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Does that mean that there will be a way to "unbookmark" a thread to one's personal list that you no longer want to follow?

Foxfyre wrote:

But is there some reason you DON'T want us to bookmark a thread so it will show up on our "my posts"? We aim to please here yanno.

Because it's a worthless addition to a thread from a content perspective and thusly disrespectful to others who use the site. Replies to threads should be for content addition and not tracking.

I've not made a big deal out of it here because there's a legitimate case to be made for their personal utility, but on the future version there will be a way to save threads to a personal list thereby eliminating the need (and tolerance for) "bookmark" posts.

Any possibility of removing the drek from a formerly interesting thread?

Or would that be too much trouble?

I understand what you're saying, Craven, though I don't agree about the "worthless" & "disrespectful" part. Sometimes a person may feel they have nothing new to add to a thread which they've been following with interest. By posting a "bm" they inform the other participants of their interest & involvement in the issue/debate, as well as insuring they receive updates. I've always seen this as a positive message, a compliment even, to the other contributors.

msolga wrote:

I understand what you're saying, Craven, though I don't agree about the "worthless" & "disrespectful" part. Sometimes a person may feel they have nothing new to add to a thread which they've been following with interest. By posting a "bm" they inform the other participants of their interest & involvement in the issue/debate, as well as insuring they receive updates. I've always seen this as a positive message, a compliment even, to the other contributors.

I think you have a point here and it gives me an idea for the eventual bookmarks feature. Maybe there can be a list of who's following the thread and the user can have the option to show that they are following it or not.

I think you have a point here and it gives me an idea for the eventual bookmarks feature. Maybe there can be a list of who's following the thread and the user can have the option to show that they are following it or not.

Just thought I'd ask, since I'm annoyed and wish we still had the old feature...



By any chance, will the new and improved A2K again have the option for designating the number of posts per page to display? We folks on dial-up sure do a lot of waiting for screen changes as we scroll through the long threads. I'd love to again be able to cut that wait time in half and display 25 to 50 posts per page as we could a few years ago.

If it isn't already an intended feature, could it be added to the wish list?

My dial-up hamsters thank you.

Butrflynet wrote:

Just thought I'd ask, since I'm annoyed and wish we still had the old feature...



By any chance, will the new and improved A2K again have the option for designating the number of posts per page to display? We folks on dial-up sure do a lot of waiting for screen changes as we scroll through the long threads. I'd love to again be able to cut that wait time in half and display 25 to 50 posts per page as we could a few years ago.

If it isn't already an intended feature, could it be added to the wish list?

My dial-up hamsters thank you.

This is a feature that I've wrestled with for some time. The problem it creates for me is related to a core foundation of usability I hold dear which is persistent URLs.

For usability, SEO, accessibility and a host of other fundamentals, persistent URLs are a boon. Having different paging thresholds makes many different URLs for the same content, which when pasted in threads etc wreaks havoc on my work.

So I'm not sure whether I will do this. One thing I can say is that I plan for the paging threshold for the new version to be higher (probably between 25 and 50) and the site is being built much more light-weight than phpbb themes tend to be (right now it's pretty damn clean with less total page size than some individual images here on this version).

Another question. With the new flavor of A2K, will we still have the A2K portal? An awful lot of work went into that by a few members and there is a lot of info there. If we won't have it, I'll need to get busy saving a lot of the stuff from there that I refer to frequently.