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. ;-)

[Admin Moderator]

Post 31

I used your new spell checker for 29. Bubba came up as an error. You need to fix that.

[eddie willers]

Swatch #7....WHOO-HOO!

Would mind that for a main page scheme
(optional...of course)

[John Robinson]

It worked for me. MSIE. I've had trouble getting sound in other browsers. And in NS4 the damn sound loops for the full minute until the next refresh.

[eddie willers]

Of course would should read wouldn't.

LOL...How's that "Edit Post" thing coming along?

[potlatch]

Gotta see this.

[John Robinson]

Swatch 8.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

and my page tells me how many posts and replies I have posted

Where? I still can't find that. It's not on my Profile page either.

[John Robinson]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/

[John Robinson]

You've posted a total of 366 threads and 2,742 replies. Woo!

[Dog Gone]

Do you have your computer settings set to "Ignore Colors Specified on Web Pages"?

No, that option is unchecked on the accessibility option.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

and my page tells me how many posts and replies I have posted

Where? I still can't find that. It's not on my Profile page either.

[Sandy]

it would save having to go back to "Activism" or wherever before being able to sign off

Why don't you just change your security setting on the login page? You can set it so that closing your browser will log you out automatically.

[Rodney King]

I've been here for a looong time, and basically i still don't understand the different forums. I like it better when there was just one. I guess I just miss all sorts of stuff now.

[Admin Moderator]

It's plain, but folks might like it. Not hard on the eyes.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Oh oh. John, I've posted the same comment twice, and it hasn't shown up either time. And the "already previewed" button isn't working either.

[shattered]

Is the 'browse all' option one that can be made default or do we have to select it each time we go to the main page? Thanks!

[Dog Gone]

Have you paid your internet bill lately?

[Sandy]

Everything looks and works great. Thank you John.

[NormsRevenge]

Who signs off of FR?

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They are Infidels.. all of them.. LOL

I must confess that I have tried something different the last few nights. I have been reading a book. It has been a couple years since I last did that. Naturally, FR has contributed greatly to my loss of interest in reading.

It's the #9 offering in the Corps series by WEB Griffin, the Korean War is the main subject of this book.

[Admin Moderator]

Nice hex color chart