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DXMachina - Feb 16, 2005 10:09:14 am PST #9611 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

It's the new sarcasm filter...

Are you sure you didn't accidently hit "block" on a post of hers that you actually wanted to "mark"?


Beverly - Feb 16, 2005 10:11:08 am PST #9612 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Hmm. Where do I go to find out?

Urp. Yip. Undone, now. Thanks.

This is funny ironic b/c of a discussion elsewhere. Heh.


msbelle - Feb 16, 2005 10:11:57 am PST #9613 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

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Kat - Feb 16, 2005 12:55:32 pm PST #9614 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Um, am loving the subfolder for closed threads since that means they go away. But I'm a fan of folders/subfolders.

Kisses to ita for that.

Will Great Write Way and the Bureau ones eventually go there?


§ ita § - Feb 16, 2005 2:09:55 pm PST #9615 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, Kat. It was looking like a bit of a junkyard.

I figured, especially since I was tidying without telling anyone, that I'd leave the very recently closed thread (all the ones I tucked away were at the bottom of the date list), and the B'cacy just because they were official-like.

I have no idea what community will is on the issue.

Jon -- will there need to be any changes to the current style sheet to prep it for being overriden by user-selected fonts and font sizes? Changing it from point sizes, or making everything relative to some single starting point?


DXMachina - Feb 16, 2005 2:22:12 pm PST #9616 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

I think the Bureau threads can go in the folder. We keep them mostly for easy access when we need to look something up, but I don't think they need to be out front.

I agree about keeping GWW out front to give people a chance to catch up. Maybe move newly closed threads after a week?


§ ita § - Feb 16, 2005 2:30:08 pm PST #9617 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Maybe move newly closed threads after a week?

That sounds fair. Read new will work the same way, no matter the folder.

Here's the basic logic -- any thread or folder can have a parent, or a NULL parent. Parent #0 doesn't actually exist -- it's the body of the main page. Having no parent means that you don't show up in the middle of the main page (if you're a thread, there's nowhere else to show up if you don't have an explicit parent -- so NULL is no good here). So the Admin and Tools folders have no parents. The Closed folder has parent #0.

They can be nested, if required (TV/Buffyverse, or whatever), but I haven't made navigational breadcrumbs to back yourself up the family tree yet. I'd also like to add a folder description before I can call it done, not to mention a folder maintenance page for adding and renaming.

Oh, and admins will notice a "maintain" link under the thread header on a showthread page that takes them directly to the thread maintenance page for that link -- it currently doesn't return you to whence you started, but it is a few mouse clicks shorter than the previous method.

I'm also thinking maybe a "clone" or a "spawn" to make creating Natter #19342 a little easier by copying over the definition of #19341.


DXMachina - Feb 16, 2005 2:34:02 pm PST #9618 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Oh, and admins will notice a "maintain" link under the thread header on a showthread page that takes them directly to the thread maintenance page for that link -- it currently doesn't return you to whence you started, but it is a few mouse clicks shorter than the previous method.

That is very cool. Clone (replicate?) would be great.


Connie Neil - Feb 16, 2005 2:57:21 pm PST #9619 of 10000
brillig

So that means I'd better get my butt moving and download Great Write if I want a copy.

Now that Search is different, what is the most efficient way of downloading a thread?


§ ita § - Feb 16, 2005 3:04:03 pm PST #9620 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So that means I'd better get my butt moving and download Great Write if I want a copy.

Nope -- it has no bearing on the availability. I'm not deleting or locking anything -- just moving it into a subfolder.

As for downloading threads -- threadsuck hasn't been altered, or you can wait until DX does his magic tidying and download the archived ZIP file.