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It's a long-running argument on Barbelith, though it usually concentrates around the idea of a "show new posts" button.
Personally I'm all for posting histories easily available for all members - click on a profile, see posts made by that person, which means not only can you see where you've posted yourself, but also if you like the cut of someone's gib you can check some of their other posts. Or if you don't and want to see whether they have a history of talking bollocks. Or just to get a sense of someone's posting activity, the sort of thing they tend to write about; this is information about somebody that you cannot practically get by going through every thread in every forum.
I have to say, though, Johnny, it's unlikely to happen even if everyone suddenly agrees about the need. It's been stated that there aren't going to be any board modifications in the near future and, well, I would imagine that anyone who doesn't actually know Tom and Cal personally isn't going to get access. I'm reasonably experienced with PHP and web tech myself and a few other people here are too, and people have proposed things, even gone into how they'd implement them, but there's not been any positive response. I've even thought about generating my own offline database of lith posts so that I could interrogate it myself but really, that just seems silly.
Google is often your friend here incidentally; "site:www.barbelith.com (username)" will get you a reasonably good list, particularly if you can vaguely remember what you were talking about and add a few new search terms, but it's not going to be up to date. Barbelith gets indexed quite well but not every five minutes. |
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