Can I have my own test environment?
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Aims - Jun 10, 2005 7:44:45 am PDT #9961 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Eddie - Jun 12, 2005 7:40:58 pm PDT #9962 of 10000
Your tag here.
Refresh this page every 5 minutes. (Minimum 10, use 0 for no refresh.)
Is this a trick question? The default refresh rate in Message Center is 5, but it says minimum is 10.
Edit to clarify: this seems to be the case the first time you subscribe.
§ ita § - Jun 12, 2005 8:04:05 pm PDT #9963 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Good catch.
Corrected.
Eddie - Jun 12, 2005 8:59:14 pm PDT #9964 of 10000
Your tag here.
Also related to Message Center and Subscriptions: why are Closed threads a subscription option? It seems to me the point of Subs and MC is to winnow down the threads of interest and to be kept current on recent posts. Closed threads by their very nature aren't going to update. If you want to look something up in a Closed thread, you can always go through Buffistas Home.
I guess I'm not necessarily suggesting a change, no harm the way it is, I was just curious about the design choice.
Edit: Ok, I can see having unread messages in a thread that just recently closed. Still not getting the being able to subscribe to Closed threads from Set Profile. Hmm, though I can see the complications that would arise if one were to edit one's subscriptions while in this state. Ok, nevermind, I think I understand why the Closed Threads are available. Just struck me as odd initially.
§ ita § - Jun 13, 2005 3:55:06 am PDT #9965 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's no good reason I can think of to prevent people from putting a closed thread on rotation to come up when they hit Read New. New only means unread -- if that's the way I want to work through Bureaucracy 1, so be it.
I thought of putting in a doohickey to unsub you from closed threads you've read everything of, but couldn't be arsed.
DXMachina - Jun 13, 2005 4:12:50 am PDT #9966 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
More trouble than it's worth, and could be annoying, say, if you're a stompy who opens a new thread, then goes to the end of the old thread to add a link to the new thread before catching up on unread posts, and gets unsubbed in the process.
DCJensen - Jun 13, 2005 2:10:20 pm PDT #9967 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Yes, I like the sub option the way it is. I sometimes like to catch up in an old thread before I read the new one, and keeping it in my rotation lets me catch up without the extra clicks to go to the main and "pick" it.
SailAweigh - Jun 14, 2005 2:52:07 pm PDT #9968 of 10000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
What Daniel said. I'm often 500 posts, or more, behind in Natter and the end of the thread often has some of the best stuff. So, I stay subscribed even once it's closed so that I can catch up. No changing!
Eddie - Jun 14, 2005 6:49:40 pm PDT #9969 of 10000
Your tag here.
Remind me not to think aloud in a public forum...
Beverly - Jun 16, 2005 7:33:03 pm PDT #9970 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The font across the board just got little and wee. And there's a row of asterisks all the way across the page plus a quarter of the next line after the last post. Um?