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Preferences Use the form below to select the manner in which you wish the messages in the index to be displayed. (If your browser supports and is set to accept "cookies," your preferences will be remembered the next time you visit. Otherwise, your preferences will NOT be remembered. Without a "cookie," the forum will not be able to remember who you are or how you prefer to view the index listing, nor will it be able to indicate which messages are new since your last visit.) To recover your identity (after losing a cookie, or when using a different computer) simply put your name (exactly as you did before) and your password in the Personal Information section below. This will regenerate your cookie so this forum can remember your preferences.
List Styles:
- A Simple List will display all messages chronologically; that is, in the order in which they were posted.
- An Alphabetical List will naturally arrange messages in alphabetical order by their subject lines.
- A Threaded List will arrange the index by theads, with responses indented below their parent messages.
- A Compressed List contains links to each thread, rather than to each individual message, producing a shorter index listing.
Display Styles:
- The Single Message display style will show the text of
only a single message at a time, though each message page will contain
links from which responses (or other messages in the thread) may then be
accessed.
- The Guestbook style, if combined with the Alphabetical
or Simple List styles, will display the full text of all messages on the index page;
otherwise, it will display the full text of all messages in a given thread on a single page.
Sort Orders:
- Sorting Oldest First will give you a list in which
threads (or messages, depending upon your listing preference) are arranged
with the oldest at the top of the page and the newest at the bottom.
- Sorting Newest First will, naturally, do the opposite.
The other two options are relevant only to threaded and compressed
listings.
- The Mixed Order arranges primary messages with the
newest at the top, thus tending to keep newer threads toward the top of
the page, but arranges responses with the newest at the bottom, thus
preserving a more "intuitive" threading structure.
- Finally, the UBB Order will arrange threads by the
dates of their last responses, rather than by the dates on which they were
started; this guarantees that the threads with the newest messages will
always be at the very top of the page, but also means that threads will be
constantly "reordering" themselves on the index page.
Suggestions:
- If you prefer forum styles from the 1990's that show each message on its own
page by default, you'll probably be most comfortable choosing Threaded List, Single
Message, and Newest First. This is Filmtracks' default format.
- If you prefer forum styles from the 2000's that show several messages per page
in a more flattened format, you'll find that choosing Compressed List, Guestbook,
and UBB Order will provide you with familiar behavior on this forum.
- If you're a long-time user of 1990's-style forums utilizing older versions of
"WebBBS" with its default settings (or some LISTSERV displays), you'll
probably want to select Threaded List, Single Message, and Mixed Order.
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