Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Cookies need not be feared, Internet cookies, like the real thing, can be good or bad.
Most cookies are there to keep your information on your machine. That way the website doesn't have to keep a database of all your information.
Now pop-up windows....
Yeah. Good thought, Plei.
Seconding Steph:
That would be *really* useful, mostly for ficcers.and adding it to the requests list, unless someone can leap in and change the wording before I get to the file.
The cookie thing stems from a bizarre anarchistic dislike of being tracked in anyway. I have the browser set to dump most cookies at the end of an Internet session. Still, I've given the Phoenix my email and meat address, I suppose I can let in a tiny marker that will keep me from losing posts.
and that's where it begins... just a little crack in the dam, and she's on the road to ruin.
/mixed metaphor natter
Connie, if you don't have PHPSESSID in all your URLs here, you've already got cookies. And if you don't want to be kept track of then ... well, it won't happen.
I have Mozilla set up to ask me about individual cookies. It's very nice. Like when I'm registering at an online store, I can accept the cookie from www.nameofstore.com and reject the ones from .suspiciously-missing-prefix.net and www94.wearelookingatyourightnow.com.
Adding the char. count limit to the posting box header? Can this be done? Just to have it as a reminder.
Can you explain this in more detail? A sentence above the posting box stating what the limit is? (and what is it anyway?). Or do you mean a warning like we have with the tagline box?
And how common is it for people to actually go over the limit? Pretty rare I'd say. Personally I think it would just busy up the page and it's the kind of thing better left to trial and error.
Can you explain this in more detail? A sentence above the posting box stating what the limit is? (and what is it anyway?). Or do you mean a warning like we have with the tagline box?
Sentence above. (Something like
...then click "Post message." (messages over #### characters will be truncated.)
or just add the thing to the FAQ.)
And how common is it for people to actually go over the limit? Pretty rare I'd say.
Happens a couple times a day in the Threads You Don't Visit.
What is the character limit?