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. ;-)

[Lead Moderator]

That's because the Lead Moderator is some sort of illiterate maroon.

Let me try that again- it is just the count of replies made BY you, and does not include posts made TO you.

[null and void]

Don't you ever sleep???

[nicmarlo]

Know what?

[Lead Moderator]

Rust never sleeps.

[nicmarlo]

Comment #641 Removed by Moderator

Okay, which of one of you is the anonymous 'moderator'? : )

[Amelia]

John, this is awesome! Thanks!

[Dog Gone]

Let me try that again- it is just the count of replies made BY you, and does not include posts made TO you.

Well, crud. Someone needs to have a chat with that maroon about misleading the loyal members of this forum. ;-)

[ClintonBeGone]

Excellent Job JR!

[Interesting Times]

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

Bless you.

[tubebender]

I can only read short articles of two or three paragraphs . Anything longer I find myself hitting the "Refresh Button". Jigsaw puzzles are helping me with my other addiction (go JJ)...

[Tamzee]

Spiffy changes, thanks!

You spoil us :-)

[Drago]

Hi...sorry if this has been mentioned...(didn't have time to go thru all 600+ posts). The "Free Republic" at the bottom of thread pages used to be clickable to take you back to browse, can that be restored?

"FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794"

[Mo1]

Hey John .. I'm not sure if this has been mentioned

But I've noticed when I use the spell check that it takes the < p > part out when ever I try to make a post

Is there any way to fix this?

[John Robinson]

It's a smallish flaw in the current spellcheck code. It is only removing P and BR when they aren't necessary. If you have no other HTML in your post, your whitespace will be preserved.

[Lazamataz]

Wheres my GET LAID NOW button????

I've been requesting it for weeks now.

[smith288]

thise is a test

Still wiping my P tag out Blah

[smith288]

there was a BR between my text and "blah"

[tubebender]

Thanks for the spell checker with the really slick "Drop Down List". Could you repost all the current updates you have performed...

[mtbopfuyn]

Wow. Thanks. Just like an early Christmas present!