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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-08-21 14:01
I guess this is one for Mark. On my Browser I get a red "new" beside certain messages. Some of them are five days old. Is the "new" inserted by a program? Could it be amended to "red" the day's date? Then all of today's new material would be obvious even on the second/;third page?
Bob A
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Author: Azzacca
Date: 2001-08-21 14:03
When a new message is posted to a discussion thread, new appears next to it again. This way you can see when you come back what has new comments on it
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Author: Mario
Date: 2001-08-21 14:13
"New" means that a new post is there that one has not read. It is a great way to focus on new entries irrespective of the age of the thread.
The "culture" of this board (yes, all bulleting boards have an informal culture) discards threads that are just a few days old. As a result, there is a lot of noise rehashing old things on reeds, ligatures, the best instruments, bad teachers, unfair collegues, etc. This board reinvents the wheel constantly. It seems that many of its users prefer spontenaous questioning to a bit of autonomous research. Signs of the time...
However, there are threads here and there that should not go away too soon because they truly dig into something new. With the added feature "new", we can quickly go back a few weeks in time and zoom immediately on new posts on older threads that have significant content.
For longer period of time, oen can use the "search" engine. This BB is truly building as a great encyclopedia of all things related to the clarinet.
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-08-21 16:48
Thanks for the fine answere, however they are not the answers to my two questions."Is the "new" inserted by a program? Could it be amended to "red" the day's date? "
Bob A
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Author: Sylvain
Date: 2001-08-21 17:24
Bob:
Yes the "new" is inserted by a program which detects which threads have a message that you did not already read. I am also sure it is possible for Mark to do what you ask but you can somewhat solve this yourself.
Read the material you are interested in, then click on the (mark all read) link which will remove all the "new" that are there but you don't care for.
This way each new appearing "new" will be a very recent one.
I bring my own question to Mark:
Do you have an easy way to dynamically sort the BB for each viewer. Let's say I want to have the threads sorted by latest reply date , while somebody else wants them sorted by author...
-Sylvain
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2001-08-21 21:15
Sylvain, Re: dynamical sorts. You can "sort" by "Author" through the "Search" item at the top of the page, but this will NOT work on dates. Tried it.
Bob A
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2001-08-21 22:45
> Do you have an easy way to dynamically sort the BB for each
> viewer. Let's say I want to have the threads sorted by latest
> reply date , while somebody else wants them sorted by author...
Threads must be sorted by dates - there's no way to sort by author and maintain the threading.
It's of coure even more complicated since an author may be responding to a topic. Then sorting the threads by author doesn't gain much, because the author would be buried in the thread anyway.
And to a question before - yes, the program puts the "new" in there. You have accepted a cookie that remembers which threads you've already read (it's not based on date sice it has to keep track of things out of date sequence). If you want to know when the latest post arrived just look on the right on the main list of topics - the date of the last posting is there.
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