Posted on 03/02/2008 2:38:06 PM PST by STARWISE
I agree! I asked for that on a suggestion thread a long time ago. I am patient and optimistic. :)
I knew something strange was going on. I already wrote John a FReepmail about it, but now I suppose I’ll have to change some of my well ingrained habitual tendencies in navigating FR... Oh well.
Everybody sing!
Give me that old time software
Give me that old time software
Give me that old time software
It’s good enough for me.
It was good for Paul and Siles
It was good for Paul and Siles
It was good for Paul and Siles
It’s good enough for me.
Who in the world is “Siles?” (don’t you mean Silas?)
It’s the new software!
Really.
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I don’t think FR is fixed yet. I still have to click on “comments” over there on the right side every time I bring up Free Republic (or even refresh) in order to get to the “Latest Posts” page.
ROFL!!
You”re nuts it totally stinks!!!!!!
I don't see a whole lot of difference, but that just may be the way I enjoy the forum. It has been downgraded though, imo, by the fact that you can't get it to open on the "Latest Posts" page anymore. Now, you have to go to the right side and click on "comments" every time you bring up FR or even just refresh the page.
It's not the end of the world or anything, but it's a little annoying right now. If this is the way it's going to be, then oh well.... I'm sure I'll get used to it after a couple of weeks and forget it was a little more convenient in the past.
The "Active Articles" view is the same as "Comments" except that it is ordered by the headline rather than the latest comment. You see the same list of articles in the same order either way. Commenting in a thread bumps it to the top in either view. Once shows you headlines in that thread, the other shows you the latest comments in that thread.
No, you misunderstood. When I bring up FR I want the “latest posts” page, not the list of articles. Anyway, I was just fooling around here and I replaced my existing link with the address for the “comments” page and it seems to be working right again! Even when I refresh it stays on the comments page.
Cool.
I think it’s so rotten that I am considering jerking my $35/mo donation until it is put back the way it was.
However, I find most articles, such as that Wikipedia article, have difficulty explaining RSS. RSS is an underlying protocol, rather (vaguely) like HTML. One would not expect to explain to your grandmother what browsing the web was like by giving them a link to a page defining the HTML protocol and history in precise technical detail. It just isn't going to help them.
What matters is how you use it and see it.
For example, in my Firefox browser, I have a number of Bookmarks that I depend on heavily. Over a thousand bookmarks, actually. They are arranged in folders, with various subjects, such as Politics, Nutrition, Computers, and what not.
Now where RSS comes into play is this way. Some of those Folders are dynamically updated. Such as I now (as of earlier today) have a bookmark folder that I call "FR Latest". It has links to the Latest Articles. It is updated automatically and instantaneously, to whatever are the Latest Articles. I can glance at that folder of my Bookmarks, regardless of what web site I happen to be on, and if I see the title of an FR Article of interest, go directly to that Article, with one click on the bookmark.
So, for me, RSS means the ability to have a list of dynamically updated bookmarks for lists of posts or articles or updates to a web site, if the web site is publishing those updates using RSS.
I was such a fool to have picked upon you like that!! In addition to your lovely and clever tagline, I suddenly realized who you ARE! You're the one that guides me all over the place and has virtually eliminated the need for me to ever look at an outdated map, or better yet, submit to the wifely demands that I stop and ask some stupid rube for ANY idiotic directions!!!
Furthermore, I have been given such power over you that I'm even able to perform a sex change (excuse me ol boy, I ment gender change) on your voice while driving to explore a new church on Sunday, or Saturday, which ever the case may be. (It'll sure never be on Friday, that's for sure!)
So, ya see, I really approve of your genderific software, but this here change to FR's modus operandi has kinda got me by the short ones, if ya know what I mean. I'm such a miserable creature of habit and tradition that like most older gentlemen, I'm desperately against change! So you can rest assured I won't be voting for ANY of those outrageous dumbells in the Democrat Party.
Even my tagline registers utter contempt for change from the good American/Californian traditions. Most change just SUCKS canal water and we could really do without it entirely and NEVER miss a bit of it!!! "New and improved" is WAY over-rated and it isn't just because I'm getting older, or just because I'm one of those "cranky conservatives! I've felt like this about it ever since I thought my very FIRST adult thought!!!
Please excuse those occasional loud, upper-case blurtings... I must be developing tourettes syndrome or something closely akin to it. (JUST KIDDING!!!) Other than than, ThomasThomas... don't change a danged thang!!!
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I hope it isn't "fixed" yet. "Comments" is partway down the page, so I have to either use the mouse or "page down" button to get to it. I hope we will again be able to choose "comments" as a permanent way to view FR, rather than having to constantly reassert our preference. It's an added step that is quite annoying.
I agree.
I sent a private mail to John Robinson asking him if a preference on the "My Preferences" page could be put in to set what you would like the preference to be, Latest, Active, or Comments.
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