Breaking News and Search

2/12/03 | Admin Moderator

[chance33_98]

Been guilty of doing so myself when I get busy multi posting. Will certainly aim to get better at it. On the plus side, no one has seen how many articles I did not post because I found them through search.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Would be nice to have a feature in FR that looks up what you're about to post and says, if applicable, "THIS LOOKS LIKE A DUPLICATE POST (LINK, LINK, LINK) - ARE YOU SURE?"

[Flyer]

New posts to you is broken. John is working on it.

I bet he's gonna fix it so it only shows posts To and not post By

[coloradan]

... and then "You look like a liberal disruptor. Are you sure?"

[Balata]

Here's a suggestion for a new question on the sidebar.

"Is it important for the US to have their borders sealed?"
Yes
NO

[toenail]

"...the latest Bill or Hillary antics or what Rosie is going to have for breakfast tomorrow...

But you repeat yourself....

[Admin Moderator]

It might not be breaking news to you or I, but our criteria generally is, would the majority of freepers consider it breaking news. And then, the activism threads are left per Jim's request, and some others Jim wants there.

[Flyer]

can you see how many "lurkers" visit the site each day?

Check here for a ton of stats.

[TigersEye]

Click on the Viking bunny and turn up the sound.

[Admin Moderator]

That's great! Any thread which gives publicity to FR can be breaking news too. Let us know, we can move threads.

[Admin Moderator]

Duplicate. sorry

[Swordmaker]

I am one of those guilty of posting a duplicate thread today. I ALWAYS do a search before posting... I am cconscientious about it because I do not like duplicate posts. However a search today before posting an article did NOT return the already existing threads. I searched by the entire title, each word in the title, and a couple of distinctive phrases in the title with NO RESULTS, so I went ahead and posted.

A fellow freeper noted in the second comment my post was a duplicate. I then REPEATED the search and lo and behold 15 hits came up on just a single term.

I have had this happen before when seeking threads I KNEW existed. Later searches would bring up the missing thread.

At the time I was posting approximately 10 other threads were started between the time I started putting a rather simple initial post together and the time it appeared on the main page... I went immediately back to that page and it was five or sixth down. Is it possible that your server chokes on searches above a certain number at a time and dumps any overage?

[Balata]

their=its'

[Admin Moderator]

AH, the moderators wish for that kind of stuff probably more than you. John can only do so much. Let's add it to the wish list. Funny, the more we want, the closer we get, the more the technology advances. Will John ever be able to grant us all our wishes?

[Admin Moderator]

Yep. Just to tick you off ;)

[Admin Moderator]

You might be on to something.....We'll definately keep a watch on that one...

[Admin Moderator]

John see post #25.

[petuniasevan]

That's a viking kitten.

[Admin Moderator]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry

[WestCoastGal]

Just wondering if there have been any ideas suggested for an emergency situation should it arise? Like if an attack is in a certain area it would be helpful if people with local news and verified news could post and others limit themselves from overloading the system.