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I only had a brief time to play and it seemed semi-random. I'll have to sit down and really thrash it out.
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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1) A good idea would be to slightly vary the table row background of each forum message entry so that the subject can be linked to the author more easily. Just vary the orange slightly for conso that you can read across without jumping lines (as my eyes always tend to do.) I often find it difficult to link a post with an author on big threads.
2) There could be an 'expand all messages' option on the DHTML view so that IE can expand every messsage on the page. It would result in one huge page with all of the message text available with no clicking. Handy for sitting back and letting the page scroll. 
Simon
Hey, it looks like you're writing a letter!
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How about setting one of these up Chris? With a special Retromingents sections for john and all of his friends. 
Michael Martin
Pegasystems Pty Ltd
Australia
martm@pegasystems.com
+61 413-004-018
"Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace"
- Victor Stone
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The gender ratio would be a problem. For every one girl, there are 500 guys here. Perhaps even 1000.
Nish
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I doubt the ratio is that high! Probably 50 to 1 i'd say.
Simon
Hey, it looks like you're writing a letter!
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How about a virtual dating service that would allow geeks to date without risk of actual human contact? That would allow us to indulge in our wildest fantasies without having to make small talk, shave or leave our CPU.
/ravi
"There is always one more bug..."
ravib@ravib.com
http://www.ravib.com
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Already been done: It is called IRC 
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Some way to reply to the root of the thread from anywhere within the thread would be useful.
What happens to me is that I read the entire thread and then decide I want to say something about the thread, (or post off topic, you know me  ), and I am three pages away from the root message. If I want my post to be in response to the root message then I have to page back to the root.
Or is there a way to do this already that I am managing to overlook?
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net
>------------------------------------------------<
"Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' seems to be missing."
-- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)
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Click on [View Thread]
Nish
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I don't really like the thread view, but I tried it out and it doesn't seem to give me any way to do what I am talking about.
Maybe I am just not seeing it, it is past my bedtime I'll try again in the morning.
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net
>------------------------------------------------<
"Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' seems to be missing."
-- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)
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No!
I didnt ask you to change your forum view to Thread View
At the bottom of each post you have several links.
One of them says [Thread View]
When you click on that, it takes you to a page showing the first 25/50 posts in that thread. Try it out. It works.
Nish
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Aaahh!
Kick butt! 
Thanks Nish, I didn't even notice that link!
I see now, it takes you to the same page you get if you surf in from an e-mail. Rock on!
Never mind Chris, Nish has made me all happy and you didn't even have to change anything!
Jason Jystad
Cito Technologies
www.citotech.net
>------------------------------------------------<
"Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring' and 'marmalade' seems to be missing."
-- Dirk Gently (Douglas Adams)
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Nish
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I was just looking at who's birthdays it was today in the demograhics option and it said it would list for the 30th Oct to 1st November. But it also showed 2nd Nov - 9th Nov!
Is it a bug?
Roger Allen the man
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Chris is getting bad at SQL
Nish
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No - the SQL was perfect. The ASP on the other hand...
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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Hello Chris,
will it be possible to make TheLounge page to autoreload itself all 5 or 10 minutes ?
Stephane
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If this idea is implemented please make sure that there is an on/off option. It takes 5 minutes for the Lounge to load for me and I normally spend longer than 5 minutes reading a full 50 post page
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Paul
They wont be able to comprehend the problems slow-bandwidthers like us face 
Nish
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We shoud have a Slow Bandwidth Awareness day every year. On that day all broad band users must hook up a 33k modem and surf the internet like that.
This should generate awareness for our cause
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Yeah
Nish
33.6 kbps rulez!!!!!
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We shoud have a Slow Bandwidth Awareness day every year. On that day all broad band users must hook up a 33k modem and surf the internet like that.
Ooooh no, I have been using dial-up for too many years. Please let me enjoy my ADSL every day.
- Anders
Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"
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Maybe this has been mentioned before but it would be pretty damned cool if we could:
1- get a daily email of the new threads in Forums we "subscribe" to
2- be able to post replies to threads via email. e.g. John insults me and I insult him back by sending an email to a certain address at CP with the post's id in the subject
I am not saying it will be easy and strict formatting would have to be applied to e-mails so that the script would know where to post the reply.
Also yes it is open to abuse (10000 e-mails in reply to John in a LAS suit) but I am sure if we put our heads together we could figure out how to prevent the abuse.
This could tie into the previous suggestion that the forums be "merged" with a BB system so that we can use News Readers to browse the forum.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
"The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge
"In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Forum subscriptions are on the agenda. The amount of email this would entail is the only issue here.
Email replies to the forums? That's just asking for trouble
cheers,
Chris Maunder (CodeProject)
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Chris,
Do you think it might be an idea to set up some sort of FAQ or usage guidelines for the lounge? It seems that just recently certain members (all of which seem to have joined fairly recently) are commiting the odd faux pas which some of the more long-standing members have to correct time and time again.
Pointing out that things such as posting technical questions, suggestions for the site, pointless comments such as 'I'm bored' etc etc are not welcome would help to cut out some of the crap that we seem to have to put up with on an almost daily basis now.
What do you think?
James Spibey
Well cover me in honey and throw me to the lesbians!
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