invisible mode

[Reign in Acai]

"Airborne" For the WIN!!! 10 minutes ago I was feeling a little out of it, this shizzle is pumping the life blood back in to me.

 

[swizzlenuts]

I get depressed when I see fat, slothful Asians. I feel as though they've let me down in some way.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

 

[JayKeeley]

I told her to fire shots from the .44 magnum randomly into the door, then dial 911

6 stars

 

[Dark One]

Wow, for the first time evAr, "9 Members Browsing, 9 Members Visible"

Woot! Time for a nice Harp Lager after a long day.

 

[Krilons Resa]

You can thank Ali for that.

His panties were all in a bunch.

 

[dorian gray]

lol if he starts banning people at random, a la the soup-Nazi

 

[skyrefuge]

Holy shit, "signal to noise" ratio?

Oh, come now, at a board where there seems to be a strong "search for old threads before starting a new thread on the same topic" ethic, and after being bothered in at least two separate threads by invisible mode, you can't pretend to not care about such message-board-quality-metrics!

The good thing about windows is that it's a multi-tasking operating system. I just leave one window open at all times for RC. When not in RC, I'm just in a different window.

Ok, good to know I wasn't missing anything! Yes, of course that's not difficult, but it's still more work than a chat/IM system where you're notified instantly when new messages appear. With this, you have to flip over and hit reload (at some self-determined interval), and then wait 2-3 seconds to see if there is anything new. I dunno, maybe everyone's computer is just faster than mine.

But the real time-wasting comes when loading a thread. Take this one for example. I load the main page, and see "ooh, there's a new message! Maybe someone is talking S/N!" So I hit some button that takes me to the latest "new" post, I wait five seconds for it to load up and scroll past 15 messages of smilies that I've *already* seen in previous posts, only to see that the new post is just another smiley. So that's 5 seconds wasted right there. That has to be repeated every time I return and someone has added another joke.

If this was a threaded message board (such as http://pmx2.krose.org), then all the jokes/smileys would be visible from the main page as a distinct sub-thread, and I wouldn't have to waste my time re-opening the whole thread each time to get an idea of what's new inside.

Ok, I guess this has nothing to do with invisible-mode anymore, it's just my usual rant on threaded vs. non-threaded message boards. I thought maybe if I spent more time here I would come to appreciate the advantages of non-threaded boards, but it hasn't happened, which I'm sure you're completely broken-up about!

oh, and apologies to those expecting a joke here, instead of getting shanghaied (maybe that counts as an Asian slur?) with this wordy buzzkill....if only you had a threaded board, you could have seen it and avoided it!

Neil

 

[skeptik]

Threaded message boards suck royally.

 

[En Vind Av Sorg]

Im inclined to agree, I really never could stand them.
As has been said though, RC is not your average message board, and I for one am happy with the way we do things.