dallen's Journal: Playin' around on slashdot.

So... I was bored today. Didn't feel like working. Read the IRC transcript from yesterday; started playing with slashdot. Here are the most useful things I learned poking around and asking questions:

1) You can add the year to date outputs!

Go into Your Info and under "Homepage" change the date format to one that has a year. (Duh, it seems so obvious in hindsight. But I *can't* be the only dumb bunny who overlooked that. Can I? Can I???)

2) You can change the text-field width to 80 characters.
Go into Your Info; under Comments, near the bottom is a field called Comment Box Size.

3) You can find the most recent journal entries site-wide.

Go to "search"; select "Journals" and "Search" (with no text in the field). Or visit this link. Voila. Or, you can log out and select "journals".

4) You can find all active user-created discussions.

What's a user-created discussion? See my last journal entry. Anyway, Michael took pity on my floundering around and told me you can visit http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?op=user_created_index to see the active user-created discussions.

Re: Playing Around on Slashdot

[mindhaze]

heh... ok, so I just discovered MY journal today... and now I've found yours through the list! :)

So... I was bored today.

I'm bored everyday... I should do work, but I don't. :)

Didn't feel like working. Read the IRC transcript from yesterday;

Shit.. I meant to read that! Oh well time to do so now...

started playing with slashdot. Here are the most useful things I learned poking around and asking questions:

1) You can add the year to date outputs! Go into Your Info and under "Homepage" change the date format to one that has a year. (Duh, it seems so obvious in hindsight. But I *can't* be the only dumb bunny who overlooked that. Can I? Can I???)

Let me assure you, that you are not alone! I've been trying to figure that out for awhile, and just never thought of the date! heh...

2) You can change the text-field width to 80 characters. Go into Your Info; under Comments, near the bottom is a field called Comment Box Size.

*shrug* not very interesting... but I may change it, we'll see. :)

3) You can find the most recent journal entries site-wide. Go to "search"; select "Journals" and "Search" (with no text in the field). Or visit this link. Voila.

That's cool!

4) You can find all active user-created discussions. What's a user-created discussion? See my last journal entry. Anyway, Michael took pity on my floundering around and told me you can visit http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?op=user_created_in dex to see the active user-created discussions.

hmm... I'm going to have to look into that...

MH

PS: After Previewing my post 5 times, I see why CmdrTaco has so many problems with spelling!

Re: Playing Around on Slashdot

[dallen]

I'm curious how you found my journal? Just clicking on a recent post?

Re: Playing Around on Slashdot

[mindhaze]

When you log out, and then click the "journals" link on the left, it lists all the recent journal posts. :)

MH

Re: Playing Around on Slashdot

[dallen]

Well that's pretty neat. Thnx.

Re: Playing Around on Slashdot

[mindhaze]

Yeah... I just wish you could get the list while being logged in... there's gotta be a way... I just gotta find it.

MH

Re: Playing Around on Slashdot

[dallen]

What's wrong with this link [slashdot.org]?

Re: Playing Around on Slashdot

[mindhaze]

Nothing. :) I hadn't tried it yet... work has been consuming me. heh...