I wonder if it is possible to have a link to access all the posts made in chronological order, not just the new post or the unread posts.
Sometimes I see a post through the unread posts link, post to it, or edit it, then I have to go looking for it again.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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I think those links are part of a deeper way phpBB works and would be very difficult to modify or create.

Once I've posted to a topic I use "View your posts" to find it again.

As for edited posts, since that is a moderator function, I'll send you a moderator message about it.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

I don't know, I wouldn't be too surprised if someone has created a mod to do that. The SQL query that would be needed to pick all posts out of the database in reverse chronological order is super-simple, the tricky part would just be getting phpBB to display the list using its normal templates. Of course, if you just needed something for moderation purposes, it should be reasonably easy to hack together a PHP page that just displays a simple list. There are a couple things I found by searching: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=2112264 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGZGYFyreh8 etc.

Kind of on that note, I was going to suggest that it might make ILF easier to navigate if you had a list of recent posts from all forums on the main page. Maybe even two lists, one for translations and one for all the other forums. I miss the simplicity of IGTF in the sense that it only ever had one forum to look at to see all the most recent posts.

David

Indeed.


Have you tried "View new posts"?

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

New posts are just that- the new ones. It doesn't allow you to see past one page.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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OK. I'll split this into a separate topic/thread because we need to work more on this specific issue.

Thanks for the feedback. Keep working with me. I am starting to form an idea of what is missing, and how we can tackle it, as we talk.

How far back do you need to go, though? A day? A week? A fortnight? A month? Six months? A year? Two years? Forever?

One thing I felt was a problem at IGTF was that the search function uselessly (to my mind) brought up every post for over five years from day one to the present as the default every time you ran a simple search. I think that kind of coverage should be left to the advanced search and a simpler more recent subset presented as the default.

Same goes for this function we are discussing at present. Do we really need to see every post all the way back every time we log on, which would severely tax the system as it did at IGTF? or can we find a smaller portion that satisfies the basic immediate need with a much smaller load?

And if people then still feel a need to delve back further, they can do an advanced search ...

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).

No, I didn't even realize that was there. Good feature! What I was thinking, though, was to actually feature the first 5 posts or so of that list on the main page of the site, since I think it might help to capture new visitors' attention. When I go to any sort of "social" website, it's a lot more interesting if the first thing I see is a neatly summarized sample of the content that has been recently posted, rather than a list of categories. But then again, I suppose that would be a low priority.

David

A month would be good.

And maybe do something with the quotes too...

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Please keep that in the relevant topic/thread.

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Múinteoir Gaeilge - Irish Teacher
My "specialty" is Connemara Irish, particularly Cois Fhairrge dialect, but I can also speak Ulster and Munster Irish with native-level pronunciation.
Is fearr Gaeilge ḃriste ná Béarla cliste, cinnte, aċ i ḃfad níos fearr aríst í Gaeilge ḃinn ḃeo na nGaeltaċtaí.
Gaeilge Chonnacht (GC), go háraid Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge (GCF), Gaeilic Uladh (GU), Gaelainn na Mumhan (GM), agus Gaeilge an Chaighdeáin Oifigiúil (CO).