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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Aug 20, 2017 05:28 PM UTC:

I have replaced the listcomments.php script with a new script. This new script uses PDO methods instead of mysql functions, and it changes how it pages through the comments. The old script used the offset method, which grew more expensive with each page of links further away from the origin. The new script uses the first and last keywords to indicate a specific starting point from which to count ahead or count down additional comments. This works just as quickly for any point in the Comment table, and it provides links that will identify the same set of comments even when additional comments are added.

The default is now to list comments in ascending order instead of descending order, and order=DESC must be set to list comments in descending order. This is to make it explicit when comments are being listed in descending order. The new script uses the sort keyword instead of the sortbydate keyword, and it can take different column names for values. It defaults to CommentID. But until I change the links, it will change the order value to DESC, so that old links can still function as they used to. The link on the home page has already been corrected, since it did not include any parameters. For further details on parameters, click on the Help link, or add the help parameter to the URL.


Jeff Rients wrote on Wed, Sep 8, 2004 03:36 PM UTC:
External links will continue to die at an alarming rate as long as people continue to believe that publishing chess variants as board games is a commercially viable endeavor.

Anonymous wrote on Tue, Sep 7, 2004 08:07 PM UTC:Poor ★
This comment is about the whole site:
Do you know just how many dead links to external pages you have?

John Lawson wrote on Tue, Jun 25, 2002 02:48 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I noticed the unobtrusive random page link a few days ago, and I wanted to let you know that I really like it. The CVP has become so huge that there is no way one can remember everything on it. The random page allows for serendipitous discovery and adventure.

📝David Howe wrote on Sat, Apr 27, 2002 12:05 PM UTC:
Done and done!

John Lawson wrote on Sat, Apr 27, 2002 03:56 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Also links for the Subject Inserted confirmation!

John Lawson wrote on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 06:21 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Thanks. The link back to What's New goes to the redirection page. Did you mean to do it that way?

📝David Howe wrote on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 03:05 AM UTC:
Links added. Thanks for the suggestion.

John Lawson wrote on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 05:02 PM UTC:
One thing you might consider for the New Comment Added acknowledgement is a link back to the What's New page. Now I either back button through several pages, or just use my bookmark.

John Lawson wrote on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 06:26 PM UTC:
David - <p>I thought you got $100k/year! Vanilla is always best in software.

📝David Howe wrote on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 06:02 PM UTC:
I appreciate all the feedback, especially constructive criticism. Please do keep me advised of what you like, and especially what you don't like. I will continue to develop and hopefully improve this system. But also keep in mind that this is part-time, volunteer work for me, so I prefer to keep things simple and easy.

John Lawson wrote on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 09:07 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
David - <p>Just feeding back to let you know I really like all the improvements you've made to the comment system. It looks like people other than the usual ones are stating to use it, too. (I guess I'm going to have to learn what an HTML tag is, though. I'm not ashamed of my ignorance; I know things about mainframe computers.) <p>I at first thought the Minimal New page was an odd idea, but it turns out to be great, because it refreshes in the blink of an eye. <p>The only quibble is I don't like to have to expand long comments, but I'm probably in the minority, and cerainly against fashion.

Jianying Ji wrote on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 12:12 AM UTC:
I got to say, the new format looks great. Also this website continuously amazes me in its depth and breath, and is an endless inspiration to me on my ideas concerning many topics. And has given me new perspective on many things.

John Lawson wrote on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 11:53 PM UTC:
No, no, not a smaller font, PLEASE! Some of us use bifocals, and have enough trouble already.

📝David Howe wrote on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 08:19 PM UTC:
For those who constantly check the what's new page, I have created the
'Minimal New' page, which just gives a short summary on when the latest
comment was made, and when the latest item was added or updated. The
address is:

   http://www.chessvariants.com/index/new.php

📝David Howe wrote on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 06:36 PM UTC:
Truncating a comment which contains HTML code is non-trivial. Strange things happen when closing tags get truncated off the end. So, I have nothing against HTML-based comments, but since truncating them would involve much more work, I chose to simply avoid. My alternate approach may be to use a smaller font.

John Lawson wrote on Tue, Apr 16, 2002 05:49 PM UTC:
Why discriminate against non-HTML comments? I have no clue how to create an HTML comment, and feel slighted. (I do know what HTML stands for, however.)

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