For people with pages here (or on any of the other sites) you can now make any page display as a bulletin board. You'll see this new option on [editpage]. You can switch back and forth between the weblog view and the bbs view with no loss of data. Also, in [settings], you can make your account default so that you always see pages as either weblogs, or bulletin boards, no matter how each individual page is set by its' owner.
Again, like the advanced search, formatting hasn't really had any attention paid to it. That will come. Suggestions appreciated.
If you're not familiar, the thing that might be cool about bulletin boards is that it's easy for readers who don't have accounts to keep up with new comments. The bulletin board lists the subject of the the post (you have to click through to actually read the post and comments,) plus the name of the author, and the date of the most recent post or comment in that thread. But the important thing is that the posts are ordered by most recent activity. So if a very old post receives a new comment, that post summary is returned at the top of your page in bulletin board view.
Probably not so helpful for the people on this site, but some of the other sites can use this sort of thing. Nice for organizational stuff when you can't convice people to sign in and use the [new post] [new comment] links from the front page.
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Again, like the advanced search, formatting hasn't really had any attention paid to it. That will come. Suggestions appreciated.
If you're not familiar, the thing that might be cool about bulletin boards is that it's easy for readers who don't have accounts to keep up with new comments. The bulletin board lists the subject of the the post (you have to click through to actually read the post and comments,) plus the name of the author, and the date of the most recent post or comment in that thread. But the important thing is that the posts are ordered by most recent activity. So if a very old post receives a new comment, that post summary is returned at the top of your page in bulletin board view.
Probably not so helpful for the people on this site, but some of the other sites can use this sort of thing. Nice for organizational stuff when you can't convice people to sign in and use the [new post] [new comment] links from the front page.
- jim 11-16-2002 9:39 pm