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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

I can put passwords on the zip files to make them more difficult to get into. Would that suit your requirements?

No, no, don't put yourself out, but you're kind to offer.

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?

Are we allowing the changing of font size or just the face? I thought it was the latter. In any case, last time the idea of switching to relative font sizes came up, I did some research and determined that the current stylesheet methodology of explicit point sizes was best in terms of browser compatibility. I suppose I should just try out my sample pages with various different fonts in the stylesheet and see how they look.

Are we allowing the changing of font size or just the face?

The current request is for both.