Recent Activity: My Favourite?

October 24, 2007 10:55 AM

Could the favorites counts and [+/-] links be added to the "posted by" lines on Recent Activity, please?
posted by bonaldi to Feature Requests at 10:55 AM (26 comments total)

RA is my MeFi bookmark now, and I use it more than any other page on the site. It'd be great to be able to add favourites from it.

(Posting this bit here rather than as More Inside so it shows up on my RA.)
posted by bonaldi at 10:57 AM on October 24, 2007

I've thought this very thing myself. Often I swerve to favorite something reflexively in RA and am temporarily bamboozled by the lack of an icon. Gets me every time.
posted by hermitosis at 11:06 AM on October 24, 2007

Honestly, that page should be as close to a normal thread as possible. Every difference just equals something that will be out of date.
posted by smackfu at 11:24 AM on October 24, 2007

Me also too wanna ride this pony.
posted by and hosted from Uranus at 12:03 PM on October 24, 2007

Man, I feel like this came up recently, but I'll be damned if I can find the thread, and I can't remember Matt's take on it either.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:07 PM on October 24, 2007

Me too!
posted by nasreddin at 12:10 PM on October 24, 2007

You're probably thinking of when I was bitching about OTHER stuff on the RA page, cortex.

And more people came around that thread to agree or offer other ideas, but the mods just sort of left the building...
posted by hermitosis at 12:16 PM on October 24, 2007

Yeah, I brought it up. Matt said he thought it would be easy enough and it'll go on the to do list.

Ta-dow, bitches!
posted by shmegegge at 12:16 PM on October 24, 2007

I think you should have to go to the thread and read the comment in context before adding it as favorite. I would support being able to remove faves from RA.
posted by Eideteker at 12:24 PM on October 24, 2007

Ta-dow, bitches!

Well, there you go. Commence quiverin' in anticipation.

And more people came around that thread to agree or offer other ideas, but the mods just sort of left the building...

Heh. That actually turned into a sprawling admin conversation in email, but I'm not sure we ever resolved anything at the time.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:30 PM on October 24, 2007

That's the trouble with this place - too much admin sprawling.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 1:03 PM on October 24, 2007

*Commences quiverin'*
posted by trip and a half at 1:27 PM on October 24, 2007

it'll go on the to do list.

I await hard evidence of this mythical 'list'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:42 PM on October 24, 2007

I assure you, it's very real. Two-ply, five hundred sheets, squeezing strictly prohibited.
posted by cortex (staff) at 1:47 PM on October 24, 2007 [1 favorite]

THAT COMMENT IS WHY I WANT FAVORITES ON THE RECENT ACTIVITY PAGE!
posted by shmegegge at 2:01 PM on October 24, 2007

stavrosthewonderchicken: "I await hard evidence of this mythical 'list'."

If you believe Matt's Tadalist, Jobs, "announcefilter" (Projects, maybe?), tagging, and category RSS feeds still need to be done. In fact, the Recent Activity page is still undone according to that!

The RSS for that tadalist says he hasn't touched it since 28 May 2005. Sigh.
posted by Plutor at 2:28 PM on October 24, 2007

too much admin sprawling.

Why am I suddenly picturing Matt, Jessamyn, cortex and pb suffering the drunken after-effects of a long night of binge alcohol consumption, draped around a dimly lit room, groaning at the spinning of the world?
posted by quin at 2:34 PM on October 24, 2007

Oof. Inside voice, quin. Inside voice.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:22 PM on October 24, 2007

You mean that's not what usually goes on at MeFi Central Command?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:19 PM on October 24, 2007

I am suspect of this supposed to-do list.
posted by carsonb at 4:34 PM on October 24, 2007

"I await hard evidence of this mythical 'list'."

It's real.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:50 PM on October 24, 2007

I WANT TO BELIEVE

My very small and obscure joke upthread was, of course, a reference to an audio interview Matt did somewhere in the last year or two that I vaguely recall in which he basically copped to just writing stuff on post-it notes and then forgetting about most of them until reminded....
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:26 PM on October 24, 2007

Don't forget my two cents from the "Ta-dow, bitches!" thread linked above. (It got me a favorite!)
posted by philomathoholic at 12:30 AM on October 25, 2007

ok, Recent Activity now includes favoriting and best answer checkmarks.
posted by pb (staff) at 4:38 PM on November 6, 2007 [1 favorite]

God, that is so like you.
posted by cortex (staff) at 5:12 PM on November 6, 2007

effin-a! thank you! I also notice that the time length has extended to three weeks, that's kinda cool too.

There aren't any best answers in my Recent Activity, should I file a bug report?
posted by philomathoholic at 12:38 AM on November 7, 2007