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Kewl, thanks for taking the time to look into this. 
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It would be kind of cool if we could forum watch our last five threads we posted in. So that over on the left the topmost forum watch would link to our last 5 comments in any forum not just the lounge. That would be kind of cool. Just put that somewhere in the nebulous regions of the todo list and roll it out before the sun burns out.
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code-frog wrote: Just put that somewhere in the nebulous regions of the todo list and roll it out before the sun burns out.
Would be nice to see the sun burn out as a forum watch as well. Be cooler if it went nova, but it's unlikely to happen. 
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code-frog wrote: Just put that somewhere in the nebulous regions of the todo list and roll it out before the sun burns out.
I actually want this feature, badly. I've been holding off on it as a means of motivating myself to do some other, less interesting, code cleanup - once that's done, this is gonna happen.
Ah, the joys of watching a quick-and-very-dirty script balloon into a full-fledged app... 
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Do you know how much work that will be? 
I'd be willing to accept monetary bribes to get that to the top of the feature list. 
[update] Actually. We've got two options here. We can either assume that you're going to be using CPhog, keep track of the last five messages you've posted in unique threads, and add them to a list of threads to watch. Or, we could go off the Latest Comments[^] page for each user...which is cached it seems, and doesn't actually pick up stuff for a few minutes.
The second way is more reliable (assuming we can get Chris to embed the thread id in each of those links), but obviously going to be a bit out of date...which won't help if you've got a very current thread you'd like to watch. The first way is less reliable (in terms of accurate content), because you must be using CPhog for each post to get it to work and we'd be storing that information in global storage, so it would be machine-specific rather than portable to every machine.
Hrm. Things to think about...
Last modified: 10mins after originally posted -- And the latest comments page still doesn't have this post in it...
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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David Stone wrote: Do you know how much work that will be?
about 30 minutes including testing
Days and weeks. Bribes should definitely be involved.
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--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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Um...yeeeah...see my post again. I modified it with some brainstorming ideas.
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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David Stone wrote: The first way is less reliable (in terms of accurate content), because you must be using CPhog for each post to get it to work and we'd be storing that information in global storage, so it would be machine-specific rather than portable to every machine.
First off, everyone should be using CPhog. All the time. So that's a non-issue.
The machine-specific thing is a bit of a problem; however, there are already a number of inconveniences when moving between machines / profiles, and this is hardly the worst of them.
Given that the whole intent of the feature seems to be a convenience thing (at-a-glance updates of the current post count in a thread), it's not exactly the end of the world if a thread goes missing.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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I just noticed you can subscribe to an individual thread for the forum watch. Why not default subscribe to threads where you post and only retain the last 5? Just use a push-pop. Is it that easy?
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my affinity, in this life or the next. - Gladiator. (Okay, not quite Gladiator but close.)
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? - Lord Byron
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David Stone wrote: Last modified: 10mins after originally posted -- And the latest comments page still doesn't have this post in it...
Heh.
This forum is "hidden" - posts here never show up in Latest Comments...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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Ooohhhhhh...right. 
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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So uh... Firefox updated and now I'm seeing this every time I try to reply and my entire computer dry-heaves all over. I'm posting this from IE which has me seriously chapped at the moment.
cphog.jpg (53.1 Kb)
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Odd... Try Ctrl+F5, see if that helps.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
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You know that's odd that it worked because that's the 2nd time I tried it. Why on the 2nd time did it work...
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Dual Quad-Core. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my affinity, in this life or the next. - Gladiator. (Okay, not quite Gladiator but close.)
I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.
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Because Shog quickly submitted a bug fix between your first and second try?
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Not this time...
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--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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Now when I'm typing in CPhog it makes my browser refresh about every 3 seconds. That's kind of annoying.
http://www.codefrog.com/firefox/firefox.html[^]
Just keep watching the status bar. You see the blue shoot across but it's actually started long before you see the blue so you can type about 3 words (it refreshes) and then 3 more words (it refreshes) -> GoTo->LOOPHERE.
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It's probably loading the sidebar items (whatever forums you've marked to watch). I usually don't notice this, but your comment reminds me - we should really cache these.
Adding it to The List...
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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mmmm, well ... guess I'll try to figure out how to unwatch them...
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Negative. I have no more watches and she still is updating... I'll try to restart FF and see if it goes after that.
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Can you fire up Wireshark or something and watch what it's trying to hit? Could be one of the admentor scripts or something.
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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ForumWatch runs once at the beginning of the page unless you specifically click the button. Shouldn't be that...
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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David Stone wrote: ForumWatch runs once at the beginning of the page unless you specifically click the button. Shouldn't be that...
It does cause momentary flickers in the status area when the request returns. Though i gotta say, i can barely see them even when i'm watching for 'em, but that's all i can think of. Well, that and the request(s) to pull the rest of a partial thread. They're probably all running back-to-back (assuming Rex hasn't changed the "max two requests per server" setting), so with several forumwatch boxes and a long thread, it could conceivably flash several times.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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If someone's got that many forumwatches that it's actually causing a slowdown, that's kinda sad.  I use two. One for the Insiders forum. One for here.
But yeah...I guess if you're loading that partial thread along with more than a couple forumwatch boxes, it'd queue up the requests for a bit. But it looked like Rex's Firefox was going crazy. And his screencast was almost 30 seconds long. And it didn't look like he'd just loaded that page.
We are certainly uncertain
at least I'm pretty sure I am...
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