Slight Changes
posted by Driusan on August 10th, 2008 at 3:33PM

Since people seem to post in spurts, the "Recent Comments" became pretty useless. Two people going at it while you're not around means that you only see the most recent 10 when you do log in, and tend to miss anything else that was posted recently in a different story. At least in my experience..

So I've replaced the "Recent Comments" box with a "New, Unread Content" box. It'll include links to everything you've never read on the site, since the beginning of time (limited to 20 links to preserve page space.) If you notice there's a lot, you might want to start at the bottom. Reading the parent in a thread marks the entire thread as read (and always has.)

The new, unread content box includes both wiki pages and comments, instead of just comments.

At the same time, I changed the "Recent Wiki Changes" page to "Unread, Modified Content" to go with it. Similar reasoning/caveats.

If you notice that there's a lot of unread, modified content and you just want it all marked as read, let me know and I'll fix it for you as a one-off thing. I can't do the same for new content easily, so you'll have to either deal or catch up.

As Carolyn noticed, the headings also changed. Dennis made some changes in SVN that fucked them up while he was, apparently, trying to change the site to a retro 3 column layout that would make the year 2003 proud. So I fixed the CSS make the headings slightly less hideous, but kept the 3 column layout because it does seem a little nicer.

xoxo,
The Management.

[UPDATE] There is now also a horribly hack-ish emailed notifications of new content, designed by dennis. You need to enable it in the user preferences if you want more spam in your inbox.

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