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. ;-)

[TheBigB]

Thanks, John. ;-)

[Sir Gawain]

How about defaulting the search preference to time posted instead of score?

[steveegg]

And how many were opus(es?)

I'm smelling a contest here (if only Laz would stop bleeding onto his server :-) . Guess how many opii Lazamataz posted and get a FR coffee mug.

I'll guess 69.

[4mycountry]

John! A spell checker! BLESS YOU!!!

~ Happy Thanksgiving ~

[Stultis]

Opiaea? Opia? Opium(s)?

Opera?

[Lazamataz]

Incorrect.

[steveegg]

I knew duct tape had a Viking source :-)

[steveegg]

Shatter that "magic" 8-ball anyway.

[bert]

The spill check works

[Stultis]

I'll guess 69.

Seems a little high if you're counting full opus (as opposed to misc vanity provocateur*) articles. Of course if you count in-thread opii (and suicide threats) it's way, way low.

*Hey, this damn spell checker is FRENCH!

[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

Way to go JimRob!
You da man!
Although, you might want to list your moniker (i.e. JimRob) as a correct spelling! Just a suggestion! :~D

[Lazamataz]

I'm only counting full Opus threads that I posted. Guess?

[skraeling]

First impression before reading text or comments, the BLUE background on the right is TOO BLUE. There is not enough contrast between the background blue and the text blue to make for easy reading.

Suggestion: Screen down the background blue to maybe half as dense and see what that looks like. If not enough, screen it down some more.

[Stultis]

honeygrl: I wanna know how much I've posted.

Ooooh, ooooh, oooooh! Me too!

[Truth Table]

Nice. Thanks.

[Mo1]

How will we know it's really yew, Mo?

You'll know .. trust me ;0)

[Stultis]

!#!

Er, I mean 13!

[MinuteGal]

Thanks, guys.....I didn't know that the little magic number down there was what I was pining for! Fellow freepers to the rescue again!

Leni

[Lead Moderator]

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[steveegg]

*Hey, this damn spell checker is FRENCH!

Sounds like a problem :-)
Seriesly, I like the fact that the spell checker is multicultural (though it needs to learn "seriesly").