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Mu Beta Started conversation May 29, 2002
Now I'm sure all this downtime is doing wonders for the site design, but who's bright idea was it to re-name the 'submit posting' button, and is the Society for Good English chasing them yet? What's wrong with just 'Post'?
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J'au-æmne Posted May 29, 2002
I hadn't noticed that. But I see your point, although it does kind of fit with the 'Preview Posting' button....
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MaW Posted May 29, 2002
I would think that 'Submit' implies that something needs to go for approval, whereas 'Post' is a freer kind of verb... also, it's more indicative of what's actually going on and so clearer to new users. It just sounds a bit odd... I use "Post Reply" on the forum system I'm writing, and so do a few other systems I've seen.
Of course, I know that postings do have to be passed by the Moderators, but it is post-Moderation, not pre-Moderation, so 'submit' is still the wrong word.
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Ottox Posted May 29, 2002
It doesn't look good. (What do I know, I'm not English)
But 'Post Reply' will be wrong every time you start a conversation!
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Mu Beta Posted May 29, 2002
In my experience, all non-English people speak better English than we do (with the obvious exception of Americans).
Perhaps 'Post Submission' would be better. Might need a larger button, though...
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Mark Moxon Posted May 29, 2002
There's a reason behind this! We've recently genericised a lot of the message files which contain the text of buttons and so on, so (for example) we've been replacing sentences like this:
My Recent Edited Entries List
with:
My Recent List
in the XSLT files. This means that we've set up a variable called m_editedentries that we've set to 'Edited Entries', so if we launch another DNA site that uses different terminology, all we need to do is change the variable for that site, and their terminology changes. We've done this for things like 'Researchers' (some sites want 'Users', some 'Members' etc), 'Guide Entries' and so on.
When going through the files, I changed the entry called 'Post Message' to 'Post ', which then translated to 'Post Posting'. Jim spotted this, as did I, and I changed it back to 'Post Message' (which is what it said before the genericisation). Obviously the code deployed didn't include this change - not sure why, but there you go.
Another one to go weird is the missing space on <./>Info</.>, for similar reasons.
The upshot is that it should say 'Post Message', and I'll try to get it fixed. So you're right, and we've already fixed it... sort of.
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Ottox Posted May 29, 2002
Still says Post Posting to me. And I've just emptied my cache to make sure that's not the reason. Something about the database having to update? It should have had time for that now...
Also it still says "4099Edited Entries" at the Infopage
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Mark Moxon Posted May 29, 2002
Aha! I think I know the reason - I only uploaded the changes to one server. Doh! Give me a coupla seconds...
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Mark Moxon Posted May 29, 2002
There, done on all four web servers. How is it now?
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Mark Moxon Posted May 30, 2002
It does? I can't get it to show that... but I'll re-upload the files and see if it fixes it. Is it still there?
If it is still there, can you let me know your browsers? I've just tried it in IE 5.5, Netscape 4.71 and Opera 6.0, and it looks fine...
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Mark Moxon Posted May 30, 2002
Just had a thought - are you both Goo users? Might provide a clue...
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted May 30, 2002
yup. netscrape 6.0
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