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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: This is probably not a new idea
Nope. It isn't a perfect solution, but Marc set up a wiki a while back that we've been using for this purpose. I even wrote a GreaseMonkey script to automate the process:
Forum Bookmark 0.2.5 - bookmark forum posts on Pensieve
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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You're getting too predictable, I read the original post and just knew what you were going to say
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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You can get a static link to a post using the "Get link" link at the bottom of any post.
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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True. But it would be nice to have a posts analog of the article bookmark feature.
/ravi
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Imagine the extra rows it would add to the database.
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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imagine the extra members that registered only to download sources...
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Well imagine if we all started bookmarking things. Take about 50,000 members and times that by all the thousands of posts. That is a lot of rows on anyones scale, it would be slow and laggy if you didn't stick some decent hardware behind it.
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Bradml wrote: Take about 50,000 members and times that by all the thousands of posts. That is a lot of rows on anyones scale,
You only need one row per bookmark, which is a (USER_ID, POST_ID) tuple. This scales in a linear fashion to the number of bookmarks.
/ravi
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This is similar to my suggestion of favorites which I recall you thinking was a good idea.
Cleako
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as i recall, you idea was thread based, not per message.
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Just today in forums, quite a few messages had interesting and useful utility download URLs. I felt this can be brought as some 'Quick CLIPs'. To save, you can limit number of URLs per user.
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This will happen.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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The forum search appears to search all HTML associated with a post, not just post bodies. For example, searching for "bookmark" brings up every post and reply.
/ravi
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Reason for searching for that term?
Brad
Australian
- Captain See Sharp on "Religion"
any half intelligent person can come to the conclusion that pink unicorns do not exist.
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Can't use special keywords.
-Prakash
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Why not?
because it is special and i was kidding.
-Prakash
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Search does only search HTML of the post and of the subject. I just did a search on bookmark and came up with a thread about bookmark posts/replies, and then a whole bunch of Shog's posts with "bookmark" in his sig.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Got some notifications as late as 4 hrs. But got some very quickly,too.
Is every one experiencing same thing ?
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Everyone gets this. I've had emails show up the next day. For some reason, the email handler doesn't run continuously, but appears to run every so often.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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