http://www.phoenyx.net/yesterday.gif http://www.phoenyx.net/today.gif Folks... we have forums. Not great forums. In fact, to lapse into Fudge terminology, we probably have Mediocre forums. We might even have Poor forums, but I've been working on 'em for the last six days, 14-16 hours a day, so I'm not a great judge (I know how to do what it expects me to do. I don't know how it will behave around strangers). But you can read, post, and reply, and if you're really lucky you can log in and have it start tracking unread messagess. (You can't mark read/unread yet, other than when you first try it the system automagically marks all but the 15 most recent messages read so you don't get, say, the last ten years of Fudge posts stuffed into a single screen.) They're actually on the front page (well, a snapshot thereof is), though they probably won't stay there for long (but hey, it *is* April 1). The menu at the top is going to be the first thing to get changed; it's a sort of placeholder, and there are still a lot of nav links missing (lots of prev/nexts, from message level up through month/year stuff, things like that). It's actually a pleasant problem to have: there are so darn many links I *could* put on the screen that I have to do some serious thinking about which ones are necessary, because otherwise there won't be room for anything else: Would you like to see the next message? By date, by author, or by thread? Or the whole thread? Just the parts you haven't seen before, or the thread from the beginning? Would you like the thread sorted chronologically, or by reply tree? Nested or threaded? How many messages per page? (The answer right now is: the whole thread, chronologically, all of them. But oh, the preferences we'll have...) -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net
