I want the ability to refresh a thread from within the thread.

November 27, 2001 6:16 PM

Assuming it's technically possible, the ability to refresh a thread from within the thread.
posted by ParisParamus to Feature Requests at 6:16 PM (27 comments total)

Can't you just use your browser's refresh feature ? (F5 - IE Windows)
posted by Mahogne at 6:18 PM on November 27, 2001

Please hold your laughing if, technically, this is an obvious technical impossibility, but:

as things currently stand, one can only update/refresh the contents of a given thread by refreshing Mefi from the Front Page. Now, wouldn't it cut down on server usage if one could refresh from within a thread; get a new batch of data limited to that thread (or no data/minimal server use if no new posts have be contributed)? Yes, I realize this assumes there's more info on the Front page than in a typical thread, but that's usually true, no?

Also, this would be more convenient. Back to Memo of Law.
posted by ParisParamus at 6:23 PM on November 27, 2001

You've lost me. I am refreshing this thread from within the thread (no the Metatalk front page).
posted by Mahogne at 6:26 PM on November 27, 2001

Well, with IE for Mac, definitely not. At least unless something has changed recently.
posted by ParisParamus at 6:29 PM on November 27, 2001

Hey Mahogne, stop refreshing the thread, it's giving me a headache.
posted by rodii at 6:29 PM on November 27, 2001

Paris: [Cmd/Apple Key)+R] or hit the refresh button. Unless you are talking about something other than refreshing the page.
posted by sylloge at 6:31 PM on November 27, 2001

(I'm using IE for Mac and am happily refreshing. Refresh, refresh, refresh! It's refreshing! Paris, maybe you're doing it from a page that's trying to repost form data, like a preview page? I'm doing it here, and it works just fine.)
posted by rodii at 6:32 PM on November 27, 2001

Hmmm. Um. Never noticed if Metatalk behaves the same way as Metafilter. Um...Can this thread be erased? : 0
posted by ParisParamus at 6:33 PM on November 27, 2001

Worlds are colliding. Bacon is no longer bacon.
posted by Succa at 6:40 PM on November 27, 2001

... and ask for more features.
posted by websavvy at 7:05 PM on November 27, 2001

My dad invented the bacon stretcher. No wonder we were poor.
posted by Opus Dark at 7:15 PM on November 27, 2001

Gotta get the little towelettes if you wanna refresh MeTa. Unfortunately they're strictly A-list only. No frequent-poster coupons accepted, sorry.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 7:18 PM on November 27, 2001

You were poor? I used to buy dozens of those every year as gag gifts. I probably spent over $2,000 on bacon stretchers in the last 40 years. Lately. I haven't been able to find them anywhere ...
posted by sylloge at 7:19 PM on November 27, 2001

*snap-hiss-pssshhh*
*glob glop glup gloop gloop*
*shlurp*

Meeee-ta Filuta! Itsu refleshing, desu ka?
posted by obiwanwasabi at 7:24 PM on November 27, 2001

Miguel: when do you sleep? Or are you an Android?
posted by ParisParamus at 7:30 PM on November 27, 2001

He say you Blade Runner!
posted by Kafkaesque at 7:30 PM on November 27, 2001

Dammit Paris.

I was about to launch a bitter personal attack for interfering with my little joke on obiwan's patois, but now I see it works even better now.

Ahhhh. Feel the love.
posted by Kafkaesque at 7:31 PM on November 27, 2001

Yes. You're in a weblog, about to post, when all of a sudden you look at a webcam-
What one?
What?
What weblog?
It doesn't make any difference what weblog, it's completely hypothetical.
But how come I'd be there?
Maybe you're fed up, maybe you want to be with others, who knows? You look at the cam and you see Miguel, Kafkaesque, he's crawling toward you-
Miguel? Who's that?
Know who ParisParamus is?
Of course.
Same guy, but with a cigar.
I've never seen a cigar. But I understand what you mean.
You look, and Miguel flips over on his back.
Do you make up these questions, Mr. Wasabi, or do they write them down for you?
Miguel lays on his back, his belly baking in the hot Portuguese sun, trying not to post but he can't, not without your help, but you're not helping.
What do you mean I'm not helping?
I mean, you're not helping. Why is that Kafka?

They're just questions, Kafka. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue?
posted by obiwanwasabi at 7:54 PM on November 27, 2001

Let me tell you about my Miguel...
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:35 PM on November 27, 2001

Hey, Paris, how do you keep your thread so fresh?
posted by Grangousier at 11:55 PM on November 27, 2001

I wonder if Metafilter ever gets that not-so-fresh feeling.
posted by fidelity at 12:04 AM on November 28, 2001

Hey, Paris, how do you keep your thread so fresh?

I hit the Back Arrow; then the Refresh arrow; and then go back into the thread. And now I will lose sleep thinking every Mefi load surge is my fault.

Did you know they never use the expression double entendre is NEVER used in French?
posted by ParisParamus at 6:00 AM on November 28, 2001

oops.

Did you know they never use the expression double entendre in French?

posted by ParisParamus at 6:01 AM on November 28, 2001

but ... but ... it is in French ...
posted by walrus at 7:53 AM on November 28, 2001

Double Entendre (English-French for Un mot à double entente, or à deux ententes). Words which secretly express a rude or coarse covert meaning, generally of a licentious character. “Entendre” is the infinitive mood of a very, and is never used as a noun. [Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1898.]
posted by Carol Anne at 8:19 AM on November 28, 2001

Ok it's not.
posted by walrus at 8:34 AM on November 28, 2001

Well, it is. It's just wrong. It's meaningless. To express what is meant by "Double Entendre" I would use "sous-entendu".
posted by qbert72 at 8:11 PM on December 17, 2001