Poll: A question of BCB etiquette

Not sure about the other major browsers, but this is how I prefer the jump links to behave.

If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can click on a link with the scroll wheel and it will open in a new tab (at least in Firefox on Windows XP it will).

Or you can control/command + click on a link to do the same.

Unfortunately, there’s no option to open a link in the same window.

I just realized you quote Randy Marsh in your sig. That’s amazing. Without threadjacking a post that I actually care about, I want to say that he’s easily in my list of the top 5 television/movie characters of all-time. In no particular order: Randy Marsh, Steven (the Irishman) from Braveheart, Red from Shawshank, John Locke from LOST and George Costanza.

but for overflow tabs, generally I’ll “JUMP” when I’m done with the previous page. When I’m browsing on the phone, opening an extra window kinda chews up resources.

Remember, you can always request that a link go into a new tab/window by doing right-click on the link.

I’d much rather have it in a new window/tab

For this reason, I always select the option to open links in a new tab.

I am so dumb I didn’t notice that there was a choice for opening a new window until now. Yes, I know it’s glaringly obvious how to do so. I feel incredibly stupid. I promise to always check that box in the future. Sorry everyone.

… and i believe is something of an internet standard, or unspoken rule, or perhaps just common sense among those that write on sites with this sort of conundrum.

There should be a way to specify that you want the server to remember which comments have been marked as read and which have not even when you close/navigate away from a page. As it stands, the moment you leave that page, whether by closing its window or navigating away from it, the server assumes that you have read every comment extant at that time and marks them all as read by default. It does the Shift-A thing for you.

One of the first things people figure out is the utility of their Z key here, but no one realizes that it’s futile once you leave the page until it’s too late.

Perhaps I’ll make a feature request to SBN support. While I’m at it, I’ll add a request for a “Mark all (or some) comments as unread” feature, too.

I’m very used to Ctrl-clicking for links to open in new tabs, especially if they’re in the middle of something I wish to keep reading. In the past, I have built up an entire afternoon’s reading in this fashion without realizing it (and more than once, too). It’s a powerful feature, but it’s not one I’m sure that everyone knows about.

Usually around 60-75 minutes after the last thread was posted. If the game goes long or into extra innings, posters will create their own Overflow Threads as FanShots to keep the conversation going.

Game Threads are expected to be near real-time – conversations take place quickly and new threads in them are starting all the time. The reason for Overflow Threads is that most people’s browsers start to slow down with a large number of comments being posted. A Game Thread can generate around 300-350 comments an hour. Once a thread gets that large, people start complaining about it being sluggish and unresponsive – ie, their new comments don’t post immediately and others’ posts show up later than expected (2-3 minutes after they were written). So we all jump over to a fresh thread to regain some speed.

Found it. I’m my own worst idiot.