Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Hey all,
I was just wondering if we could have a command that could be typed into the QN box that would allow us to see the last time someone logged in without having to find it in the profile? I mean, we have /ASL, so we know that extracting information isn't a problem. Please feel free to suggest things or ask questions about this.
Why would we care when someone was logged in last? I only care who's on at the present time I'm on.
I can see an advantage to this. What if you see a board post and want to respond but they haven't been on the boards in 2 years. Sure, you could go to the profile and find the info, but how much easier it would be with a qn command.
Bob
Ganondorf, you weren't thinking outside the box. Bob, thanks for your support.
Or what if you all the sudden start thinking of someone you used to talk too and you go, "Wait I havent' seen them on in eons! When did they come on last?"
John
Tyler's got one worth implementing, folks.
I'm not sure how I feel about this I guess it wood be a good and bad thing all at once.
I do think outside the box believe it or not. This topic I still find confusing and pointless. Why would we care when someone was here last. but if you think and feel this really a neccessity then it's all yours.
if you know the person, just look for the profile, we've got a simple way to do that, why would a new command really be necessary?
Here's a scenario that I hope puts this into perspective.
Let's say that we've not seen someone that we usually talk to on here in a while. With the profile route, you would have to do the following:
why the fuck do we give a shit about the fastest way with jaws? and I'm not trying to be a prick, you're basically giving the example of how for one particular group of people here, there are many, we will have users of jaws, windoweyes, Supernova, or plane old text, so to make this a jaws issue in my opinion takes away some of the credibility from your idea. by itself it's a good idea, but your example is shit.
Kev, I was giving my example in the only way I know how--from the POV of a JFW user.
Tylor my point really is, you could have given a standard example that would work regardless of screen reader or not, and that would have shown the fastest way, for someone who doesn't know all the short cuts for any access package, which to me would have illustrated your suggestion 10 times better. You need to show how it can make it better for everyone, so here for example you have a sighted user who uses a mouse and so scrolls and clicks on the apropriate links, or a blind person who doesn't know the shortcuts available, scrolls and does the same, one being probably the fastest access, and the other possibly the slowest.
are shortcuts really necessary? I just think that it isn't worth it for this command.
Many of the shortcut commands aren't exactly "necessary" if you have to put it that way. But since there are a lot of "unnecessary" commands, why not make one more? I do sometimes want to see when someone was last logged in, and this would be a nice shortcut for that.
Since the statistic "last login" is already kept, why not have the qn command for retrieving it. Few of the qn commands are, strictly speaking, 'necessary', but, they're convenient.
agr wt u, dave. no qn cmd s ncsry smtms but s hlpful. In plain English, I said, "Agree with you Dave. No QN command is necessary sometimes, but it is helpful." de tyler kn.
Oh, thanks, Tyler, I feel so validated. LOL. Had to read your last twice, "agr" got expanded to "agriculture". Still getting acustomed to the way Dectalk expands acronyms.
lol.
but i do agree tylor. I think this is a good feature.
I can see where you're coming from with this one, and yeah, it would be useful. for example, i haven't got a person on my person watch, as i have loads already but want to know when they were last here. so yeah, i can see the value of this. and i agree with becky, why not one more command?
actually, what if this was rolled in to /howlong? Probably easy to do.
That would be great if it worked for folks who weren't currently logged on.
Bob
That'd make some sense, actually. Howlong could either display how long, or when last logged on.
OK. /howlong now does this. Also, now /howlong by itself shows how long you've been logged in.