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To: John Robinson

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?

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.


87 posted on 11/25/2003 6:55:52 AM PST by Sabertooth (No Drivers' Licences for Illegal Aliens. Petition SB60. http://www.saveourlicense.com/n_home.htm)
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To: Sabertooth
Click on your name on the upper right hand corner of the Latest Posts page.

On the resulting page, you will find a link for "My Subscriptions". You can change the order of your sidebars, how many articles are in each, and also what the background color is for that sidebar.

You can also add other sidebars or remove sidebars and such as described on this thread.

Whoa. A spell checker just appeared. That certainly threw me.

124 posted on 11/25/2003 9:38:12 AM PST by Lead Moderator
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To: Sabertooth; All
One thought, in case you ever need additional info. Just go to our profile page, click on the ADMIN LECTURE SERIES link near the top and that will take you to all the moderator threads (plus some others) we've done. Lots of useful stuff there.
151 posted on 11/25/2003 10:01:06 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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