How about a button, that when you click it, reveals that you you've won a comedy DVD for being the 500th lucky clicker, or something equally pointless.
 

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Quote: swerytd @ June 29, 2007, 3:00 PM

Neither did I!

Noticed the 'Outbox' Aaron. Excellent! And it's brought back all my outgoing mail since day one!

Thanks muchly

Dan

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Thanks for pointing that out swerytd. I hadn't noticed it.

Thanks Aaron - it's helpful because (I think)it shows what has and hasn't been read yet.
 

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I hadn't noticed 'Outbox' either. That's really good. Whenever I used to do a PM I could never remember what I wrote and had resorted to pasting text into them out of Notepad. Great mod ... muchas gracias.
 

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Excellent to have an 'Outbox' but is it possible to have it sitting on the bar at the top of the page instead of only being able to access it from within the 'Inbox'.
 

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Quote: Baumski @ July 5, 2007, 10:04 AM

Excellent to have an 'Outbox' but is it possible to have it sitting on the bar at the top of the page instead of only being able to access it from within the 'Inbox'

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I'm afraid to say we're a bit short of space on that top bar (some people have small screens you see). Plus, for clarity, only the 'important' functions appear on the top bar (I'm not sure the outbox could be classified as such). We will give it some thought though but in the meantime it's just one extra click.
 

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The outbox doesn't seem to keep everything. Is there limited space? It's not a problem - just seemed strange but you can still see what's "unread".
 

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Quote: Mark @ July 5, 2007, 10:08 AM

I'm afraid to say we're a bit short of space on that top bar (some people have small screens you see). Plus, for clarity, only the 'important' functions appear on the top bar (I'm not sure the outbox could be classified as such). We will give it some thought though but in the meantime it's just one extra click.

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What about renaming the 'Inbox' to 'Mailbox' which would then logically include the 'in' and 'out' boxes...



 

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Quote: David Chapman @ July 5, 2007, 11:15 AM

The outbox doesn't seem to keep everything. Is there limited space? It's not a problem - just seemed strange but you can still see what's "unread".

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When the recipient deletes it, it'll disappear.

Quote: Darren Goldsmith @ July 5, 2007, 11:17 AM

What about renaming the 'Inbox' to 'Mailbox' which would then logically include the 'in' and 'out' boxes...

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Interesting. I'll think about it. Ditto Mark though, there's not enough space, and IMO it's not a major enough feature to warant it anyway.
 

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Quote: Aaron @ July 5, 2007, 11:52 AM

When the recipient deletes it, it'll disappear.

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I didn't know you could delete them! (thicko!)
 

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If the top-of-forum-page counters indicate there are (say) 30 guests and 10 members on line ... is that just the forum or the the whole BSG site? Assuming the former ... could a change be made to indicate 'visit counts' at the head of each thread, next to where Author is shown, split by visitors and guests (example - Views: Members 122 Guests 49) as I'm curious to know who, by type, is reading what. There always seem to be far more guests than members lurking about ... but what are they actually looking at!?! Sounds to me like an easy mod to make as it would apply across all thread headers (but then I would say that!).
 

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Quote: losaavedra @ July 9, 2007, 8:33 AM

If the top-of-forum-page counters indicate there are (say) 30 guests and 10 members on line ... is that just the forum or the the whole BSG site? Assuming the former ... could a change be made to indicate 'visit counts' at the head of each thread, next to where Author is shown, split by visitors and guests (example - Views: Members 122 Guests 49) as I'm curious to know who, by type, is reading what. There always seem to be far more guests than members lurking about ... but what are they actually looking at!?! Sounds to me like an easy mod to make as it would apply across all thread headers (but then I would say that!).

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Woah... easy there Big Brother!

 

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I think I record the amount of views, but there is no way to display a breakdown of guest/members. And no, I currently have no plans to show the view count.


Besides, a lot of the 'guests' you see online are search engines indexing us.
 

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I'm not particularly interested in 'who' (although many of the other forums I frequent laboriously list the log-on identities of all currently on-line members) just the counts at thread level ... which could be both as-of-'now' and accumulated for the life of the thread split by members and guests. This info is inevitably already gathered (or at least easy to gather) as part of running the site!
 

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Quote: losaavedra @ July 9, 2007, 8:33 AM

If the top-of-forum-page counters indicate there are (say) 30 guests and 10 members on line ... is that just the forum or the the whole BSG site? Assuming the former ... could a change be made to indicate 'visit counts' at the head of each thread, next to where Author is shown, split by visitors and guests (example - Views: Members 122 Guests 49) as I'm curious to know who, by type, is reading what. There always seem to be far more guests than members lurking about ... but what are they actually looking at!?! Sounds to me like an easy mod to make as it would apply across all thread headers (but then I would say that!).

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Losaavedra, that top counter is just counting the people who are looking at the forum (board.sitcom.co.uk), not the rest of the site (www.sitcom.co.uk). That gets quite a significant amount of extra visitors.

The explanation as to why there are many more guests than members lurking about is that a lot of people are finding these threads based upon Google searches, getting the info they want and then disappearing. They obviously have nothing they want to add... or they're scared away by the regulars

As for tracking the viewing of individual threads - I'll talk it over with Aaron and see how feasible it is (there's things like database load we need to take into account). I suspect we'll keep some of the data to ourselves however I believe one of the features of the upgraded forum will be the ability to easily see who else is online when you login.

The short answer to what you want to know is that the 'guests' are, from what I can gather, mostly looking at the four forums in the Comedy section (Sitcoms, Other British Comedy, Foreign, DVDs) - I guess to read people's view points. It is also this collection of forums which are well featured on Google - e.g. if you search for 'Not Going Out', that thread on here is ranked high.

The critique forum also gets some focused attention from a particular sub-set of the 'guests'. For example I've spotted a few Channel 4 IP addresses lurking recently.
 

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