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Re: The future of LDraw?
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:36:12 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Anders Isaksson wrote:
> Don Heyse wrote:
> 
> > Really?  I kinda like to browse Eurobricks.  Lots going on there, with
> > plenty of great pictures.  Once I tried to help someone with lsynth
> > and then (I'm embarassed to say) I couldn't find my way back to that
> > topic the next day.  Even logged in I can't seem to find a way to get
> > anything like this view on lugnet, which marks visited posts whether
> > you're logged in or just lurking.
> > 
> >  http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=*,-200&v=c
> > 
> > Am I missing something somewhere?  It'd be really nice if we could
> > have something that combines the best features of lugnet with the
> > modern look and posting features of the newer sites.
> 
> Maybe you're missing the 'login' part? When you're logged in you get a link
> "View new posts" on top right under the banner.
> 
> You can also (when logged in) select the "Options" menu in the upper right
> (although a bit lower than the other link) and there select "Track this
> thread" to get email notifications (I think, I can't find any "My tracked
> threads" anywhere, so I suppose it's by email) when something happens in the
> thread - which is a bit counterproductive, as you'll have to read your mail,
> see a notification and then go back to Eurobricks to read the actual
> message.
> 
> Of course, you can also choose to get the posts mailed to you, and you can
> probably set some other flags to make it inform you of the next solstice,
> too...

Also threads with recent discssion are marked visually as being such and there's
an Active Topics list available next to View New Posts.

I'm going to be a little stirring here and suggest that possibly many of the
same people demanding that others learn LUGNETs interface haven't spent the same
time learning the interface of other forum software ;)

Tim



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  Re: The future of LDraw?
 
(...) Maybe you're missing the 'login' part? When you're logged in you get a link "View new posts" on top right under the banner. You can also (when logged in) select the "Options" menu in the upper right (although a bit lower than the other link) (...) (17 years ago, 17-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad)

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