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. ;-)

[Willie Green]

Apparently I have made 17,027 replies (now 17,028) since joining this forum. I need to...get a life!

It IS a rather rude eye-opener, isn't it?

Here, this oughta cheer you up:

Willie Green "posted a total of 5,561 threads and 24,641 replies."

(no wonder my bifocals are worn out.)

[sweetliberty]

"A spell checker just appeared. That certainly threw me."

The lead moderator is always the last to know.

[Sidebar Moderator]

The lead moderator is always the last to know.

Not true..... ;-{

[nicmarlo]

Then the Admin. Moderator is the last to know! : )

[justshe]

Well!!!! Isn't THAT fun!

Thank you, smith!

[sweetliberty]

"The lead moderator is always the last to know." "Not true..... ;-{"

Awwwww...here's something to make you feel better.

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[justshe]

WOW.....I'm a blabbermouth!

[smith288]

Well!!!! Isn't THAT fun!

Too shy to tell us yours stats? hehe

[sweetliberty]

" I'd actually like to add the ability to download mail (maybe in a ZIP file) and THEN delete it."

I have so much stuff saved in FReepmail, both sent and recieved (I loved the sent items feature, by the way), but I am constantly having to clean it out. Would love to be able to save some of that to my hard drive without having to copy and paste everything (yeah, I'm kind of a computer dummy). I dread to think what would happen if all that was lost!

[justshe]

You've posted a total of 15 threads and 9,162 replies.

So see.....I actually AM rather shy. Of course....I lurked for 2 years before finally posting....so maybe that explains it?

[sweetliberty]

"I'm a blabbermouth!"

LOL! Yeah, me too.

[Ichneumon]

Willie Green "posted a total of 5,561 threads and 24,641 replies."

Hey John, if you really want to scare people, keep and display running totals of how many times each poster has hit the button for the "Latest Posts" or "My Comments" page. ;-)

[smith288]

Your are about 5.7 posts a day since joining...just a little lower than me (6.3/day).

[honeygrl]

i'm stealing that as my tagline.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Does the search function work across all forums?

[John Robinson]

Not yet. I will have one that does when time allows. It will be accessible from the All Forums link.

[sweetliberty]

"You should just name the magenta option "I'm Gay" and have it change the entire page to pink and purple"

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[Dog Gone]

You rock. You've fixed the major things that I've suggested, and done far more.

However, I'm not sure that I wanted to know that I've posted 2,652 stories here at FR. While I'm sure that is far less than some, you have to spend some serious time at the keyboard to do that. Yikes!

[Senator Pardek]

OK - out with it - how many total posts?

[Willie Green]

if you really want to scare people, keep and display running totals of how many times each poster has hit the button for the "Latest Posts" or "My Comments" page. ;-)

There are some statistics I'd rather remain happily oblivious to. Thank you.

I admit, I was always a little curious about the ones just provided.
But now that it's available, I find it a little unsettling.