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]

Your name is fine.

[Dog Gone]

Browse all is a return to the old FR.

Only for those who prefer that. For those that do, it will introduce them to the forums which have been neglected for far too long. For those who complained about real news and conservative discussion being drowned out in latest posts, this will also help.

Major kudos on today's refinements except for the temporary queer color adventure.

[Nita Nupress]

You fixed the "Rewview" page!!! THANK YOU!!

You're a sweetheart, John. You have no idea how much that bugged me.

[justshe]

He meant 'strange'....not queer....right? Huh? Huh? :-)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I just found something that intensely (and politely) annoys me. The list of forums are in different colors. Why? Pick one color, black or blue, and stick with it. Don't make them change color. Please.

Same with the list of articles on the right-hand side. Some are black, some are blue. Again, please, pick one color. Don't make them change. Please.

[smith288]

That means the link has been "visited" so its marked a different color...sorta system set but John is able to make it black all the time.

[FrogMom]

Great! Thanks, either way.

Changes look good.

[glock rocks]

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)

John, could you use Windows (user set) colors for the links in the sidebar? I can't tell what links I've visited from the blue/black. I can't tell them apart anymore. Please?

[John Robinson]

Are you talking about the color distinction between visited and unvisited links?

[BlessedBeGod]

John, could you use Windows (user set) colors for the links in the sidebar? I can't tell what links I've visited from the blue/black. I can't tell them apart anymore. Please?

I'll second that. Please?

[BlessedBeGod]

Yep.

[Nita Nupress]

For those that do, it will introduce them to...

That should be, "For those who do,"...

Do you realize how long it took to catch you in a grammatical mistake? And I just caught Pardek in a vocabulary mistake on another thread. LOL! That's it. I can die and go to heaven now.

Goodnight. And thanks for the thrill. ;-)

[John Robinson]

No problemo. I will fix all typos and misspellings printed by my code. (There's enough of them that's for sure.)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

I guess that's it. We didn't use to have it. I don't need to know if I've been to a thread or not. It's just a visual distraction. Please, I'm begging you. (I'll send you some cookies.) :D

[honeygrl]

The queer pink color is perfect for the Bizarre News section I wanted added to the forum since the LeadMod didn't want that in regular news :)

[glock rocks]

Are you talking about the color distinction between visited and unvisited links?

That's what I'm talking about.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

That's what I'm talking about. Does it drive you insane, too?

[Admin Moderator]

Something light?

#F5F5DC
#F5DEB3

[John Robinson]

How do underlines/no underlines look for visit status? (I'd get clobbered if I didn't have that for the thread links.)

[glock rocks]

I have my Windows colors set such that new links are blue, and turn red after I've visited them. I hate to lose that, my eyes aren't so good any more.