going to try some things out over at http://beta.scottsigler.com

Indenting is not a problem, but the color-solution sounds better - gotta try this.

Cheers!
Paul.

http://beta.scottsigler.com/node/1568

Here is how it works: Every reply to the main post is blue, each Reply on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc.. level is green. Does this help? I could start looking into the datastructures of a reply to see if there are "children" beneath this one so i could also flag replies which have replies themselves in a some way. This could get messy thogh....

Cheers!
Paul.

I have no complaints.

G-Man

Nine million terrorists in the world I gotta kill one with smaller feet than my sister. - John McClane

I think that does the trick if you do the childrens children thing you will have a real mess at your hands two levels are okay three may be but than it will get out of hand 

Things go wrong and that is how we learn

Now also effective on the production site. Have fun!

P.S. There might be still some browser caching issues, so don't panic if it does not work out of the box for you. Try clearing your browser cache and restarting it. Might help.

I repeat, this is a test of the colered reply system ;)
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but I need to restart my browser and see what these look like to be certain I know what I'm talking about......
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 for illustration's sake

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I tried restarting my computer, which clears my cache & all my cookies out of my browser, but it still is not working anymore.
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Just seemed odd that it would work initially and then cease to work. If I understood your explanation correctly, I think color coding each child would be the way to go. I don't think I've come across a forum topic that was more than 3-4 reply threads deep. If you stuck with the basic highlighter colors, I don't think it'd be messy, but website design/maintenance is your bailiwick. I'm the audio editor dude :D

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In less than a day you have it in beta then later that same day it is up on the actual site! Wow!

G-Man

Nine million terrorists in the world I gotta kill one with smaller feet than my sister. - John McClane

Well, I had a day off today and few minutes to spare. It is what I have been doing for living some years ago.

Cheers!
Paul.

G-Man

Nine million terrorists in the world I gotta kill one with smaller feet than my sister. - John McClane

Let's see if it *keeps* working this time....

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...might be to simply add in a time stamp. That would let me deduce who said what when and figure out the comment thread that way. Not the most ergonomic, but it would avoid color messiness.

I just noticed that the site only displays "On (Month) (##th), (Year) (username) says:" . I assume it would be cake to add in time. If you decide to do this, please use military (24 hour) time. The AM/PM thing would be messier than multiple colors. 

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Great Job. Looks great!  From take a look at this beta site and into production in a day! You da man Pulsar!

["No matter where you go, there you are"] - And Sigler always knows where there is!

- Verveces tui similes pro ientaculo mihi appositi sunt. (I have jerks like you for breakfast.)

Better now?

But you also pushed me to think about a way better solution. The date thingy... I could store information when whch users visited which thread / posting the last time and mark the new content added after the last visit. 

I need to think about it though, i can't store this data for each user for an infinite time, otherwise the dataamount would grow pretty fast (total users*total postings).

Cheers!
Paul.

I'm most thankful that Paul took the time and made the effort to address this so quickly. I'm well aware that he's doing all this on a volunteer basis, the same way I do the editing stuff for the FDO.

And it is certainly an improvement. I'm simply attempting to offer suggestions on how it might be even better. Shouldn't our lair be perfect if we plan to take over the world?

I believe that too much communication is far better than not enough. So I throw ideas out there and Paul can use/implement the ones he likes and discard/ignore the rest. 

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The worst what would happen is me not responding to features I cannot implement. It's perfectly OK and I actually NEED good suggestions how to improve a site - especially when they are easy to implement like this ones.

I was kinda wondering the same thing myself.

G-Man

Nine million terrorists in the world I gotta kill one with smaller feet than my sister. - John McClane

I figured you'd probably take it as constructive criticism/positive suggestions, but some folks seemed to be taking it otherwise. I'm still learning the whole forum etiquette thing ;)

 
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but I am pretty tired. Let me know if it comes to pass. Anything that helps navigate the forums easier gets a "Yeah" vote from me :D

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