Working on Discuss

Hello,

I'm putting into place a few improvements / adjustments to the Discuss section, with the goal of making extra-long threads more easy to follow. I will be in touch with a full report once these changes are completed, probably tomorrow.

Cheers,

Patrick

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, Patrick May

Hello,

In response to concerns about the Discuss section voiced on and off list, we made a few tweaks to how it works:

  • Comments that are new since your last visit are highlighted in red. This should improve the readability of large threads.
  • There now is an option to "Preview" when replying.

As always, let us know if you have any questions or find any issues.

Best,

Patrick

, T.Whid

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Thanks!

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, twhid

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1 more thing before you go… it would be great if there was a way to mark all stories as not new.

best,

Tim

, Patrick May

Hello,

We've added a link to the discuss section – Mark all as old. This will remove the "new" flags from all current posts.

Cheers,

Patrick

, Frederic Madre

"Mark all as old. This will remove the "new" flags from all "

wow, thanks, I guess we now have the possibility to use that powerful conceptual tool on both Tom Moody and T. Whid at the same time…

I'm thinking of a new feature related to that
would it be possible whenever anyone clicks on "Mark all as old" that the version number does a +0.1 ?

, Frederic Madre

I'm sorry to report that it does not function correctly: Tom Moody and Whid can't be marked "all as old", they always reappear and probably think they are adding something new to their discussions
what's to be done ?

, t.whid

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haha

, Frederic Madre

you, rear guard of net art, you!

, t.whid

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I prefer to think of myself as the color guard.

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, Frederic Madre

sorry to report that the "mark all as old" doesn't function for me
I read this board from 2 different PCs, I clicked "mark all as old" on one and that did wipe away all the red new tags
when I looked on the other PC some of them had reappeared
now that I'm back on the PC where I marked all as old they are still there…

, Vijay Pattisapu

Patrick –

The nesting limit is defeating the purpose of the format. In complex arguments with multiple parts that multiple people are responding to and remixing in different ways, if we can't reply past the fifth degree, then we're actually better served by the plain old email format, where we could be clear about the particular rhizomatic outgrowth of discussion we're getting in on.

– Vijay

, Rui Pedro Fonseca

Hi there,
Can someone please tell me the link to a call for "political art writing", or something similar like this?





Mine is not simply a linguistic concern since Freud had used the term “Ich” to refer at times to the self in its totality and at others to an agency or a part of that self.
http://tr.im/15jthttp://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html

, Martin Rieser

Can you please block Joan Collins and his/her spam which is ruining the list-it all goes into my junk folder at present!

, A. Andreas

I completely agree with this suggestion

It is rather annoying and stops me from reading this list.

AA

, Vijay Pattisapu

What's worse: tedium or police?

Vijay

, Rob Myers

"Joan Colins", like Sting, is both tedium and police.

This is the gentrification of discuss.