If I want to find a specific post in a thread with no new posts I'll scroll back. Or, if I was smart, I'd bookmark it in the first place. Usually when I click on a thread with no new posts it's because I want to post something. It's easier to have just the last post on the page.
Death is your art. You make it with your hands day after day. That final gasp, that look of peace. And part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. She really wanted it. Every Slayer has a death wish. Even you.
Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Elena - Dec 21, 2002 8:41:34 pm PST #2214 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Sue - Dec 21, 2002 9:44:35 pm PST #2215 of 10000
hip deep in pie
I'm in agreement with what Elena said. Also, when I'm at home on my slow dial-up, and trying to catch-up in Natter by having my posts-per-page limit set at 100, it is quite annoying to have to wait for a page of one hundred already read posts to load.
Jon B. - Dec 21, 2002 9:58:13 pm PST #2216 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I like having the context of the last bunch of posts, rather than just the last one.
Whatever is decided, I think it should be consistent between the main threads and the ones on the right side.
billytea - Dec 21, 2002 10:57:45 pm PST #2217 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I like having the context of the last bunch of posts, rather than just the last one.
I lean this way too, though it doesn't cause me much distress. Consistency is a worthwhile goal regardless.
Michele T. - Dec 21, 2002 11:50:31 pm PST #2218 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Whatever is decided, I think it should be consistent between the main threads and the ones on the right side.
Absolutely.
Jon B. - Dec 22, 2002 12:15:27 am PST #2219 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm comfortable having my last name used, actually
Would you rather I put your last name back in? It'll take me less than a minute to change it back.
Michele T. - Dec 22, 2002 12:27:55 am PST #2220 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Nah, don't bother.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 22, 2002 2:42:32 am PST #2221 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I'm definatly for consistent, and I'm with Elena. My connection being slow may affect that more than what I do, but if all threads with no unread posts only showed the last post, I could leave my posts-per-page at 200 or whatever and wouldn't be forever changing it.
Rob - Dec 22, 2002 6:00:37 pm PST #2222 of 10000
Another thing to add to the to-do list; adding a mode for folks with impaired vision. Looks pretty easy to do.
Griffyn "Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me." Dec 22, 2002 7:56:07 pm EST
John H - Dec 22, 2002 6:09:06 pm PST #2223 of 10000
I'm a bit confused about that one.
Don't people with those kind of disabilities use the "use my stylesheet, ignore their stylesheet" option available in most browsers nowadays?
I can have everything bright yellow on black in huge fonts in about thirty seconds by using that option.