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§ ita § - Jan 17, 2005 1:50:25 pm PST #9296 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

::clears throat::

No need to clamour for the bookmark thing. It's in alpha.

I'm for "fixing the first post issue" and "enforcing no posts past 10,000."

Both already implemented.

About the search -- not only are e-mail addresses often hidden, so many people have more than one, that it's hard to know who's calling themselves what. So I'm not sure it's that valuable -- except from the admin POV, when we get support e-mails from people who forget to put their IDs. But can't we just beat those people up?

Also, no split infinitives.

Jon B. - Jan 17, 2005 1:56:36 pm PST #9297 of 10000

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

except from the admin POV, when we get support e-mails from people who forget to put their IDs.

I've found that a search through the new-users mailbox for the email address usually solves the problem.

DXMachina - Jan 17, 2005 1:59:27 pm PST #9298 of 10000

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

It works for users from around ID# 900 or so on.

brenda m - Jan 17, 2005 2:12:29 pm PST #9299 of 10000

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I can see the value in stompies having an easily accessible email list, but otherwise I don't think it's necessary.

Liese S. - Jan 17, 2005 2:19:08 pm PST #9300 of 10000

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, in general I'm not thrilled with a search by email function for the board as a whole, but that's prolly just me flailing about. Personal thing, I have my "real" address up here because I trust the Buffistas with it, but dunno if I would want it searchable. Contradictory I know, because it's logged-in-users anyway, but still, that's my opinion for what it's worth.

I do think it would be nice to offer stylesheets such that we were more accessible, but I think it would be fine to manage it within a few options, rather than making it wide open. We could cover text-only, work-friendly, large fonts, etc. and cover our bases nicely, I think.

DXMachina - Jan 17, 2005 2:28:24 pm PST #9301 of 10000

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I think it would be fine to manage it within a few options, rather than making it wide open.

All I personally want to do is be able to change the damn font.

§ ita § - Jan 18, 2005 9:12:21 am PST #9302 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

To what, DX?

If we go the pre-packaged stylesheet, I figure

large fonts
stealth (no graphics, less colour)
no whitefont
small fonts

are a good place to start. Any other ideas? Assuming, of course, if that's the way we go.

DXMachina - Jan 18, 2005 9:25:39 am PST #9303 of 10000

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

To what, DX?

I want to be able to specify the typeface to be something other than Verdana. Either that, or not have it specify any typeface at all, so that my browser's default can kick in.

§ ita § - Jan 18, 2005 9:30:12 am PST #9304 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Maybe that could be a stylesheet option -- minimal? I'm not sure how much can be stripped without breaking the presentation, though. Maybe just the font.

Jon B. - Jan 18, 2005 9:39:56 am PST #9305 of 10000

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The font for everything, or just the posts? If we limit the font changing ability to just the text of the posts, that won't break any of the presentation.

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