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I've got Firefox 1.5 and no orange box in the lower right corner. Maybe because I have Forecastfox there? I do have an orange box in the address bar to the right which says "Add Live Bookmark..." if I hover over it. But since I don't know what a Live Bookmark is, that's something else I'll have to lookup (and the stinking Great Chinese Firewall is now blocking Wikipedia, which means I''l have to use a proxy, and browse even slower). I looked it up, but am just to stupid to understand "regularly updated list of links to recent articles supplied by a news site or weblog."

I first saw this FOAF thing in someone's Public Profile, but clicking it doesn't produce something human readable. How would one know whether or not something is useful or desirable when they can't use it, and there are no instructions? Same with Social Network. I clicked Chinaman's Social Network and it tells me "Friends (0) ... 0% Mutual / Is Linked To (3) / Is Linked From (13)." However, I don't know where these come from, what they mean, or why they're there. Perhaps an explanation of what this is, and where the data is collected from?

As for FOAF and Social Network for me personally, I'd like more than to "simply just ignore the whole thing." I'd like it to be empty, unless I decide to add to it.

Browsing the member's list was just something I liked. I could see very easily about someone's stats in relation to LQ. It really doesn't matter, just that I noticed it's gone. In fact, I can't find any member's listing. That autocomplete on the Search doesn't really take it's place.

As for the RSS Feed, doesn't that send an email? I've got way too many of them as it is. I enjoyed the running list of O Replies on the old LQ Home Page. I've tried 0 Reply Threads as my home page, and also searching the Slackware forum for 0 Replies. However, neither one works to keep itself current like that list did. I've seen people with the Top 10 last LQ threads or whatever on their websites ... maybe I'll ask how they did that and put in on my site and make that my home page. It's not the same but closer than what I can do from LQ now.

Okay, so the changes in the internet world are passing me by. I'll just shut down my X server and enjoy command line from the comfort of my rocking chair.




P.S. In our LQ UserCP this is really confusing:

Disable Ads? Ads disabled if unchecked.

Seems like if it asks to Disable Ads, then checking it would disable ads. If someone doesn't read that line beside the box, they're going to just check it and enable the ads.

Hi chinaman- I've written something on firefox livebookmarks. Hope it helps. I would explain it here, but the other has nice pictures of the livebookmark.

titanium_geek

titanium_geek,

Thanks a lot! I'm trying it with 'LQ 0 Reply Threads'
Perhaps old dogs can learn new tricks. Just takes more training...

As for the "neither one works to keep itself current like that list did" issue, that is a conscious decision that we had to make due to our size. Performing that full search on every click was killing performance. The dataset is cached now, there's just no way around that. On the RSS note, it does not send an email, but the above link does cover it in a way that should give you an idea what it does do.

--jeremy

The Live Bookmark thing is nice. It's understandable about caching the dataset (whatever that is), taking too much time to load. The site is definitely faster than ever, so you've done a great job in that respect. Thanks guys!

What makes the Live Bookmark update?
I have 'LQ O Reply Threads' but many of them have several posts already.

IIRC, as I don't use LiveBookmarks, it's updated via RSS(Really Simple Syndication). It basically is a way for the thread(or rather list of threads) to be read(syndicated) to another computer with an agregator(which is essentially what LiveBookmark is). I'm not trying to confuse you more, by the way, just trying to provide information. It may be that by the time you get to the thread, other people have already responded.

Thanks. I read that stuff at Wikipedia, so I get the gist of it. However, I just opened and closed my browser, and the Live Bookmark updated itself, but still, threads in that list already have 3 or more replies. Unless I've got something setup incorrectly, this just isn't efficient for 0 Reply Threads. Maybe it works okay for something else.

I don't use Live Bookmarks, but most RSS readers will allow you to set the interval they check at.

--jeremy

A quick addition, we're moving the feeds over to a system that will allow them to be much more up to date (about a 5 minute cache instead of 30) and much more user friendly. They'll even render in a normal browser now. If anyone noticed any problems, let me know.

--jeremy

that might be your problem. The 30 minute cache might be why the threads with posts in them are still showing up.f

Haven't noticed how to set the interval, but I did find that right-clicking on the LQ Community - LinuxQuestions.org Live Bookmark tab gives a choice of "Reload Live Bookmark"

Haven't noticed how to set the interval, but I did find that right-clicking on the LQ Community - LinuxQuestions.org Live Bookmark tab gives a choice of "Reload Live Bookmark"

Thanks for moving those feeds, Jeremy! Your site is so great because of the personal effort you put into pleasing the community.

Just a note that we have further enhanced the Social Networking pages and added a link to the side "My LQ" nav. If anyone has any additional suggestion, feel free to post in this thread.

--jeremy

On my first re-visit to LQ (following a substantial lapse) I noticed, under My Social Network, someone linked to me. What does this mean?