Suggestion Box

[Tilia]

I think I'm with HAT on this one. Especially the point of linking people out, away from the site is something I hadn't really though of but he's right. And I feel the feeds clogg up the "New post" so that you easily miss the interesting posts.

Originally Posted by BigD

It's an experiment with an automated news feed, which appears as threads. It allows users to comment on the specific news story without having to identify and link it themselves. As you are a guy with some interesting views on the world, give it a try

If you guys don't find it useful, then of course we will modify it. How do you like your news ?

BigD

[BigCheese]

Minimum Post length now four characters. Make them all count.

BC

Originally Posted by peachy

From this thread.

I think the 10 character minimum is annoying, can we reduce it?

[peachy]

Originally Posted by Tilia

I think I'm with HAT on this one. Especially the point of linking people out, away from the site is something I hadn't really though of but he's right. And I feel the feeds clogg up the "New post" so that you easily miss the interesting posts.

I agree that it clogs up new posts, it's quite annoying. I guess we can omit that user from the search or something

[BarbWire]

Yes, very good input re the RSS feed. Let's see how it goes over the next few days and then make a decision.
In the meantime, you can add user 'newshound' on your ignore list.

Originally Posted by Tilia

I think I'm with HAT on this one. Especially the point of linking people out, away from the site is something I hadn't really though of but he's right. And I feel the feeds clogg up the "New post" so that you easily miss the interesting posts.

[peachy]

Originally Posted by BarbWire

In the meantime, you can add user 'newshound' on your ignore list.

Good idea!

I better stop thanking people, my "thanks whore" counter is increasing.

[BigCheese]

I have changed the refresh frequency of the RSS feed so that it updates only every eight hours, to reduce the clutter of of the news stories between real postings.

BC

Originally Posted by peachy

I agree that it clogs up new posts, it's quite annoying. I guess we can omit that user from the search or something

[fraser]

It should be pretty easy and one line of code to change all the links in the rss feeds such that they open in a new window.

I nearly went all geeky in public there. That must never happen again.

[lesley]

Tornado replied to somebody (can't remember who) that he should wait until Monday and then put his books on the STC for sale page. I don't want to get all hissy, but is it here and I can't see it (possible) or is it a work in progress?

[swissflygirl]

Originally Posted by lesley

Tornado replied to somebody (can't remember who) that he should wait until Monday and then put his books on the STC for sale page. I don't want to get all hissy, but is it here and I can't see it (possible) or is it a work in progress?

The book list is not there yet as the OP is still waiting for the books to arrive. The for sale forum is a work in progress, coming to you soon !!

[BigD]

Tornado is busy back cleaning up on his own site, but I'm sure that there are already plans for a For Sale/Wanted forum, as on eof a number of improvements we are going to roll-out over the coming weeks.

We wanted to limit the number of forums we initially launched...



BigD

Originally Posted by lesley

Tornado replied to somebody (can't remember who) that he should wait until Monday and then put his books on the STC for sale page. I don't want to get all hissy, but is it here and I can't see it (possible) or is it a work in progress?