And I wonder, what possible catastrophe came crashing down from heaven and brought this dashing stranger to tears?

Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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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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Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2005 11:43:59 am PST #9317 of 10000
brillig

Ah. Mmm.


Jon B. - Jan 18, 2005 12:28:10 pm PST #9318 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

If ita's mind is correct, then that's not a stylesheet change so much as a mode change. We'd have to make show-no-graphics an option in the user profile.

Or the user could log on in lynx.


Lyra Jane - Jan 18, 2005 12:54:07 pm PST #9319 of 10000
Up with the sun

If we do get stylesheets, it would be great to be able to get a smaller font on here.

Also, I see no need for user pictures. On the profile pages, I don't have a strong argument against them, but I always found having pictures with every post ugly and distracting on fora where they're allowed. (Except LJ, but there's a whole Cult of the Icon there, as well as size limits.)

I apologize if this is a silly question, but how would "search by email address" work? I would love to be able to find someone's email from their user ID, but I'm not crazy about anything that would work the other way 'round.

I would love to be able to easily create polls on here. Voting does somewhat mitigate the need, but they'd still be fun and ocassionally useful.

Am neutral on taglines. I suppose if I designed a system from scratch they wouldn't change, but I'm used to them being gone with the wind.


§ ita § - Jan 18, 2005 2:50:29 pm PST #9320 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can't you tweak a stylesheet to make the img tag not actually display? I'd rather, in this pass, just concentrate on what we can control with CSS.


Betsy HP - Jan 18, 2005 3:37:18 pm PST #9321 of 10000
If I only had a brain...

In the teaching-my-elders-to-suck-eggs department, Panix just got hacked; somebody stole their domain address.

From Slashdot:

What seems to have happened is that somehow the Australian registrar "melbourneIT.com" yanked the fully paid-up registration away from Dotster (where Panix had it) without any notice whatsoever (this violates all the relevant RFCs for the Shared Registration System and the current ICANN policy *and* seems to indicate a severe bug or security problem somewhere in the registration system).

A recent ICANN change makes this possible.

[link]

ANY domain registrar, not just your registrar, can switch your domain over to somebody else if you don't respond within 5 days of being warned. To prevent this, you need to ask your domain name registry to put REGISTRAR-LOCK on your domain name, so that it's not transferred without your giving explicit consent to *your* registrar.

I'm sure you guys are way ahead of me, but I wanted to put out a heads-up just in acse.


Kristen - Jan 18, 2005 4:37:40 pm PST #9322 of 10000

That's so strange. I just went in and checked all of my domains and discovered that Dotster already has them all locked.

Except for the dot orgs. No idea what's up with that.


§ ita § - Jan 18, 2005 5:56:35 pm PST #9323 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks for that note, Betsy.

Hey, Jon, why don't you go over to DX's house and steal his VERDANA.TTF. That should fix things ...


Jesse - Jan 18, 2005 6:00:04 pm PST #9324 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

OK, I locked ours.


§ ita § - Jan 18, 2005 6:01:30 pm PST #9325 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jesse, b.org-related insent.


esse - Jan 19, 2005 1:41:33 am PST #9326 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I'd like user pictures in the user info pages. It would be nice to come across whenever I go looking for someone's email or something.

Also, I don't really care about the font, but I'd like to be able to change the size of the text in posts. It's way to big for me--I resize the page to 80% when I'm in Opera.