Any way to make the rollover give more info than what you already see on the screen.
For example a new post may say “having trouble picts attached.” I roll over it with the mouse courser and see exactly what the post title says. On most boards you get the first sentence or two. This way when the post says “having trouble picts attached” and the real content of the post says “now that I have your attention I’m having trouble with my grandmothers lost cat twice removed” I know not to open the thread and move on to the next.
This is a very active site and would really help speed screening the posts to be viewed or ignored. Thanks for the great site!
Good point Mandoo. I always feel guilty for spending so much time on the forums, esp. when you have a slow computer hookup. This would keep up attention in what I consider interesting and maybe I could get more wood cut with the time saved. Sure
There is a BIG update for this software coming in the next couple of months which might have this feature and more....
BUT
keep in mind that if a board does this, it has to load up all that text whether you use it or not. In other words, such a rollover will make page loading times longer for those with slower connections. This is the same with rollover images, etc. - the software loads all of them into memory when you load a page and then switches between them.
Also, keep in mind that the view active posts and view new posts links do exactly this - list the posts with a short part of the body text! I might be able to lengthen this snippet if that is what folks wanted.
There is a BIG update for this software coming in the next couple of months which might have this feature and more....
BUT
keep in mind that if a board does this, it has to load up all that text whether you use it or not. In other words, such a rollover will make page loading times longer for those with slower connections. This is the same with rollover images, etc. - the software loads all of them into memory when you load a page and then switches between them.
Point taken, On the many other sites that utilize it I see no difference in load time. A couple seconds load VS opening all the threads is worth it to me. Of course I realize the “me” part does not matter compared to the majority. So with all my energy drink inspired words (lol) do what you can do and thanks!
You can’t win. But Verizon is going to give all the hilltowns high speed Internet as per our new gov. Course I can’t even get good static free phone service esp. today with rain. You can trust Verizon. Even with all the hilltowns complaining to Boston, nothing helps. When you’re the only game in town , who cares, so says Verizon apparently.
Those of us with fast connections should be thankful. I don’t know how I ever lived with dialup, but at least Earthlink was a lot more reliable than most dialups. Verizon is pushing us (HARD!) to go to FIOS, and I am resisting, for a variety of reasons. My father, who lives in the sticks, is forced to endure Comcast, and they are supposed to be lucky to get even this.
Craig; might I propose a poll to see who is using dialup vs. broadband? I suspect many people in rural areas have no other choice. Might be interesting.
Those of us with fast connections should be thankful. I don’t know how I ever lived with dialup, but at least Earthlink was a lot more reliable than most dialups. Verizon is pushing us (HARD!) to go to FIOS, and I am resisting, for a variety of reasons. My father, who lives in the sticks, is forced to endure Comcast, and they are supposed to be lucky to get even this.
Craig; might I propose a poll to see who is using dialup vs. broadband? I suspect many people in rural areas have no other choice. Might be interesting.
Chris
I can’t believe I’m involved in hi-jacking my own thread!
I live in a rural area no cable, no DSL The only way for high speed was satellite. We now use a Sprint wireless card/usb modem running a home network. I have a small Yagi antenna on the roof going to a amplifier that drives a dome antenna giving me my Cell and EVDO signal!
The point is We now have options and I think most folks are no longer married to dial up. BTW it cost me around $400.00 in equipment that I own and $49.00 a month for Sprint EVDO service.
Now go start your own thread and stop distracting from my rollover request!
It’s all Craigs fault. Can’t wait to see the new set up. Iwent to Hughes net and it’s much better than dial. Still could be faster but at least I don’t fall asleep while connecting. Could be old age, naw. The rollover would be nice. It’s on a fire web site that I use and does not seem to take any longer plus I can better decide to follow up or not. But you’re doing a great job Craig, Many thanks for all the forum choices.
It’s all Craigs fault. Can’t wait to see the new set up. Iwent to Hughes net and it’s much better than dial. Still could be faster but at least I don’t fall asleep while connecting. Could be old age, naw. The rollover would be nice. It’s on a fire web site that I use and does not seem to take any longer plus I can better decide to follow up or not. But you’re doing a great job Craig, Many thanks for all the forum choices.
Hughes net was my only other option but the equipment costs, monthly fee’s,bandwidth limits and dish size made me run away! I have to say the EVDO or RevA seems to be the way to go right now in the Rural areas. Let’s put it this way if you have any kind of cell phone service (even weak like me) you can have 49.00 a month medium speed Internet. Around 1200kbps down and 120kbps up for me. Others are way higher (signal strength and coverage)
I realize I just ripped on your Hughes Net but hey you Hijacked my thread!
I would not pay much attention to the avg time on site on that graph....because it does not make sense compared to other data.
For instance, I just printed out the stats on ONE article - one page.....which showed visitors stayed on that page for 4 minutes average. So it would be tough for folks to visit 5 or 6 pages in 6 minutes.....
I think web analysis can only go so far.......
This pic shows the stats of the “how to start a fire page” for a few months
It’s all Craigs fault. Can’t wait to see the new set up. Iwent to Hughes net and it’s much better than dial. Still could be faster but at least I don’t fall asleep while connecting. Could be old age, naw. The rollover would be nice. It’s on a fire web site that I use and does not seem to take any longer plus I can better decide to follow up or not. But you’re doing a great job Craig, Many thanks for all the forum choices.
Hughes net was my only other option but the equipment costs, monthly fee’s,bandwidth limits and dish size made me run away! I have to say the EVDO or RevA seems to be the way to go right now in the Rural areas. Let’s put it this way if you have any kind of cell phone service (even weak like me) you can have 49.00 a month medium speed Internet. Around 1200kbps down and 120kbps up for me. Others are way higher (signal strength and coverage)
I realize I just ripped on your Hughes Net but hey you Hijacked my thread!
ya Mandoo, you way seems much better than hughes net, esp for speed. I’m at 700kbps and they say 600 is ok for home use. Most of the small hilltowns around have little, if any cell service which is why we constantly argue with Verizon, to no avail. Emergency providers have similar problems with their fire and police radios. Progress in the 21st century?!!