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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
I see the problem but cannot make it happen on purpose. Please let me know if you see it again.
Edited by Admin, : Grammar.
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Granny Magda Member (Idle past 289 days) Posts: 2462 From: UK Joined: |
Cheers Percy!
The PM function works great. It's already come in handy, letting me and Briterican co-ordinate our all important role-playing gaming activities (I'm more likely to see a message here than in my main email!). Mutate and Survive
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
Regarding the overstrike problem on the PM folder column headings, I did see this problem the first time I viewed the PM page with IE8, but then I clicked the refresh button, and now I can no longer make it happen. If you're able to repeatedly reproduce this then just tell me the steps. Heh, I can't get it to happen anymore. Problem solved!
About the failure to paint the entire page, I see this maybe once a week. If you're seeing it more often can you think of any sequence of things you do that might lead up to this?
I almost always right-click and open in new tab. I'll either pick the latest message from the all topics page and go right to it or go to one of the page numbers from the topic column. I'll open a few new tabs from the all topics page and then go through them individually to find (occasionally) one of the pages hasn't loaded fully.
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
See Message 1.
Just giving this a bump since I released this during the holidays. I'll give it one more bump in a week or so, or when I release the Contact List enhancement.
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Straggler Member (Idle past 317 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Just sent test message to Oni cc'ed to CS.
Reply if working. Let me know here if not.
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Stile Member (Idle past 295 days) Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined:
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In order to private message another user, must I first click on the "Messaging" link near the top, and then type in their user name?
This will never do, not with how lazy I am... A few suggestions you've likely already thought about: 1. I think that someone will most likely think of private-messaging another member after reading a post of theirs. Perhaps you could create a link for sending a new private message to the authour of each post? 2. A link to send someone a private message when viewing their profile page would also be nice. 3. When creating a new private message, it would be crazy-cool if the "To", "CC" and "BCC" fields included an optional drop-down menu where you could pick user names from. This would help reduce any user-frustration from spelling other-user-names since there are many that use strange spelling or sometimes hard-to-see lettering). Or, along these lines but even cooler, would it be possible to create some sort of auto-completing field? Like how Google works now? That is... if I was to type in "S" it would list all names alphabetically starting with S: S2ns3oo0ood saab93f ... Then if I typed "St" it would list all names alphabetically starting with St: St.CrispinStaccato Stagamancer ... then if I typed "Sti" it would only list all names beginning like that: Stile (Which just happens to be only me) That would be really cool. But perhaps not possible with the board software? If such auto-narrowing of the user name is not possible, maybe a drop down list would just be too crowded to be of any use. Maybe that's why there's not one there? Maybe some sort of user-name error checking so that the sender of the private message is notified if they attempt to send a message to a user that does not exist? All in all, thanks very much for giving me my inch. Now I'm going to hound you with requests until I get my mile. And remember, I'm lazy And I have a grossly over-inflated sense of entitlement. That's just how I roll. So lazy that I probably won't even finish th...
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
About 1, 2 and 3a, they're coming in the next update, whose primary feature is contact lists. Not sure when that will be, but not too long. It's mostly done, I'm currently ruminating about how best to integrate the dropdown for selecting names. As with houses, the finish work takes the longest.
About 3b, I want to do this. It requires Ajax, which we already use, but it also requires some nifty dynamic menu coding, for which a great deal of code is implemented but not yet released as I haven't deemed it ready for prime time yet. I continue to think about how and whether I can deliver something reliable and solid in the short term.
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New Cat's Eye Inactive Member |
Hey Percy,
The messaging system seems to be working fine. I have one piece of feedback: I got a message from Straggler with Oni CC'd, and when I hit "Reply All" it also put myself in the 'To' line, or maybe it was the CC line. That's atypical from my experiences. And I can't think of why I would be sending the reply to myself as well. Especially since there's a 'Sent' box too. You should get rid of that.
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
I've just installed a software update for the first stage of implementation of contact lists. More functionality is coming soon, this version has these features:
Next I will be adding links in a few handy places for sending private messages. For example, message posts will include a link for sending the author a private message. After that I will be making it possible to select names from contact lists for insertion in the To, Cc and Bcc lists.
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
I've just installed a software update that provides links to send private messages in several convenient places:
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Catholic Scientist writes: I got a message from Straggler with Oni CC'd, and when I hit "Reply All" it also put myself in the 'To' line, or maybe it was the CC line. That's atypical from my experiences. And I can't think of why I would be sending the reply to myself as well. Especially since there's a 'Sent' box too. This should be fixed now.
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Stile Member (Idle past 295 days) Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: |
Whoo! Private messging is fun!
(I was told in kindergarten that I'm supposed to compliment something before I bring up some negative aspects... it's supposed to be polite... or something...) Anyway, 2 tidbits of information you may or may not care about. Very minor, anyway: 1. I got a private message back on January 6th. I replied to it today, and used the "with quote" function. The function worked great, except the date at the top of the quote was today's date (the date I was replying). I think it should really be the date of whenever the original message was sent, no? Since that is what's being quoted... For example (copied from the private message itself):
quote: (I've edited the member link to go to my profile to keep the actual message sender private. It was, afterall, a private message) The "01-20-2010 7:43 AM" is when I replied to the original message. Or, it may be when I opened it to read it the first time...The original message was actually sent to me on January 6th. You can see it, if you can abuse your admin-powers to see my private messaging inbox, the original message is still there (I have no problems with this, if it will help at all). And, yes, I understand that it took me 2 weeks to notice I had a private message waiting for me Which leads me to my second point: 2. Is it possible to also provide email-notification of a new private message? I do understand that the "Messaging" link changes to "Messaging (X)" whenever you have X new messages at the top of the page... but by now you must know how incredibly lazy I am. On top of that, I'm also a bit touched-in-the-head and don't always read the entire page In other news... thanks for the cool new Private Messaging feature, it really is a good feature. (That compliment was not forced, unless my kindergarten-conditioning goes even deeper than I imagine...)
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Stile writes: 1. I got a private message back on January 6th. I replied to it today, and used the "with quote" function. The function worked great, except the date at the top of the quote was today's date (the date I was replying). I think it should really be the date of whenever the original message was sent, no? Since that is what's being quoted... That was the original intention, obviously just a case of referencing the wrong variable. Easy to fix, thanks for catching this!
Stile writes: 2. Is it possible to also provide email-notification of a new private message? Yes. I'll add this to the enhancement list.
Stile writes: I do understand that the "Messaging" link changes to "Messaging (X)" whenever you have X new messages at the top of the page... It also blinks every 10 seconds. Blinking is incredibly annoying to most people, that's why I chose a 10 second interval. Would a faster interval make it more noticeable without being annoying?
but by now you must know how incredibly lazy I am. Laziness is the mother of invention. If Heinlein didn't say it he should have.
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Stile Member (Idle past 295 days) Posts: 4295 From: Ontario, Canada Joined: |
Admin writes: That was the original intention, obviously just a case of referencing the wrong variable. Easy to fix, thanks for catching this! ... Yes. I'll add this to the enhancement list. Awesome!
It also blinks every 10 seconds. Blinking is incredibly annoying to most people, that's why I chose a 10 second interval. Would a faster interval make it more noticeable without being annoying? I agree with the annoying-blinking thing. No, I don't think a faster blinking interval would become more-noticeable while staying not-annoying. If you are indeed implementing an email notification for it... I would recommend getting rid of the blinking all together.
Laziness is the mother of invention. Yes sir. Some of the time I'm just playing "innocent stupid user" to do my part in helping you develop your software for "the public" (who generally think they're innocent and not stupid, but are wrong on both counts) The rest of the time, I really am lazy... will you be implementing a feature that will separate my whites from my colours for the laundry?
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Admin Director Posts: 13107 From: EvC Forum Joined: |
Stile writes: 1. I got a private message back on January 6th. I replied to it today, and used the "with quote" function. The function worked great, except the date at the top of the quote was today's date (the date I was replying). I think it should really be the date of whenever the original message was sent, no? Since that is what's being quoted... This is fixed.
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