The Coffee Lounge Forum

to each his own >grinz<

-- keeping myself entertained

Exactly Dan!

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

I don’t see any problem with it. The choices are the same; look at it or don’t look at it, only with the change it will be a lot easier to not look at it if you so choose. I know there was some discussion recently about possibly subdividing the site because some LJs didn’t want to sift through so much stuff to find something they were interested in and this should help them too.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

DaleM – “Look at it or don’t look at it” – how do you know what it is without looking at it.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

So Gary, is this a woodworking post or a coffee lounge post? :-)

Kidding aside, I think you have a good idea. Personally, I enjoy the off-topic communication. But for those who don’t care to sift through those posts, it should be easy enough to have a show/hide option in our account preferences for each of the forums.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

lumberjock is what a lumberjock does

-- keeping myself entertained

Charlie – This is posted in the “Lumberjock site feedback” section.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

100% with you GaryK

You’re right Gary, you don’t know, because the pulse page isn’t broken down that way. I like your idea. Personally, I would still like to check in on the coffee lounge forum, but the option would be nice because I like to use the pulse function and it gets really busy. It’s especially hard when you’ve been away for a few days.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

To refine what I was saying…. When you click on the “Forums” tab, all the forums come up at the top of the page, showing how many posts are in each. Then, right below, ALL forum topics are listed.

It seems like it would be pretty easy to put a filter check box next to each of the forums listed at the top so that any ones you checked would be excluded from the list of topics. So not only could you filter out the coffee lounge posts, but let’s say I didn’t want to see any “trade and swap” posts, I could filter those out as well.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I only use the Pulse page.

This gives you everything posted as it’s posted.

I try not to miss anything.

-- Gary - Never pass up the opportunity to make a mistake look like you planned it that way - Tyler, TX

I’ll second that… I like to use the Pulse page, which keeps the latest discussions at hand, but recently, it seems like many of those are “threads to pass time” – although I can enjoy such a thread once in a while – I’m here on LJ for lumberjocks topics and discussions, and those get buried away on the pulse page too often.

-- ㊍ When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

I guess “to each his own” applies here..I too get sucked into…er, I mean enjoy the off topic stuff, but I could see why somebody might want to click ignore…But couldn’t you just not bother looking if you see its a coffee lounge post…or do you just want to not even see the titles so you don,t get sucked in??? ;0)

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I’m with Gary, good idea!

-- Bill, Florida

Well, I guess I’d go back to what I said originally…. let it be in our individual account preferences.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"