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posted by Adam S on Thu 25th Aug 2005 20:42 UTC

"OSNews++, Part III: Feature Review"

Since rolling out "OSNv3," we've steadily added new features. Chiefly amongst them are the following, in no particular order:

  • 1. Improved comment template
  • 2. Index caching to improve performance
  • 3. Custom timezones
  • 4. Email on reply to your comments
  • 5. Profile biography space
  • 6. Improved user pages
  • 7. True comment permalinks
  • 8. Bookmarks
  • 9. Friends and Fans (which will be unveiled soon)
  • 10. Improved "Trust" system
  • 11. On-the-fly threshold toggle
  • 12. Moderation review
  • 13. "Read Thread" view
  • 14. "Reply" function
  • 15. OSNews Digest (will be re-activated shortly)
    Just added today - finally...
  • 16. Hovering over a topic icon finally displays the name!!
  • 17. Story title in title of page!

    Although tempted, I don't think I'll be implementing this humorous suggestion from Roguelazer, who says, "Add 3 new fields to our User Profiles. They can be "combo box" fields. The first one will be "Stance on GNU GPL". The second one will be "Stance on Gnome devs". The third one will be "Stance on OS X/Windows" ... Through this addition, most of the comments here can be avoided, just by clicking somebody's user profile. Brilliant!"

    As always, suggestions, feedback, flames, gift certificates and evites can be directed to osnews-crew at osnews dot com, or to me personally at adam at osnews dot com.

    Table of contents
    1. "OSNews++, Part I: Theading"
    2. "OSNews++, Part II: Some Answers"
    3. "OSNews++, Part III: Feature Review"
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