A few things (inside).
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 11:15 PM on December 19, 2001 (18 comments)

Strip extraneous line breaks at the end of posts.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 7:00 PM on November 26, 2001 (25 comments)

Lots of links in a front page post? [more]
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 3:31 AM on November 17, 2001 (13 comments)

Philippe Gully: A site owing its survival only to its advertisers cannot speak freely: the advertisers could refuse to be associated to a statement or a point of view that is not his.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 5:13 PM on November 12, 2001 (5 comments)

Russlog. The best weblog ever. (I've got this scary, Friday-the-13th feeling about this. Is judgement day upon us?)
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 6:42 PM on November 10, 2001 (11 comments)

Lofi Mefi's style sheet suggests a text and background color for body (black on white). This is fine unless some moron (i.e., me) has default colors of mint green text on a black background with white links. The mint green and black background are overridden but the white links end up on your white background.

Assuming a user's default link color is blue could lead to unreadable links, so please add at least colors for links (there already is a color on a:hover, but no background). (Alternately, if you want, remove all color suggestions from the style sheet.)
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 2:22 AM on November 10, 2001 (8 comments)

For those of us who have JS disabled, could you add the URI of textads to the title attribute? (I did mention this, but I think it got lost in the shuffle.)
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 8:00 PM on October 22, 2001 (4 comments)

You have a style element in body. That ain’t kosher, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s causing problems with more standards-compliant browsers.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 8:55 AM on October 22, 2001 (7 comments)

Is it okay to add our own personal style to our profile?
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 6:27 AM on October 17, 2001 (26 comments)

I whipped up a quick user stylesheet to be used with lofi MetaFilter. I don’t know if it works with anything but Opera, but here’s a screenshot. What do you think?
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 9:30 AM on October 9, 2001 (23 comments)

Logging into MetaTalk...

Note: You'll need register before you can login.

Should be need to register.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 8:15 AM on October 9, 2001 (6 comments)

Strip all HTML from posts, only allow a few basic tags by using [ and ] like those funny message boards do. This could allow hyperlinking and basic formatting without the problems that, e.g., the style attribute brings up. (There’s no way to prevent people from impersonating other users, messing up the page, etc., except by disallowing the use of HTML.) What do you think?
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 4:33 AM on October 9, 2001 (9 comments)

Is there a reason you use <div class="monthday">September 28</div> instead of, e.g., <h2 class="monthday">September 28</h2>? I don’t know about everyone else, but I’d greatly appreciate a switch to the latter.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 4:03 PM on September 28, 2001 (18 comments)

MetaFilter’s code is messed up. The front page is fine, but all of the threads start with an unclosed anchor tag. This is bad. To be more specific, there’s only the left angle bracket and the insides of the link. You’re missing a right angle bracket and the closing tag.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 11:08 PM on September 23, 2001 (10 comments)

If someone had the time to put together a daily or weekly e-mail digest, I know I'd subscribe. It wouldn't have to be Matt, obviously, and I'd like to personally nominate Joe Clark.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 4:55 PM on August 21, 2001 (15 comments)

Dude, you should check out MetaFilter in Amaya. It’s, well, yeah.

Oh, and I noticed that the text to the left of the input fields (Username:, Password:, Description:, Category:) decides to hide behind the input fields in Opera 5.02. It gets worse if you decrease the width of the window. It’s no big deal or anything, if you know what you’re doing. Here’s a screenshot.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 9:07 PM on March 16, 2001 (5 comments)

Would it be good, bad, or otherwise to have the ability to create a “sub-thread” for a comment purposefully going off on a tangent? Personally, I think it could be useful, but it could easily become overused. I can’t think of a satisfactory way to prevent someone from making every single comment into a sub-thread for no good reason. The best idea I could come up with (and I’m not saying it’s even a good idea) is to limit sub-threads to once per topic (per user). Of course, it’s a possibility that more than one tangent might originate under a single thread but, in that case, the result (not being able to post a sub-thread for a tangent) is equivalent to what we have now (i.e., no sub-threads). Also, someone else might post a sub-thread for the tangent. Can anyone think of any better solutions, or is this a lame idea in the first place?

Also, although it may be handy, I don’t think MeFi would benefit from sub-threads to sub-threads (i.e., a sub-thread inside another sub-thread). At least not at this time.

Also also, if you do end up implementing this, it might be kinda cool to have a link to a topic’s sub-threads on MeFi’s main page (under the topic, e.g.). This could become a problem if a topic has a ton of sub-threads, but I don’t think it’s likely to become a serious problem. It might happen, but I doubt it would happen very often.

Also also also, the button on Post a Thread to MetaTalk reads Preview the Link. I noticed this just a second ago, and it doesn’t really bother me, but (perhaps) just Preview would be more appropriate.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 6:11 PM on March 3, 2001

1. A search feature for MetaTalk ... I’m too lazy to see if any of my requests have been posted before.

2. When I’m on the feature requests page & click on Post a new thread, it would be cool if the default category was feature requests. I almost posted this to bugs, actually. I don’t mean because I thought it was a bug ... I mean I almost posted my requests to the bugs section because it’s the default category.

3. Something that automatically closes italic and bold tags (or links, &c.) for forgetful authors. It could get rid of things like http://http:// at the beginning of a link. I don’t know if this has ever been a problem. You could issue the author a warning if he tries posting a malformed link; e.g., http:// all by itself or something.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 2:38 PM on March 2, 2001 (3 comments)

It’s boring, though.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 11:46 AM on March 30, 2000 (7 comments)

Something like this would please me immensely:
body { cursor: default; }
I'm easily amused.
posted to MetaTalk by gleemax at 1:39 AM on March 30, 2000 (10 comments)