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. ;-)

[Admin Moderator]

Except for the sidebar background colors, great job, John.

[xzins]

I definitely like the sidebar colors.

Spell check is a great idea.....(some day an "edit" key, maybe?)

[FrogMom]

Oh great, Kennedy is on the floor....................

Drunk again?

[Nita Nupress]

May you suffer four flat tires tomorrow for enabling my addiction in such a grand fashion.

[FrogMom]

Leni, it's done that for a long time - look at the stuff under your post - one is "to xxx" - that's what you're replying to!

[PAR35]

Thanks for the improvements (particularly to search).

[Fledermaus]

Great stuff. Love the changes. The blue sidebar is fine by me!

[Dog Gone]

Mine is more than double yours. Think more in algebraic terms of X/squared.

[Willie Green]

Can't you just see it now...these poor folks will have to go to their therapists:

LOL! Yep, that's the general idea!
Of course, their posts would still be there if you don't want to put them on your ignore filter.
But their impact would be muted for those who don't want to bother with those individuals.

Sounds like a nice feature to me.
I think it may help improve civility.
(maybe not much, but some.)

[John Robinson]

That looks great. It's a keeper.

[Nita Nupress]

Mine is more than double yours. Think more in algebraic terms of X/squared.

Denial often serves a useful purpose.

[John Robinson]

You've got swatches 2 through 6. I don't have text colors coded into this mess, so we're using black. The headers are way too dark.

[smith288]

You cant use white for A: styles?

[FrogMom]

John, while you are tinkering...

In My Preferences, I have it set up to open a new window when I click on an article.

If we select My Comments from the browse page, it opens in the existing window. How about making a My Comments selection (same window or new window) consistent with whatever the FReepers preferences are?

[John Robinson]

I'm not using a style sheet like I probably should. I am using a fixed data structure with three colors, bg for top and bottom and the border. I'll probably migrate to a style sheet later.

[Admin Moderator]

It does. You should give it a cool name, like Fatigued or Hooah or Troops....

[xzins]

Now you've gone and done it.

Browse all is a return to the old FR.

Congrats on some really great changes.

[John Robinson]

Okay, let me think about that one. I'm never sure when a link should open in a new window and when it shouldn't. (That's why I label the ones that do with ^)

[John Robinson]

Your colors, your name. What be it?

[smith288]

Bummer...my palette had white titles in mind.