You can now search all the content (or just the names, posts, tags you specify) on Open Salon. There's a search bar at the top of every page.
On the results page, we also give you a variety of ways to slice and dice the information.
More news and updates:
• You can now Blockquote text -- setting off text as an indented block quotation or for other material you would like to set off, as I'm doing with these next several paragraphs.
The html code is pretty simple, just use this:
• The problem some of you reported with images not aligning properly should be fixed.
• The bug that prevented some of you from changing your password? Also corrected.
Check it out -- and report back in the Comment field below. We're very excited to have a beta Search up and running, and we're eager to hear your thoughts.
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Comments
No immediate plans to make Comments searchable, but I'll look into that, Designamator. It's a good question.
I forget if I had mentioned before, but I'd like to see a page list of comments made on my blogs, and a page list of comments I've made, simply to help my poor memory on where and what I had said. It's good to be able to track a conversation too, instead of burrowing down into places where you feel likely you've commented but can't quite remember.
Thanks so much for all your help in shepherding us in the right direction.
-barry
Thank you for the marvelous effects and geegaws on the bloggery! With all the cybertraptions and what-have-you I've been making a spectacle of myself!
My only difficulty — perhaps a trivial one — is that I cannot seem to discern who is who! Why do the author names differ from the usernames? In one format one gets the username, in another the author name — and I have yet to match the two of them up from memory!
Just seems an added layer of confusing nonsense.
Public beta launch is coming fast -- I'll blog about this either today or tomorrow. But if you're deliberating about keeping posts up or not, I'd urge you to make a decision soon.
Spell-checking: Yes, Blake's got it. Some browsers do it for you, but we don't.
Names vs. screen names: I agree, it's needlessly confusing. We've given the screenname option primarily for members of our Communities (Table Talk, Well) and our Salon letter writers, who have pre-established identities or handles. But on Open, we really do prefer that members use two names, and preferably their own -- unless they're purposely creating an alluring persona, Monsieur.
Sandra: You've exposed a bug in the system, and we're trying to figure it out. Someone will be in touch with you directly about this.
Thanks for the updates, the rollout of new features and your hard hard hard work.
I need to know to determine which posts to leave up.