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Geek Culture / Rich, would this be possible...?

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cusoi
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If this is too much effort, it's not worth it I think, but I think it might be easy to implement. Could it be possible to see in which tread you replied. So like now the thread is blue if there are new posts. And when you replied on a thread could there be an icon or something, so you don't forget to return to a thread you replied. It would be usefull I think.

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Preston C
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I could answer this for Rich.

It would be possible, yet a pain in the arse.

I think thats what Rich would say, or close to it, maybe he would say something without arse in it, but he would be thinking what I said.


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 5th Sep 2003 11:33
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Pain in the ...

oh, okay.. Spider - I don't want to modify the main thread display any further, another colour/icon would just confuse people. What I have been considering though is the ability to "watch" a thread, so it remembers it for you and also an "email me if someone replies" option. Those two things should give you the same information (and then some).

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Rich

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That would be a good idea, I always forget what threads I post in

I would be unstoppable if I could just get started...
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cusoi
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Yeah Rich, that would be great!

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ya, me to. There was a flame i was in and i can't find it lol

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Posted: 5th Sep 2003 17:08
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Simple, just check all new threads.


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Rob K
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@Rich

I've always found email notfication to overwhelming at times, a link to a page displaying updated post notes at the top of the forum would be very useful.


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 5th Sep 2003 18:41
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Rob - true but I'll do it the way YaBB does in that you get sent 1 email until you then read that thread. Not 1 per reply. A list of "My Threads" would be useful though, sort of like a forum thread list but only those you started.

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Ian T
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Email notification is good when you're feeling lonely

Sounds like a good idea to me Rich.

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Richard Davey
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OK the first incarnation of "My Threads" is up and live. The "have you read it or not" colours don't work all the time, but the actual thread list works fine and you can page through it, etc.

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Rich

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Posted: 5th Sep 2003 22:29
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i was going to suggest this later on, when you were less busy, but its very kewl

it'll surely make forum life easier.


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lol

Rich has to excuse me, but the email address I'm registered under here is my SPAM trap. I *never*, as a principle, give out my real email address on the web. I don't know what other people do with it, and I already get like 200 spams a day in the spam trap...

But a little marker for what threads one participates in should be able to be cookie-ised, shouldn't it? The cookies might grow, but not by that much.

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cusoi
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Thank Rich, you're right about the colors, but other than that it works great!

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Richard Davey
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Quote: "but the email address I'm registered under here is my SPAM trap. I *never*, as a principle, give out my real email address on the web."


Fair enough, even though your email address is never displayed anywhere on the site, at all, I understand why you do this. It does however mean you're not going to get email notifications of replies

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I agree that the forums should stay simple. Another icon would boost them up to the 'quite confusing' point and we'd get a lot of posts in GD about it. Along with making loading times longer.

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Oh, I'll get them, but they'll be amongst the multitude of messages promising to erm improve my anaotomy either with surgical help or with chemicals. Not that I need such help, of course.



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cusoi
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Lol at MicroMan...
@Mouse: I know this is offtopic, but erm, it's my topic, so erm... j/k. But what I wanted to tell, I've looked at the links in your sig, and they are pretty funny. I understand why much people put an 's behind a word that ends with a vowel. In my country for example you say:
Een appel (One apple)
Twee appels (Two apples)
Een video (One video)
Twee video's (Two videos)

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While I understand that this appears to be a very common mistake, I have yet to see a respectible language resource from any part of the world that denotes that usage of the apostrophe as proper. If you just stick in in plurals, how are people supposed to know the difference between plural and possessive? You might as well not use it at all

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Hahaha, here you go, Mouse.... I find the use of the apostrophe to be pretty wild in most forums, too. Simply direct anyone to this link and they should be well informed in a matter of minutes! Thanks Bob!
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Quote: "If you just stick in in plurals, how are people supposed to know the difference between plural and possessive? You might as well not use it at all"

Like in many other languages (ie. not using it at all).

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Er, that's the link in my signiture, EgoAnt . Glad we both know of it tho.

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