Help wanted on Recently Active Threads

Is there a page explaining what the different bits and pieces mean on this page? I see node titles in different colours, I think it means that the more green it is, the older the node is (but how much older?) But why are some titles printed in italics, and others not? What do the numbers after the titles mean? Some titles have no numbers, others up to three inside parenthesis, and sometimes there are numbers inside square brackets. Also, root nodes have some letters (like A, FA or U) inside the parenthesis as well.

I used the "Need Help??" link at top of the page, but that's just a bunch of links to everything but explaination about the "Recently Active Threads" page. It does have an item "Newest Nodes", which comes close, but alas, that's not a link.

I also used the search box for "Recently Active Threads", but that just brings me back to the same page.

2004-10-29 Edited by Arunbear: Changed title from 'Recently Active Threads', as per Monastery guidelines

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Re: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 29, 2004 at 08:43 UTC
See Recently Active Threads Faqlet sitedoclet, which should also be linked from that page, I think. A general searching hint is, if your search terms bring you directly to a page you don't want, either use Super Search or add a bogus term to the end of your search, or just double your query.	[reply]
Re^2: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 29, 2004 at 10:44 UTC
As a rule of thumb any sitedoclet will have an associated superdoc to go along with it. Normally it will have the same name but for omitting the 'sitedoclet' part of the title. So Recently Active Threads Faqlet sitedoclet is the sitedoclet used by Recently Active Threads Faqlet. The reason these arent the more usual sitefaqlet type (where there is no need for a superdoc) is because the RAT Faqlet needs to be able to output html that isnt legal in a sitefaqlet. Thus the illegal stuff is handled by the superdoc, and the normal stuff is contained in the sitedoclet so the SDC can manage it. sitefaqlets are text nodes maintained by SDC that are directly visible to the user. sitedoclets are text nodes maintained by SDC that will be inserted into a superdoc as dictated by the pmdevil responsible. Thus allowing SDC to maintain the documentation/text independently of pmdev. --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi Flux8}	[reply]
Re^2: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2004 at 09:25 UTC
Thanks. May I suggest making a link to that page from the Recently Active Threads page, and perhaps from the page that "Need Help??" points to as well? I must say that adding bogus terms to the query is sufficiently unnatural for me that I would never have tried that myself.	[reply]
Re: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 29, 2004 at 10:37 UTC
If you look carefully it says Jump to Page Settings \| Page Docs quite near the top. Hopefully that page is sufficient explanation for you. --- demerphq _{First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi Flux8}	[reply]
Re^2: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2004 at 10:49 UTC
I see. Let me just say that it's far from obvious that it's a link to the explaination of the page - it's second of a long list, of which all members are links to other parts of the same page.	[reply]
Re^3: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by demerphq (Chancellor) on Oct 29, 2004 at 17:37 UTC
Its only fair to ask what you think would be preferably then isn't it? --- demerphq	[reply]
Re^4: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Anonymous Monk on Oct 29, 2004 at 23:59 UTC
Re^4: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 13:22 UTC
Re^5: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jan 18, 2005 at 13:32 UTC
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Re: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by hostyle (Scribe) on Oct 29, 2004 at 19:37 UTC
Just a thought, but mostly when I click on "Recently Active Threads" everything is a rather similar shade of blue. Would varying font-weight or font-size not be a more obvious indication? Just a thought.	[reply]
Re^2: Help wanted on Recently Active Threads by bart (Canon) on Oct 29, 2004 at 21:10 UTC
You can change the colour range in user settings (somewhere near the bottom), furthermore, you could use the CSS generated from it as a starting point to completely redefine the display styles, any way you want. I'd like to take the opporunity to make a public call for people to submit their favourite edited CSS styles — though I'm not exactly sure where. We've been thinking along the lines of providing presets of styles, just like the general themes for the whole site — and yours might be in it.	[reply]