Free Republic Software Update for November 25th, 2003 (Update #4)

[John Robinson]

Terse report for now:

• NEW By popular demand Browse All Forums (Search is on the todo list.)
• FIXED The pager now alerts on new comments to you in any forum (it used to only alert for the News/Activism forum.)
• CHANGED General Interest now General Interest (Chat).
• I added color to the sidebar, tell me (politely!) what you think.
• Lots of misc. things under the hood.

There are a bunch of add'l changes/additions I'd like to make, and this is probably not the last update today. I'll update this thread if so.

Update #1

• You can choose your own color for each topic subscribed in your sidebar. See the subscriptions gadget (All but blue is probably dog ugly. Feel free to suggest new color schemes in standard web hexadecimal (one color for the background of the title the other for the background of the links)

Update #2

• A few trivial changes, mostly cosmetic.
• You can now search by time or relevance from the latest posts. And it remembers what your last search was and defaults to that. So NOW order by time can be your default search setting.
• Oh yeah, almost forgot, SPELL CHECK! (replies for now, articles will come later.)

Update #3

• New Posts to You from You has been vanquished. New posts will only alert when other people ping you.
• Playing with the position of the Spell check button. Sorry.
• Your personal menu has a new small treat inside.
• Fixed a couple bugs dealing with the spell check code.
• I'm not done yet.

Update #4:

• Okay, I have stopped dorking with the link colors. Back to the defaults they go. Thanks for baring my experiment, I figure it's the least you owe for All Forum posts. ;-)

[John Robinson]

<table bgcolor="YELLOW" height="100%" width="100%"> <tr> <td> PUT GOOD STUFF HERE </td> </tr> </table>

Yellow, of course, must be any other color (it's hideous, isn't it?) Click my profile.

[Lazamataz]

how many replies champion chatters like Lazamataz have posted (without reading the article).

For everyone else, I suggest using the int data type.

For me, use long.

[MaeWest]

...let users delete comments in "my comments".Many times I am pinged to articles I care nothing about but I still want to remain on the ping list of some posters.The my comments section gets real cluttered at times.For instance I will bump a thread just to be able to find it a week or so later.Thank you again for this forum.

May I second that request?

[John Robinson]

Yeah, I need to add something like that. I'd actually like to add the ability to download mail (maybe in a ZIP file) and THEN delete it.

[Mo1]

Yellow, of course, must be any other color (it's hideous, isn't it?) Click my profile.

It's so bright and cherry ;0)

I think I need more coffee before seeing that *L*

Thanks on the table .. I understand now .. I think .. Well I hope

Oh Oh .. and I am soooooooooooo loving this spell check thingy

You Are Da MAN!!

[general_re]

So who were the other 4,675 people who signed up on June 17, 1999? ;)

[Lazamataz]

I notice my name came up in the spelling box. Suggested options were razzamatazz, smarts, lacerates, lawsuits, lizards, smuts, and lust.

I'd say the spelling checker has a deep insight into my character.

[Freedom2specul8]

Oh my Lord... ROFL You guys just know too much!

[smith288]

Could you move the Word Wrap button to be the very LAST button...when replying, I like to press tabs and the word wrap button is just in the way.

[Rightly Biased]

Spell Czech Thats the best news cinch eye have been hear.

[Admin Moderator]

One thought, in case you ever need additional info. Just go to our profile page, click on the ADMIN LECTURE SERIES link near the top and that will take you to all the moderator threads (plus some others) we've done. Lots of useful stuff there.

[Freedom2specul8]

That's a great idea! :)

[eddie willers]

SPELLCHECKER!

Wonderful!

[Lazamataz]

Seriously though, dude: You wanna kill the spellcheck on usernames. Pass it through a username lookup a'fore shipping it to your spellcheck black box.

[smith288]

Did you use the spell checker I suggested?

[Lazamataz]

Leave it to another programmer to come up with a complaint about a great new feature. :o)

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Great
Could you add browse all option at top when you
read a post.
The browse takes you to which ever forum the post
is under.

[smith288]

Seriously though, dude: You wanna kill the spellcheck on usernames. Pass it through a username lookup a'fore shipping it to your spellcheck black box.

Do you always post your own username when replying?

[Lead Moderator]

I don't think we want to do that. Too many trolls sign up with names that are common misspellings.

[Lazamataz]

Do you always post your own username when replying?

Why Lazamataz, no Lazamataz! I Lazamataz would never be Lazamataz so Lazamataz self-centered Lazamataz.

Lazamataz.