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(...) (Cut alot of good stuff Todd wrote) Way to go, Todd! I was going to post something like that, but you beat me to it! I still have some things I want to say, but I'm going to wait untill tomarrow to post them. See you all then! Adrick Tolliver (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A great way to make this easier would be to allow members to view the entire messages in the spotlight and rate them, all on the same page. ie, if I were to view the Spotlight page with &v=a the highlighting forms would come up just like they (...) (26 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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QUICK TOP STORIES LIST The "Top Stories" listing on the new homepage, (URL) built automatically based on human feedback, and your opinions make a difference! If you are a LUGNET Member, you can help highlight things for this and other lists: (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.publish) !
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(...) Which is the most important part of LUGnet is to many of us. This may be partly an artifact of the way the web page was, but it's also because the active and healthy newsgroups are the core of the community. Even if that's an overhyped (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Oh, sorry. Yes, they'll work forever as forwarding links. What I meant above was that you won't be able to browse news at www.lugnet.com anymore (not the same way you brows news at news.lugnet.com). And technically, you won't be able to read (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That's a very large part of it, ya. It also more closely represents what LUGNET is. The news homepage only represents what LUGNET is from a news point of view. --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd & Suz <admin@lugnet.com> wrote in message news:FzBur3.2L1@lugnet.com... (...) Nice. I will use it in conjunction with the original. I like having the "Toy Box" -(Fun things to see and do) up front. A little surprised the mosaic maker was't (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) You know, Todd, you're welcome to come on out to Seattle and hang w/me for awhile. :^D ~Mark (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Gaak, is this a double post? delete it if so, sorry... I think that's what I've been up to, sporadically, for the last two years or so... ++Lar (in the UK and festing this weekend, which will add 8 or 9 names on the list of AFOL's I've met in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Now that would rock! A Lugnet Extended Road Trip. Spontaneous Lego-fests everywhere. :) Don't forget lotsa extra batteries, and a good wireless connection. Steve (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) Gosh, I hope there aren't any groups which you aren't aware of the purpose they are intended to serve (though obviously you would have to do some poking around in the logs to determine for sure whether or (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm not a selfish guy Larry, I was thinking of others and making a suggestion at the same time. If I could customise the homepage, I'm sure it'd end up like the old one pretty much - call me conservative (with a small c). Like I said, this is (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Are links to news items on www.lugnet.com going to work forever, or are old news items with URL cross references going to break at some point? (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) some (...) to (...) I'm not following you, I guess. Can you clarify what it is you are wanting? You said "I want behaviour X, and can we have a cookie to give it", I said "here's how to do behaviour X using current system capability with no (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Sure, I have done the same. Whether it is better or not is another issue. I'm not bothered either way though to be honest - I'll be sticking with news. for the time being. My take on the new page is that it is more for new users than existing (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I like the news view so I overrode my bookmark that used to point to www... to now point to news... Isn't that easier than using a cookie? At least for now. Certainly if we get to where non members can customize, maybe cookies are the way to (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) For example, you won't be able to (sometime probably within a week) be able to read news at www.lugnet.com anymore -- the only reason you still can now is just for backward compatibility and a gentle switchover. Those old URLs (now deprecated) (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (Which isn't to rule out the possibility of customization -- only that that URL is the homepage and other top-level subdomain URLs aren't homepages even though they're top page. If you take my meaning!) --Todd (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Actually, there aren't two homepages. If you look at the icons at the top of the news site, one is called "Home" and goes to (URL) and the other is called "News" and goes to (URL). The former is the LUGNET homepage and the latter is the (...) (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Rather than having 2 homepages, is there no easy way to have a cookie or some such thing, allow users to choose/design their own homepage? Scott A (26 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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