Free Republic Software Update for November 25th, 2003 (Update #4)

[John Robinson]

Terse report for now:

• NEW By popular demand Browse All Forums (Search is on the todo list.)
• FIXED The pager now alerts on new comments to you in any forum (it used to only alert for the News/Activism forum.)
• CHANGED General Interest now General Interest (Chat).
• I added color to the sidebar, tell me (politely!) what you think.
• Lots of misc. things under the hood.

There are a bunch of add'l changes/additions I'd like to make, and this is probably not the last update today. I'll update this thread if so.

Update #1

• You can choose your own color for each topic subscribed in your sidebar. See the subscriptions gadget (All but blue is probably dog ugly. Feel free to suggest new color schemes in standard web hexadecimal (one color for the background of the title the other for the background of the links)

Update #2

• A few trivial changes, mostly cosmetic.
• You can now search by time or relevance from the latest posts. And it remembers what your last search was and defaults to that. So NOW order by time can be your default search setting.
• Oh yeah, almost forgot, SPELL CHECK! (replies for now, articles will come later.)

Update #3

• New Posts to You from You has been vanquished. New posts will only alert when other people ping you.
• Playing with the position of the Spell check button. Sorry.
• Your personal menu has a new small treat inside.
• Fixed a couple bugs dealing with the spell check code.
• I'm not done yet.

Update #4:

• Okay, I have stopped dorking with the link colors. Back to the defaults they go. Thanks for baring my experiment, I figure it's the least you owe for All Forum posts. ;-)

[RikaStrom]

I like 'em!

You startled me between one refresh and the next though. lol

[Constitution Day]

CHANGED General Interest now General Interest (Chat).

Well done. That was confusing to me and a lot of others!

[Tijeras_Slim]

You mean it's not General Interest (Hobbits 24/7)? :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

So you're saying you're confused in General?

[OXENinFLA]

I thought FR got a bit more colorful today, I like it.

Oh great, Kennedy is on the floor.....................

[mhking]

Impressive...

[mewzilla]

Cool beans. I like everthing, especially the color added to the sidebar. Makes it much easier to read. Great job!

[Tijeras_Slim]

Oh great, Kennedy is on the floor.....................

On his back with a bottle in his hand?

[Izzy Dunne]

Kennedy is on the floor

Great - Who punched him - the R's or the D's ???

[Petronski]

Oh great, Kennedy is on the floor.....................

Pretty early in the day, even for him...

[stainlessbanner]

I like the subtle colors. Good UI design.

[Clara Lou]

Color works very nicely and is appreciated.

[Rebelbase]

Very nice. "Browse All" could be renamed to "Classic FR".

[Constitution Day]

Yes, it was a Major pain.

[LikeLight]

It's all good, JR. Thanks.

[OXENinFLA]

Pretty early in the day, even for him...

He'd never miss a chance to slam Bush.

[FreedomPoster]

I like the color.

Was that polite enough?

[boxerblues]

Nice job. I like that General Interest is also listed as Chat

[Quilla]

Noitced the changes immediately - I like it! Thank you.