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Yarg, duplicate question from another forum. Hey is there a delete message button?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/12/2007 02:19PM by Curtis.

The best thing about WebX, as others have observed, is the subscribe/new messages feature. I don't ever want to slog through stuff I've already read to get to stuff I haven't. God knows, I already waste spend too much time sporking. My way of controlling this now is by subscribing to the RSS feed for topics I want to follow. Seems to work fine. What I'm wondering is what strategies y'all have adopted to efficiently slash through what amounts to quite a big heap of messages. By the way, I can only handle one Spork situation at a time. The other boards are already gone as far as I'm concerned.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2007 11:15AM by peter.

What other boards?
:P

I've not tried "following" a thread yet but I may ... so far the templates work.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2007 12:05PM by rino.

Following a Topic, at the moment, does two things:
1) Puts a link to the Topic in your Control Center for later management
2) Allows you to choose to get an e-mail upon new messages in the Topic.

As I've said in other Topics, I think that getting an e-mail upon new message is just about as detrimental a feature for this usage of a bulletin board as I can think of. For other uses, for instance, on rarely read boards where you've asked a question and are waiting on a follow up, it seems reasonable.

I'm in the early stages of creating a Mod to Phorum to accommodate the Check Subscriptions function, and it will use the "Followed Topic" list to figure out what to show you when you click for new subs.

OK, so we have Robert DiNero as one of our mods... and Mokers needs fake easter-bunny teeth to really pull off the vintage Reggie look.

I'd consolidate my online personas, but then I'd have to register under my giant, man-eating furry persona, and be banned from the board for being generally unwholesome. Of course, this is the same reasoning I give for not providing my tech-persona alias on the pervert forums. ("Soup! He's that asshole who was against Intel chips on Macs... BAN HIM!")

SoupIsHereNowAndLikes It

(Good job, Triple-eyed Tom!!!)

> I think that getting
> an e-mail upon new message is just about as
> detrimental a feature for this usage of a bulletin
> board as I can think of.

That would be yes an annoyance.

I've set up RSS feeds at the topic level (into Bloglines), but I'm not getting updates when new messages are posted in the topics to which I have subscribed. Anyone having better luck?

> Puts a link to the Topic in your Control Center for later management

That would work for me if there were a way to go at one click from the followed topics listing to the most recent message in the topic, but I don't see a way to do that.

Edit: Also, how do you do those fancy quotations?

Tom, sorry for all the nuisance questions. You did a great job of migrating the herd to new, and hopefully greener, pastures.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2007 06:51PM by peter.

Peter,

What I was getting at with the "two things that Follow Topic does" above is that right now it's pretty useless.

The way I've been browsing, without having a Check Subs button is to have my main bookmark go to the Topic List of Spork, and then I click the Red Flags for the Topics that interest me. Not perfect - definitely more clicking than just a Check Subs button and Subscriptions, but I still get to the new messages of the threads I care about.

Fancy quotes are done with the " button above the post area. It pops up a window to ask you who you are quoting, and then you copy paste in-between the BBCode tags it puts at your cursor in the post box.

Alternatively, you can physically type in the BBCode, which is:

Quote
who you are quoting
The quote you want to quote

As far as the RSS is concerned - I haven't tried it, so I don't know what the intended behavior is.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2007 07:54PM by tomierna.

rss in Firefox works, but one ends up with a bookmark (i use live bookmarks) that shows all posts without properly distinguishing the new posts from the existing ones.

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tom ierna
Alternatively, you can physically type in the BBCode, which is:...

Thanks. In principle, it seems like the "quote" link (the one between "reply" and "report") ought to automatically place the quote tags around the post being quoted (as I assumed it would). But since most people (me included) rarely quote whole posts, it's a very minor point.



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 12/15/2007 02:23AM by peter.

Quote whole posts by clicking the QUOTE BUTTON, BEFORE making a reply.

peter Wrote:
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> Alternatively, you can physically type in the
> BBCode, which is:...
>
> Thanks. In principle, it seems like the "quote"
> link (the one between "reply" and "report") ought
> to automatically place the quote tags around the
> post being quoted (as I assumed it would). But
> since most people (me included) rarely quote whole
> posts, it's a very minor point.

What a journey.

Well, it does result in differences. Hmmm.

What a journey.

This is the quote link beside a post

El Jeffe Wrote:
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> Well, it does result in differences. Hmmm.


This is using the quote toolbar button in the faux wysiwig editor:

Quote
El Jeffe
Well, it does result in differences. Hmmm.

Quote
El Jeffe
Well, it does result in differences. Hmmm.

There was a checkbox unchecked in the BBCode module that makes the "Quote" link wrap quotes in BBCode. I've checked it, so now Quotes made from the link automatically get wrapped in the BBCode quote tags.

First time this has happened. I keep coming back in after closing browser and I have to re-login each time.

What a journey.

Closing as in quitting, or just closing the window?

Are you coming in via new.macedition.com/forums still or have you changed to www.macedition.com/forums?

http://www.macedition.com/forums/list.php?4

It seems to make me log back in even if I just close the tab (one of many) that spork is/was on.

But, I need to retest that.

What a journey.

tested.
yeah, just closing the tab it was on causes me to have to log in at the above link again.

What a journey.

okay,

http://www.macedition.com/forums/addon.php?4,module=check_subscriptions

seems to work.

Did I not get/follow the memo?

What a journey.

There was no memo - just that Spork denizens got an early look at the new MacEdition via the "new" url, and now the "www" url is the official one, so cookies are coming from (and presumably only valid for) the www domain.

Well, do we need a memo? :)

What a journey.