Posted on 03/14/2008 2:59:11 PM PDT by Glenn
I know FreeRepublic is not for profit. I understand that any changes that are done to it are "unencumbered" by any feasible plan.
But you are driving me nuts, John!
Think things through from my perspective. I don't have time to play around figuring out all the subtle differences between on Alpha release and the Next.
Do the right thing. Beta. Test. Don't break what isn't broken. Never, ever, do anything that breaks a bookmark.
I understand that playgrounds are fun, but I, for one, don't have time to coddle you whilst you are playing!
STRONGLY AGREE. It’s a fine set of improvements.
Methinks your definition of “professional” is myopic, narrow, rigid, wholesale biased and about the depth of a wading pool for gnats . . . wellll . . . . at least for mice.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Accusing John and Jim Robinson of being in the same “professional” galactic cluster as Microslop is fighting words in these parts . . . a least as far as I’m concerned.
If this were my website, you would hereby be
UNINVITED.
If you don’t like it here, go start your own website.
Then sit back, have a coke and a smile and STFU already.
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There’s nothing unprofessional about an iterative roll out. The fact is beta-ing for large websites like this never really work, the bugs are in the volume and the beta site never gets the volume. They chunked up the changes in a bunch of small waves, it’s a good way to keep things stable gives them a chance to find problems, and gives people a chance to adjust a couple changes at a time. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
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WELL PUT. THX.
Can't you do what Yahoo does, and allow people who do not like all the cute new features, keep their old Free Republic, at least for a while?
Thanks, Nathan
...I would like to suggest a new category of post..
I agree. Based on this thread, I would create a ‘Whining’ category.
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We might need to have several ranked categories:
1. Whining with a high pitched, shrill wail; a drippy nose; puffy eyes and stamping feet.
2. Whining with a shrill wail, pouty lips, puffy eyes & flailing arms.
3. Whining with a loud normal tone, pouty lips & fierce eyes.
4. Whining with a muffled pouty tone and a pleading eye-look.
5. Whining as a reflex but without much heart in it.
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I think I’d rate this one between a 1 and a 2.
“Speak for yourself, Glenn.”
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I think with these posts, we have to be more precise . . .
Wail alone, . . .
“Some other guy’s engagement ring.” LOL LOL LOL
It matters a lot where the pic resides.
It needs to reside on a site that allows hot-linking.
Then,
IMG SRC=”URL”
between left and right carets will work.
You can do stuff with it.
Nice work, carry on Sir!
Are you joking or is there such a feature. If so, how to implement it! I just assume some hotshot does it the long way every time.
I think the user defaults feature is awesome.
GREATLY APPRECIATED.
Thanks tons.
Being able to edit for say several hours or 24 hours after posting would be great, if that’s workable.
Yeah. That’s a problem on most sites. Not sure if it’s easily solved or not.
I think Firefox is better on such.
If you offered “tiers” of service, you may be able to make a good deal of money from this, Jim. You deserve it. Maybe incorporate a social network, POP mail, personal blogs, avatars....
I have the problem on other sites, yes, as well as FR. But I think I recently had to increase the IE7 > View > font size from Larger to Largest, because the fonts in FR seemed to get smaller. In fact it looks pretty tiny in this text box, even set at Largest.
It could just be this computer. My desktop gave up the ghost, and I had to switch to one of my laptops.
You can also adjust the font or pixel size in Desktop > Properties, but unfortunately that tends to make everything fuzzy, even with Clearfont adjustment. If the basic font size in the FR articles could be made bigger, that would help, but as I said I don’t know how much of this problem is due to the computer I’m using.
I brought this issue up in the spirit of beta testing, not as a complaint.
I got a larger screen—helps on my Desktop some. But it’s still a hassle.
Maybe I should go back to Firefox. Bt I like IE’s shortcuts I forget how to do shortcuts in Firefox. LOL.
Is there any way to program this friggin thing so that ‘Comments’ yields just a list of the thread title and little more of the latest comments? (in other words, the “old way”)
I don’t like having the whole comment — takes up too much screen real estate when I am just scanning the current threads being commented upon to see what interests me.
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