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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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Jon B. - Feb 16, 2005 6:20:27 am PST #9581 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I'm with amych, DX and Jessica.


Jessica - Feb 16, 2005 6:20:47 am PST #9582 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Is it just me, or is the board a little slow today?


Steph L. - Feb 16, 2005 6:24:46 am PST #9583 of 10000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

I now have Apocalyse and COMM in my center-of-the-page list of subscribed threads, in addition to having them on the right side. Is this intentional?

I do, too. It's pretty weird.


§ ita § - Feb 16, 2005 6:45:03 am PST #9584 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Can we distinguish between what's a bug (code's not supposed to do that) and what's unwanted (I don't like it when the code does that)?

My reading of this is that it works, but people don't like how, not that it doesn't work. Am I correct, or are there bugs I need to be tracking too?

Not counting your unread posts, DX, since you said it was happening before. And I've tracked down what broke the link I posted last night. Which led me to a bug that's been in the code forever, so now that's fixed, and pointed out another that I need to think on for a while.


beathen - Feb 16, 2005 6:46:26 am PST #9585 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

I now have Apocalyse and COMM in my center-of-the-page list of subscribed threads, in addition to having them on the right side. Is this intentional?

I found that this happened to me because in my profile I had the admin thread checked so I unsubscribed. But when I click "Read New" it doesn't pull up the admin threads.


§ ita § - Feb 16, 2005 6:47:47 am PST #9586 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But when I click "Read New" it doesn't pull up the admin threads.

You need to subscribe for read new to pull it up.


DXMachina - Feb 16, 2005 6:55:30 am PST #9587 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

My reading of this is that it works, but people don't like how, not that it doesn't work. Am I correct, or are there bugs I need to be tracking too?

Were you deliberately trying to have the admin threads show up in the center column of the Message Center? If not, it's a bug.

Is this related to adding folders, or something else?

Not counting your unread posts, DX, since you said it was happening before.

Yup. I only mentioned it because it had just happened, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.


beathen - Feb 16, 2005 6:56:32 am PST #9588 of 10000
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.

Yes, but yesterday when I was subscribed to BBaBB, for example, it was not located in the list of subscribed threads in my message center but stayed on the side of the screen. When I clicked "Read new" it would pull me to the admin threads if needed.

I'm just basically echoing everything others have said this morning about the admin threads showing up in the message center lists.


§ ita § - Feb 16, 2005 6:58:49 am PST #9589 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Were you deliberately trying to have the admin threads show up in the center column of the Message Center?

That's what the code was meant to do, yes, as stated upthread. As a fix, it's undesired behaviour, but it's just following my orders -- I'm the buggy one, not the code.

Is this related to adding folders, or something else?

It's not adding folders, exactly, since the right hand column has been composed of two folders the whole time. It's just trying to achieve consistency in the handling of folders, plus adding the ability to nest folders.

This aspect of the consistency? Undesired, and I'm working on how to remove it.


Jessica - Feb 16, 2005 6:58:55 am PST #9590 of 10000
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Yes, but yesterday when I was subscribed to BBaBB, for example, it was not located in the list of subscribed threads in my message center but stayed on the side of the screen. When I clicked "Read new" it would pull me to the admin threads if needed.

The subscribe/Read New relationship hasn't changed. The only thing that has is that now subscribed-to admin threads appear in the Message Center with the other subscriptions.

(Which, thinking about it, is a more logical way of things to be, but I find the duplicate thread listings more distracting than not.)