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i luv you giant bear statue
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Lost Angeles
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Writer is as Writer does
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Manchester, UK
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The behaviour isn't uniform. Some threads are behaving correctly but others, well, if I have to see that one by (someone) in (a particular thread) one more time, I might scream. LOL! ETA: And another thing. Threads whose last posts I read more than 12 hours ago are still marked as unread.
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Changing Gears (available now) -- Winning the race doesn’t equal winning at life. The DragonSpawn Cycle: AutumnQuest | WinterMaejic | SpringFire | SummerDanse available for Kindle Author website | Author blog Last edited by Terie; 06-29-2010 at 11:50 PM. |
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: þone þe in meoduhealle
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Terie, have you actually had AW open in a browser window for several hours?
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Yours truly
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Venezuela
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Yes, that is what I think would be quite interesting.
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Writer is as Writer does
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Manchester, UK
Posts: 3,862
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Allow me to clarify. I un-hibernated ( ) and subsequently went to AW (in Netscape) this morning around 6:00 am my time (I'm in the UK) and read, among other things, the posts in BR&BC by IDGS in the Severed Press thread and by Saanen in the Milkweed thread. I did not have to re-sign in to AW; it always signs me in automatically (or whatever function that is). Before I left for work, I shut down my broswer and then the machine (again, a complete shut down, not just a hibernate).At work, I'd left my machine on running a l-o-n-g process overnight, but had closed down all my browsers (and everything else, for that matter, other than the app running the process). When I fired up my browser (Firefox) and went to AW on a break, those posts were still marked as unread. And this was also when I noticed that the NEPAT thread kept taking me back to a post from the wee hours. That continued happening all day. When I got home from work, I fired up my machine, launched my browser, went to AW, and saw the unusual behaviour continuing. Here's a screen capture from a little while ago that STILL shows the Severed Press and Milkweed threads as unread. This has never happened before today. I mean the behaviour of the board, not my pattern of reading it. (i iz not teh AW addict, i swearz it. )I hope this helps. You can PM me if you want to take this offline.
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Changing Gears (available now) -- Winning the race doesn’t equal winning at life. The DragonSpawn Cycle: AutumnQuest | WinterMaejic | SpringFire | SummerDanse available for Kindle Author website | Author blog Last edited by Terie; 06-30-2010 at 12:24 AM. |
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Trying to be a betterer writerer
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: SW Indiana, US
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It does that to me occasionally. I have to logout and log back in or log out and close my browser or log out and stay away (OMG!) from AW for awhile to get it to behave properly. I think it might be some sort of cookie glitch.
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: þone þe in meoduhealle
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That's exactly what it is. Sometime by logging out you force the browser to update the cookie.
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: þone þe in meoduhealle
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Thanks to kuwisdelu, we now have a sarcasm smiley:
![]() There's a whole list of smileys you can use here. The more subversive ones are farther down the list. To use them without having to find it and click on it, you simply need to know the name, and to type : the name of the smiley, without any spaces between the colon and the name. So typing deadhorse after a : gives you
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About.Me iPad Projects AWers On Twitter My opinions are my own. | Who else would want them? Last edited by Medievalist; 06-30-2010 at 11:02 PM. |
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Remembering...
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Posts: 25,515
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Although I don't use a lot of smilies, that one could prevent a fair number of fistfights.
Maryn, her dukes up just in case
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In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. --Lt. Col. John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) |
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i don't want to die
P&CE Ombudsman/Arbiter/Thingamajobbie
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Palo Alto, CA
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an Eric Dolphy fan
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: AW. A very nice place!
Posts: 8,352
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... one small suggestion. The featured books at the top of the screen by AWers are really cool and inspiring. One thing though is that it's often hard to say which AWer is the author of the book. So maybe their username might be listed under the book cover.
---------------------------- Ah, I hadn't thought of that. vv Last edited by Ken; 07-01-2010 at 06:16 AM. Reason: response to post below vv |
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'Twas but a dream of thee
El Jefe
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Out on a limb
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Ken, people don't all want their username associated with the name they're publishing under.
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come in, all you jesters
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: enter, all you fools
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Pipe-dream stuff, which is more something I'd send to the good folks at vBulletin:
It would be neat to be able to configure what shows up in New Posts, either an opt-in or opt-out model (say, for example, be able NOT to show P&CE, or particular threads; OR, have New Posts only show threads from SYW - Novels and Office Party). It would also be neat to be able to auto-login to password-protected subforums, so that the typical punter doesn't have to type the password every time. Which would mean that New Posts could include updates in threads in the Walled Gardens of AW.
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THE REASONS - Now Available!
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 25,240
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If you don't log out when you leave the site, all the passwords remain...and all the password protected 'gardens' DO show up in your New Posts. Just don't log out when you leave.
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: þone þe in meoduhealle
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But if you click the "keep me logged in" option, no password should be needed. I'd try deleting your cookies.
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come in, all you jesters
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: enter, all you fools
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See, this is what I get for deleting cookies every time I shut down my browser. But thanks!
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8. Rewrite until it stops being a horrible incoherent mess (in other people's opinion, because what do I know). -- RichardGarfinkle |
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THE REASONS - Now Available!
Join Date: Mar 2005
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one must never delete da cookies. one must eat and eat da cookies. cookie good.
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One-Stop Shopping - My books on Amazon Buy any of my 3 novels between MAY 15-31, 2013 and 100% of my royalties is donated to Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery Scholarship Fund! "I'll have no truck with plots." ~ Sheldon Cooper |
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: þone þe in meoduhealle
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Speaking of Cookies--O You Blessed Members in Canada and New Zealand . . .
Do you have McVitie's Biscuits there? Jaffa cakes? Plain Chocolate Digestives and then the wheatmeal/no choc digestives? Or are they UK only?
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THE REASONS - Now Available!
Join Date: Mar 2005
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we have all the UK stuff...if not available in the grocery stores, we can always go to one of a dozen local UK specialty stores. They're everywhere. (-:
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One-Stop Shopping - My books on Amazon Buy any of my 3 novels between MAY 15-31, 2013 and 100% of my royalties is donated to Male Survivor Weekends of Recovery Scholarship Fund! "I'll have no truck with plots." ~ Sheldon Cooper |
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The Sparkle Catastropony is back!
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: In the chatroom. Sometimes.
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Lady Sparkles, Sparklepony, The Sparklepony of DOOOOOM, Sparkles, Sparkles McModderson, The Sparkler, Sparklegee, The Sparkling Portuguee... I think I see a pattern here. Oh, and Horny McPoarny. ![]() Where this is desire, there is gonna be a flame. Where there is a flame, someone's bound to get burned. But just because it burns, doesn't mean you're gonna die - You gotta get up and try. P!nk - Try *** Life getting you down? Come get a pick-me-up. ![]()
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They've been very bad, Mr Flibble
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: We couldn't possibly do that. Who'd clear up the mess?
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Everything moved! Are you trying to mess with my head? The new international forum has been in two different places already and I lost BWQ for a mo there....
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useless idiot
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Bristol, England
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I'd really love it if there was an easy way to reply to reps. For example, if I was reading a rep and I could click on a PM button right next to it and send a reply to the person who repped me, that would be fantastic.
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'Twas but a dream of thee
El Jefe
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Out on a limb
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Muahahahahhahahah!!! I've also press-ganged two new mods, but neither of 'em has noticed yet.
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Cultus Gopherus MacAllister
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: þone þe in meoduhealle
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I think it's a great idea, personally.
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Elf Queen
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Up a Tree
Posts: 6,669
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I love this one! Where have you been all my life, Yes-lady?
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