I agree that threadsuck has a problem in that it's not intuitive, whereas "download" is. But then, I still have no clue what "meara" means when used as a verb.

Goodness. Do mine eyes deceive me, or is there no mention of a meara in the FAQ?

Lyra, a meara (so called after the meara, because of her habit of mearaing, and in recognition of some of her prodigious mearas of yore, and hopefully the rest of this explanation will allow you to map all that back onto English) is a catch-up post containing multiple responses to previous posts. So, for instance, if you come back to the Natter thread to find 300 posts have been made in your absence, you go through them all and have responses to six of them, and you put them all into the same post - that post's a meara. And an accomplishment, which is why they deserve their own brand name.

I've bookmarked your post, billytea. I think it would make a perfect addition to the FAQ as written. I'll add it ASAP.

a catch-up post containing multiple responses to previous posts.

Got it. Thanks, Billy.

Hee! Sorry about the confusion!

t does tiny little dance of being in FAQ

Edited to move to the appropriate thread.

Allyson - I think you wanted that in Bureaucracy.

Good call.

I had a thread deleted thought -- not too hard to maintain the links, now that I've had time to ferment.

Deleting a thread -- removes the posts from the posts table and flags the post header (making it invisible in all thread lists, and deleting it from subscriptions and bookmarks). When someone clicks on a link to a vanished thread, it can forward the user to the standard archive thread where an anchor has been placed by the zipped file with the thread ID in it. The forward can automagically generate that anchored link.

When someone clicks on a link to a vanished thread, it can forward the user to the standard archive thread where an anchor has been placed by the zipped file with the thread ID in it. The forward can automagically generate that anchored link.

Me likey.

Shiny!