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

There's a difference between Topic Drift, and Topic Derailment

One of the new features we're looking to introduce earlish next year will be a (potentially in-house) url shortener, we're still looking at a few options for it

the weird is ok, the wide will make me unsub

where is it wide? all pages of this thread? h2g2.com or other skin?

I'm in Goo. I never look at the other skins, sorry. I'll see if I can find which one it is.

oh and it's fixed.
all round.

Do have a look at the new Pliny , just for a bit

I'm so set in my ways - no wait, stuck is probably a more accurate word for it

But I've taken a peek and it looks way better than the old geezer

- so like 2legs I will try to make an effort to get used to Pliny Jr.

So for once 2legs is being blamed for something good

oh I have, Milla, and I really like it

but... I just love Goo and all my bookmarks are in Goo so I'm staying here

*smiles enigmatically*

*looks towards Tavaron and Asteroid Lil*

Sho, I think it might have been a case of a link on the previous page, so it would have been automatically fixed when had enough posts to turn the page.

Afaik, those kindly volunteers, aka Mags shortened the link.

Just had a look at the plinly and i'll carry on using Brunel till its fixed

With the added functionality, I've switched over to Pliny while using my tablet. But on my desktop, I'll still keep my Convo Popup as it autorefreshes so I can see new posts in a more timely fashion.

But yeah, I'm 90% converted.

We're not fixing Brunel Jackruss

What do you think isn't working in Pliny?

Brunel is a heck of a lot easier to read for people with eye problems. Frankly that pale blue on a white background and even the pale grey used for text is a problem for eyes. I think it is safe to say that some of the most prolific contributors of content are middle-aged if not older. Just a comment.

That's why we're going to bring the old skins over this this new framework.

We're already working on bringing Goo over


Oh, and I've set the My Conversations page to auto-refresh after a minute

And I can confirm that the auto-refresh works! Woohoo!

Hmm... I'll keep an eye on it, but currently My Conversations aren't autorefreshing. I'm on my Android tablet. It's not a biggie as I can see the little asterix from My Convos popup tab and then I can just tap on the pliny convos tab and hit refresh.

I think I'll adapt to the full Pliny in time, but I will miss how My Convos Popup controls a separate tab and that each time I click on another post, it opens it in that same tab rather than convo list tab or a new one altogether.

It's just what I'm used to after more than a decade of Brunel.