I'm very sorry if she tipped off anyone about your cunningly concealed herd of cows.

Simon ,'Safe'


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

To-do list


Lee - Jan 06, 2005 3:43:11 pm PST #9198 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I'll have a check for that, msbelle, when I go through the deletions and corrections that Lee sent.

I know I saw that, and I think I put it on the deletion list.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 07, 2005 4:35:11 am PST #9199 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I fear this burst of programmatic power may wane, so if there's anything to lobby/provide more specs for, sooner is better than later.

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Right. Um. High on my personal priorities list would be "ability to label bookmarks"-- does that need more detailed specs, or something else?

And beyond that, to invite discussion of some other things-- what in the 'pesonalise board layout/font/colour' range would actually be useful and practical, for example. And to ask the named individuals who've requested some things to exand/spec out-- eg. Ouise and Sophia Brooks' problem with t br , Allyson's request about putting preferred charities on Buffista links, etc.

Or there are some seemingly 'minor' ones, like "enforce no posting after the thread has reached 10,000 posts", "fix the missing first post issue" which would be worth doing; or the programmatic interface for submitting to Quote Generator, which is probably (and I'm guessing here) more work, but would cut down on other kinds of work, so... would you need more specs for that?


Connie Neil - Jan 07, 2005 4:42:39 am PST #9200 of 10000
brillig

Bookmarks.


beathen - Jan 07, 2005 4:49:04 am PST #9201 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

Definately labeling bookmarks


Deena - Jan 07, 2005 5:04:18 am PST #9202 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Labeled bookmarks would be very nice. The other thing on my personal list is making it so if you mark a post or if you click on a link in a post, when you go back, you go back to the same spot and not the top of the page.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 07, 2005 5:09:26 am PST #9203 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Deena, that's one of the things ita has changed, at least for 'mark'-- the return to page behaviour matches that from the 'edit' function. Doing the same when you click on a link in a post is, I think, not so easy, as it's not a board function in the same way.


§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 5:10:49 am PST #9204 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Bookmark descriptions have already been advocated for -- I'm wondering which of the rest are still wanted/needed.

The other thing on my personal list is making it so if you mark a post or if you click on a link in a post, when you go back, you go back to the same spot and not the top of the page.

One of those is out of our control (clicking on a link in a post and returning), and the other is already done (well, the page reloads with the marked post at the top).

Allyson's request about putting preferred charities on Buffista links

This may be a non-request -- or a request to add a charity-related link category.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 07, 2005 5:19:09 am PST #9205 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

This may be a non-request -- or a request to add a charity-related link category.

I know. My point is that we might need to ask Allyson which of those it is.

I'm wondering which of the rest are still wanted/needed.

I hesistate to suggest this, but would it be worth sticking the remaining things on the list, or at least the technologically possible ones, into a Mr Poll type thing and asking people to tick boxes for everything they think should be done? That would be a democratic priority producer, and weed out any unneeded requests.


§ ita § - Jan 07, 2005 5:20:40 am PST #9206 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

would it be worth sticking the remaining things on the list, or at least the technologically possible ones, into a Mr Poll type thing and asking people to tick boxes for everything they think should be done?

I'd like to hear discussion (both before and after) anyway -- because it's apparent not everyone is thinking of precisely the same things. I don't know if that means the poll will be adding anything.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 07, 2005 5:25:26 am PST #9207 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I'd like to hear discussion (both before and after) anyway -- because it's apparent not everyone is thinking of precisely the same things.

Yeah, there are several cases where that's true.

I don't know if that means the poll will be adding anything.

I thought if it was offered to the whole community, it would make an easy "no votes, not doing it", where discussion tends to be seen as a 'bullshit consensus'. But we can work around that, and some discussion (as you say) needs to be had anyway.