Think you missed reading some cool comments? Check out |100 Comments| in the top menu.
It lists the last 100 comments on the site, which lately is just over two days worth. :) You can sort the comments by date or by title, and look at just today's or just yesterdays. None of the other sorts on the menus work, sorry.
This will be comments on all posts, including stories, blogs, forums and polls. Have fun. :)
- Erin
100 Comments
Just a comment to get this started. :)
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Great Idea!
Thanks, Erin! That will certainly make it easier to keep up with the activity on the site. I know I find some of the best stories by looking at what other people are reading and commenting on.
Hugs!
Karen J.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
It's not perfect...
...but I've been asked for something like this before. Bob relayed another request just yesterday and tonight I went looking for some gadget that might do what was needed without me writing one. I had to hack this one a little but not much. :)
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
All about the stories
Does any other site get as many comments as BC does?
The forums on other sites seem to be full of political wrangling and it's good there's a place for that but you don't allow that here and I'm glad.
-- Donna Lamb, Flack
-- Donna Lamb, ex-Flack
Some of my books and stories are sold through DopplerPress to help support BigCloset. -- Donna
Erin, the 100 Comments Link is AOL, um AWOL
I get a message, "this page cannot be displayed". It then suggests a likely cause is missing software or to try the address again.
This is happening in AOL using ie 7 as the browser and XP Pro as the opperating systems. All are on automatic update.
Once the glitches are out, it sounds like a useful feature. Thanks Erin.
John in very snowy Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
John
It seems to be browser sensitive, sorry about that, I don't know what I can do.
Perhaps you need an XML plug in for your browser?
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
100 comments? No comment
Dear Erin,
I too can't access it. I know I am the kiss of death in these things but if it helps, the message I get is :-
"Firefox doesn't know how to open this address because the protocol (feed) isn't associated with any programme."
Actually it said 'program' but to me such looks soooo wrong that I refuse to type it!
O.K, so there is flaw in my logic somewhere but it is dinner time and I haven't time to wander unchecked through that particular garden.
Fleurie
RSS feeds
Sorry Fleurie, your browser isn't set up to take RSS feeds apparently. I get a similar error in Camino but not in Firefox 2.0, IE or Safari. You can try http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/crss instead to see if that works. If it does, tell me.
Nothing else really I can do about it, I hope it's useful to those who can use it.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
No luck here either, I'm afraid
I didn't try it last night, but when I tried it just now I get "Invalid syntax error" up at the very top, and the message "The page cannot be displayed" Unlike the others, I'm using a normal browser, IE6, not some off-the-wall product or something new and experimental.
The address it goes to is:
feed://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/crss
Doesn't look right to me but I'm no computer expert, and Cindy is not available!
Hugs,
Karen J.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Oops, no RSS here!
Didn't realize it was RSS, don't do that! And the http link comes up with all the formatting commands visible, very hard to read.
Oh, well. :(
Karen J.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Normal browser
IE6 may be common but it's no more normal than Firefox. :) They are both based on Mozilla, which is based on an old version of Netscape. Camino is a rewrite of Mozilla and Safari is based on Konqueror. With a little tweaking of the browser configuration, not the code, I got it to work in Camino, too.
This is an RSS XML feed, it's not experimental, and it's a fairly common protocol used by lots of very popular sites like del.icio.us. You can try http:// instead of feed:// but that works only in Firefox for me.
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Er, what?
I don't think IE6 is based on Mozilla... :-)
FWIW I tried subscribing to this feed with Google Reader. It seems to work, but only a fraction of the comments posted actually appear.
I take it back
the feed seems to work fine in Google Reader. There was just a lag until it realised I was actually looking and went to get up to date.
Define normal!
Sorry, Erin! My "normal" crack was a jab at all the Firefox/Opera/Linux/Mac/whatever people who feel so smugly superior to the other 98% of the world that uses Windows and IE6. Just kidding! ;)
But as for the RSS/XML thingy, I tried that on my previous computer, and on dialup it clogged the line bigtime whenever I'd dial in, so that's just not an option.
Thanks anyway,
Karen J.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Experimental?
I.E 7 is NOT experimental.
It has been released with all the care and meticulous testing Microsoft is fondly known for.
...
We're screwed!
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. Karen J, should I UPS you some of our snow, we have LOTS of it now.
John in Wauwatosa
Gamma Test
IE 7 is MS's browser for Vista, released to run on XP. I'm afraid that I DO consider it to be experimental and so do many computer professionals. :)
There should be some configuration option available to make it work with XML feeds, the only problem is what the heck did MS call that config?
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
IE7 and this feed
Hi,
One of the problems might be is the the feeds which is basically an XML message, contains a DTD. IE7 does not support feeds with DTD's.
Hugs
Karen
Another example...
...of MicroSoft trying to make the world conform to it rather than the other way around. Some older browsers will not work without the DTD and the DTD is part of the internationally agreed on RSS standard.
Instead of coding a browser that works as the web exists, MS wants all websites to change their feeds to meet an arbitrary internal MS standard.
I'm not going to hack the code to meet MS "standards" and possibly break the function for some other users. If you want to use the function, I recommend a more standards compliant browser like Firefox 2.0.
Sorry but sheesh! I just went to MS's site on this problem and they quite blatantly tell everyone that all websites will have to change to match THEM. It's as if Chevy started producing only right hand drive vehicles in the US and insisted that roads be changed to match.
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
One learns something new everyday
Dear God do you drive on the wrong side of the road over there?
I suppose it may be all right as a temporary expedient, but in the long run I am sure no good will come of it.
Hugs,
Fleurie.
P.S. typing in http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/crss did help to a limited degree in that it brought the comments up but such were heavily disguised beneath a layer of < ....>s and ////s etc. and thus were not easy on the eye.
feed http or something..