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Chris Maunder wrote:
It's slightly more inconvenient but reduces load on the site significantly and increases page load time by around 30%.
Following on what Shog and others have been saying maybe some of the following ideas will help.
- Have a setting in a member's profile which defines whether the article forums are shown automatically or not. Default it to no. You will get a site load reduction still, because of the 80% of members who won't switch it on, but not inconvienience power users who will switch it on an will be happy again.
- Only show the article forum if there are new posts (I assume use the same "new posts" code as is done for the normal forums)
- Automatically show the article forum the first time a member visits the article, and then not the next time they visit the article... though this probably is not going to help site load and tracking who has visited what may burden the server even more
Just some ideas 
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Which explains why when Santa asked, "And what do you want for Christmas, little boy?" I said, "A life." (Accesories sold separately)
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The formatting at the bottom of articles is a bit different now that the forum area is back. The left-side light-orange column used to end at the forum, and the forum took up the whole width of the page. Now the column goes all the way down the page.
I know it's a little thing, but I noticed it. 
before - after
(yes, I'm bored. it's the weekend, it's slow here  )
--Mike--
Friday's GoogleFight results: Britney Spears 2,190,000 - Erica Weichers 23 
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My really out-of-date homepage
Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Saturday's Google Fight[^] results: Britney Spears 2,150,000 - Visual Basic 3,340,000 
"How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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The idea is good, but many don't like it. A peaceful solution for bandwidth and users could be:
1) when an author reads his article, the message board is always on
2) for non registered guests, the link is shown
3) for registered users, the message board is on only after they voted the article (this means that there is a degree of interest for the article), otherwise the link is shown
Have a good coding day
Davide
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Is there a reason why Soapbox postings are not returned by the web service?
It'd also be nice if we could request posts from only a particular board instead of getting the last n from across them all.
I'd wear a miniskirt and pimp myself for an extra ten grand a year. - David Wulff
Awasu[^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
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Taka Muraoka wrote:
Is there a reason why Soapbox postings are not returned by the web service?
Yes - because it's the soapbox.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Yes - because it's the soapbox.
I thought you might say something like that 
Curses. So I still have to run a browser alongside Awasu
I'd wear a miniskirt and pimp myself for an extra ten grand a year. - David Wulff
Awasu[^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
Yes - because it's the soapbox.
As I said to Dylan in a post slightly newer than this one - an addict can never get enough! Paul and I were chatting about his CP+ this afternoon. It would be really cool if there was a checkbox in the setup where you could take on full responsibility for any Soapbox threads being included on what comes through on app's like CP+, Desktop Bob, etc. Until you click this option, Soapbox threads just don't get included / Soapbox tab is disabled / etc.
We are greedy aren't we? 
I knew it would end badly when I first met Chris in a Canberra alleyway and he said 'try some - it won't hurt you'..... - Christian Graus on Code Project outages
Damned nice for remote servers where using Enterprise Manager is like wadding through treacle while covered in velcro, upside down -Paul Watson on SQL Server Query Analyser
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1. "What's New" is related to latest articles, it no where describes "What's New" for the CP website.
I think "What's New" should be changed to "Latest Articles" and keep "What's New" on the main page, which should describe what's new happening to the Code Project website (ex: New scripts loaded, downtime, new discussion boards..blah...blah..)
2. There should be a "History" page, where it describes when the CP started and major milestones achieved so far.
Kant
Sonork-100.28114
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I think that being able to sort the response from a search by modification date could be very usefull.
The most part of times, I just need the most recent article and I don't want to browse all the answers in order to find the right one.
Beside that, this site is very usefull
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Why not doing small businesses around Bob's image ? CP fixes the price knowing the cost of making, and takes the difference. Everyone's happy
A friend of mine begins to make chess-boards using iron and steel as a past time activity. Who would be interested by a CP chess-board ? 
Ohé Partisans, Ouvriers et Paysans
C'est l'alarme!
Le Chant des Partisans
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Cool!
But what would the pieces be? A row of Bob's for pawns, Chris as King, Anna as queen ( ). What about the rest?
I'd wear a miniskirt and pimp myself for an extra ten grand a year. - David Wulff
Awasu[^]: A free RSS reader with support for Code Project.
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An excellent idea, but I understand there are security issues with this
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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What's the issue?
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Only in a world this sh*tty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face.
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What internet browser do you use?
Sub-Survey:
Why do you use it?
rate 1-5 on things like popularity, open source, un-popularity, non-MS, or some other zany reasons you would use a particular browser.
P.S.(I looked through the first 4 or 5 pages of previous surveys and didn't see this one. If I missed it, sorry.)
- Nitron
"Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb
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How about a "Windows CE" or "Embedded" forum? Frankly, I'm suirprised you don't already have one Chris.
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Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio.
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Done like a dinner.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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It would be cool if as well as showing how many new posts there are, the forum list showed how many new threads. How many new and unanswered threads would be even better. Surely I'm not the only one who goes through the forums that cover stuff they know looking for unanswered questions. A filter so only unanswered questions are shown would almost be too much to ask for, but seeing as it IS almost Christmas......
It would also make it more likely that people would get an answer, even if they didn't in the first day of asking.
Christian
No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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Christian Graus wrote:
but seeing as it IS almost Christmas......
What a way to ask for something. 
Christian Graus wrote:
It would also make it more likely that people would get an answer, even if they didn't in the first day of asking.
I totally agree with Christian, it would be very nice and could help out with those questions that get lost below other posts that contain discussions.
Nick Parker
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
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i'd like to be able to mark a question as "Homework - ignore".
-c
There's one easy way to prove the effectiveness of 'letting the market decide' when it comes to environmental protection. It's spelt 'S-U-V'.
--Holgate, from Plastic
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You've just looked in the C++ forum then ?
Christian
No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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yeah.
unbelievable.
There's one easy way to prove the effectiveness of 'letting the market decide' when it comes to environmental protection. It's spelt 'S-U-V'.
--Holgate, from Plastic
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I'd be interested to know what people are searching for in order to reach codeproject (I'm assuming Chris has access to referrer logs) - then he could tailor a page that'd match all the homework help requests (possibly giving a polite message that we'll help with problems but not write the whole thing for people)
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Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!
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Christian Graus wrote:
A filter so only unanswered questions are shown would almost be too much to ask for, but seeing as it IS almost Christmas
I'll second that idea, it would certainly be a productive thing to do. I often miss questions that I can answer because they disappear from sight very quickly at peak periods.
Not sure about the structure of the forum database tables, it might be a tricky thing to implement and the speed may not make it worthwhile.
Michael
Fat bottomed girls
You make the rockin' world go round -- Queen
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