Weekly Work around????

It has occurred to me that I could fake a weekly thread by simply starting a text thread to which you are not supposed to reply. Thus it would keep its place in the list instead of jumping to the top. The idea then would be that say Saturday, GMT so late Friday night where I live, I start the Weekly verbiage thread that you ignore. Then the expectation would be that no one is to reply to any of the threads below that post! New threads would be started and would appear above that Weekly text thread to which you are verboten to reply!!! If you wished to make a comment on something that was below that announcement them you could do that in a new thread for images you post above the announcement.

Let me know what you think of this and I will make a decision based upon the responses I get.

I thought I had seen something about polls here before but I think a written response will show how much you care, or don't!!!

Andrew

Edit: Eleven hours have gone by since I posted the above an no replies. Not sure what that means!

I read it, Andrew. I've read it several times and I was waiting until I understood it before replying. My fault, I am overloaded beyond capacity right now. As I said, I will go along with whatever you decide as I am grateful to you for trying to get this mess worked out.
Here is a nice goat to express my regards.
It is a table model.....please pay no attention to the half a jackass in the background at left. Rich

Thanks Andrew I read it it left me a bit confused but the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I will go along with it as any kind of improvement would be good paul

I don't know. Things are moving pretty fast here. Maybe we should just wait and see for a bit. It can be confusing with too many temporary solutions.

Happy to go along with this Andrew. Not sure what it means but...

IMHO that would complicate things. "Threads" do seem to be timing out on their own.

Sometimes one finds they have a pertinent comment on an older post, as I did for one of the last ones at DPR, and I had to post it in an irrelevant position in the new thread. I seem to recall that others have been in similar positions, posting comments that actually belonged in a filled previous thread. Context is challenging enough here without "mak[ing] a comment on something that was below [the] announcement . . . in a new thread"

Again, just my take; your mileage may vary.

Lynne

Sorry I missed this earlier .. Health problems are making my attendance here a bit more sporadic …. As to your post. I am not opposed to any testing how to make this site easier to use, The original thread was a gathering place in a more diverse gear forum for a community of photographers who had a similar interest. It had advantages and disadvantages, IMHO, after 100 entries and deciding to post a second entry was questionable for me … The community is beginning to gather on this site, attracting those who haven't made the transition and keeping the community here and together should be the main goal, IMHO …. Posting seems to be going reasonably well. .. Replies seem to be about as they were in the original thread … So whatever you do will be fine and we'll see how it goes over the next months …..

WhyNot

Ok, I will shelve this for future consideration and see how things shake out here.

Charlotte, if you are waiting for a threaded view to appear I fear you will be waiting a very long time. Misago is a decade old and seems to be a product of a couple of people. I don't see them doing anything much with this in the foreseeable future since not a lot has happened in the past ten years. Code appearing in the text boxes, little tiny links to images that don't go away when you add the larger 'thumbnail', the poor quality of the larger thumbnail, and the list goes on. It is more like the 'price is right' pick. That said, I don't see any other forum software around that supports a threaded view. DPR had it in 2002, twenty one years ago! Phil Askey must have been brilliant because he did what needed to be done a long time ago. I suspect no one else believes it to be of importance so none of the other developers bothered with it. I give Bob and Alan credit for what they have done, especially in such a short period of time. If they get a threaded view before I pack it in they will deserve medals. Heck, they deserve medals anyway!! I hope they can do something to make the code that appears on the screen go away! It is confusing and not intuitive. It is more than I want to have to deal with. Your enthusiasm and optimism for this effort is commendable but I would like a more mature foundation for this than 'powered by Misago' seems to be able to offer.

So long story short, carry on with the way things were!

Andrew

I don't know about old. The latest release was just a few days ago. I thought it was new when I saw the low version number and I hadn't heard of it before.

I don't think the plan ever was to use an out of the box Misago. As I understand it they plan to reconstruct it and chose this forum because it's easier to work with - and allowed. As I understand the (main) Misago author is also in the loop. I'm not saying it will be easy, but that's it possible.

It's good you clarified - my eye went to the half ass in the right foreground.

I'm late to see this and respond.
Fact is the way this is working now is ok with me.
I definitely would prefer a threaded view, but, since we don't have that...
Threads that have worn out their interest are already tending to the bottom.
People who want to look at them can, and if they do and respond - then they pop up for as long as people reply.
I remember many threads that popped up on DPReview after a few years of inactivity and they would briefly get a flurry of responses then fade away again.
This seems pretty much the same.