Comments on: Recent Activity: more, better, longer!

Recent Activity: more, better, longer!

jessamyn — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:31:04 -0800

A few little functionality improvements with Recent Activity and some favorites action. Just so you know, pb tweaked the query a bit on Recent Activity to keep AskMe threads in your RC list until they close. This means people can post updates in thread and other people who have commented will still see them even months later. Other things drop off the RA list after a month. We also added a favorite from RA option and you can see the best answer checkmarks in the RA view as well. Report weirdnesses here.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:50:05 -0800

Report weirdnesses here.

I got a rash, but I'm enjoying it.

By: quin

quin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:52:36 -0800

Report weirdnesses here.

I can't stop having sex with bee-hives. It's... troubling.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:56:58 -0800

Report weirdnesses here.

i collect tammy faye's empty lipstick tubes

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:58:06 -0800

Other things drop off the RC list after a month.

Great change! I noticed old threads percolating to the top today - those Australian election campaigns are long..

I think more tweaking will eventually be necessary, because ten threads isn't very many over a month (or year) of activity. If I had a really good idea for how to manage that, I would suggest it, so..

Anyway, still very much appreciated!

Oh ya.. Colour coded backgrounds :)

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:02:55 -0800

How excellent!

By: Dillonlikescookies

Dillonlikescookies — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:03:52 -0800

i have a strong urge to bite my boss. i did it, a while ago, but she was holding a smoking hot pan at the time, and didn't see me coming. someone suprising you with a strong bite on the shoulder can apparently be very disturbing.

it was very hard to explain why i felt the need to bite her.

oh, and also nice work.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:06:59 -0800

Oh yeah, Jessamyn, did you mean a user
s Recent Activity as opposed to Recent Comments tab?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:14:57 -0800

Looks good.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:16:23 -0800

Oh yeah sorry, I never use recent comments. I'll edit the post so it's not totally confusing.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:24:50 -0800

"I can't stop having sex with bee-hives. It's... troubling."

Oh, buzz off.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:34:04 -0800

Now, honey...

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:37:42 -0800

You keep droning on about it, but you'll bee sorry.

By: idest

idest — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:46:27 -0800

I've been fighting the urge to favorite myself for hours. Should I see a therapist?

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:52:42 -0800

This is not confusing at all.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:22:56 -0800

Is this another post about the hive mind?

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:50:08 -0800

There was a laundramat in St. Louis that had a sign up that said, simply :

NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS

And it made me think about all the skiing mishaps and bus plunges and failed trapeese acts that weren't the fault of the Delmar Laundramat.

Good on them for telling us.

By: Abiezer

Abiezer — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:09:02 -0800

Could we add "comrade" as relationship type for contacts? I'd like to build a popular front here. Then we could split into hostile factions.

By: Wilder

Wilder — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:06:12 -0800

Rhomboid, you total tease. I clicked on those links and thought I got "favoritted"! Sigh.

By: tehloki

tehloki — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:39:41 -0800

Favouriting in recent activity?
Favouriting in recent activity?

I GOT MY PONY!

WHEEE SHE'S SO PRETTY AND SHINY

By: whir

whir — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:28:14 -0800

Nice! Thanks for the continuing feature creep. (Not sarcastic)

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:00:41 -0800

For the official announcement (from the horse's mouth), see pb's comment.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:13:48 -0800

(from the horse's mouth)

Straight from the mare's mouth, maybe, but ponies aren't horses.

How long 'till you foal next, pb?

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:37:41 -0800

1) I wasn't saying anything about ponies at all. I call them feature requests.

2) Here's the first sentence from your wikipedia link: A pony is a small horse with a specific conformation and temperament.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:43:53 -0800

Ya, well I'll see your wikipedia quote, and raise you one link title:

"wikipedia says I'm wrong.."

Go ahead, hover..

By: daisyace

daisyace — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:20:58 -0800

Yippee, thank you! And it was only few days ago that I emailed you asking if Recent Activity could display favorites and best answer checkmarks. As I noted then, now I'll be able to bask in self-satisfaction much more easily -- and I didn't even have to risk the terrifying hazards of a pony-requesting meTa thread.

By: bonaldi

bonaldi — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:33:03 -0800

Hey tehloki and daisyace, it's MY pony! But you can ride it too.

and Thanks!

By: pithy comment

pithy comment — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:47:30 -0800

I don't know if it has been mentioned or requested elsewhere, but the new sidebar of contact's activity is GREAT, and it would be even greater if it could be an RSS feed. I imagine that might be a difficult computation, especially with the particular filtering options and everyone having a different list of contacts, but it would be amazing none the less.

By: myrrh

myrrh — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:59:42 -0800

Not sure if it's been mentioned here or elsewhere, but the "Recent Activity" page appears to display "____ added you as a contact" twice for each time that type of activity occurs. Is this affecting other people as well?

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:43:00 -0800

It's a bug that only affects those perverse enough to take up the recent fad of self-contacting, myrrh.