Important Announcement - Replies Notification Rollout
Greetings folks! This is the big one we've all been waiting for, the Replies Notification has been completed and implemented. We have also made some improvements to our other monitoring programs as well, so you'll find a complete and efficient system to monitor all aspects of our essays and comment threads. I'll list all new and improved programs below.
First I'd like to thank all those that have donated to caucus99percent in the last few weeks, it is your contributions that are allowing us to make these site improvements. I am not able to tell exactly which members are making contributions so I don't send out individual thank you responses to the donations, but I'm using this venue to thank you all, each and everyone, you know who you are.
These programs are for monitoring your personal comments and essays. They can be found on your User Page.
Comment & Reply Notification (My Comments): If you are used to using this page to monitor your comments and replies, then you'll find our version of it by clicking the "My Account" link in the header banner at the top of the page, then click the "My Comments" link. You'll find it an exact replica of the DK4 version minus the Hiderate column, which is a beautiful thing in and of itself. Bookmark the "My Comments" page, you'll find it very useful.
My Essays: If you want to monitor your essays for the number of comments made and the number of new comments made then this is the program you want to use. It can be found by going to My Account/My Essays. You'll also find handy "Edit", "Delete" and "Add a New comment" links there. Bookmark this page also if you monitor your essays frequently.
These programs are for monitoring all comments and essays site-wide in real time. They can be found in the left sidebar.
Essay List: if you are used to using this page to monitor new diaries in real time, then you'll find our version of it here. You'll find it very useful for keeping up with new essays, the total number of comments and any new comments that are made. Bookmark it, it's much easier than using the Community Content page to monitor essays.
Comments List: This is the old "Comment Stream" page that has been renamed to the "Comments List". it is very useful for monitoring all site-wide comments in real time. it's much easier than using the "New Comments" listing in the left sidebar. Bookmark it if you want to monitor all comments in chronological order.
Those four programs will give you a complete and efficient method to monitor all the content that passes through caucus99percent.com. Enjoy!
Next up:
Add a "Parent" link to each comment to make it easier to tell what comments the replies belong to.
Add an exclamation point to the gold "New" text in the comments to make using the browser find function more efficient. And if possible to enlarge the size of the text of the "New" heading.
After that, more UI improvements and site software upgrades.
Thanks again for your donations and patience.
Comments
Adding an exclamation point to the gold "New" text - Excellent!
That is going to make it so much easier to follow expanding threads. Thanks for putting that on the list.
Nice set of new site functions. You guys have been busy. Very Kool!
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
The extra typography on NEW is great but
Maybe the size is alright. -- or else the name and date will get larger too?
(This comment may not be very interesting but at least now I've got something I can monitor.)
Someone had requested that the "New"
be bigger so it would be easier to catch as you scrolled down the page looking for new comments. That was before it could be searched for. Now that we can search, maybe the new being bigger is not needed. Would need to ask the original requester and I've forgotten who that was.
I think it could be made bigger without affecting the other type on the line.
That would be Moi
It's not important if its going to mess other things up. I'd prefer not to have Ctrl+F to navigate a long thread though.
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oh, AB,
I don't think it has to mess anything else up. It sounds like JtC is going to do it and that is fine. I thought maybe it wasn't needed anymore, but if it is, that is sure fine with me.
Firefox has Search Up/Down buttons
so all you have to do is click a button rather than keyboarding Ctrl+F.
Personally, I don't care about the size of the New text, but if it's easy to implement then sure why not.
Having done some web development I know sometimes what sounds simple can be a bear. My hat is off to the Dev team.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
Yes, I would think that it’s got its own separate CSS thingy.
(CSS = “Cascading Style Sheets” = a set of software conventions for specifying styles on webpages)
They have put in tons of time and resources
which reminds me, those aren't cheap. I want to encourage everyone to dig deep and make a donation to keep this place moving forward. Like PBS, this place is funded by people like you
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
For me, PBS never again rose to the level of NET
(National Educational Television network, with flagship station WNET in Newark, NJ).
Nixon achieved his goal of neutering NET politically.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
For all the hard work you do, and have done. This is awesomesauce!
Every little change you make makes the site BETTER. It's a great change to see positive effort.
Thanks again, and you really make me happy to be a part of the community.
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Thank you, JtC!!
Great news. It looks good!
So glad to see you saw the request about adding a character for New so we could search for it. I was never sure if you got that. I'm going to use it all the time.
(Guess what. TOP took out the column that showed hide rates on the comments page.)
Very slick!
A huge step forward. Thank you, and congratulations on a task well done.
"The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles. -- Bob Dylan"
Thank you SO much for this JtC
I can only imagine the work that goes into a site like this... and I am very appreciative of it. Y'all ROCK!
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Thanks for all your hard work. This place is coming together, just as an orange satan is falling apart.
GREAT JOB!
Thanks so much for that. It'll make it a lot easier to have a conversation rather than simply making a post.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
wonderful
thank you !!!
I like it
Thank you for all your hard work and efforts- another great enhancement.
Thaaaaaaaaaaaannnnkkkkk Yoooouuuuuu, JjjjjjjtttttttCcccccc!!!!!
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Thanks JtC!
You've taken really good and made it much better. Thanks for all the work you do!
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
WOWIE ZOWIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So awesome to have this new comment page capability!!! A zillion thanks JtC and everyone involved and everyone who donated and just EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's so great to have this site now. What a wonderful community you are building and I am so very honored to be a part of it!
Have a beautiful Friday!!!!!!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Thanks!
This is really helpful
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
super
I want to add my thanks, not just for the improvements, but for the nature of the site...to promote the free exchange of ideas rather than a reiteration of yours or someone else.
Seems like It just keeps getting better. Happy Earth Day JtC!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks and congrats, JtC. Your hard work makes c99 a pleasant
space to be.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Thanks for all the help!
Very user-friendly -- in every sense of the word.
Super helpful improvements--thanks, JtC! Makes
the signature line below, all the more true.
Mollie
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This is great JtC, thanks!
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties.. This...is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.--John Adams
I just bumbled into my comments page, and
what a huge surprise. Then I read your post. All great improvements making c99 easier to use.
I'm sure you or others already know how to do this. If I go to the members list or the essay list, can I sort them by a column. If I want to make the member list alpha, can I do it? If I want to sort the essay list by highest or lowest number of recs or alpha, can I do that?
off to figure out how to search by new.... Thanks JtC for all of it.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Oh now I get it...
It wasn't a tech problem. It was a reading comprehension problem. The "new" as is in coming and ot new as in new logo... doh..
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Heh, I resemble that remark.
Here I am, six novels all needing a final rewrite, many paintings and sketches, sculptures and 3D art, a decent practice, and a wonderful Honey who cares for me far better than I deserve, and I still ask myself, "What do I want to do when I grow up?"
I keep finding new things to try, to learn, to master, and on top of that, I read a hell of a lot, but quickly. ( I devour novels at a page at a glance - the result of an ever blinder mother getting a mechanical speed reading machine she never used, but I used on every Nancy Drew, Hardy Boy and Tom Swift book I read when I was four)
Thanks, JtC!
It just gets better & better
“We may not be able to change the system, but we can make the system irrelevant in our lives and in the lives of those around us.”—John Beckett
Awesome work, JtC!!!! Awesome work!!!!!!
“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
― Harry Truman
Looking good! TY, JtC.
~ Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~
Super sweet!
Thanks JtC. This was the big piece that really helps conversations. Will definitely help me spend more time here and contribute more. Which reminds me that I failed to make an intended donation. And this thread reminded me to. Nothing huge, but done! THANK YOU!!
Great work, JtC!
We are not embracing a politics of envy if we reverse a politics of greed. - Joseph Stiglitz
Thank you!!!! n/t
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
You are a prince amongst programmers, JtC!
Might I add to your list the ability to see who has uprated? That comes in handy sometimes too (such as wanting to make sure whomever I'm responding to has read the response). Bless you, Oh Mighty SiteMaster!
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I would like that too
Not knowing keeps kindred spirits from connecting. Yes, a comment can be made. If one compares the number of users online with the number of comments in essays, we barely speak to each other. We may read and like, but comments are not our strong suit. Or is it just me?
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I comment a lot (15989 comments at TOP in just over 2 years!)
An average of about 20 comments per day, and it undoubtedly would have been higher if not for DK5 and primary wars! But still, there are plenty of comments to which I just want to respond with an uprate, "I hear ya and I approve," not really having any more to add to the discussion. But as it is, you don't know that I approve, only that someone does! Maybe that's good enough. I don't know.
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Not TOP - here.....eom
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
c99 founders thought that feature on GOS favors clique formation
The original consensus was, c99 should choose to deliberately leave that feature out.
Hmm. Tis something to think about. Do you still feel that way?
Are cliques necessarily bad things? We've been talking about joining as groups for various purposes, after all. I love, love, love that we can't flag or downrate!! Only uprate or not. So there can't be any bullying cliques. So I'd still vote to add the feature, I find it supportive, but YMMV.
JtC, if we can add it, perhaps we can put up a discussion and/or a poll to get feedback from the whole community on whether or not we should add it?
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See lotlizard's...
comment above. It's worked very well without it and yes, cliques can be a bad thing, we all know examples of that.
But they can also be good.
Elena has a point that it is a way for people to establish a connection/group. At least people can connect and email each other if they know who.
When we made this decision, we were all fresh out of the hell hole, tender, and trying to do as many things different from the other place as possible. Since then, we've had a huge influx of people with few to no problems. Maybe it isn't knowing who likes something as much as it is the flags and the attitudes that so many regularly abused at the other place. I think it is worth rethinking. If it doesn't work or causes a problem, it can be dumped. The more c99 resembles dk4 without the punishments and attitudes, the more to home and comfortable everyone will feel. Anyway, my two cents.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Thanks for the support, dkmich. It looks like we're going to be
outvoted at least for now. I still don't see how supportive uprating would be dangerous, because there's no destructive downrating, but it looks like some folks are still very tender. I think I'll assume that if I'm getting uprates then everybody likes me. So if someone doesn't, they'll have to comment and make it very obvious.
And everyone can pretty much assume that I uprated them because I do as long as it's not something outrageous; I appreciate good discussion.
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no, I don't discuss this, cliques are awful
and enhance using tribal, racial, ethnical and gender related issues as a tool to divide. Really, I don't think we need that. Came here to avoid exactly that. You have a private messaging system and can use that one to connect with people, exchange emails and organize yourself as a group. You can also to find out if someone is in your neighborhood and just meet in person.
I see now the Resilience Group at the right hand side
linked to and the Anti-Capitalistic Meetup group. Those links I like to have. They have nothing to do with cliques, but are subject category orientated. These groups are not based on any specific race, ethnicity or gender identity.
Just to be clear.
JtC. When I click on my account
I get my profile. Can I make it default open to my comments instead?
It shouldn't be a two click process.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
The easiest way...
is to bookmark the "My Comments" page in your browser. There are too many other important functions on your user page to make My Comments the default.
Here's what I do. I use Firefox browser and use the Bookmarks Toolbar (View/Toolbars/Bookmarks Toolbar). That will give you a long toolbar to add your favorite sites that can be accessed with one click. I have a bookmark in the toolbar for the Community Content page, the Essays List page, and My Comments. I can easily jump from one page to another with one click. Easy peasy.
JtC I had it bookmarked.
All of a sudden, it just quit working and went to "view" in my account when I clicked on my bookmark. So after reading your comment, I deleted all of c99s bookmarks, closed and reopened my browser, re-bookmarked comments, and now it works. I'm a pro at breaking the internets.
Thanks,
dk
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I lost connectivity...
for a few seconds, I figured it was you doing something on the nets.
wrong
Not to be connected.
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OK - so here is the deal.....
In order for the bookmark to work, one has to open a new tab and click on it. Then if you leave the tab open, it will be there. If oth you click on my account in the site instead of the bookmark, it goes to view. So much to remember.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Reread my comment from above...
try the bookmark toolbar, then it only takes one click.
Oh wow,
chrome has one too. Before it only showed on the tab that opened with chrome. Now I can see it all of the time. Thanks JtC. Learn something new everyday.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Put all of your favorite...
c99p pages on it, it will make navigating and monitoring the site super easy.
OMG - I love it.
what a difference. I didn't even know it existed until our conversation sent me looking. In chrome setup under bookmarks, all I had to do was check "show bookmark bar". Now it shows on all the tabs. Thank you so much JtC.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I don't know how it is for Chrome...
but in Firefox if the bookmark names are too long you can shorten them by right clicking on the bookmark and selecting "Properties", you can then rename it to whatever you want. You can squeeze in more one-click bookmarks that way and if you run out of room you can create a folder in the toolbar that you can load up as many bookmarks as you want.
Yep, same with Chrome.
Many of my bookmarks are just the logo with no text. My comments in c99 is just 99%. It is my landing page for trip here.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Firefox allows you to put Folders on the Toolbar
That's how I've assembled my 99 bookmarks. The folder is called 99 to save room across the toolbar, where I have mostly folders for sites I use that have multiple pages.
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Yep...
I do it that way too, it makes navigation mega easy.
Chrome will do folders too.
I am established in chrome. I wouldn't want to change browsers now.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
You are welcome everyone...
there's more to come.
more than this?
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Sounds like things are moving along
I hope that the site continues to develop. I think unfortunately that it's very necessary to have a forum for progressives, as opposed to Democrats.
They aren't the same thing.
Thanks martian
I like what you said.
Thank you JtC, you've really done it
Thank you for all your efforts to make this a super fine site.
To thine own self be true.
Many curtsies and deep ones at that in thanks for all
the hard work.
Don't believe everything you think.
Many thanks JtC.
I'm on Firefox so I know what you're talking about regarding the bookmarking. I'm a semi-literate regarding computers. One question: how would I send a donation via snail mail? Rec'd!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
You're welcome oribicfan...
to send a donation via snailmail click the "Donation Info" link below the Donate button in the right sidebar and it will explain how to do it.
Thanks.
Late to All of This, JtC
Thank you very much for your diligence and hard work. You've done a fantastic job of accommodating the influx of new members over the past few weeks. I think you're building something quite unique and exciting on these pages.
I bet your resume's looking pretty good now!
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
My wife would tell you...
that booger is definitely correct. Thanks JnH.
Is the right hand column missing from the
community content column on purpose???? I miss it. If by removing it, it made the middle column bigger, well maybe. I think the front page looks good without a right hand column. The community page is better with it in my opinion. Maybe it is just a glitch. It is monday morning...
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Thank you Johnny Cakes
for all that you do and are.
And thank you Robyn, for immortalising that great name.
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You are welcome Janis...
and thank you too Robyn.
Thank you!
So appreciative.
belated THANK YOU
JtC, thanks so much for the update on the comments page--that makes it possible to join into conversations with give-and-take and it is very, very useful.
I hope that you/admins don't change your minds about the thumbs-up being anonymous. I really like that. Back on TOP, there was/is a tendency to obsess about who did or didn't rec you which I think is a waste of emotional energy. I understand what some people are saying here about seeing who uprates as being a way to connect and establish relationships and I respect that. However my personal feeling is that you can accomplish the same thing thru posting a comment or sending a PM.