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

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dcp - Jan 08, 2005 2:25:54 am PST #9214 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I'm seeing thread titles shifted most of the way to the right edge of the left-hand column. Screen shot here.

It's the same in IE 5.5, Mozilla 1.7, and Firefox 1.0

Is this new, or have I just never noticed before? Is it deliberate or accidental?


Jon B. - Jan 08, 2005 5:02:55 am PST #9215 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

It's always been that way, and it's deliberate.


dcp - Jan 08, 2005 5:07:01 am PST #9216 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Huh. I guess it really was time to get these new glasses.


beathen - Jan 08, 2005 2:00:30 pm PST #9217 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

I just got a quote:

This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's letting left. Best you get used to that. Mal, 'Ariel'

I think the word should be "getting" instead of "letting".


Polter-Cow - Jan 09, 2005 8:42:28 am PST #9218 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Hey! Is the Subscribe/Unsubscribe thing new? That's SO FUCKING HOT.

I just have to second this (or fourteenth it, or whatever).


Tom Scola - Jan 10, 2005 4:11:10 am PST #9219 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Re: the conversation that's going on in Natter.

Perhaps we should enable caching for threadsucked pages.


DXMachina - Jan 10, 2005 4:17:45 am PST #9220 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I'va always maintained that we should enable caching for all the pages. However, if we can enable or disable caching for specific pages, how about we enable it for everything except the home page and the message center. I don't know if that's possible, but I think that would be the ideal solution. The complaints we had when we did try caching pages were about the home page and message center not updating.


§ ita § - Jan 10, 2005 4:18:01 am PST #9221 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Or we could make all links outside links ...

The problem that was discovered with caching would be less of one with threadsucked pages, because it's unlikely that one is going to threadsuck from the same post twice at different ages of the thread. But it should be noted in the cases where one does, we weren't able to find a caching mechanism that didn't require you to force a refresh the second time to see new content.

If we can find this caching that doesn't need forcing, I think we should implement it on all content.


§ ita § - Jan 10, 2005 4:18:45 am PST #9222 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The complaints we had when we did try caching pages were about the home page and message center not updating.

Which I think is a bigger detriment to usability than not caching, in my estimation.


DXMachina - Jan 10, 2005 4:24:43 am PST #9223 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Probably. However, if we could apply it to individual pages, that would be ideal. If we can't, is there a way to force the home page and message center to refresh every time they're entered?