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Posted by Wojciech
May 1, 2006 at 02:15 PM
Hello Chris and Everybody!
Many thanks, Chris, for your work. It is so good to this forum again up and running!
Please find some comments below:
Chris Murtland wrote:
>The forum is
>currently “plain text” - you can’t post HTML or any formatting at this point. Web
>addresses will automatically be turned into links, however.
For me, plain text is OK. It is even easier to store the snippets I need in my favorite netXtract KBase manager.
>- user account edit (so you can change your password, etc.)
>- password reset (in case you forget your password)
This would be very important because of security reasons…
>- RSS feed of new posts
If it makes no difference for you and others, could you please make the above your first priority? I like this feature very much…
>- ability for members to export all messages to a downloadable text file
Would it be possible to export ALL or SELECTED topics/messages?
And one more: information on the number of replies in each topic on the topic list would be of great help.
With best regards.
Wojciech
Posted by Chris Murtland
May 1, 2006 at 04:03 PM
Jack,
Yes, the main topic list should show the name of the person who made the last post; currently it’s showing the person who created the topic. The topic with the most recent post will show at the top of the list. I’ll also add the number of posts in a topic in this view.
Chris
Jack Crawford wrote:
>A question if I may? At the top level of topic listings, is it planned
>to include some info about the replies? I wouldn’t have known Graham had replied to
>you, until I scrolled to the bottom of your original post.
Posted by Chris Murtland
May 1, 2006 at 04:06 PM
Thanks for the comments Wojciech (and everyone else).
Wojciech wrote:
>>- user account edit (so you can change your
>password, etc.)
>>- password reset (in case you forget your password)
>
>This would be
>very important because of security reasons…
Yes, this will probably be the first thing I add.
>>- RSS feed of new posts
>
>If it makes
>no difference for you and others, could you please make the above your first priority?
>I like this feature very much…
I hope to add this one very soon.
>>- ability for members to export all messages to a
>downloadable text file
> Would it be possible to export ALL or SELECTED
>topics/messages?
At first, it will probably just be one file with ALL topics/messages. Down the road, the export could be expanded to let you select a range of topics or export topics based on a search.
Chris
Posted by Derek Cornish
May 3, 2006 at 07:50 PM
Good work, Chris. This is looking excellent.
Now that we have three sites (one defunct, of course), the next thing to decide will be when and how to direct people to outliners.com’s permanent replacement - which I assume will be this one.
Automatic re-direction from the original outliners.com would be a good solution, if Dave Winer would do that for us. As for the yahoo groups site which, thanks to Steve Cohen, has been - and continues to be - a great fallback site, traffic on that will probably dwindle naturally as people migrate over here.
We could also do something more proactive - e.g., individual emails to recent contributers to outliners.com. Incidentally, I tried to contact Stephen Diamond about this site via outliners.com’s membership email service, but apparently it is not working. If anyone else has his address, could they let him know, please?
Derek
Posted by Wojciech
May 3, 2006 at 08:05 PM
>Automatic re-direction from the original outliners.com would be a good solution,
>if Dave Winer would do that for us.
I suggest to wait with this at least until the Outliners.com archive is available at our new site! Until then a simple link placed at Dave Winer site should be better.
W.