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. ;-)

[null and void]

I'm between jobs. I found work interfered with my FReeping...

[justshe]

Where are y'all seeing the number of posts?

[smith288]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/

[JoJo Gunn]

DUH! I said I was slow.

Your "time machine" equation was an explanation for the ampersand in the link I couldn't get to work.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

She and I have the same typo virus. As you pointed out I think she gave to to me. I was really perfect until I ran into her that day , not so long ago. ( look an entire post without a typo or spelling error I never thought I would see the day.. it brings a tear to my eye.

[JoJo Gunn]

And it looks good in preview....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A45080-2001Nov5&notFound=true

[sweetliberty]

"Where are y'all seeing the number of posts?"

Click on your name at the top right corner. It's at the top of your menu page.

[null and void]

Oh *that* tag line? Left over from a pulled parody thread about an Ann Coulter porn video being posted on FR. My reply was:

"Did they get my good side?"

[mikrofon]

I have always thought the sidebar should be on the left side

The left side?? Bite your tongue! ;^)

Nice work, John --- 'looking forward to more updates!

[nicmarlo]

I had a hiatus for several months of no posting....so it only appears that I'm a lightweight! : )

[nicmarlo]

New posts will only alert when other people ping you.

Wonderful....that was annoying. (sorry)

[Skooz]

You've posted a total of 109 threads and 6,150 replies.

Heh heh, how cool is that?

[sweetliberty]

"Left over from a pulled parody thread about an Ann Coulter porn video being posted on FR."

Oh....and here I thought maybe my pictures were inspiring.

[JoJo Gunn]

As we Southerners say, "you did good, son!"

How anyone can have all those characters milling about in your head and get things fixed so quick I'll never know.

[BlessedBeGod]

Update #3

Bless you!

[steveegg]

Your choice.

[nicmarlo]

and here I thought maybe my pictures were inspiring

Why, they are sweetliberty, they are!

[sweetliberty]

I just love it when John puts new toys in our sandbox.

[null and void]

Maybe...

[nicmarlo]

I just love it when John puts new toys in our sandbox.

me too, me toooooo.