About to revolutionise neowin

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It's a pretty good idea and I really like the way it looks. I have no use for it at this stage but maybe, as you add features, I will. Similar to the comment JadeWolf324 made, you may want to add an option to change PM notification delay. This would also be interesting... to have the program check the member's group and have preset values for each (moderator, admin). Is there a way to get this information from the server. The admin would have the smallest number (5?).

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Would there be any way of displaying the new posts or active posts grouped by forum? for instance so you could just see the posts from the customizing xp forum.

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Would there be any way of displaying the new posts or active posts grouped by forum? for instance so you could just see the posts from the customizing xp forum.

offtopic much?

anyway, yea. just browse to that forum and click subscribe to this forum at the top. you will get notices for new posts, just like regular topic subscriptions.

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What is the point of this? :unsure:

I already know I have 18,000+ posts.

If i want to be notfied of a Private Message while i'm on the board all I need is to set a Preference in my USER CP.

Personally I find this application a waste of time.

amen brother.

and a waste of server connections and bandwidth.

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-1, Troll  :laugh:

someone, somewhere will use this. PMs are useful, and you get them fairly often if you are a (very) active member around here.

or a mod.

but i use the feature that send me an email when i get a pm.

ps, potatoes is my boy. :ninja:

:crazy:

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,Jul 2 2004, 10:37] Its in VB6

Oh dear....VB6 is still around....

Man, Join the .NET revolution!

Any strain on the server would be because it would be pooling multiple sources at once possibly. Instead of a web browser approach where you are looking at one section at a time.

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offtopic much?

anyway, yea. just browse to that forum and click subscribe to this forum at the top.? you will get notices for new posts, just like regular topic subscriptions.

Why is it off topic, it was a suggesting for his program. Something which could allow you to specify which forums you wanted to see new posts from.

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???

fud has some of the funniest defitions. but i dont get what you mean.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fud&r=f

Exactly what you read there...

Fear uncertainty and doubt... is what you are spreading by implying that it's going to use up hoards of bandwidth. If you don't think you wont find a use for it, thats fine, but don't ruin it for the rest of us

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Exactly what you read there...

Fear uncertainty and doubt... is what you are spreading by implying that it's going to use up hoards of bandwidth. If you don't think you wont find a use for it, thats fine, but don't ruin it for the rest of us

think about it.

if the server can barely handle 7 million hits a day from the forums, how will it take 10million hits a day from the forums and this little app?

it has to open a socket and connect the neowin site, correct? wouldnt that affect the performance of the site?

much like ddosing a site by sending too many requests for it to handle.........

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yeah this sounds similar to what ended up happening with that whole gmail script some guy invented.. it actually caused the server to dish out "error: 500" errors

and similar to what happened over at tech critic when i worked there.. they had an rss feed that litterally drained the site...server load skyrocketed, not a good thing

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think about it.

if the server can barely handle 7 million hits a day from the forums, how will it take 10million hits a day from the forums and this little app?

it has to open a socket and connect the neowin site, correct? wouldnt that affect the performance of the site?

much like ddosing a site by sending too many requests for it to handle.........

ccouldnt agree more.. i hate it when neowin gives me error messages

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