login and new comment info on post pages?

December 19, 2005 12:39 AM

Dear #1,

Could we have
"You are logged in as: null terminated / logout
There have been no new questions and 2 comments posted since your last visit"

on the post pages?

Thanks,

-null
posted by null terminated to Feature Requests at 12:39 AM (19 comments total)

Um, could we please not take so much space up on the front page? Cutesy gimmicks like letter formats bump other folks' posts.
posted by mediareport at 12:45 AM on December 19, 2005

my deepest
















apologies.
posted by null terminated at 12:49 AM on December 19, 2005

I'm curious as to why you would want this.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:02 AM on December 19, 2005

I usually click through to get to this page. Is there a better way to do this? (I'm not loving the "My Comments" page)
posted by null terminated at 1:04 AM on December 19, 2005

I'm with null. All pages should give me this useful information, not just selected ones.
posted by Plutor at 1:19 AM on December 19, 2005

I'm not sure what you mean.




-Todd Loken
-null
posted by eyeballkid at 1:29 AM on December 19, 2005

is this even remotely true?

I thought that the number of posts on the front page was determined by... the number of posts. Not their length. I mean, if it's determined by the length of the post, doesn't that mean that one exceptionally long post (which would obviously be deleted or converted to a [mi] would obliterate EVERY OTHER post on the page, before it was fixed?
posted by shmegegge at 2:07 AM on December 19, 2005

Maybe mediareport was talking about the visual space. We're used to one- or two-line intros with maybe a "more inside" thingy... and posts that that use hard returns, blockquotes, &tc. push other stuff down and disrupt our usual front-page scanning of three or four posts "above the fold".

The worst thing I ever did on MeFi blue was to do idiosyncratic formatting of a fpp... because it was a nice poem sort of thing and I wanted to try to reproduce the impact of how it was presented on the page I was linking to. Big mistake, though, because half the (very few - hey, it was a post about poetry, what do you expect?!) comments were just about that formatting choice.
posted by taz at 3:30 AM on December 19, 2005

I usually click through to get to this page. Is there a better way to do this?

I usually just click on the 'Posting as: stavrosthewonderchicken (logout)' just above the text input box...
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 3:52 AM on December 19, 2005

You want a link to your own user page on every page? Is that what you're asking for?

And what does it have to do with a random question about finding a church?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:45 AM on December 19, 2005

matt: I could certainly use a link to my profile on the more comments page.
posted by Eideteker at 6:02 AM on December 19, 2005

Bah, my comments. Sorry. I should remember to eat breakfast before posting to MeFi.
posted by Eideteker at 6:03 AM on December 19, 2005

Basically, he's asking that the "You are logged in" info is treated like the page header, appearing on every page on Mefi. I've also noticed this and think it would be nice to have. (Sometimes you're reading comments or answers and you want to be able to click on your profile, but you have to go back to one of the 3 main pages first.)
posted by knave at 6:59 AM on December 19, 2005

(Although I suppose, at the bottom, there is Posting as: knave and I've never thought to click there.)
posted by knave at 7:00 AM on December 19, 2005

I'll just add "My Profile" to the nav then.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:42 AM on December 19, 2005

Thanks!
posted by null terminated at 8:47 AM on December 19, 2005

Maybe mediareport was talking about the visual space.

Yes. Adding whitespace for no reason is kinda silly. Or kinda rude. Kinda both, actually.
posted by mediareport at 9:03 AM on December 19, 2005

I'm sorry, but my name isn't null terminated. I'd be miffed it that appeared on every page I view.
posted by Your postings will be signed with this name at 1:40 PM on December 19, 2005

Woot!
posted by cortex at 3:57 PM on December 20, 2005