@Accipiter: The stuff I was wishing for you and David ain't gonna be no help with, I'm afraid. This is a family posting site, after all... :-)
@rjb112: If you are in the "Fund Discussions" category, you can mark all of those posts as read; if you're in the "Off-Topic" category, you can mark just those as read. I'd swear that wasn't there yesterday- I think that Accipiter is doing magic stuff in the background...

@Accipiter and @chip
Thank you very much.
Note: I arise at 6am EST everyday. I do two things firstly. First, is a very large cup of hot coffee while the pc boots; then secondly, signin to MFO. A very nice method to start my day.

Thanks Chip and Accipiter for your efforts.

Good job, Accipiter, as usual. Hard to imagine this whole thing working without you and Chip behind the curtain, pulling the levers. Thanks!
Regards- OJ

@Accipiter- thanks for the great work you did with this!! We're all very grateful for your efforts!

@Accipiter - Thanks for quick reply. That's great news. Sifting through dumpsters might be like looking for an overlooked "gem" at a re-sale shop or garage sale. :)
Found it! ... Thanks for all your hard work. Everyone appreciates it.

The upgrades went very smoothly, thanks very much to Accipiter's expertise with all thing Vanilla Forum. There a just a few changes that you may want to make note of:

• The "Mark All Viewed" option has been moved. Its previous location made it too easy to click accidentally, and there is no option to undo it. Now you can find "Mark All Viewed" under the Account Options gear, near your screen name in the top left panel of the screen. Hopefully, that will help us avoid accidental clicks. If you access the forum from a mobile device, you won't see any change.


• The Bullpen. You'll see a new category called The Bullpen on the left. Every day or two, we'll run a process that will move Fund Discussion threads that have had no comments in two days into The Bullpen category. If you'd like to bring a thread out of The Bullpen, just make a meaningful comment and the thread will return to the Fund Discussion category. It's really quite cool.

Please thank Accipiter for all his work on our behalf.

@Accipiter
So, if I am away for 2 weeks; without a connection or time to connect to MFO; I will be able to view the "normal" board, but also have to go "dumpster diving" for other posts which get the boot, as there may be something of interest there, for me?
Thanks,
Catch

I still need a short name for the zero comments category.

"Crickets..."

Accipiter and I will be working to upgrade the discussion board software this Saturday. We're a few version behind and need to upgrade to patch up some security issues. We'll likely begin work at 11 a.m. EST. It could take up to six hours for us to do everything that we have planned, although we're hopeful of being done sooner.

Accipiter: I think Davidmoran's suggestion was a lot simpler and that he envisioned a far simpler automated mechanism. I saw nothing in his proposal remotely related to links. How is it that new comments now automatically bump a post to the top, but that the same technology couldn't allow posts with 0 responses to drop into an inactive folder after 24 or 48 hours?
Trying to differentiate between "primarily link" and "primarily commentary" would seem a near impossible task - though I'm sure we have some here up to the challenge. And not all links are created equal. Some are damnd good.

It seems like a promising idea, but I'm not sure how easy or difficult it might be to implement. I'll try to reach out to Accipiter for his judgement.

Suggest moving all 0-response / 0-discussion posts (meaning no or 1 response after 1 day or some such threshold) to an Inactive / Low-Activity folder, leaving all else as is maybe.
You can set criteria and nomenclature differently of course.
There also could be a Concluded / Nearly Concluded folder for those lively but no activity for 2 days. -- ?
Just housekeeping and basic forum hygiene, to shorten the looong list now that the site is even more of a success than prior.

You're very welcome (and Accipiter is one that gets bulk of the credit for the good MFO Risk Profile and MultiSearch tools).

I also had to sign-in this morning. Happens about once a month for me, usually around the first. As a security move I'd cleared my browser history yesterday, which might account for the odd timing of it.
The process is controlled by the Vanilla board software and I've always understood that the rhythm and wording of this particular prompt is built into the software itself. I'll ask Accipiter, who handles most of the Vanilla programming for us, and Chip what they might add.
David

Thanks Accipiter. I actually prefer not to be notified. The less I get in my email inbox the better. I get a badge notification on the inbox when I get a message and that suits me fine.
The yellow notice on the profile page makes it clear now which function is private and which is not.
One question is the purpose of the activity box. Perhaps it is not necessary and could be deleted thus making this whole question moot?

Thanks Accipiter.
It should be clear so people have comfort that their messages are or are not private. It's bothersome to know others can read your stuff.

Hi bee- yep, it ain't just you- I do the same thing re cutting and pasting from an additional compose box for the more complex stuff like adding an URL- for the simple emphasis you can manually add the code characters to start and stop bold, italic, and underline.
If I correctly understood a comment that Accipiter made a while back they are going to try to fix that in the next iteration.
OJ

Once again Bob C comes through with solid recommendations based upon ling experience. This man is a gem!
I had forgotten how long Bob has been a pillar of support for both MFO and FundAlarm until I happened to read the "What are these Numbers?" post a few days ago, which contains a historic link to a FundAlarm page from April 2005.
There is Bob, then and now one of the most helpful folks to ever post on MFO or FundAlarm. Some other names, still with us, from the past: Maurice, Ted, David Snowball (of course!), VintageFreak, Mark, rono, and Falcon (now Accipiter). Congrats to all on longevity and minimal, if any, evidence of senility. :-)