Tech: Little known features of Mudcat

Subject: RE: Tech: Little known features
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Mar 06 - 01:01 AM

The Filter is still the easiest way to find old threads. The FAQ (click) will tell you all about all of our search engines. Here's what it says about The Filter:

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The Filter (searching by thread title) Toward the top of the Mudcat Forum main menu (click here), you'll see a "filter" box - put an appropriate word in the box and set the age to whatever is appropriate to cover the period you want to search. Click the grey "reset" button, and all threads with that word in the title should appear (a "thread" is a series of forum messages, posted on a specific topic). Here's a filter box you can try: Filter Age 1 Days -------------- 1 Day 3 Days 7 Days 14 Days 30 Days 90 Days 180 Days 1 Year 2 Years 3 Years All Filter Out Help

Note: The forum menu is set to display all threads for which messages have been posted in the last 24 hours. If your thread has disappeared, please don't start a new one. Just use the "filter" or "search the forum" links on the main forum menu, and pull your thread up and post a new message in that thread - that will bring your thread up for another 24 hours. Your new message can be just the word "refresh" if you have nothing else to add. If you're viewing Mudcat from work or a library or another location that has a "profanity filter" on its computers, you may not be able to view our Forum Menu if we happen to have a so-called "naughty word" in a thread title. We've tried to tag these titles "pg13." If your profanity filter blocks your access, try putting pg13 in the Filter box and check the "filter out" box.

Subject: RE: Tech: Little known features
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Dec 05 - 08:23 AM

(what I'm thinking of would not cure things like supersearch poitning to a wrong post though - I think that one is difficult - not even sure I could do it...)

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 03 Dec 05 - 08:19 AM

Not spotted that Jim but it does not surpsise me. My (admittedly remote) reading of the situation where I beelieve the message ID's are messed up is that the main forum sorts by ID and a simple change, ie. ORDER BY Posted as opposed to saying say Message_ID would make 99.99999% of threads read correctly. It just could be that "printer friendly" works that way.

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Dec 05 - 08:11 AM

I am astonished at this.

If you're looking at a thread where the sequence of messages has been scrambled, and you want to see them in chronological order, all you've got to do is click "Printer Friendly" at the top of the page, and voila!

How come no one has noticed this before?

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Sep 05 - 06:39 PM

I just discovered that the Click to Play links in the Digital Tradition are working again.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 02:54 PM

When we had our Big Crash this last summer, the message numbers got scrambled, but the threads stayed intact. When you use SuperSearch, click on the thread link provided in the results, not the message link.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 07:33 PM

You can also add an entry to your hosts file that translates the 'media' host to the 'www' host IP number like I did. You don't need to edit each midi file URL in the address line of your browser then.

It would be even easier for users if the Mudcat.org Domain Administrator just exported the correct IP translation though.

207.103.108.105 media.mudcat.org

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: MMario
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 12:20 PM

That you can get the currently non-workinng midis of the DT to play by changing the media.mudcat.org/midi/filename.mid

to www.mudcat.org/media/midi/filename.mid

it works!

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: s&r
Date: 23 Aug 05 - 04:17 AM

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: MMario
Date: 22 Aug 05 - 11:17 AM

What about the "messages by Date" feature?

Messages by Date

From THAT page you can step by step through the whole history of Mudcat - from October 1, 1996 forwards

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Aug 05 - 06:12 PM

Yes, MGoH it's definitely hobbit forming

Nigel

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 08:27 PM

The Mudcat still astonishes me with new stuff after a good few years as a regular visitor.

Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though we pass them by today,
Tomorrow we may come this way
And take the hidden path that run
Towards the Moon or to the Sun. (Tolkien, of course.)

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 06:54 PM

Have you ever noticed that when someone gives you a link to a "secret place" at mudcat, when you go to that secret place and decide it might be great fun to come back later - you can't "trace" the page from within the page?

Hint: trace this page while it's still up on the menu. (?)

John

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: MMario
Date: 17 Aug 05 - 10:19 AM

Have you ever visited The Mudcat MIdi page - many tunes not yet in the DT have been posted here - both for songs with lyrics in the DT and songs discussed on the forum.

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 13 Aug 05 - 01:29 PM

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 02:07 PM

And the Jumprope Hypertext Archive?

Subject: RE: tech: Little known features
From: MMario
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 10:45 AM

Did you know that hidden within the Mudcat is an archived copy of Bruce Olson's Website?

Subject: tech: Little known features
From: MMario
Date: 11 Aug 05 - 10:41 AM

for example:

Unanswered Requests

How many of you have visited the above page on the Mudcat? Why not spend some time browsing and see if you can fill in any of the blanks?