[sweetliberty]

Way to go John! Thank, thank you, thank you for fixing the pager. Also, for working on the browse all forums feature. I noticed the sidebar right off this morning. It's unobstrusive. I'm okay with it.

Thanks for all your hard work John. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

[Stultis]

Looks great, John. And the keyword searches now drill much further back in time than they used to! It bothered me before that we were "losing" so many articles that had been keyword indexed.

As a suggestion, I wonder if it would be possible to have some kind of "find related topics" function associated with keyword searches. That is a function that would bring up a list of keywords most commonly used in conjunction with the one the user is searching for.

Along similar lines, how about a keyword index page? This would alphabetically list all keywords used in the database (of course limited somehow, e.g. to the 5,000 or 10,000 most frequently occuring ones).

[facedown]

Excellent!

[MileHi]

Niiiiiice!

[eureka!]

Looking good. Thanks for all you & John et. al do. A happy and blessed Thankgiving to you all...

[Agnes Heep]

Looks good. If I could make a suggestion: reduce the column width on the response pages to about two-thirds of its present full-screen width.

[11th Earl of Mar]

Any thought given to the search function? How about making the default setting be search by 'date' not 'relevance.'

Everytime we want to check to see if an article has been posted, we have to do TWO searches in order to get the articles listed by date.

Also, why not have the 'search' function listed on every page? Within each thread and within our Comments page?

[null and void]

* NEW By popular demand Browse All Forums (Search is on the todo list.)

EXCELLENT!

* FIXED The pager now alerts on new comments to you in any forum (it used to only alert for the News/Activism forum.)

Better than EXCELLENT!

* CHANGED General Interest now General Interest (Chat).

Good, if you're going to move things to chat, you should call it chat!

* I added color to the sidebar, tell me (politely!) what you think.

Nice shade of blue.

* Lots of misc. things under the hood.

Oh? Like what?

[HairOfTheDog]

Thank you JohnRob! I love the fixed pager most of all...

and the rest looks lovely!

[AxelPaulsenJr]

The comments page has been very slow to load for two days now, any fix of that on the way?

[John123]

I added color to the sidebar, tell me (politely!) what you think.

I think the colored sidebar is a little distracting.

[GailA]

I like the new color on the side bar. The two blues together are easier to read than the blue on white.

[Sabertooth]

• NEW By popular demand Browse All Forums (Search is on the todo list.)

Great, I'll definitely use this. Will there eventually be a way to select specific forums for the "Browse All" option? For example, if Daily Threads gets its own forum, as they are so popular, I'd go for a "browse all but Daily" option, if that was available.

Will keywords eventually work across all forums? Can keywords be retained when threads are moved from News to Chat, or to the Backroom? I realize it's sometimes necessary to move threads, but sometimes they contained info and keywords that are still useful as a resource.

• FIXED The pager now alerts on new comments to you in any forum (it used to only alert for the News/Activism forum.)

Cool, thanks, I've wanted this.

Something I've noticed recently is that when I'm browsing, "new posts to you" gets highlighted for my own posts to others. I don't think it was always like that, so lately I've had to do extra clicking, only to find out the new post was my own. Can this be changed back to the way it was?

• CHANGED General Interest now General Interest (Chat).

Another good improvement. There's still a source of "GI" confusion when posting News articles. When I get to this field:

Topics Comma-separated list of topics; or press "Choose" to select from list REQUIRED

It takes me to a page with this heading...

Choose any number of topics

General Interest

If you scroll down, "News/Activism" is a subheading of this "General Interest." Since this isn't same "General Interest" as General Interest(Chat) -- I don't think, anyway -- this might be confusing to folks who haven't posted many articles.

• I added color to the sidebar, tell me (politely!) what you think.

No opinion. Might be helpful if the sidebars had different background colors, to enable quicker scrolling. Just a thought.

Oh, the other day, someone posted a link to something like a "My Sidebars" page. I forgot to bookmark that, can you repost? Also, is it possible to have more than just the three main sidebars on that page?

• Lots of misc. things under the hood.

Looks good so far.

One feature I've thought would be helpful is a shortcut to "My Bookmarks," that could appear next to "My Comments" and "My Mail," when I'm browsing. Unless I'm missing something, I think the only way to one's bookmarks, as of now, is through one's profile page.

Keep up the good work. Thanks, John.

[null and void]

What would be way kewl would be a pull down menu on the tag lines so a poster's frequently used tag lines could be switched back and forth without retyping...

[Unknown Freeper]

John, thanks for listening to your fans and for all the work you do. Nice changes.

[glock rocks]

Good stuff, John.
I'll use the "All forums" alot.

is there any plans to use css for the thread pages? The white background is hard on my eyes, and the beta test a while back was wonderful change. Thanks.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Excellent changes! Thank you.

[Solamente]

The Browse All Forums feature is excellent! Thanks!

[Quix]

LOOKS GREAT, AS USUAL, JOHN.

MUCH appreciate all your labors of love. And all this so soon after our recent discussion is very timely.

BTW:
Is your mouse/trackball REALLY comfortable? Or would you like me to try and track down another of the type I use from Taiwan?

[Mo1]

I added color to the sidebar, tell me (politely!) what you think.

It's Purdy