6718 of 10000
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Do you guys need to take the trouble to accomodate non-posters? No one here has complained of trouble, and we're not exactly reticent when it comes to that.

I say, they want to piggyback on our content while snotting about shit that's really easy? Screw 'em.


DXMachina - Mar 15, 2004 10:32:30 am PST #6719 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I say, they want to piggyback on our content while snotting about shit that's really easy? Screw 'em.

Yup. I think my new motto is going to be "What would Jaye do?"


Sean K - Mar 15, 2004 10:33:01 am PST #6720 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

It took me a couple of days to get used to this board style, coming from that cascading thread style of discussion, but I'm so used to it now, I find the cascading thread style distant and impersonal.