AND MAKE ME A SANDWICH!

More seriously, if you want a feature, the best way to make it happen is to develop it yourself. The code is all open source and freely available. A lot of our new features have been contributed by members. You can also take a look at the dev forum to see what's currently on the docket: http://forum.webdiplomacy.net.

Sudo make me a sandwich

And if you can't develop it yourself, wait until someone feels like it like I've been doing for 2+ years :)

+1 Yonni for xkcd (and *nix) reference.
http://xkcd.com/149/ for the uninitiated

The follow is a little more challenging than mute. Mute is a simple JavaScript function that looks at a cookie sent down with the page that says what thread and what individuals to mute, them hides a div. Follow would require sorting the threads on the server side, putting more stress on the server and significantly altering the code there to add another join and sort to the SQL query.

No draug, you could likewise sort on the client, with JS selecting from a list of threads based on what was followed and throwing them up top (though missing out on anything from the second/later pages) likewise storeable in a cookie.

No, ora, not if the thread being followed is no longer on the current page. The JS wouldn't know about it.

Yeah, unless there was some sort of technology that allowed asynchronous server calls for the followed threads via JavaScript. Maybe someday… <sigh />
</sarcasm>
Speaking of enhancements to the site, though, the last time I looked, the latest version of the source code didn't seem to be where it should have been.

Code is at: https://github.com/kestasjk/webDiplomacy

Dev forum is http://forum.webdiplomacy.net/

Instructions for developers are at http://webdiplomacy.net/developers.php

Rock. Thanks.

"Yeah, unless there was some sort of technology that allowed asynchronous server calls for the followed threads via JavaScript. Maybe someday… <sigh />
</sarcasm>"

So you want to re-architecture the forum to be AJAX? Right now, the only thing AJAX on the forum is the +1 feature.

I was trying to say how it could be done in the *current* architecture of the forum. Burt by all means, have at it.

"So you want to re-architecture the forum to be AJAX?"

lol I hope you guys would be up for another fundraiser for a beefier server.

If we do that, then we could get live chat and turns going with either timed polling or pushes and not have to constantly refresh on live games. Then I might be willing to play more of them. :-)

No, do jot use long polling for live chat, use nodeJS and websockets, it even has a nice broadcast standard so all connected sockets get the message.

But at present i think some web browsers will not support websockets (and i'm not a fan of faking it in flash as a fallback)

And yes, draug, i said one the first page, i don't care about threads on later pages.

I'd like to see a really complicated weighting system (like reddits) which takes into accout which threads you have +1'd (and works out similarity of a thread based on a transitive relationship - so if i +1 a thread and draug +1s the same thread and an-other thread, then for me the other thread gets boosted, because it assumes that i will like what draug likes...) with the +1s effectively subtracting hours from the most recently posred order (so anything with enough +1s will appear first as they 'count' as being from the future.. But the oldest +1s will still drop off the front page eventually...

Ha, just came across a nice example of the transitive property: poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/misinterpretation/