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Hey Bery, I had a programming idea last night.

Posted by Dr.Vermin (aka Dr.Vermin) Mar 9 '11, 10:28

I'm a novice programmer at best, but I found myself thinking it would be pretty easy to add a checkbox to the Post a Message section that, when checked, would have the post displayed with the userid/handle displayed first, then the subject line, then the timecode stuff. So it would look more Facebooky.

Wouldn't that be easy to code?

if
"checkbox"=yes
then
([userid],[subject],[timedate])
else
([subject),[userid],[timedate])

Something like that?

Responses:

who would want that? -- nm - loosilu Mar 9, 10:42 1
- See, maybe if my hande was at the *beginning* of my post above, you wouldn't have had to ask. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Mar 9, 10:54
*quits* -- nm - Spawn Mar 9, 10:35
Then I'd be able to judge a post before reading any of it. What a time-saver! -- nm - Roger More Mar 9, 10:34
you suck -- nm - CQ Mar 9, 10:33 1
- this -- nm - Beaker Mar 9, 10:35
why would you want it to look more "facebooky"? -- nm - znufrii Mar 9, 10:30 3
- Yeah I don't see it. One thing I would like though is the ability to hide all post except our own and their replies - Guigue Mar 9, 10:34 1
  - We sort of have that already in the Your Stats section, but posts and replies are separated. - Dr.Vermin Mar 9, 10:39
- facebook has about 50% more users so it must be better -- nm - Danedukenuuk Mar 9, 10:34
Wouldn't it make more sense to have that as a display preference under "Change Info"? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 10:29 7
- I was thinking it would work best as an individual post setting... - Dr.Vermin Mar 9, 10:34 3
  - i just think it would look *messy* if it was all inconsistent. and i like the subject matter first - reads more naturally to me. -- nm - Andie Mar 9, 10:47 1
    - it's a very "Denny Crane" type alteration to the flow of the page, I think -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 10:48
  - or like an IRC "/me" thing ... I see what you're saying. I don't think the users would like it, but it might be something to add to my list for other - Beryllium Mar 9, 10:39
- and also, it would make more sense to include avatars with that -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 10:30 2
  - *goes back to HSX* -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 9, 10:31 1
    - exactly my point. :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 9, 10:32

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