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. ;-)

[Monty22]

Oh, thanks for the update. I'll try to make it more 'classic FR' style :)

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Yep, that was it. Don't know why both of mine were set to bright blue. Everything's fine now. Everything looks great! Thank you!!!!!

[blam]

Hi John, I've had a problem for quite a while. It's with my posting. When I'm posting an article and have everything filled out and do a review, after the review and corrections, when I go back to do the post...everything has disappeared and I've lost the link to the article. I have just quit using the review feature and go straight to post. Can you help me with that?

[hispanarepublicana]

New Posts to You from You has been vanquished. New posts will only alert when other people ping you.

YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!

I'll drink one to this!

[John Robinson]

Don't use your browser back button after a preview. Instead, use the Edit link at the bottom of the page. It will take you back to the edit form.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

You've got lavender? How does that happen? Everyone else has a pale blue.

[LikeLight]

What's with the horrible black underlining for visited threads!!! This morning I was loving your changes. Now the whole place looks sick! The light blue bar with standard color change for visited threads was very nice. Now it's ugly as sin.

[John Robinson]

Yeah, I'm going to hang on naming them until we can refine them some. They're not very usable in their current shade, IMHO.

[cowtowney]

When do the changes take effect?

[honeygrl]

I think he means the magenta option for sidebar colors.

[glock rocks]

The IE "Accessability" button has a checkbox for "Ignore Web Page colors"

Now I've got it working fine. Thanks for all your fine upgrades, John. This is just excellent!

[smith288]

They're not very usable in their current shade

Im using them :P

[smith288]

The light blue bar with standard color change for visited threads was very nice. Now it's ugly as sin.

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"Cant we just go back?"

[Semper911]

Everyone else has a pale blue.

Dunno, must be my browser. But I just found the customizer in the My Subscriptions link in John;s post above. Now I have a nice light grey.

[John Robinson]

Swatch 7. Not bad, my choice of border sucks. I think a shade of brown on the border would be nice. Hmm.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Apparently, up at the top, in Subscriptions Gadget, you can change the color of the sidebar.

[John Robinson]

Wild man. :-)

But then again I'm not terribly impressed with my low-dollar monitor's color range. They may look fantastic. I miss my Mitsubishi. :-(

[blam]

"Don't use your browser back button after a preview. Instead, use the Edit link at the bottom of the page. It will take you back to the edit form."

Thanks, I'll try that.

[LikeLight]

The way JR had things early this morning and through most of the day was VERY GOOD. A definite improvement. But the black underlined thread list he added tonight DETRACTS in a major way. My head and eyes hurt from looking at it.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

John, I just LOVE the new Browse All! It's my new home!