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Free Republic Software Update for November 25th, 2003 (Update #4)
Posted on 11/25/2003 5:17:51 AM PST by John Robinson
Edited on 11/25/2003 7:59:47 PM PST by John Robinson.
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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. ;-)
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To: John Robinson
Great upgrades, as always. The sidebar color looks nice. And the spellchecker is a godsend.
The only (minor) change I'd suggest would be to add a way to the spellchecker for the user to type in a word that isn't in the "alternate words" pulldown list. A bad typo might cause the spellchecker to guess wrong about what the user was trying to type, and thus give "suggestions" none of which are what the writer was aiming for. Right now, there's no way to type the desired correction without going back to the original text and hunting down the offending word. It'd be great if there were a way to "override" the pulldown list and just type a new word right there.
This might seem trivial for short posts which can be easily corrected "by hand", but Freepers who sometimes write very long posts (and we know who we are, *cough*) would find it *extremely* handy to be able to fix things "on the spot" in the spellcheck page as they are found instead of having to make notes about which 1-N typos need to be tweaked manually and then wading back through the 10-paragraph "raw" post hunting them down one by one.
PS: Hey, why isn't "Freeper" in the FR spellcheck dictionary? :-) It doesn't like "spellcheck" either, LOL.
PPS: Hmm, and running this post through the spellchecker lost all of of my "<p>" tags, too, I had to reinsert them manually.
To: sweetliberty
no, but I just did, lol!
You've posted a total of 28 threads and 13,816 replies.
To: John Robinson
Apparently I have made 17,027 replies (now 17,028) since joining this forum. I need to...get a life!
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:14:02 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(198.2 (-101.8))
To: smith288
6.27 posts a day... Dont tell my boss...heheWimp.
I've averaged nearly 25/day...
364
posted on
11/25/2003 4:14:08 PM PST
by
null and void
(All my genes are hand-me-downs)
To: nicmarlo
"You've posted a total of 28 threads and 13,816 replies" Lightweight! Hehehe.... I'm having so much fun.
365
posted on
11/25/2003 4:15:11 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt)
To: SamAdams76
FreeRepublic.com "The Crack Cocaine of Conservative News Discussion"
366
posted on
11/25/2003 4:17:08 PM PST
by
John Robinson
(Copyright © Trademark ™)
To: null and void
Hehehe....isn't this great? What's with the tag line?
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:19:09 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt)
To: John Robinson
Thank you for the spell check.. now I can post like a real adult! I think I would win the award for the most typos.. BTW
To: John Robinson; Lazamataz
FreeRepublic.com "The Crack Cocaine of Conservative News Discussion" Laz, could you do something with this?
369
posted on
11/25/2003 4:19:43 PM PST
by
steveegg
(Property tax freeze? Since Craps Doyle vetoed, RECALL - countdown is now 35 days (late update))
To: John Robinson
Hey John, you should automatically calculate the # of posts per day on the personal page.
370
posted on
11/25/2003 4:20:24 PM PST
by
smith288
(Did you even look at yourself in the mirror when you left the house??? Ugh)
To: John Robinson
I've seen two people wondering why their HTML tags are not working. Anything going on?
To: No More Gore Anymore; Mo1
Nope. Mo1 has that award sewn up....
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:21:22 PM PST
by
null and void
(All my genes are hand-me-downs)
To: steveegg
From my addiction/recovery standpoint, or from a humor standpoint?
373
posted on
11/25/2003 4:21:32 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(PROUDLY SCARING MYSELF SINCE 1999 !)
To: John Robinson
Thanks, John, for all the new bells and whistles. This is an early Christmas present!
374
posted on
11/25/2003 4:21:59 PM PST
by
Palladin
(Proud to be a FReeper!)
To: smith288
Oh, I don't think we want to go scaring off our best patrons. :-)
375
posted on
11/25/2003 4:22:35 PM PST
by
John Robinson
(Copyright © Trademark ™)
To: John Robinson
You've posted a total of 1,586 threads and 6,694 replies.
Does that make me a Journalist ? lol ..../sarcasm/
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:23:04 PM PST
by
ATOMIC_PUNK
("Veritas vos Liberabit")
To: null and void
Wimp.
I've averaged nearly 25/day... If you knew my company, you would think im brave.
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:23:34 PM PST
by
smith288
(Did you even look at yourself in the mirror when you left the house??? Ugh)
To: 1rudeboy
Just a couple bad invocations of the arcane language known as Regular Expressions.
378
posted on
11/25/2003 4:23:54 PM PST
by
John Robinson
(Copyright © Trademark ™)
To: null and void; John Robinson
What would be way kewl would be a pull down menu on the tag lines so a poster's frequently used tag lines could be switched back and forth without retyping Yeah, that would be pretty cool. So would being able to do html in FReepmail. I'm not complaining, mind you. I love it, John. You made my day.
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posted on
11/25/2003 4:24:53 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt)
To: null and void
I saw that!!
380
posted on
11/25/2003 4:25:08 PM PST
by
Mo1
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