Measures to handle forum size need to be taken

Re: Measures to handle forum size need to be taken

Craven de Kere wrote:

Editing now is only available until someone replies to the post. This is similar to the way deleting posts works.

Good idea! I'm all for anything that improves site speed, as it has been sporadically sluggish of late.

Although I was using preview most times, this now forces me to use it all the time. Probably will still miss the occasional typo, but that's life. I'm sure we'll all understand, as we're all in the same boat! Laughing

Actually, since editing is that intensive for the database, why not eliminate the feature altogether?

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I already use Preview all the time, Timber. But for some reason theres always stuff I only see when the thing is actually posted. And I dont just mean typos either.

Also, Im always imagining some websurfer coming across the info in my post through Google. Now, if I find that I had some number or quote or fact wrong, I often go back to the post itself and clarify/correct, so that said user will find it all in correct state. Cause I dont think he'll necessarily browse on for five pages to see if someone didnt say, "oh i'm sorry, i got that wrong..."

Very glad about the other changes Craven announced tho.

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nimh wrote:

I already use Preview all the time, Timber. But for some reason theres always stuff I only see when the thing is actually posted. And I dont just mean typos either.

<chuckle>
Know whatchya mean - happens to me allatime, too Rolling Eyes

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I suppose, it has to do with the green little men inside the computers.

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

I suppose, it has to do with the green little men inside the computers.

Little green men? I thought we had hamsters.

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http://www.madsjungersen.dk/Elisheba/hamster/legs.JPG

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I bet Beth just knitted that up and took a digital pic of it, just for this reply.

Way to go, Beth! I'm impressed! :wink: Laughing

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I'm impressed that you recognized that as knitting, Reyn. Not everyone can spot that.

<I didn't knit that one - but it crossed my mind>

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ehBeth wrote:

I'm impressed that you recognized that as knitting, Reyn. Not everyone can spot that.

hehe, My wife's a knitter, big time! :wink:

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ehBeth wrote:

I'm impressed that you recognized that as knitting, Reyn. Not everyone can spot that.

<I didn't knit that one - but it crossed my mind>

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nimh wrote:

I already use Preview all the time, Timber. But for some reason theres always stuff I only see when the thing is actually posted. And I dont just mean typos either.

Gremlin tampering! It happens to me, too. Often! Laughing

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I usually call it hindsight Laughing

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Merry Andrew wrote:

<scratches head, trying to figger out what else people might think it could be, if not knitting>

A real alien of course, duh!

(I'm still not convinced it isn't)

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nimh wrote:

But for some reason theres always stuff I only see when the thing is actually posted. And I dont just mean typos either...

And there's the issue of keeping a certain post updated with future information as well.

The limitations on editing were things I weighed since the first months of A2K and preferred to avoid it for the many ways editing can improve a post.

I'm considering using a wiki system with prior post versions, and that way posts would not have to be reindexed, just flagged as an old edit but that is a very involved process.

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Craven
Craven, is the absence of the "membership" information permanent or temporary? I miss it.

BBB

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Link to the announcement re member list

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Walter

Walter Hinteler wrote:

Link to the announcement re member list

Thanks, Walter. I had not seen that before.

BBB

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Has the quick reply officially been eliminated?

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Looks like it's just "for now":

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1998673#1998673

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Cool.. thanks Soz.

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