(crazyinsomniac) Re: dark place

So the question for Perl Monks Discussion is how hard would it be to do this with a new nodetype

It wouldn't be hard, but that is not a question for Perl Monks Discussion. The questions for perl monks discussion are:

Is this a useful feature you see yourself using?

What are the benefits of such a feature (how is it useful)?

Why should the pmdev team consider taking the time to implement this?

How much time would a new user need to learn to use such a feature?

Now I would like to ask, What exactly is the new feature? (this dark place, that is directly linkable, with some cut-n-pase things ~ I've read your node 3 times and I don't exactly get it, so I would ask you to please explain clearly what it is)

update:

The 'personal nodelet' could be a list view of configurable depth of your dark place.
No it couldn't. If anything like this is ever implemented, and that type of "view" is available in a nodelet, it would be a separate nodelet. The personal nodelet should not be modified.

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Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: dark place by zengargoyle (Deacon) on Mar 19, 2002 at 04:20 UTC
I'm not sure where to start or how long to ramble... Take for instance Turstep's user page with all that good juicy information. It must be a pain to edit in a little browser text area. (yes there's cut-n-paste to vim and back..) but every little change requires uploading the whole thing back to the server. There are 26 screens (my browser) of info there. To break it up and organize it turnstep would have to do something like I tried, create a place to put nodes, only there's nowhere to do this (that I know about) that doesn't open it up to public comment (you can't comment on a scratch pad or user page). That may be good or bad. On the same form is your scratch pad, every time you update it you're uploading your bio information again. The more you keep the more you task the server. The more you edit the more you task the server. So in the perfect world of my head a monk has some nodes to organize with. Say there are some special monk nodes (get created if they don't exist, etc.) like a Favorites monknode. It's a Personal Nodelet replacement ;) and it's editable contents looks like this: `<li>[id://145647\|zengargoyle] <li>[id://6041\|turnstep]` [download] The Favorites Nodelet just adds links to the end of the node. A monk can now edit this, change the titles, change the order, and have a really usefull nodelet without resorting to clicking checkboxes and adding links one at a time. This Favorites node is also nice to bring up when answering a question, cut-n-paste the link, change title. IMHO the bio, scratchpad and personalnodeletlinks each as a seperately editable node would be an improvement. That was the start of the monk nodetypes idea. Ok, the dark place was the fortune quote when I posted the thread, It seemed to fit at the time. Ramble off. I have nothing but respect for turnstep's effort, I think it's time to browse more user nodes. Having the bio and scratchpad on the same page will give me a tinge of guilt and a touch of fear every time I change either moreso when they get bigger. If nothing else, here is an easy feature request: A textbox and stubmit button in the personal nodelet. If there is text in the box and it's stubmitted use the text as the title of the link. I really wish the personal nodelet worked the way I described above. Monks could edit and organize the links without form bashing. Nothing has made me loose/gain/loose/gain.... experience points than this thread. Think it broke about even.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: (crazyinsomniac) Re: dark place
by zengargoyle (Deacon) on Mar 19, 2002 at 04:20 UTC

I'm not sure where to start or how long to ramble...

Take for instance Turstep's user page with all that good juicy information. It must be a pain to edit in a little browser text area. (yes there's cut-n-paste to vim and back..) but every little change requires uploading the whole thing back to the server. There are 26 screens (my browser) of info there. To break it up and organize it turnstep would have to do something like I tried, create a place to put nodes, only there's nowhere to do this (that I know about) that doesn't open it up to public comment (you can't comment on a scratch pad or user page). That may be good or bad.

On the same form is your scratch pad, every time you update it you're uploading your bio information again.

The more you keep the more you task the server. The more you edit the more you task the server.

So in the perfect world of my head a monk has some nodes to organize with.

Say there are some special monk nodes (get created if they don't exist, etc.) like a Favorites monknode. It's a Personal Nodelet replacement ;) and it's editable contents looks like this:

<li>[id://145647|zengargoyle]
<li>[id://6041|turnstep]
[download]

The Favorites Nodelet just adds links to the end of the node. A monk can now edit this, change the titles, change the order, and have a really usefull nodelet without resorting to clicking checkboxes and adding links one at a time.

This Favorites node is also nice to bring up when answering a question, cut-n-paste the link, change title.

IMHO the bio, scratchpad and personalnodeletlinks each as a seperately editable node would be an improvement. That was the start of the monk nodetypes idea.

Ok, the dark place was the fortune quote when I posted the thread, It seemed to fit at the time.

Ramble off.

I have nothing but respect for turnstep's effort, I think it's time to browse more user nodes.

Having the bio and scratchpad on the same page will give me a tinge of guilt and a touch of fear every time I change either moreso when they get bigger.

If nothing else, here is an easy feature request: A textbox and stubmit button in the personal nodelet. If there is text in the box and it's stubmitted use the text as the title of the link.

I really wish the personal nodelet worked the way I described above. Monks could edit and organize the links without form bashing.

Nothing has made me loose/gain/loose/gain.... experience points than this thread. Think it broke about even.

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