09-08-2002 18:54									#31
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I found it. (you shouldn't have said that)
the link to that famous thread is: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...&threadid=27789

I'll quote myself:

quote: Dear admins and mods,

WOW, THAT's polite !

quote: when I follow the 'Currently Active Users' on the main forum page, I get a list of +- 15 'active users' and what they are doing right now on the forum. Why can't I see what all active users are doing ? And if I can see it, how ? CyberShy

and further:

quote: Gramphos, it sounds reasonable that they only want to show the 20 most recent activities. BUT, like you said, it's in alphabetical order and sometimes it only shows 11............. and eventhough I try to stay polite, and understand it that the admins have more to do.......... it's quiet strange that they didn't answer a question that has been on this forum for more than 3 weeks.

this is what I said after 3 days. Is it or polite, or what?

	09-08-2002 18:59									#32
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CyberShy, Markos answered it by removing the Who's Online feauture...

	09-08-2002 19:17									#33
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Markos

CyberShy, I think he just didn't consider the other request REASONABLE.

	09-08-2002 19:22									#34
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quote: CyberShy, Markos answered it by removing the Who's Online feauture...

After I bumped the thread for about 4 weeks

LOL @ rah.

Markos, what about these last features? Or am I out of spare questions and should I shutup for the next couple of months

	09-08-2002 19:31									#35
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Excellent!

	09-08-2002 19:56									#36
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quote: Any keyboard shortcut to this button?

alt+b

	09-08-2002 19:58									#37
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quote: on the forum I created, posts you didn't read yet have another color.

you've written a forum script?

	09-08-2002 20:00									#38
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG quote: on the forum I created, posts you didn't read yet have another color. you've written a forum script?

an entire forum design, yes.
stole much ideas from other forums though

	09-08-2002 20:48									#39
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well

a) the idea of showing who read a post is not possible on our forums since the result a while after the posting of the message would be to show the hundreds of members who passed by the forums, read some other posts and left a mark that they visited. session info showing you exactly what you have read is temporary

b) the idea of having different colors for unread posts is probably not that necessary. if you click on the button to be taken on the first post after your last visit, everything below is new. no real meaning in showing it in a different color

	09-08-2002 20:59									#40
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Markos: not quite. As many have stated, the whole read-unread thing doesn't work often. Me too, when I click on first unread post, sometimes I get stuff I've already read.

	09-08-2002 21:08									#41
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Great idea on the button! It works really well.

	09-08-2002 22:30									#42
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a) I can understand that. My board has only 40 visitors, thus more than 20-30 at most will never have read a message.

b) I did it with anchor links as well first, but for some reason that doesn't always work. That's because you're first lead to the anchor, and after that the page loads further. ie. pictures, which stretch the thread, so you're not located at the last post anymore.

But the button works great!
thanks for that again.

	09-08-2002 23:14									#43
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Very nice. I can forsee much use for this.

	10-08-2002 01:04									#44
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quote: MarkG: session info showing you exactly what you have read is temporary

ah wait, you do it session based.
I store those things in documents.
Every post in my db is a document, it contains a field for the readers. That field will be there forever.

You can't store additional info in the posts? There's not one document for every post? I don't know much about anything but lotus domino.........

	10-08-2002 02:07									#45
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I'd like to point out that the new button they just added does not mark the thread as having been read. Apparently, it logs you as having left the thread before it posts your post.

	10-08-2002 02:10									#46
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I prefer to see the post I just made. Thats when I reread and check for mistakes.

	10-08-2002 02:46									#47
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quote: I prefer to see the post I just made. Thats when I reread and check for mistakes.

then press the other button!

	10-08-2002 06:31									#48
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There're too damn many buttons at the bottom of my screen now. We should have a new "pre-CyberShy" board style for people who don't like buttons.

	10-08-2002 06:59									#49
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Thanks Markos. Now it will take even less time to check Apolyton on an hourly basis!

	10-08-2002 14:25									#50
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quote: There're too damn many buttons at the bottom of my screen now. We should have a new "pre-CyberShy" board style for people who don't like buttons.

some people are never satisfied, and know only how to complain

	10-08-2002 15:02									#51
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quote: There're too damn many buttons at the bottom of my screen now. We should have a new "pre-CyberShy" board style for people who don't like buttons.

if you use Alt+s to submit the reply you dont even have to look at the buttons

	10-08-2002 15:08									#52
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quote: Originally posted by CyberShy quote: I prefer to see the post I just made. Thats when I reread and check for mistakes. then press the other button!

I do. Just saying that I find the extra button superfluous.

It was no more a complaint than those saying that they won't use the old button now they have the new one.

	10-08-2002 15:38									#53
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Test. (Checking tab-enter still submits).

	10-08-2002 15:39									#54
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Test #2. (An actual test of the new button)

	10-08-2002 15:53									#55
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Hey, Markos,

I was thinking, pherhaps you can use the division, I talked about earlier, to put more info in.

Like:
more information

and if you click on that it'll be like:
hide information
postcount: 3959
last online: blabla
birthday: 25 april 1978

etc. etc. etc.

EDIT: If I would be a moderator, I would give skanky a pc - 4 for that spamming

	10-08-2002 17:03									#56
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They were valid tests!

	10-08-2002 17:06									#57
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quote: if you use Alt+s to submit the reply you dont even have to look at the buttons

Actually I'm forced to Ctrl+a, Cltrl+c, Alt+s...

	10-08-2002 17:08									#58
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quote: They were valid tests!

That could have been performed with your next valid post, rather than for its own sake.

	10-08-2002 17:32									#59
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I have a short attention span.

	10-08-2002 18:28									#60
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You know what,
all 12000 apolytoners should make two posts, to test these buttons! THAT would be a good idea!