META: Today's site update
Click your name, see if you can spot the change.
We added some user functionality. You should be able to check your points now, and also tab between your Activity (a list of threads you're participating in) and View (your latest comments). Moderators can now also access the moderating tools from a user's main page. Plan is to build out this Activity page so you can see how many posts are unread in your active threads, and see if you've got any replies to your comments.
Shows who upvoted our posts, nice work!
I feel old. Is there way to check on mobile?
User head icon thing in the top right corner, then your name, then Points
Ah perfect. Now to lurk for another 4 months before I hit 100 in 10 years on board.
Or you could get there now and figure out how.
Dang you Seth. All my nefarious plans of lurking for the content ruined :(
Btw thanks for the great 10 years of content. Mgoblog has kept my fix for Michigan content going even as I’ve left behind my time at Michigan.
Upvoted just to get you closer to that 100 ;)
Looks like he’s there. Now he will get the Century Club membership in MGoBlog.
That's just MGoSilver status. It doesn't even get you a dedicated customer service agent. To really enjoy MGoFrequent Pointer status, you need to reach MGoPlatinum or more. Then there's MGoLifetime Platinum, which is a lot like MGoSilver, but with more letters in the name and credit card offers.
I look forward to this in 3 years when I make enough posts to be out of Bolivia
edit: and now I see someone already beat me to the same joke idea above. I can do nothing right.
Dang!!! Your points say -403, so I just missed the -404 joke fest...
(No, I won't down vote just for that - it's not that funny.)
So, I can see how my peers are voting my comments now.
More importantly though, I was upvoted but a quiverfull today. He’s still here….
Mods got a bunch of new tools. These are things the users never see so I made them low-priority but it's so nice to have them.
People can send direct emails to one another now?
That ought to go over well.
Especially in COVID or Bo posts.
only mods can send emails.
"Mods got a bunch of new tools."
Not sure how you didn't make that connection! That's a mod tool, so when they review your shitty post they can tell you about your flight to Bolivia much easier.
Thanks for posting this screenshot Seth. Prior to this, I clicked on my name three times and could not see any of the cool new things that were added. Now I see those little tabs near the top. Good shit indeed!
If clicking votes took you to the top of the page, try clearing your cache. That's a caching issue that will resolve itself with time.
That was it.
Thx seth!
Another random functionality question...
If you're working your way through a thread and then click any embedded link, when you go back to the thread, all of your previous up/downvotes aren't saved, so you have to repeat your work. Why does it do that?
I never noticed that. When you plus someone it registers on the server immediately.
You can see who up AND down votes you? Enemies will be made!
Or we can all just dance.
Never wanted to dance with nobody but you
/mindless self indulgence
I'm having trouble with this page. What is it telling me? I mean, sure, I can see who up/down voted, but what post? What's the point total? Are they all for the same post? Do they show points based on the post you were looking at before clicking 'Points'?
I have so many questions, and this is only my first cup 'o coffee this morning!
HUEL working the holiday weekend? Sheesh, Seth…give ‘em a break!
Hilary is going on vacation next week so we wanted to scoot this out first.
I Love It!
Visibility and transparency (I can see who hate my comments).
My vanity and insecurity simultaneously praise and curse you.
Cool. Cool cool cool.
I scrolled through 2 pages of my points and enemies have been made.
Why the fuck would any of you uovote me?
the neutral milk hotel tribute avatar obv
I just upvoted you. I do not want to be on your shit list!
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer!"
Oh good, now I can see which of you think I suck.....and that's fine. I am at peace with that.
Testing. Testing. 1, 2, 3.
Solid update
Am I the only one who can see every user's browser history and key strokes?
Nope.
yes because you are the only one not shame-browsing this site on incognito mode like we really should all be doing.
Nice upgrade, thank you
Hey Seth, not sure how to word this as a question, so hopefully you'll get the gist. When I click on a post that I commented on it will go directly to my comment if there's only one page, but if it's on the second or third page of comments it will just go to the first page and I'll have to go searching through the next few pages of comments. Is there any way to make it go directly to that comment regardless of which page it's on?
As usual, thank you for everything you've been doing on here!
Yeah that's on our list of to-do's. We're building out things that need to be built on top of each other, and only some of that is user-facing. But basically:
- We rebuilt the site so that it can work as an app (standard for modern websites).
- We added a few drupal modules and tested them to make sure they work with our custom mods.
- We're now activating those modules.
- Once these work we can implement a module that allows for individualized views by session.
- Once that works we can add things like the ability to see new replies and new posts in your active threads, and to set how many comments you want to see (that module is messy though so we may have to cancel it).
- Once that's implemented we'll go through all the site's functions and tie them to those modules.
No reason to fix things we're about to break.