Upcoming changes to the forum

[evilC]

I agree. They are fun for the first minute or two, then they get real old, real fast.

Perhaps help forming the correct tags for external images would be useful (e.g. BB Code used by the likes of Invision, phpBB etc.). That would forestall some of the How do I post an image vanities.

[queenkathy]

Ok Ok...I've been corrected. I guess there will be no smileys in the new format. I've been outvoted. Not that I had any say in it anyway.
This is all pretty much Greek to me.

[AnimalLover]

Thanks John for all you do.

I second that!!!

[Syncro]

Or an easier way is to click on "pings" at the top of any thread or the latest post page.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Sure, we can scroll back in time through our posts, but if I want to search for something I'd posted a year and a half ago, I'd be scrolling back all night. It would be easier to click back to March 2003 and see all of the threads I'd posted to.

Unless I'm missing something?

[concretebob]

Those aren't nerves, they're withdrawl tremors..I have them too..

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Right. That's how I do it now.

[Syncro]

OIC what you mean

That would be a good feature.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

:)

[xzins]

faster load is good. Thanks.

For the future.

I'd still like to have 2 kinds of excerpt that must be chosen:

(1) Excerpt

(2) Excerpt, registration required.

[rdb3]

Only when you're doing wheelies.

Wheelies? Are you kidding? This motorized wheelchair is hooked up! I got the wetbar on the back, it has 24" wheels with spinners, and it has a swimming pool. I was doing some laps with it yesterday at the Texas Motor Speedway. Okay, so a golfcart beat me. So what?

Yep. It's a wheelchair in style. Nevermind the wife saying "shut up" when I tell her about my imaginary rims. This fantasy won't be taken away. Now I'll pour me some Pepsi out of my wetbar that's, well, dry.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.

[evilC]

“You used to be able to address a post to "all" to ping everybody on the thread.”

I presume that does not happen now. I use "all" when I am making a generic reply to a thread and don't want it to appear that my comments are directed at the original poster only.

Regarding an RSS feed for My Comments, I wonder if Firefox's "Live Bookmarks" can use the domain cookie, so that a FF "Live Bookmark" would work for My Comments.

[lunarbicep]

Thanks for the update, John

I too have always liked the 250 comments per page feature. I have also learned that FR just keeps improving, so I have no reason to doubt your wisdom in these matters.

Thank you for all the work you do in helping make FreeRepublic the best

[FreedomPoster]

Sounds cool to me. Full speed ahead!

I remain a satisified monthly supporter.

[Billthedrill]

Outstanding work as always, John! Some time when you want to mess with people's heads try de-activating the automatic "close tags" code so folks can see what FR was like in the old days.

On second thought, don't. Bad idea. Bad idea. Bad, bad idea...

[B Knotts]

Have you looked at akregator?

[evilC]

We could do that now by adopting the convention that the original poster (new article) creates two extra replies one marked "Commentary" and one marked "Updates". The a user could click on the replies link of the relevant post.

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PS: Hope my HTML trickery works!

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[Krodg]

Good grief!! I have joked about an ignore feature in the past (probably to Howlin, if you need to check) but I knew how to use my scroll bar and 'move on'.

If I see a thread that doesn't interest me, I 'move on', if I click on a thread and then find that most posters are being childish, I 'move on' and if I find a poster that I don't want to argue with...I 'move on'. Why do you have a problem with that??

[Krodg]

Or an easier way is to click on "pings" at the top of any thread or the latest post page.

I thought the poster wanted to view his/her posts. I agree, clicking on "pings" is the easiest way, if you don't post much.