Oh sure. It's always something else that people want.
Still, I guess you are correct.
Should it appear like a preview post (seen by you, in green, but not by others?) That way you could post it, see it, and edit it, but nobody else could see it until the date.
Really, I thought only Alex would find this useful, as I know he sometimes wants a post to fall on a certain date even though he might write it a day or two before hand.
My other use, which isn't finalized yet, is that this will let us make a sort of calendar, so that you can program items in the future which will show up as [new posts] on the main page on their dates (for instance, I can program in a reminder for MB's birthday, and on the day before, when I load the main page, there will be a [new post] on some 'datebook' page of mine reminding me of this important event.)
But maybe there are other uses as well. It's a simple idea that might turn out to be quite powerful. Is my idea of making a still pending 'pending post' appear like a 'preview post' a good one?
Whoops. I guess I should have experimented with the preview feature before making recommendations about the pending feature. I confess I haven't used the preview mode for fear that what I wrote couldn't be saved indefinitely, which is the case with say, amazon previews or previews in Yahoo clubs. Just so I'm clear, if I write something in preview mode and hit post, it appears on my page indefinitely, invisible to all but me, to be tinkered with ad nauseum, until I hit "edit" and "post"? If that's the case, I wouldn't need to use the pending feature to do that. Sorry.
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Still, I guess you are correct.
Should it appear like a preview post (seen by you, in green, but not by others?) That way you could post it, see it, and edit it, but nobody else could see it until the date.
Really, I thought only Alex would find this useful, as I know he sometimes wants a post to fall on a certain date even though he might write it a day or two before hand.
My other use, which isn't finalized yet, is that this will let us make a sort of calendar, so that you can program items in the future which will show up as [new posts] on the main page on their dates (for instance, I can program in a reminder for MB's birthday, and on the day before, when I load the main page, there will be a [new post] on some 'datebook' page of mine reminding me of this important event.)
But maybe there are other uses as well. It's a simple idea that might turn out to be quite powerful. Is my idea of making a still pending 'pending post' appear like a 'preview post' a good one?
- jim 11-19-2001 6:17 am
Whoops. I guess I should have experimented with the preview feature before making recommendations about the pending feature. I confess I haven't used the preview mode for fear that what I wrote couldn't be saved indefinitely, which is the case with say, amazon previews or previews in Yahoo clubs.
Just so I'm clear, if I write something in preview mode and hit post, it appears on my page indefinitely, invisible to all but me, to be tinkered with ad nauseum, until I hit "edit" and "post"? If that's the case, I wouldn't need to use the pending feature to do that. Sorry.
- tom moody 11-19-2001 6:37 am [2 comments]