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
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, 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?
Definately labeling bookmarks
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since I can't REALLY remember my problem with br, I think it is safe to let that one go....
Oh-- I remember. It always drives me batty to have to type the br HTML in lines of a list or a poem, because to a hard return doesn't cut it, and two hard returns make it double spaced. but I don't know that it is very important.
