What’s the story?

Until a volunteer is coming around that is using that stuff and/or is familiar with the issue – you’ll have to wait.

Posting just to say “I dunno” wouldn’t help, and while it might be seen as an acknowledgement of your post, it would be a disservice to you: it would remove your topic from the unanswered queue where most helpers start looking when coming online.

This seems to highlight what seems to me to be a shortcoming of bbpress (this IS using bbpress, yes?) – namely, the lack of a way to tell if a thread is being examined at all… I am trying (without success) to recall another forum-type app in which there is NOT a “views” field on threads.

Which brings up another (apparently) missing element – “email me when there’s a reply”…

The assumption for this particular topic seems to be ignorance and apathy – nobody knows & nobody cares… which does mystify me a little…

One of my “hmmmm, let’s try THIS one” messages was something along the lines of “who’s using blogdesk or blogwriter?” I have to say, I was pretty surprised to see zero reposnse to that one, because I was pretty jazzed by the discovery of those apps, and there is after all a section devoted to the general topic of clients in the docs. I personally find the clients to be extremely interesting, at least for the specific project that led me to them, i.e. having multiple barely-computified personnel posting messages. As I mentioned in that particular thread, these are people who I feel would have a TERRIBLE time trying to navigate the admin stuff into authorship, but (as evidenced by a quick test) have no trouble at all clicking on the BlogDesk icon, entering a title, typing some content, attaching a file (text for now), and clicking on the “send” button… it’s close enough to email that they have no problem at all.

Thanks for the thoughts.

Which brings up another (apparently) missing element – “email me when there’s a reply”…

Bottom of every thread is a link titled “RSS Feed for this topic.” While the majority of the world still hasn’t a clue to what RSS is, I suspect that most bloggers have a grasp. At least, that would be my guess towards the bbPress fellows’ intent.

The “views count” idea would be nice. You might wander over to bbpress.org and offer the idea ??

I wandered to bbpress, so that’s a done deal.

Now, if I subscribe to the RSS feed… what’s the best way in your opinion to accomplish a notification? I’ve never used RSS, so I’m not really certain which of the options to go with… I suppose what I’d like is for FF or TB to see something whenever there’s an addition to the thread. I’ve only looked briefly at FF’s RSS feed, and it seemed to need to be checked rather than doing any notifying… I guess I’ve just gotta come into the 21st century\, too…

Thanks aG\gain. Dammit, I’ve gotta get my Logitecj kbd back and dump this cheapo pos.

I’ve not messed much with FF or TB as feed readers. I’d wager thunderbird (assuming that’s your TB?) would be a bit more serviceable.

I’m a google reader junky myself. I configured Firefox, via Options -> Feeds, to send clicks to feeds to Google. I subscribe to threads here that I want to keep a close eye on.

Experiment with some readers. Because really, telling a person what reader to use is like telling them what sort of person to sleep with. It’s just not done — or makes everyone uncomfortable… ??

Ah, so… never mind, then.

What I was looking for was something like the flag on the mail box. In rural Ammurrika, we have (or had) these little red flags on the sides of the mail box. In the really old days, the postman would flip the flag up when he left you some mail, so you could use your binocs to take a gander at the box and see if he’d left you any. Actually, it worked both ways – if you had outgoing mail, you’d put it in the box and flip the flag up, and the postman would stop and pick it up even if you had no incoming mail (and back when the post office hadn’t decided to charge Amex, AT&T, Chase Bank, WalMart and every other fncking advertiser in the universe only 7 cents for the same mail that cost you 41 cents, so you didn’t get “mail” EVERY day), so you could check to see if the flag had gone down… sort of a toggle switch, so to speak… and you didn’t have to walk a quarter mile to see if there was any mail.

I’m not absolutely certain this is progress.

Your mileage may vary.