Posted on 10/13/2001 8:31:34 PM PDT by topher
John Robinson posted and asked for tests of the new search engine features.
One thing I saw was that if a large list is used, your name may be part of ... -- the ending name on the list.
So if you see someone has replied to you on a thread, and then you go to that thread and that message, your screen name may not be there. This may confuse you, as it did initially me.
The purpose of this thread is to document any confusion on the changes so that people understand that if they are being pinged on a thread, they may not see their screen name, as the list may be too large.
One feature John Robinson and company could add, though it might be troublesome, is to put the searchers screenname in the pinged list, as the first one, if it is in the list of those being pinged.
As an example of this would be:
To: John Robinson; Deport; Irma; Commander in Chief; Jim Robinson; Ron Paul; ...
If your name was in the ... part (or truncated part of the to list), then it should read as follows:
To: topher; John Robinson; Deport; Irma; Commander in Chief; Jim Robinson; ...
I consider a feedback thread to the original thread. Note that the link will point you to a To List that does not have my screen name, but does have it in the thread as it appears on the screen.
Other feedback may be welcome, but I will not bother folks with this. I am trying to point something out with this thread. I think there were 450 posts to the original thread, so I hope that this thread might be a way to, in a sense be continuation of the original thread, but also be a feedback thread.
God bless, and apologies if you think this is vanity.
If enough other people suggest it be removed, we can use reply ALL to try to vote on how it should be used or perhaps have a user setable parameter if you want this turned on or off.
The 'all' has to go - it will tend to clog up self search when disruptors get to yell "Look at me" - if I wanted to hear what some of these idiots have to say I'll look em up.
Going directly to the answer directed at you could be accomplished with a find. By skipping to the one response you lose the thought of the thread.
My $.02
Still I did suggest that ALL could be configurable on a per user basis. But what the initial state of that feature should be is unclear (on or off for newbies).
I will send John Robinson a private reply that this seems to be an issue. I think John and Jim have done a great job with FreeRepublic. In my humble opinion, I think the Founding Fathers of this great nation would be very proud to see what John and Jim (and many others have done) with FreeRepublic.
Further, on the topic of "Preferences", the selection menu for number of article lead-in words seems stuck at 100.
WAR DAMN EAGLE
What "all" option...where is it?
Thanks.
I'll concurr on that, that said FR is still better than all of the rest - Thanks Guys & Gals.
I see how it works now - COOL! Disregard above comment.
change the links in the self-search page from target=_slave to target=new
make some change on the self-search page so replies TO you stand out from your own comments
reactivate the "to:" as a link to the thread you're replying to!
activate the names after the "to:" as links, to their profile pages (or, for bump lists, to "find in forums")
Get rid of the caret after all of our names
Keep up the good work!
I'd also like to see posts color-coded or otherwise conspicuously marked as to whether they are from-user, to-user, or to-all.
I love it so far....except for the reply to ALL option...Hope John removes it or lets each user set a preference for it.
I'd also like to see posts color-coded or otherwise conspicuously marked as to whether they are from-user, to-user, or to-all.
One feature John Robinson and company could add, though it might be troublesome, is to put the searchers screenname in the pinged list, as the first one, if it is in the list of those being pinged.Agreed. Also, if "all" remains enabled (either globally or through a setting), would like to see that put up front as well (either before or after an actual ping would work).As an example of this would be:
To: John Robinson; Deport; Irma; Commander in Chief; Jim Robinson; Ron Paul; ...
If your name was in the ... part (or truncated part of the to list), then it should read as follows:
To: topher; John Robinson; Deport; Irma; Commander in Chief; Jim Robinson; ...
Further, on the topic of "Preferences", the selection menu for number of article lead-in words seems stuck at 100.Haven't touched the article lead-in setting for a while, though it does NOT apply to the new self-search. I have some rather lengthy replies that display in full when I have that option selected.
change the links in the self-search page from target=_slave to target=newFirst, the targets are now selectable in the Focus settings menu. As a side note, is the url option enabled or going to be enabled in the links from the forum? If not, then that part of the URL can be axed from the coding to save a wee bit of bandwidth (just trying to save the bandwidth :-) .make some change on the self-search page so replies TO you stand out from your own comments
reactivate the "to:" as a link to the thread you're replying to!
activate the names after the "to:" as links, to their profile pages (or, for bump lists, to "find in forums")
Get rid of the caret after all of our names
Keep up the good work!
Without more info as to exactly how you want the replies to you to stand out, can't quite comment fully on that. If you're using "new-look", you can force the link to your FReeper profile page that comes in the "Comment by" line to look different by editing (or entering) a specific font color/type/size/decoration in the .fr_header A:link comment and the .fr_header A:visited comment.
The "to:" searches are, per JohnRob, permanently broken in Perl/Forum 2.0. I THINK JohnRob set something up for bump lists, though I can't remember yet. As for the remainder of the searches, that'll be restored when Focus search is up and running.
I never noticed the caret, and it's not there now (at least in IE6 or in the source code).
Echo on the last comment. Thanks for putting up a thread after Self-Search 3.0 (I know John's calling the whole package Focus 1.0, but it's still Forum 3.0 to me-VBG) went live.
Get rid of the caret after all of our namesGuess I should have read the Focus settings page a bit more carefully; the caret is there to designate links that open in a new window (since I don't have things set that way, I never saw it). IMHO, it should only exist for debugging purposes.
Better yet, at least from a bandwidth standpoint, make that the default and allow an expanded self-search via a link.
I am using IE 6 and do not have the problem using the http://www.freerepublic.com URL and my settings and preferences work.
Thanks for what you do. I love this new version.
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