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If I want to just come to creativecow.net and just login without posting a message, how do I do that?
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how about being able track threads with responding? and having the track be visible here vs getting emails?
who is that masked man…
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Um … if you just want to read posts, don’t you just go to the COW website? Then pick a forum on the left?
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he was asking about logging in without posting
i was trying to do the same thing yesterday
didnt notice a login button anywhere else
who is that masked man…
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How about a preference for viewing the whole thread with 1-click, instead of clicking on the first post and then “read entire thread?” It seems like the thread-tree layout is very outdated. I may be the only one, but I’d prefer a more standard bbs software, like vBulletin or something with more standard forum controls. Maybe it’s just me…
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I guess my questions are:
-What do you mean by “loggin in?”
-What would that get you that you can’t get by just going to the URL that I mentioned?
-Why would you want to log in if you don’t want to post?My point is, I thought that there were two options with the COW site, for non-forum heads:
1. go to the URL and read
2. Join the COW (sign up) and post.
Am I missing something?So what do you want to accomplish by “logging in”?
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[Sean] ”
How about a preference for viewing the whole thread with 1-click, instead of clicking on the first post and then “read entire thread?” It seems like the thread-tree layout is very outdated. I may be the only one, but I’d prefer a more standard bbs software, like vBulletin or something with more standard forum controls. Maybe it’s just me…”Click on the small green T and you will get the entire thread.
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[Aanarav Sareen] “Click on the small green T and you will get the entire thread.”
Clicking on the “T” gives me the tree view in the posts index. The button next to it gives me a list of topics and shows the number of replies, but clicking on a topic leads me only to the first post, where I have to click “read entire thread” to view all the posts at once. It just seems like an extra, unnecessary step. I guess I am the only one.
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if you are logged in the threads you have replied to have your name highlighted.
it is a nice way to see it there are responses (esp when i am not on my own machine that has a cookie set)
who is that masked man…
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Ah, of course. That makes sense. Guess you deleted your cookies, eh? 🙂
A workaround would be to post in the COW test post forum, but that sounds dumb. You could go to the COWmunications forum and click on Curtis’ head, and send him an e-mail to see what’s what.
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I think you just did…
You just come to the site and go where you want to. There is no log-in.
We have never used a log-in scheme as we have many, many times the number of lurkers than we do active posters. It runs about unique 11,000 people that have posted in the last year but we get 210,000 unique IPs a month. Some months go as high as 248,000 unique IPs. If just one person per IP is logging in — and some of these unique IPs include Apple, Adobe, Avid, Autodesk, etc., where many of their people log in from just a few IPs in total — that is a lot of people.
To make it easy on those who come to find answers or just see what’s going on, we do not require a log-in. The sites we have seen that require a log-in are usually too much bother for casual users who then quit going there.
Our log-in is simple: You come here and look at what you want, when you want. If you want to post, you must have an account and your username must go into the username field, the email address must go into the email field. For the actual split second that you click down on the send key, you are “logged in.” Log-ins last only as long as that split second that you click the button. The rest of the time, we simply have a huge number of people floating through the site.
But because some people think in terms of log-ins, we are going to create a fake log-in and -out function that merely resets people’s cookies for them but they will feel like they have “logged in” and it will end the confusion of a site than is “log-inless.”
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net
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