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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.


Connie Neil - Feb 16, 2005 3:14:10 pm PST #9621 of 10000
brillig

you can wait until DX does his magic tidying and download the archived ZIP file.

How ... prosaic. No cool cyberNinja moves or super-secret passwords or anything. Oh, well.