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. ;-)

[onyx]

Magenta for 'queer' topics! ROFLMAO!

Seriously, I like your re-vamp, but as a pewter dunce, I'm still tyring to figger-out all of your new additions. Spell check, I've mastered.

[sweetliberty]

"How do you launch the pager (besides clicking the link in this thread?)"

"I just have the thing bookmarked"

I have it set as my home page. Little window for posts/FReepmail and then click on "return to forum" on the big page to get to latest posts. Works great.

[Nita Nupress]

Speaking of freeper opera, the *Opus List is now two years old, and it was born here.

When you run across an ancient thread a few years later, do you ever get an irresistible urge to bump it? Especially if it just barely made the 9/01 cutoff date?

It's just me, isn't it?

BTW, I STILL think the "Opus" thingy was a cool idea. :-)

[John Robinson]

I'd take any good mix of colors as an alternative. I played around with the whole thing for about 15 minutes before I decided I was wasting my time, I can't match colors. I tried to make a nice purple for my girlfriend, who is a purple freak. But instead I got invited to be on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Yikes!

Anybody can play, here's a color chart: http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/

Pick two colors that look nice with black text. If you want, give me a third color for the border. Post 'em here. I'll add anything that tops the magenta--I'll add practically anything.

[ladyinred]

I love it John! The spell check and the ability to check all forums, the colors, all of it! Thanks so much!

[Senator Pardek]

BTW, I STILL think the "Opus" thingy was a cool idea. :-)

Duh. Think to yourself, Nitz - whose idea was it?

[Senator Pardek]

Notice how DG won't fess up to my query?

[Nita Nupress]

Are you telling how many replies you've made?

[Dog Gone]

Rumor has it that Sidebar Moderators are former Admin Moderators that were turned into newts, possibly by a witch. But I don't trust or spread rumors.

[sweetliberty]

"FreeRepublic.com "The Crack Cocaine of Conservative News Discussion"

You got that right!

[Admin Moderator]

How about something green?

CCFFCC
#8FBC8F

[Sidebar Moderator]

I hate to pick colors for everyone, can't win as you've seen.

If you can't make them user selectable, how about FFFFCC & CCFFCC ? Don't know about borders, do we need 'em?

[sweetliberty]

"Nope. Mo1 has that award sewn up...."

I was gonna say that, but I was feeling a little self-conscious about my __,___ posts.

[Nita Nupress]

Duh. Think to yourself, Nitz - whose idea was it?

Duh. Think to yourself yourself, Pardek. I was giving you a compliment.

But I'll take it back if you don't want it. LOL!

[Dog Gone]

Notice how DG won't fess up to my query?

Hey, maybe you didn't read the thread closely, but the Lead Moderator said that the number only counts the number of replies TO me. I have no idea how many posts I have actually made myself, but I'm sure it's precious few.

It's not my fault if a lot of people think I'm a good listener. They think I'm Alan Alda, when I'm actually Helen Keller.

[John Robinson]

I tried some combination of green and it looked like puke. But I'll add this one for giggles. We can always refine it later. It's Swatch 1. I have 4 more ready to be painted.

[John Robinson]

I think I tried every combination of F and C. It was obscene.

[Senator Pardek]

Listen, sister - you feigned surprise about the good idea coming from the likes of me.

How many posts, nita? ;)

[Nita Nupress]

I only have 4K replies. Are you telling on yourself?