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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 25, 2011 22:54:45 GMT -6
I think you have a good idea there Maxx. The problem is that doing that is so convoluted that I wonder if anyone would do it. I've never even bothered to figure it out myself. Of course I look in several times a day anyway so it doesn't matter that much. I better idea to me would be a "breaking news" RSS feed, but there's no RSS support. With KKAT you weren't missing much. It was one satellite feed exchanged for another. If you want to read about it look at talkingutahradio.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=slcradio&action=display&thread=487
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Post by maxxfordham on Aug 29, 2011 3:41:00 GMT -6
Thanks for the compliment. Well, hang on for a minute while I look up the word "convoluted."
You know, I was so used to ProBoards having a subscription feature (like... subscribe to e-mail notifications of all new responses, or just all new responses to our own responses, or all new responses in just a given thread, etc.) that I hadn't yet noticed until now that this site doesn't seem to have that feature! Hmm, I'm freshly bewildered!
Okay, well since that seems to be a bit of a damper, then-uh... hmm... heheh, well...? Hmm....
Anyway, yeah, still, hearing the way those sat feeds swapped might have still been interesting to me. Small detail, but I like knowing those things. I'll read that thread you gave me the link to. Thanks.
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 29, 2011 3:51:30 GMT -6
I did figure out how you can do it, though it's fairly screwy.
First you bookmark the thread. That's in one of the mini toolbars at the top and bottom of the thread.
Second you go to bookmarks under your profile. You can select the notification method there (IM or email).
I don't know if there's an easier way to do it.
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Post by maxxfordham on Aug 29, 2011 23:39:56 GMT -6
Ahah! There we go! I guess there are different versions of ProBoards. Heh, I hope the easier versions are the newer ones. Are there different versions of pb? Or maybe I'm getting some of pb mixed up with some of VBulletin or MyBB. Are they similar? Anyway, well cool, so I've been able to set up e-mail notices for some threads on this site now! So now the next step is for us to agree that we could have a thread that all format/brand-flip-related updates would go into, and then I (and any others interested) would bookmark that one and set it up with e-mail notifications! Whow, this could be really exciting! Whattya think?
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Aug 30, 2011 22:09:06 GMT -6
I think "exciting" is a bit of a stretch but I don't see any reason not to. Let's give it a try.
There is a beta version of ProBoards but I haven't looked into it. I'm not too keen on software that's still untested for production use.
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Post by maxxfordham on Aug 30, 2011 23:09:00 GMT -6
Oh, so this might be the only version of proboards in regular use so far, so it looks like I might have just gotten some things about it mixed up with some other but similar board systems. Sound about right?
Hey, thanks for crediting me with the idea on those new threads! Cool! Yeah, thanks for taking it seriously! Even location changes would be appropriate for those threads (though extremely rare they are).
I see that those are locked so that only you can post the updates. Is there a concern that other people posting to them might abuse the urgency of the threads and then there might be a "little boy who cried wolf" effect on the bookmarks to those threads? So then... would someone else... like say, Levoix... post that kind of news to the regular subforums, and then you'd copy them to those special threads?
Let's see what I hear about now that I've bookmarked those threads! Let's see if I catch more of those flips (although I don't see one happening for a while, since we just had a few or several, as Levoix and others have noted)!
Thanks, CA! Mike
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Post by CAwasinNJ on Sept 1, 2011 19:10:03 GMT -6
What you saw today is pretty much how that will work. It's just for a heads up and to point back here for the real discussion. It's sort of like a tweet. (And if you were wondering no I'm not doing Twitter.)
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Post by maxxfordham on Sept 1, 2011 23:50:07 GMT -6
Well, great! I like it! Good system! Hopefully whoever gets the info. first to share it will have it before the fact most of the time. And sometimes that does happen, I think.
Sometimes we do hear on the radio ahead of time that "101.9 will change from KKAT to Pop FM," and then "Pop FM's bubble will POP and 107.5 The End will move to 101.9, while KKAT will come back as Country Legends and go to 107.5," etc. I did happen to catch and record the switch of 101.9 from Pop to KZHT!
So see, if I had been an avid listener to Movin', then I would likely have been made aware of their switch to Rewind ahead of time. Unfortunately no avid listener who had been listening while the ads were airing is a poster to here, I guess. But Timmy did come close.
So if we happen to get ones that are ahead of time, that'll be great! I love the potential this has!
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