Suggestions for eLynah Forum

Hey Age,
Could you put the signatures in a different (more muted) color and italicize them? Sometimes the signature seems to be a part of the message.
What about having the option for eLynah to remember your login for you?
And one last one: How about a link to a page describing the mission of eLynah, administrative contacts, etc.?

Thanks,

J.P. Dowd '96

Our mission is to continue to professionally supply high-quality deliverables and completely enhance scalable information for 100% customer satisfaction.

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Where do I sign up? I have lots of VC money and you've got it if you have a ponytail!

Sigs: Sure. Probably won't have time this week though.
Login: Obviously that would be bad if you're not the only one one using the computer. But maybe as option.
Mission statement: Our mission is to continue to professionally supply high-quality deliverables and completely enhance scalable information for 100% customer satisfaction.
Administrative Contacts: Me

Seriously, I do want to add a general info section. Just not real high on my priority list right now. I think the real mission statement is to strive toward 0% productivity 100% of the time for Age.

I cut off my ponytail before grad school. And I shaved off my goatee after my dot-com burned through just under 20 million and went belly up...

Can I still have your money? Academia doesn't pay as well as Silly-con Valley.

I've been (apparently) logged in continuously since the "early days" of this forum. What is this about eLynah not remembering logins??

I access from different machines. It appears to log me out as soon as I switch.

How about the option of having messages, within a topic, listed in order from most recent to oldest?

Or, similar to CHDF, while you are reading a message in the flat view, have a box that indicates where, within the threaded view, the message you are reading appears.

CHDF threaded view used frames, which I was specifically begged of not to use (and is more often than not just a lazy way of doing things). Flat view lists messages from oldest to newest, and due to database structure aimed at performance, a detailed description of which would bore everyone, it can't go the other way.

eLF uses sessions to manage accounts. When you log in on a different computer your old session is no longer valid.

And while we're asking, how 'bout a "New Scan" feature like that on the old CHDF? (With the wonderfully high volume of traffic, it would be great to be able to look at only the new messages each time we drop in.)

And again, thanks Age for making this all possible (and for being good-humored about our requests)!

Yep. I planned on that at some point

Personally, I like having the newest messages at the bottom of the thread. Probably because I can only read the board a couple of times a day and often entire threads are new. To me, it makes more sense to read top to bottom than bottom to top anyway. I can only speak for the flat view, I haven't tried the threaded view yet.

"New Scan" was going to be on my wish list as well, since it's the old CHDF feature I've missed the most. The frames interface did have one thing going for it: you didn't have to wait for the whole thread to re-draw when you went to the next message. On a modem connection, with a long thread, this can take like 10 or 15 seconds, which adds up after a while.

Remembering read messages by login rather than session (a la USCHO and other vBulletin fora) would make it easier to keep up on the forum from different machines. (I get around it by just always accessing from my laptop, which also keeps me from wasting too much time reading at work. )

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:

Remembering read messages by login rather than session (a la USCHO and other vBulletin fora) would make it easier to keep up on the forum from different machines. (I get around it by just always accessing from my laptop, which also keeps me from wasting too much time reading at work. )

John did a wonderful job of phrasing what I couldn't figure out how to explain. As someone who reads the eLF from my work computer during the day, and my home computer at night, this would be greatly appreciated, if it were possible.

John T. Whelan '91 wrote:

The frames interface did have one thing going for it: you didn't have to wait for the whole thread to re-draw when you went to the next message. On a modem connection, with a long thread, this can take like 10 or 15 seconds, which adds up after a while.

You're half right. The key is re-draw, not the modem. There's a negligibly small increase in data transferred with a long list of reponses (in threaded view). What takes longer is drawing lots more tables, which is directly impacted by hardware, browser, and OS speed.