h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Glad to be of service, anyhoo!

In fact, I'm thinking about writing a page about little gizmos like that, especially seemingly undocumented stuff like putting "&entry=0" on the url of PR to suppress all the explanation at the top, and putting "&show=50" (or whatever) on a forum url to increase the number of threads/postings per page. I was thinking about calling it "Making Goo Work For You" because of Brunel's slight increase in adequacy in these tasks, but eventually decided the name is misleading and cheesy.

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You might want to add a note on the page not to go over the top with the &skow= part of a forum URL - the page will take a long time to load.


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Actually, sometimes I open it in a new browser tab (in the background) and then set the &show= thing to about 10000 just to see how big the whole thread looks when it's on one page. Guaranteed amusement for about 15.6 seconds!

Although I had thought about suggesting a feature to choose the default &show= in Preferences to say 20,50 or 100 depending on bandwidth...

Certainly when going to PeerReview or <./>Askh2g2</.> I always use the links on my PS which have &show=50 in the URLs.

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So, after using the 'My Conversations' pop-up, I feel that it *almost* does what I'm asking.

Thanks for the help, and the page with tips for Goo is a good idea. You can't tell people to read the manual if there isn't one.

Thanks. I'll definitely get onto it after my project deadline a week on Friday.

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