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« on: March 01, 2020, 16:23:27 »

What were we discussing on the forum last month?   How about 10 years ago last month?

As part of another project, I have been looking at automated monthly summaries and bring to you our Espresso page bring you up to date on what happened so far this month. A pulldown menu at the base of the page lets you step back to any month since the forum was founded - examples for last month - feb 2020 and 10 years ago last month.

Very interesting to see just how much has moved on .... and just how much remains the same!



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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2020, 22:54:51 »

I'm still puzzling over what this is meant to do. Should the listed topic links lead to an item posted in the month selected and shown? I expected so, and it would, usefully, provide a way to reach a known date in a long thread (which is very tedious to do otherwise).

But it doesn't do that - or at least not often. For a start the link leads to the top of a page, maybe some time earlier, but this is unimportant. If the thread stopped being used soon after the chosen month, you get what you asked for. But if it is still in use, you jump to the last page. That's usually - I have had other things happen, but can't pin down what I did to produce them.
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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2020, 01:13:32 »

I'm still puzzling over what this is meant to do. Should the listed topic links lead to an item posted in the month selected and shown? I expected so, and it would, usefully, provide a way to reach a known date in a long thread (which is very tedious to do otherwise).

But it doesn't do that - or at least not often. For a start the link leads to the top of a page, maybe some time earlier, but this is unimportant. If the thread stopped being used soon after the chosen month, you get what you asked for. But if it is still in use, you jump to the last page. That's usually - I have had other things happen, but can't pin down what I did to produce them.

You have located an unintended feature (a.k.a. bug).  I have updated the software to give more useful results (a.k.a. fixed the bug) and it should now jump to the post(s) made during the month you have selected.
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2020, 09:12:53 »

A further couple of enhancements from http://www.passenger.chat/espresso (which be default gives you current month to date) ... the menu at the bottom also lets you select "All Year" now, and allows you to select a particular board of interest.

The URLs this generates can be bookmarked / shared ... for example http://www.passenger.chat/espresso.html?month=00&year=2012&board=19 will always lead you to all the "Heart of Wessex" posts from 2012.
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