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Message 11677 - Posted: 18 Jul 2007, 3:40:37 UTC

The forum software *really* needs a "mark all read" button, both at the thread display page, at the top level.
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Message 11694 - Posted: 18 Jul 2007, 18:46:12 UTC

I'm not sure I follow. I wan to mark al' read, not all unread.

The only way to do this today is to view each individual thread.
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Message 11695 - Posted: 18 Jul 2007, 18:49:35 UTC

I think what Sekerob means is that when someone runs without cookies, or deletes his cookies at the end of the session, that the forums show up completely unread when logging in again.

Although, not completely unread. I use a completely new Linux install at this moment and I only saw the top few threads in which was posted today as new.
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Message 11698 - Posted: 18 Jul 2007, 20:06:23 UTC

Nice timing. I checked in this feature today.
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Message 11699 - Posted: 18 Jul 2007, 20:15:22 UTC - in response to Message 11698.  

Nice timing. I checked in this feature today.

Thanks!

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Message 11908 - Posted: 31 Jul 2007, 23:31:23 UTC

Hmmmm. I see that SETI and several other projects have implemented this. It is surprising to me that it was not implemented here first, and that it still has not been implemented here.
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Message 11909 - Posted: 31 Jul 2007, 23:58:01 UTC - in response to Message 11908.  

Hmmmm. I see that SETI and several other projects have implemented this. It is surprising to me that it was not implemented here first, and that it still has not been implemented here.



Seti is pretty much the test bed for server code. We only get an upgrade here when we ask for it.
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Message 11910 - Posted: 1 Aug 2007, 1:33:00 UTC - in response to Message 11909.  

Seti is pretty much the test bed for server code. We only get an upgrade here when we ask for it.


Ah. Let's ask then. =;^)
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Message 12549 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 6:53:05 UTC - in response to Message 11910.  

Seti is pretty much the test bed for server code. We only get an upgrade here when we ask for it.


Ah. Let's ask then. =;^)


Not sure when this happened, but I see we have MAR now. Thanks!


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Message 12550 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 7:25:47 UTC - in response to Message 12549.  

Not sure when this happened, but I see we have MAR now. Thanks!


Well nuts. Too bad it doesn't work.
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Message 12554 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 9:30:14 UTC - in response to Message 12553.  

Please delete.


Which? My post(s)? Or did you make a post that you later changed to "please delete"?
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Message 12557 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 9:58:25 UTC
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Oops, sorry! I meant my own. I said something and then decided it probably wasn't relevant. I wish we had the option to delete our own posts within the hour if nobody has yet replied.
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Message 12559 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 10:18:34 UTC - in response to Message 12557.  

I wish we had the option to delete our own posts within the hour if nobody has yet replied.

Amen.
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Message 12560 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 15:13:34 UTC

And I wish there was no edit option, provided that there is a preview option to "replace" it. Editing posts would really cause trouble with something forum-related I'm working on (zombie67 knows what I mean :D).
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Message 12561 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 15:45:21 UTC

If we lost the option to edit our posts within an hour I don't think the change would be very popular, even if there were a preview facility.

Maybe I'm much more error-prone than most people here.
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Message 12562 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 16:14:30 UTC

It may be that having an edit option leads to sloppy posts. If people knew every post was final, we would probably be less impulsive and pay more attention...
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Message 12566 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 19:02:58 UTC - in response to Message 12563.  

If a post has a reply in draft, it should not be possible to delete a post, in fact, if a draft is in progress, editing should become disabled immediately.

I agree. And if the thread has a reply in draft, the same should apply.

Presumably we are talking about the possibility (sometime) of a preview feature on all boinc forums, not just this one?
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Message 12568 - Posted: 17 Sep 2007, 23:29:46 UTC - in response to Message 12566.  

Presumably we are talking about the possibility (sometime) of a preview feature on all boinc forums, not just this one?

The new feature I'm working on would have problems if edits are allowed. Posts are assumed to never change. My only alternative is making posts not available from the new interface until an hour passes (to make sure the post won't be edited anymore); doesn't sound like a good alternative.

Having an option to preview messages before posting them would get rid of most needs for editing. And even if the edit option is not removed, a preview would still be really useful!

And this definitely applies to all forums. I have no particular interest in this forum.
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Message 12641 - Posted: 20 Sep 2007, 13:09:08 UTC

I just wanted to mention that I had a preview before post feature in the forum code, and it's in use on the I2U2 site. But then Janus submitted his new revision of the forum code and my changes became an older fork.

It's been on my list to merge my changes back into the new forum code, but it's also not been as high a priority as other things. I hope I can get to it later this fall, but if someone wanted to take the code for what's working now on I2U2 and make the (minor, I hope) changes to bring back preview before post then I'd be happy to make the code available.

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Message 12653 - Posted: 20 Sep 2007, 18:52:26 UTC - in response to Message 12641.  

Eric, I'm already working on it and it should hit SVN during the weekend.
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