MetaTalk posts tagged with preferences

November Favorites Experience concludes. New preferences! Survey! Discuss!

cortex — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:36:15 -0800

November is over, and favorites are back to normal. In addition, we've got a couple related things to mention: a survey about the November exercise and favorites in general, and a couple of new display options for folks who want to alter the default favorites view. Survey You can get to the survey here; we tried to keep it relatively short while covering some of the main points of discussion that came up during November and previously. There's a free-form field at the end of the survey, so if you feel like anything was omitted or have additional commentary, that's totally welcome. Results are tied to userid behind the scenes, so you can only take it once and the admins will know whose results are whose, but the identity of respondents will be kept secret in any results we share. If you run into any bugs with the survey, let us know here as well. Display options The new options can be reached from the Preferences page, under the "Comments favorite style" option. The three options are: - Show Favorite Counts (the classic style, and the default for everybody) - Show "has favorites" (the November exercise's default) - Hide Favorites (no indicator of favorites at all in comment bylines) Note that in "has favorites" mode you can mouse over the text for a favorite count if you want to peek without a clickthrough to the favorites list. General discussion It's been an interesting month; there's been a lot of discussion in the Oct. 31 announcement thread and a more recent thread from a few days ago, if you missed those. And now that November's over and things are back to normal, this seems like a good time for folks to discuss the whole experience and talk about what they got (or didn't get) out of it. Have at it.

Edit this.

dawson — Sun, 04 May 2008 23:11:46 -0800

Here is an opportunity to mock stupidity! I imagine this is crystal clear to most, but I'm clueless, which probably means leave it alone. But what, in edit mode, do "MefiQuote preferences" and "Contact contribution display preferences" mean and how does one utilize them? I just ate a bowl of dicks, so perhaps you can suggest something to drink instead?

Why aren't my preferences saved globally?

desjardins — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:37:00 -0800

Are preferences saved per machine only? I have the plain background at my work computer and on my laptop, but my home desktop is the default colors even though "plain" is chosen on the preferences page for all 3 computers.

Cry JRun Cry!

blue_beetle — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:17:41 -0800

Blank fields for font sizes in Preferences make JRun cry. Possible SQL Injection attack point?

PonyFilter: Remove titles from URL via preference setting?

jeversol — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:32:14 -0800

PonyFilter: Can we add a preference to remove the post titles from URLs? I occasionally read Metafilter from work. I clicked the Baby playing with a snake post and had a moment of terror as I viewed the URL.

New stuff on MeFi.

mathowie — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:33:19 -0800

I finally fixed this, I gussied up the preferences page (more readable, easier to use), and I added inline magical youtube video streaming, which mostly works (enable it then click the icons you see on posts). Full explanation of the YouTube feature.

dhtml titles still showing up even though I don't want them to.

pwb503 — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:35:33 -0800

Yesterday I decided to explore editing my user profile and decided to try out the "Show dhtml link titles." Upon giving it a try I decided I didn't like it and turned it off, then saved my preferences. The dhtml titles still show up though. I just double checked and my preferences are still set to "no" for that setting. Anyone else having trouble turning these off?

Wots up with the My Comments page only lists the past 7 days?!!?

xtian — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 10:56:19 -0800

I was using My Comments to locate a previous post via my comment. Wots up with the My Comments page only lists the past 7 days?!!?

Ok, Maybe I should post more often. Then, I use search, and using my user ID I get nada. Then I used google site search with time limit of 3 months and I get posts from 2004. Oddly, this Google results page is missing the "sort by date/relevance". Same for Yahoo; no date on results sort.

Regardless, this leads me back to a simpler question. Why does the My Comments page limit the results to 7 days? Now I can't rememebr what the post was to begin with, but I would like to hear why the forced limit on this page.

-Long Time Lurker

Unexpected font size in comments

Neiltupper — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:09:49 -0800

When I view comments (in AskMe, MeFi, or MeTa), about half the time the called page comes up in a smaller font with ads displayed. I am logged in when this happens. This behaviour has just started in the last couple of weeks. Suggestions? (FF/XP2)

Favorites Interrupts Music

aberrant — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:55:23 -0800

Musical pony requests: could the "add to favorites" flag be set so that clicking it does not interrupt songs in progress, and could the volume settings be saved somewhere?

How do I change my email in my profile?

zia — Fri, 05 May 2006 10:13:02 -0800

How do I change my email in my profile?

New window preference tweak

xmutex — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:08:37 -0800

Maybe this has been discussed, but Can we make it so only external (non *.metafilter.com) links open in a new window? I like the preference setting for new window but it can be annoying when it's a metafilter section (i.e. a contact).

Forms in New Window

Manhasset — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:02:13 -0800

When I make a post (on Ask, not sure about the others), my post is appearing in another window with the preview window still hanging around in the first window. This never happened till yesterday. I'm on Safari, latest version.

Why does font size change after login?

Dunwitty — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:02:53 -0800

Why does font size change after login?

When I come directly to www.metafilter.com (front page), the body text is displayed at what looks to be the default size for my browser. However, as soon as I click the Login link and login, when I am returned to the FPP, the font size being displayed is now larger.

Using Firefox 1.5, WinXP

Error on preference saving

staggernation — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:13:57 -0800

Can't save Preferences unless "Show email on profile page?" is checked; get error "Element USER_EMAIL_PREF is undefined in FORM."

Font preferences vs headers

nthdegx — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:42:34 -0800

In preferences, my font preference is set to Times New Roman. With the new headers in MeFi and MeTa I see the site nav links in a sans serif typeface, as I'd expect, but in AskMe the site nav links appear to be in Times New Roman. Somewhere there's an inconsistency. I'm guessing AskMe is incorrectly using my font preference for its site nav links in the header.

I've tweaked things in the preferences pane

brautigan — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:08:46 -0800

For the first time since signing up I've tweaked things in the preferences pane. The main font is now Arial 12 and the minor font is Helvetica 10. It's kinda changed the way I look at the site mentally as well as physically. It feels kinda odd, almost a non authentic interpretation of the site. Is that weird (yes!)?Anyone have any thoughts on their own settings and related perception of the site? (Hope this is in the right section, not quite an AskMe thing)...

navigation design requests

boo_radley — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:15:29 -0800

It'd be... nice... if the Preferences nav line was not bolded and the Home nav line was bolded. Also, no access keys?

how about a customize option to have links open in new Tabs?

daveg — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:13:20 -0800

Given the recent Firefox release / post, how about a customize option to have links open in new Tabs?
(Not sure about the technical ease / feasibility)

AskMe in the header, and matching prefs

ssmith — Thu, 13 May 2004 11:08:26 -0800

Two extremely minor things with Ask MetaFilter.
1. Can you add a link to AskMe in the MetaFilter.com header?
2. I have my preferences set to open links in a new window, but they don't do that in AskMe threads.

Firefox Bugs

Grod — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:19:13 -0800

I've switched to Firefox. I have my MeFi preferences set to open links in a new window. I have the Tabbrowser Preferences extension installed on firefox and everything set to open in new tabs, links on metafilter still bring up new windows. While I can just CTRL + click to open in a new tab, I'm wondering if this is a mozilla thing, or a mefi thing. Thanks.

I changed the way new/same window targetting is done

mathowie — Thu, 09 Jan 2003 17:24:51 -0800

I changed the way new/same window targetting is done, so if you have your preferences set to "open links in a new window" and links internal to metafilter are spawning new windows, let me know and I'll fix them. Only links within posts, comments and on the front page should lead to new windows, everything else should stay the same.

MeFi Timezone Support

mathowie — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 12:56:31 -0800

MetaFilter's front page now supports the display of posts by proper time zone. Set your offset on the customize page, then go to the front page (with the default date sort only at this time) to see the site customized for your part of the world. I'll be adding support for the comments and archives later today. MetaTalk, I'll eventually get to.

are there any plans to apply user preferences to MetaTalk?

Yelling At Nothing — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 20:25:02 -0800

We've got a new stylesheet, and one on the way for MeTa. So, are there any plans to apply user preferences to MetaTalk?

Be careful what you wish for

endquote — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:29:00 -0800

Bug: If you set your prefs to show 99 days of posts, the front page shows 99 days of posts, thereby taking forever and making the server pretty unhappy, I bet. There should be some max built in there.

Suggestion: Set login cookie domains to ".metafilter.com" (note the two periods), so logins will work at metafilter.com, www.metafilter.com, and metatalk.metafilter.com.