Modern Vespa

Not everybody wants to read every thread. Some subject lines are vague and don't tell what the poster wants. On MV, to find out what the thread is really about, one needs to open the thread.

Some forums allow a peak view by just placing the cursor on the subject line. This will then open a small box with the first few lines of the OP. Could this be enabled here?

Headline edit: Forum upgrade suggestion Train wreck

The Forum is a "phpBB" -- https://www.phpbb.com/ You can see if the customise you want is available.

I guess this is one of those things that divide us in camps. I kind of like the "this thread was not what I was expecting" threads. I also like boxed chocolates that don't come with a 'map', and other kinky surprises.

Not that I don't see the appeal of what you're suggesting.

I hate sites that do that. You move your mouse, and a box pops up out of nowhere.

Besides, if there's one lesson you should have learned about MV by now, it's that the first post has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the thread.

I just found a new sig line. Thanks.

See, just like this thread as Jess reminds us



SDG

Good Lord, who has the time?!? Look it this way: you'll NEVER know everything, and random is the new cool.

I like chocolate chips cookies. some folks don't. Can't please everybody.

Absolutely! The best thread hijack I ever saw as in DSLREPORTS.COM back in 2000. Someone asked about the box you see telephone people working on them. I tell them, they repeat about the liquor cabinet. Unfortunately the picture is missing, but it was of me with a B-Box opened, topped with two bottles of booze, glasses, me pouring a drink.

Question, 8 guesses, answer, and then four pages of chatting about everything else.

Whatever

I cannot find any news about the train wreck, hopefully there was not a scooter involved hence you should rename this thread "train wreck NSR"



SDG

C'mon, man... Breathe. Take a break and go do something else! This stuff ain't worth getting insulted over.

You made a suggestion, it was shot down, that's that. If somebody came into my kitchen while I was cooking them dinner to make suggestions for how I might better prepare the meal, I suspect *I* would be the one saying "whatever!"

If they had the audacity to do so, I think I'd be dining alone that night and they'd be out on their ass.

Aw come on! I want to read about the "train wreck!"

Actually, I opened this thread expecting info on an actual scooter-involved train wreck. Just yesterday I watched a young rider skirt around the lowered railroad crossing barrier just to save a few seconds. Glad to find out otherwise.

I come here expecting to waste time read stuff that may or may not be of value use at the moment. For me, that's part of the fun. fixed that for ya

Hey, anybody follow X-Factor, The Voice, or DWTS? Me neither... What about Anthony Bourdain?

There actually was a train wreck today in Texas, when a train hit a Veterans Day parade float.

http://channels.isp.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/1001/20121116/L3590.htm

is this thread about a new unheard Johnny Cash song?

Dude. Starting a zillion useless threads that are only meant to be provocative and argument-prone is one thing. Getting bent out of shape when one of those threads gets shot down, though -- that's just poor form.

We do this every year at the start of winter its kinda like a scooter riders full moon this time of year.

Well, when I saw the title, I thought it would actually be about a train crash. Then the twisted part of my brain said: you know what would be funny, if this is another thread started by Arno about something useless that turns into a 'train wreck'. Imagine my surprise...

Especially egregious to change the post title in the middle of the discussion.

You asked, "Could this be enabled here?" re: "Forum upgrade suggestion."

To know IF could be know all you have to read about the BBS software and if any such option has been written. I told you where you could see if the patch exists.

That's not strictly true. We do in fact use phpBB here, but we use a very, very old version, which has been extensively modified (by me) over the years. Being a programmer by trade, modifying and extending the forum software is a no-brainer for me. Yes, his request is certainly technically feasible, regardless of whether any mod already exists for that function. I can write almost anything, given enough wine and free time.

The real issue is that I'd rather poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick than have random boxes appearing all over the place whenever the mouse moves around. Lots of sites do that, and I find those sites, without exception, to be highly fucking annoying.

So no, we won't be implementing that feature here.

Definitely need the "like" button for this comment!

Here in the old fashioned web-o-sphere, we use thumbs up and thumbs down buttons. This "like" thing is for people who have been sucked into the Faceborg cube.

I mean, seriously -- don't you wish that Faceborg had a "Don't Like" button? Think you'll ever get one?

That would be cool, a "we want a don't like button" page on face book - and see how many "likes" you get for it

Oh! I didn't know. I salute. Thank you for providing the forum -- you have good members, which reflects on you. I stopped programming in '86 when I went and got married. (I ran a dial-up BBS, '81-'89, in BASIC with 6502 machine code for speed. 100% my program. Heh... "speed" at 1200 bps....)

So you have an old phpBB, that you have have extended and modified and such..... "Train Wreck" is not NSR, it is about your program.

Ok... I hear what Jess says... and for those of you who have been eagerly awaiting. I offer you this:

Look at the signals at :04 and :42. The BN train was supposed to take the siding.

and here is the result:

mute the music

Probably use than damn Flash to accomplish it, too! No way on our beloved MV. State of the art only
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I agree, jess, it can be very annoying.

Well Arno, I've got your back on this one. For whatever reason, I can't stand threads titled "A question," "Can someone please tell me why ..." or similar unilluminating titles. My own personal protest is that I don't open those threads.

Brendan

Thanks Rail 50. For a while there I thought I wasn't going to see a train crash.

Oh man, I take it all back. That's one train wreck I never wanted to read about. How awful.

I like pie.

I like Raspberry Pi

No trains in Hawaii.

That would explain why it's so hard to get fresh goods from the mainland!

That's the appropriate response.

The points or switchgear was set to send train down sidings
the other train was standing to close or had not stopped
at his signal allowing clearence

I think on one of the Islands I stayed they had a light rail train. Is that for tourists or produce Judy?