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Journal blavallee's Journal: Firehose Interaction: Missing One Thing 2

It would be nice if a firehose submission would automatically minimize after a vote is placed.

Hopefully this shows up in the firehose. But, it is not meant to be a story!
I like the new feel, its just missing that one little touch.

I tend to expand a submission, read the content, place my vote, then minimize the submission before moving on to the next one.

If you feel the same, vote it up and we'll see if /. is listening. :-)
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Firehose Interaction: Missing One Thing

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  • I don't dare touch anything until I've read the headlines, and opened the interesting ones in a new tab via center-click, lest the firehose update and the article I was interested in disappear forever...

    So my #1 firehose feature request is a preference option that prevents auto-update no matter what, so that updates only happen by clicking on a number, or by reloading...
    • by Qzukk ( 229616 )
      So my #1 firehose feature request is a preference option that prevents auto-update no matter what, so that updates only happen by clicking on a number, or by reloading...

      Mine is set to pause (leftmost icon of the icons in the upper right of the "slashdot firehose" line) and as near as I can tell it only updates when I change pages. This seems to be a permanent preference setting as well, it always loads paused for me.

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