An option to remove a thread from the ‘unread’ list would be helpful.
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It isn’t the same as an option right in the unread list, but I’d imagine you can take something off by going into the thread and changing your notification setting to Regular or Muted.
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Yeah, that does it. Thanks, @joshsamuels. Hadn’t even noticed there was such a thing.
And eventually you will be able to change that setting without even entering the thread. Multi-select options are on the list of todo features.
Cool.
Has someone noted already that links in posts have an obnoxious habit of opening in a new window with a disabled address bar and (more importantly) no scroll bars? It is most unpleasant.
Can you be more specific? What web browser and platform?
What happens when you click this link?
Oh. Oops. It seems to happen specifically to links to BoingBoing articles that have the preview template. Previews don’t seem to work in this thread, but the one I posted at This Day in Blogging History: Superstitious investment fund; State Dept’s surveillance tech exhibit; Tech docs hall of weird seems to exhibit the problem.
…Or at least it was, a little while ago. Hm. I’m using the latest Firefox, for Windows 7.
Was this fixed already, or should I keep struggling to re-duplicate it again?
I can’t duplicate it. You can try experimenting on our sandbox at http://try.discourse.org to repro it if you like.
I made a typo the other day which was just missing a space betweenwords. It wouldn’t let me correct because it was not a big enough change. Seems that could be fine tuned.
I realize now it probably would have worked if I had retyped the whole word. Next time for sure!
How bizarre! It seems to happen exclusively when I middle-mouse-click the links, including the ones in this thread! And it only works the first time I click on it – after that, middle-clicking does nothing until I refresh the page. (I get a “Firefox prevented this site from opening a pop-up window” warning that I have to bypass before the window opens.) Control-clicking, shift-clicking, and control-shift-clicking produce nothing unexpected. I never knew something like this was possible.
(To be quite clear, middle-clicking links opens a page in a new tab everywhere else I’ve seen.)
Another vote to either get rid of the infinite scroll “feature” or make it optional. I tend to come to Boing Boing every few days, and catching up is a hassle:
1 - Scroll a ways down, find an interesting post
2 - Space out, open the link in the same window/tab, instead of a new one
3 - Curse
4 - Read the article
5 - Click back, waste time scrolling back down to where you were at
6 - Go to step 1
This gets rather old rather quickly.
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threading of comments is confusing - i.e. there is basically none.
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Just to make sure I am following,
You tend to find interesting BB posts on the BBS, then read the comments and finally decided to click to the article if the comments are interesting?
We do tons to make sure you don’t lose your spot, just having some difficulty following your particular use pattern.
Weird. What browser and OS?
Provided you are logged in, we track your read position individually in every topic and you should never lose it.
You may also be interested in the “open all external links in a new tab” setting in your user preferences:
Is it just me, or has the tone been a little angry in here today?
You know what I would like? The option to mute individual users so I can’t see their comments.
Edit: and/or the option to hide a thread so it doesn’t keep popping up to the top and suggesting you read it.
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What/why/how?
I just re-read my reply and Jeff’s and can not tell what is offensive here? Feel free to PM me with any details if you don’t want it public.
As to ignoring stuff, you can mute topics.
We have talked about adding mute for categories and users, it gets complicated but we are thinking about it.
I didn’t mean this topic. Nah, nothing offended me, I just got fed up with one thread, but having looked at it a couple of times, it keeps suggesting I read it again.
I did not know I could mute topics, so thanks! Although it’s still there in the list.
Muting stuff should right away cause 2 things:
- The topic should not show up in your Suggested Topics list
- The blue and grey circles should no longer show on it, it should not be in the unread tab anymore
If either of those things are not happening… then Huston we have a problem.
It’s like the Family Circus comic strip…it’s always there, in the lower right hand corner, just waiting to suck. But yet, I can’t look away. I hate it, but I’m strangely drawn to it.
Reminds me of this animated gif I saw today (in link form only to protect you)
