Is there anyway to have your computer "notify" you when a new messageboard reply to a thread you're involved in is posted? Without refreshing your browser every few minutes?
Not on these boards. Although, there might be a way through scripting...
Hmm....
Edit, I take that back, you'd still have to refresh. There's another way through VBScript but if you do any updates through Microsoft, you'd most likely have it patched.
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Right now your best bet is the site's RSS feeds. This thread has some details.
There's a technique called "AJAX" that's gotten lots of hype in the past year or so. It allows sites to update themselves dynamically. I haven't seen it used on a message board, but I suppose it's possible. Yahoo uses it to update news headlines, and stock quotes, for example (no click on 'refresh' required).
Yeah AJAX will let you git 'er done, but that requires some pretty serious backend work.
Thanks everyone. I was hoping there was a feature I didn't know about but I'll just use the refresh for now...
I've never used either of these, nor can I vouch for their safety, but they seem to roughly fill the niche:
http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/
http://www.changedetection.com/monitor.html
(sorry, just woke up, far too lazy to build real links)
Much obliged!
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Is there anyway to have your computer "notify" you when a new messageboard reply to a thread you're involved in is posted? Without refreshing your browser every few minutes?
I'm going to have to echo Gary on this one.
I use the RSS feeds to monitor the Customer Service Messageboard as well as several other posters and a few individual threads in which I am particularly interested.
Oftentimes (like when I think I've made a particularly funny or insightful post and I want to see the pages of accolades that simply must come from such a perfectly worded post ), I will subscribe to the thread and monitor it for a while. If the thread burns out or dies, I will just unsubscribe so I don't end up with too many subscriptions to follow.
This works for me, YMMV.
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I'm going to have to echo Gary on this one.
And I'm gonna have to echo Cosmo on this. :P
If you use Firefox, you can add the feeds directly into your bookmarks (I think you just need to click the orange icon in the address bar and decide which folder to add it to). If you don't use Firefox, or don't want to use it for feeds, there are several free RSS readers you can download. I'm not sure how good any of them are, but you can probably find something that'll work (you can do a Google search for "rss reader free" and get plenty of results).
Apologizes to Cosmo for being on the "watch list."