FR: First Installment of New Year's Changes

[John Robinson]

Okay, I may have found the bug with the sidebars, and so they are back.

Also, I've made some significant changes to the structure of the forum. The sidebars are now treated as if they were topics, and threads can now be listed under many topics. When displaying a thread, thread's topics are listed to the right, clicking a topic's name will take you to a topic index, or a list of threads in that topic. In the future, keywords will be listed as well, and will be handled similarly.

Speaking of the future...

In the future, you will be able to place any topic into the sidebar, and in any order you desire.

In the future, the bump lists will also be treated as topics.

In the future, there will be an ability to add threads to a topic after the thread has been posted.

In the future, user's bookmarks will be treated as their own semi-private topic.

In the future, it will be possible for users to create their own topics, and remove threads from topics they administer/own. And the administator/owner/creator of each topic can decide who can add threads to their topic and who cannot, a membership list of sorts. (This is how I will prevent others from putting threads in your bookmarks.)

Although I should make this very clear. Topic administrators will not be able to affect the comments on the thread--topics are to be considered only a collection of threads, a way to organize the forum into meaningful categories. These are not mini-forums.

[smith288]

Did you do something with the CSS?

[SamAdams76]

I claim the topic "Buddy the Clinton's Dog: Suicide...or foul play?"

Keep up the good work and I look forward to the changes.

[John Robinson]

Uhg. I dunno. I'm debugging :-)

[dennisw]

btttttttttt

[knarf]

And the future .. ? ... is already in progress.

Enjoy, brother Jim.

Thanx for all you and John have done and all you do.

[John Robinson]

Oh I think I disabled it. I'm having a helluva time keeping all these changes synced up. I'll have it back as soon as humanly possible.

[John Robinson]

The future is already written. :-) I just have to port the changes from my development branch (where all the really crazy stuff happens!)

[knarf]

"I'll have it back as soon as humanly possible."

Who'ya'kiddin', JimRob ... everyone knows you and John are superhuman.

[Dog Gone]

I just have to port the changes from my development branch

It's mysterious and incomprehensible statements like that which keep us in awe of you.

Thanks for what you do, however the heck you do it! ;-)

[nimc]

Miracles on the fly..WOW! Thanks!

[kassie]

Thanks for all the work. It just gets better and better.

[freedomson]

Whatever it is, I'm against it.

;)

[smith288]

I guess ill let you slide. :)

[Leisler]

Does this mean the handcrank on my 286sx will, or won't work?

[Hugh Akston]

Cool. Love it.

[Betteboop]

I don't understand any of this!!! I read, I comment!! It's fun!!!

[TroutStalker]

This morning, for the first time, when I try to use search, I get a page that says simply: Go

The address on the page is: http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/go

[MeekOneGOP]

FR: First Installment of New Year's

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