Your Brief (or Full) THANKS to JohnRob

[Askel5]

You're amazing. This is SO cool!

I'm going to play with my style sheet tomorrow!

Request for comments: new feature

Miscellaneous Free Republic
248 comments.

I've been tinkering with a new way to do self-search. It will display the comments as if they were in a thread, but only displays those comments addressed to you or posted by you. Have a look at it here: Last 100 posts involving you -- in reverse chronological order, like latest posts New posts to you (since last time you checked) -- in forward chronological order, like a normal thread I think this should be listed in forward chrono order, but that might make browsing your self-search awkward.

9436594 posted on 10/13/01 3:17 AM pacific by John Robinson

Recent Changes @ FreeRepublic 12-Oct-2001

Miscellaneous Miscellaneous
484 comments.

Making changes to the Self-Search function, and in particular, how the database is organized in relation to Self-Search. Self-Searches should now be lightning quick and should span many months. The current index holds about 6 months of data (all I have available.)

9431639 posted on 10/12/01 7:46 PM pacific by John Robinson

Colorful Free Republic Daily Site Statistics

Miscellaneous Free Republic
68 comments.

With the conclusion of last week, two years of Free Republic site statistics are now available for comparison. Watch the forum grow 300-400% in those two years. A remarkable achievement for a site advertised almost solely word-of-mouth. Click here to dazzle yours eyes and mind. A bountiful cornucopia, statistically pleasing, matrix of pure joy awaits.

9328763 posted on 10/8/01 6:49 AM pacific by John Robinson

Free Republic "Bump List" Register

Miscellaneous Breaking News Free Republic
116 comments.

I have created a public register of "bump lists" here on Free Republic. I define a bump list as a name listed in the "To" field used to index articles. Free Republic Bump List Register

9164521 posted on 9/30/01 4:46 AM pacific by John Robinson

Free Republic Supported HTML Tags and Attributes

Miscellaneous Free Republic
66 comments.

The following is a list of support Free Republic HTML tags and attributes. The lefthand column is the HTML tag or attribute for the preceeding tag. Tags are listed in bold red uppercase letters. Attributes are listed in black lowercase letters. "Common Attributes" are available on all tags. The righthand column is the status of the tag or attribute. Possible status values are: allowed This tag or attribute will not be filtered. stripped; attribute removed This tag or attribute is disallowed, and will be stripped if HTML Auto Corrected is selected. pruned; html and contents removed This tag or attribute ...

8626661 posted on 09/04/2001 00:32:57 PDT by John Robinson

Recent Changes - Problem Thread I

Miscellaneous Free Republic
80 comments.

Many technical changes are taking place here at Free Republic. While these changes are taking place, I will run a "Recent Changes - Problem Thread". The purpose of this thread is to document problems, bugs, and general difficulty which may be related to these changes. Comments and criticism are expressly welcome. Issues Author, Source, Keyword searches are currently disabled. Topic listings are currently disabled. Occassional difficulty submitting posts. Desires Return of the E-mail field on replies. I am deciding if it is worth the visual clutter. More distinction between posting a reply and sending a private reply. More space between ...

9164091 posted on 9/30/01 2:59 AM pacific by John Robinson

Recent Changes @ FreeRepublic UPDATED

Miscellaneous Breaking News Miscellaneous
108 comments.

There is some odd problem with Netscape and italics getting stuck on. It's something to do with the style sheets, I believe. So I am killing the default style sheet. Original Thread See the original thread if you would like to install your own custom style sheet.

9140925 posted on 9/28/01 5:34 PM pacific by John Robinson

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

ping

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Recent Changes to FreeRepublic - Feedback Thread

[Askel5]

Oooh ... THAT clever, eh?

Thank God for small favors! =)

[Senator Pardek]

LOL - we're gonna have to Mark this thread somehow!

[IRtorqued]

thanks bump

[steveegg]

A big THANKS bump. One last request (forgot it on the self-search-is-live thread); could you enclose the navigation inside the .fr_page class? Not that it's a big deal, but with the way I had to write my style sheet to get .fr_page_here and .fr_page_goto to display properly on Internut Exploder 6 (it's only IE that's the problem there; all versions of Nutscape, both 4.x and Mozilla-based, didn't have a problem with the lazy-man's way of setting those text properties), it doesn't quite work on self-search. Thank you again for the work you put in. MUCH better you than me <VBG>

[Sender]

For all you do...this Bud's for you!

[Hank Rearden]

I'm still disgruntled, but just a bit more fixing will fully gruntle me.

At the top and bottom of every thread, we find a number of options, including "Self-Search" and "Abuse".

So where's the "Self-Abuse" option, hmmmmmmm? As long as they're down in the code wrenching away . . . . . .

[Mercuria]

Or..."How To Teach An Old FReeper New Tricks!"

Ouch.

My brain hurts...hehehe.

(I vote with Anna, though, on the e-mail addy space...wasn't that fun?)

youmeanwecantdoth@anymore.com?

[Askel5]

Thanks too for your help. Having pulled the articles last night, I realize the default style sheet was killed (explains the dead link on the other site) but -- as I said -- shall play with all that some time today once I get my chores done.

[summer]

Dear John,

This is my first 'Dear John' letter. So, I hope it comes out OK.

Thank you for all you do.

Sincerely,
summer :)

PS Askel5 - nice post

[Katie_Colic]

Thank you John Robinson! I am delighted with all the new stuff!

[Askel5]

So where's the "Self-Abuse" option, hmmmmmmm?

You're not getting the mouse-over effect on your post button depending on what sort of thread or to what poster you are replying?

My post button not only turns red but sounds a siren in warning if I even think about posting to the likes of Sinkspur, taking umbrage with "sexual liberation" or sticking up for Keyes or Klayman. =)

[Askel5]

Lol! Can't wait to see the homepage of "Gagging As I Ping".

I'll admit I definitely have the Old Dog syndrome but am handling it fairly well.

[real saxophonist]

Not so sure I like everything, but I can get used to it. Love you and your dad.

[Brian Allen]

Thank's for the whole darn deal, John Robinson! And hug your Daddy! FReegards -- Brian

[afraidfortherepublic]

Thanks, John, for all the new stuff, and thanks, Aske, for putting it all in one place for the technically challenged.

[Le-Roy]

Askel, thanks for the thread (many good links).

John, quite a few really good ideas incorporated into this one revamp. The 50-reply thread chunks should help 'load-balance', especially when there are several 'hot' threads, the self-search takes me back some 1057 replies, if I want, the HTML reset will save a lot of headache.

Overall, remarkable. Kudos, and a brew or two, John.

[John Robinson]

Thanks everybody, but no thanks is really necessary. I'll be content with my privileged ability to address all posters. :-)