I'm already a dollar a day member, wish I could do more. If we ever hit the lottery, these FReepathons will go a lot faster. lol.
I always felt uncomfortable pinging people. I've only done it a couple of times. It makes me feel like I'm disturbing them, kinda like getting a phone call while you're eating supper.
This works great - you'll see a green check mark bottom right on the status bar - make sure status bar under "View" is "checked/enabled" ;-)
Thanks and thank you for the link.
My "home page" for years has been actually two pages - Latest Posts and Latest comments.
This way I can page though the latest news and see the Breaking and Front Page stuff on the sidebar in either page plus easily see what FReepers are all currently discussing.
Adding "Text" to the comments page forced me to see every post in its entirety - now at least with this "fix" I keep "Text" ON for Articles and OFF for Comments.
BTW - Did you know in FireFox you can set multiple pages open in tabs and then select Tools/Options/Main to set all the pages as your home page?