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David on 22/1/2009 at 15:57

I agree with the personal insults. There's enough of that that goes on in the threads, without doing it in the tags too.

I also like the idea of allowing others to edit the tags. At the moment only admins and mods can remove tags, but I will change that so that everyone other than the 'Xtreme Newbies' usergroup (<6 posts) can edit tags.

Nameless Voice on 22/1/2009 at 16:06

Quote Posted by David

Can you grab a screenshot and tell me what browser, as it looks fine over here (Firefox / Safari, Opera OSX)

It's not majorly too narrow, just narrower than the normal post reply box to the point that it's a bit hard to write in there:
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/9170/01222009160435wp3.png)
Same in Opera 9.5, Opera 10 alpha, Firefox 3.

ZylonBane on 27/1/2009 at 19:19

Quote Posted by kamyk

Sigh, I hope not. It could be very useful if people were mature enough not to abuse it...

And if everybody makes a point of tagging every thread with relevant metadata. Which, frankly, just isn't going to happen. The search functionality already serves this purpose perfectly well.

EDIT: Now, what I would like to see added is a "My Posts" link, which would show threads you've posted to recently. This sort of functionality is extraordinarily useful for following multiple conversations. I already use a custom bookmark to the search page that does this automatically, but if it was built-in functionality, perhaps the query could be optimized to inflict less server load?

Ostriig on 27/1/2009 at 19:52

Quote Posted by ZylonBane

EDIT: Now, what I would like to see added is a "My Posts" link, which would show threads you've posted to recently. This sort of functionality is extraordinarily useful for following multiple conversations. I already use a custom bookmark to the search page that does this automatically, but if it was built-in functionality, perhaps the query could be optimized to inflict less server load?

You can also find any post of yours, left-click your username and then Find More Posts by. Not an actual and intended feature, sure, but works well enough for keeping track.

Kolya on 27/1/2009 at 20:03

I think what ZB means is more a "Show new replies to your posts" feature. I'd like to see that as well, because if you simply search for your own posts you can't see if there have been any new answers.

Nameless Voice on 27/1/2009 at 20:08

Subscribe to all the posts you're interested in, particularly those in forums that you don't visit that often - that's what I do.

Don't forget to occasionally delete ancient thread subscriptions, though.

ZylonBane on 27/1/2009 at 20:32

Quote Posted by Kolya

No, entire threads. Useful for following discussions that you've contributed to. And true, you can use the subscribe feature to do this, but obviously that's a workaround.

This is the "(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/search.php?s=&do=process&query=&titleonly=0&searchuser=ZylonBane&starteronly=0&exactname=1&replyless=0&replylimit=0&searchdate=14&beforeafter=after&sortby=lastpost&order=descending&showposts=0&forumchoice%5B%5D=0&childforums=1&dosearch=Search+Now&saveprefs=1) TTLG - Recent Activity Search" bookmark I use:

Code:

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/search.php?s=&do=process&query=&titleonly=0&searchuser=ZylonBane&starteronly=0&exactname=1&replyless=0&replylimit=0&searchdate=14&beforeafter=after&sortby=lastpost&order=descending&showposts=0&forumchoice%5B%5D=0&childforums=1&dosearch=Search+Now&saveprefs=1

Works a treat! Limits results to thread activity from the last two weeks. If you want to try this out, just replace "ZylonBane" with your own username.

Nameless Voice on 27/1/2009 at 20:58

Doesn't seem to work for me, I still get threads that don't have new posts?
Or did I misunderstand? Because searching for threads with posts by me would give me very same results?

Edit: Only yours doesn't show threads that I posted in a long time ago but not recently. Interesting.

ZylonBane on 27/1/2009 at 21:03

Yeah, it doesn't filter out threads that don't have new posts, but it does sort them by activity. So you can see that, for example, nobody has responded yet to something you recently posted.

Ostriig on 27/1/2009 at 21:20

Quote Posted by Kolya

I'd like to see that as well, because if you simply search for your own posts you can't see if there have been any new answers.

Point. Yeah, I guess a feature like that could be handy sometimes. Though I imagine it's not a must-have for most people.

And on a different note, I do like that recent activity link gimmick.