     By Swiveler on Tuesday, April 06, 1999 - 03:53 pm: Edit |
OK, damn it! I can't figure out how to register to this thing. HELP. It won't work for me!!!! Someone email me! tfrancis@cityntl.com thanks BTW the pics of Dean and Jewel are from "Buck Private's" More to come..... Oh, and Swivel online is up: http://www.swivelmag.com It's just a skeleton of what it will be, but give it a look! |
| By Joey on Sunday, April 04, 1999 - 08:21 pm: Edit |
Try to post the previous messages on top so everybody can see what the topic of conversations are leading into. The format right now is like reading the end of the book before I know whatever has happened before. Thanks |
| By Joey on Sunday, April 04, 1999 - 08:21 pm: Edit |
Try to post the previous messages on top so everbody can see what the topic of conversations are leading into. The format right now is like reading the end of the book before I know whatever has happened before. Thanks |
| By Swingerz (Swingerz) on Tuesday, March 30, 1999 - 11:51 am: Edit |
When is Meeshi going to contribute to a conversation? |
| By Ron on Thursday, March 25, 1999 - 01:32 pm: Edit |
Site suggestions: o make a "general" forum topic o make a "music" forum topic |
| By Shawn Hanna on Wednesday, April 07, 1999 - 12:10 pm: Edit |
Ok, I've addressed your suggestions! I hope I did it correctly. Your host, Shawn |
| By Anonymous on Wednesday, April 07, 1999 - 02:06 pm: Edit |
Shawn---are you sure you are our host? What about that damn HOSTED BY SOLO logo still lingering at the bottom of every page???? There appears to be a hoster identity crisis. |
| By Swiveler on Thursday, April 15, 1999 - 10:03 am: Edit |
Hey Shawn! Where's my link!!!!!! I linked you (wink wink). Thanks Tam |
| By Anonymous on Monday, April 19, 1999 - 07:12 pm: Edit |
Hey! I took my time writing JUST what I was going to say in response to something. I reviewed it and found it just right, hit the button, and the sight was bogged down and said to try back later. When I backed up, my masterpiece was gone!! Is there anyway to keep a note 'til you can get through? Or should I abandon the idea of "novel" posts? |
| By Shawn Hanna on Monday, April 19, 1999 - 10:57 pm: Edit |
I haven't had that problem, but you can always compose a post in word or some other text editor, then cut and paste it onto the board. I hope that helps! |
| By Britt on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 - 12:31 am: Edit |
Hey, Shawn asked me a WHILE ago to check out and post to this new message board and I lagged and didn't even look at it untila couple of days ago. Well, what a super-duper great job, Shawn. This is great. I especially like the email update option. I guess you are looking for suggestions and not just praise though, so lemme see...previous messages on top are good, but then you need to scroll down a bunch a stuff until you get to anything new. Is there a way to archive messages older than a week (or two or whatever) is that already an option? |
| By Ron Bloom on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 - 03:09 pm: Edit |
Shawn, how about putting a link back to the main swingtimeSD page at the bottom of the forum start page. |
| By Ron Bloom on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 - 03:12 pm: Edit |
Also, it may be a Netscape thing only as you thought before, but I really wish you could fix the two error messages I always get when I first enter the forum. Here's the details: Javascript errors, Line 9, missing ; before statement: "it's easy to post..." Javascript error, Line 11, missing ; before statement: "it's easy to post..." |
| By Shawn Hanna on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 - 05:46 pm: Edit |
Ok, I added the link, I'm checking the javascript and I will try to set up the archiving! At SwingtimeSD.com, the customer comes first. Just keep sending those checks! |
| By Ron Bloom on Wednesday, April 21, 1999 - 05:04 pm: Edit |
Now its 3 Javascript errors, I think the same ones, but the line numbers are 10,12, and I forget. Since you are so responsive, I have plenty of other ideas! How about adding a little red "updated" tag to Each category on your main page, not just music and news? I saw that on another Lindy site somewhere else, I like to know when things change. I like your calander, but I'm lazy and I only care about the current week, so I prefer the Chicago Swing Scene calendar, and I noticed they just made it easier to print, but they dropped a description of the bars. But the format is nice: http://www.hail.icestorm.net/chicagoswing/ I'll think of more later. "its much easier to criticize than to do" - me Keep up the good work! Great site! |
| By Shawn Hanna on Wednesday, April 21, 1999 - 07:32 pm: Edit |
Ron - I like the updated tag idea. I'll see if I can think of a way to do that better without upsetting the layout (which I am afraid of tampering with). I am going to keep the calendar because I like that it can be updated via the web and by multiple people (with varying permissions). You can always click on the "week" display at the bottom! As to the Javascript, no luck yet... |
| By Teresa Wyman on Thursday, April 22, 1999 - 11:14 am: Edit |
Shawn, Some of the posts appear to getting cut off at the ends of paragraphs, but other times they load just fine. As to what to do, I have no idea, I'm just letting you know. Maybe it's just my computer, I am not really computer literate yet. Also, can discussion topics go to a second page after they get so long? I've been following the "swing dancers" one and it takes ages to load. If you do start a "con't" page on it, it would probably be good to start it after the "Joeyschomoe" letters. The conversation does a little bit of a shift after that. Thanks for listening. T. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, April 22, 1999 - 12:33 pm: Edit |
Yes Teresa - I will put an archiving feature in place shortly. I don't know about cutting off the message though. I haven't experienced that! |
| By Charlie Yi on Friday, April 23, 1999 - 03:38 pm: Edit |
Yo Shawn, Check out this Lindy Forum based in Boston. They're using the same forum-ware as you. They however are not plagued by the "Solo" logo. And they have interesting bells and whistles. In the discussion threads in each post, located adjacent to the poster's name are four arrow icons and an envelope icon. It allows the poster to either jump one message down/up at a time or jump all the way to the bottom/top. Or clicking on the envelopes allows you to automatically scroll the screen to the top of message. Maybe you can schmooze the admin there. Then again, you may already know about these "bells & whistles" and decided that you didn't want to put'em up? Here's the link: http://216.22.166.224/discus/ Props to TofuBob for finding this site. |
| By Ron Bloom on Tuesday, May 04, 1999 - 01:12 pm: Edit |
I like the "powered by Lindy Hop" replacement for Solo logo! The new music page is cool. |
| By Ron Bloom on Tuesday, June 08, 1999 - 04:15 pm: Edit |
What happened to the discussion responding to Jake's post slamming Margaret's new Hollywood style class? I can't find those posts, am I going crazy and using the Keyword Search option poorly, or were they deleted... what's up? |
| By Shawn Hanna on Tuesday, June 08, 1999 - 06:31 pm: Edit |
Ron - I think you are going crazy! That aside, I exercised a rare editorial perogative and deleted the whole nastiness. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I really was getting annoyed at the posts, and I didn't think there was any good place the discussion could go. Was that a mistake? Well, I am a free speach advocate, but I do have some flexibility given I own the medium! Tell me what you think. I am open minded and can be convinced to not exercise my power again (unless you believe I am already corrupt). |
| By Tofu (Tofu) on Wednesday, June 09, 1999 - 07:16 am: Edit |
Uh....did your editing also spirit away the discussion about chachi?? |
| By Swiveler on Friday, June 25, 1999 - 08:26 am: Edit |
I just wanted to say, I LOVE the calendar. It looks great. Thanks for all your hard work. I appreciate it. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Wednesday, July 21, 1999 - 08:54 pm: Edit |
Yippeeeeeee! I fixed the crashed message board. My ISP changed unix directories on my without notification. I believe we're back in business. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, July 22, 1999 - 11:09 am: Edit |
Oops. I'll fix the time zone thing tonight. So no, I wasn't up at 3am last night fixing the board. |
| By Swiveler on Tuesday, August 10, 1999 - 06:24 am: Edit |
Okay, is anyone else having problems posting. I wanted to post on the tempo discussion and it said I was not authorized. Huh? I just posted on it yesterday!!! Help!!! |
| By Shawn Hanna on Tuesday, August 10, 1999 - 06:02 pm: Edit |
Hmmm. I'll check all the permissions. Thanks for the heads-up Tam! |
| By Glenn on Thursday, August 12, 1999 - 02:27 pm: Edit |
Any chance of getting the posted dates updated on the front page. It still lists July as the latest. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, August 12, 1999 - 03:06 pm: Edit |
Thanks Glenn! I didn't even notice that. Hmm. I'll have to figure out why that isn't working. Perhaps in the interim I can have the "Last Week" be the default front page? |
| By Swiveler on Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 04:54 pm: Edit |
Hey I have a radical idea, let's boycott all anonymous posts. I do any way, but I thought I'd rally support so maybe the wimpasses, lily-livered, cowards would get the message!!!! |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 05:07 pm: Edit |
I can force all postings to be by registered users, but then anybody can register a bogus Hotmail account and still be anon. Better to just boycott all mean spirited posts. Then I can just focus on editing Ron's posts! |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 05:10 pm: Edit |
Boycott anonymous?.. OK, count me in! |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 05:14 pm: Edit |
ME TOO! |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 05:23 pm: Edit |
Boycott, Boycott, Boycott! |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 05:28 pm: Edit |
Boycott, Boycott, Boycott! |
| By Ron on Thursday, September 16, 1999 - 10:01 pm: Edit |
Hey! everyone's picking on me! wahhh. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, October 14, 1999 - 01:06 pm: Edit |
For those who noticed a slowwwwwww SwingtimeSD.com website over the past day.... Apparently illegal copies of some software were posted on the unix server this site uses. As such, when word is out, downloads overwhelm the system and it impacts the rest of the sites. The problem is being addressed by my host! |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, October 14, 1999 - 01:48 pm: Edit |
To those who asked, NO, I don't know the web address for the software! |
| By Shawn Hanna on Wednesday, October 20, 1999 - 04:41 pm: Edit |
We broke the 3000 message count today for the board! Admin interface: "There are currently 3021 messages on your board." And the SwingtimeSD.com birthday is still a few weeks off! |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 10:56 am: Edit |
Well whoop-de-doo. |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 12:43 pm: Edit |
Somebody is jealous! |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 03:07 pm: Edit |
Too bad 2,800 of those messages aren't worth shit. |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 03:21 pm: Edit |
Really jealous! (Yours must be www.ImALoser.com, with one BIG hit) |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 03:34 pm: Edit |
Think you've posted 200 times on the board Dennis? |
| By Ron on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 04:14 pm: Edit |
Wow, I didn't realize our swing scene in San Diego was so good, based on the list at the bottom of the calendar page! BELLY UP 143 S Cedros Solana Beach 619-481-9022 BUFFALO JOE'S 600 5th Av Downtown 619-236-1616 CANNIBAL BAR 3999 Mission Bl Pacific Beach 619-539-8650 THE FLAME 3780 Park Bl San Diego 619-295-4163 4th AND B 345 "B" St. Downtown 619-231-4343 G LOUNGE 2228 Bacon Street Ocean Beach 619-222-8131 HARD ROCK CAFE 801 4th Avenue Downtown 619-615-ROCK HARMONY ON FIFTH 332 5th Avenue Downtown 619-702-8848 JIMMY LOVE'S 672 5th Ave Downtown 619-595-0123 KENSINGTON CLUB 4079 Adams Ave Kensington 619-284-2848 LA COSTA SPA La Costa 760-438-9111 NEIMANS 300 Carlsbad Village Dr. Carlsbad 760-729-4131 PAPA JACK's 4th Ave & Island Downtown 619-696-7272 POURHOUSE 528 F St Downtown 619-232-7687 ROCKET CLUB 3094 El Cajon Blvd. North Park 619-447-7247 SCHOONER'S 959 Hornblend St. Pacific Beach 619-272-2780 TIO LEO'S 5302 Napa St. Bay Park/USD 619-542-0562 VASA HALL 3094 El Cajon Blvd. North Park 619-284-9505 |
| By Glenn on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 04:23 pm: Edit |
Its much worse actually: No longer have swing nights: 4th & B Jimmy Loves Schooners Pappa Jacks Closed: G Lounge Pour House Harmony on 5th Rocket and Vasa are the same place Hard Rock doesn't have a dance floor worth mentioning. |
| By Anonymous on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 04:32 pm: Edit |
sub Buffalo joes from that list |
| By Dennis Hong on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 04:40 pm: Edit |
If you have a problem with my posting, feel free to email me (dhong@biomail.ucsd.edu) or identify yourself. Otherwise, I feel no need to defend myself against an anonymous person. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 05:28 pm: Edit |
I think it is clear that 2800 of the posts are me, so hitting 3000 is testimony to my patience and lack of social outlets. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, October 21, 1999 - 05:29 pm: Edit |
And I am very comfortable accepting whatever worth you choose to assign to them! |
| By Shawn Hanna on Monday, October 25, 1999 - 11:44 am: Edit |
Ok, they cleared out the server, fixed the file permissions and we are back in business. Websolo, my host, is impressive in allowing virtually unlimited space (important given the message board!) both in bandwidth and disk space. The catch is they are imperfect in some of the associated details. I appreciate receiving emails letting me know when there is a problem (I am not at the site all the time) so I can fix it. ENJOY |
| By Shawn Hanna on Tuesday, October 26, 1999 - 09:55 pm: Edit |
test 21:54 |
| By Shawn Hanna on Tuesday, October 26, 1999 - 09:57 pm: Edit |
test 21:55 |
| By Ron on Wednesday, October 27, 1999 - 11:07 am: Edit |
can I join in? test 11:07 |
| By Ron on Wednesday, October 27, 1999 - 03:41 pm: Edit |
Shawn, a mild suggestion that you clean up the main forum topic list when you get a chance. I think "Hall of Fame" and "Ians fanatics" are a little old. "Ebay" could be "Buy and Sell", find some way to rename "Fashion and style.." so people don't post topics on it that have nothing to do with fashion. Hmm, what else. Get rid of empty topics like ORIGINS on fashion and style. Restyle the "Lindy-Hop" topic to be more like the Yehoodi General Swing Talk... Add a "Venues" topic at the top level, like Yehoodi. Get rid of question marks in your top-level topics names. Stuff like that. Can you tell I'm bored at work today? But Yehoodi and the Swinging Speakeasy are organized a little better... |
| By Ian Campbell on Wednesday, October 27, 1999 - 03:46 pm: Edit |
Now I am offended |
| By Shawn Hanna on Wednesday, October 27, 1999 - 03:56 pm: Edit |
Restyle the "Lindy-Hop" topic to be more like the Yehoodi General Swing Talk... EXPLAIN please. I'll take most of your suggestions. Also, I'll move Ian's Fanatics to Lindy Hop/Savoy Heroes/Freddie A fan club/teen chat, ok? |
| By Ron on Thursday, October 28, 1999 - 12:36 am: Edit |
Oh. Hmmm. Make that "rename", I guess. Just that I thought "General swing talk" was a better name than "Lindy-hop" for the topic. Take a look at those other forums, see if we can steal any other good ideas. |
| By Shawn Hanna on Tuesday, November 09, 1999 - 11:39 am: Edit |
I posted a new first page for the website today. If you have suggestions or find a bug or broken link, please let me know! |
| By HopMichael on Tuesday, November 09, 1999 - 01:06 pm: Edit |
Great job Shawn! Especially like the voting booth and the trivia question of the day. |
| By Dennis Hong on Tuesday, November 09, 1999 - 01:33 pm: Edit |
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When's Marcus going to be the pin-up of the week? Huh?!? Huh?!? |
| By Shawn Hanna on Thursday, November 18, 1999 - 05:55 pm: Edit |
AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaakkkk! I have to slow down and proofread my email messages. That or convince you next Tuesday is Nest Tuesday, a very special day for ornithologists around the world! See you Tuesday, Shawn |
| By Shawn Hanna on Wednesday, December 01, 1999 - 11:11 am: Edit |
I had a discussion with Dennis, Ron and others about disabling the anonymous posting feature. Somebody can still just enter a name or create a bogus account, but the idea is to make it slightly harder (just slightly) to post a meanspirited message. It won't stop it, but perhaps limit it. We'll see if it affects anything. I could also make each topic a private posting area, requiring registration, but I'll hold off on that right now. |
| By shawnTesting BOgus Name on Wednesday, December 01, 1999 - 11:13 am: Edit |
Be warned though! It looks like you can post anonymously at first! DON'T BE FOOLED! The "ANON" feature does not disappear until there is one new post on the topic. |
| By anon on Wednesday, December 01, 1999 - 12:18 pm: Edit |
So can I still do this? Well, that's not any better!! You should require registration at least. So it takes a slight amount of energy to register under a false name. |
| By anonamous on Wednesday, December 01, 1999 - 01:33 pm: Edit |
Hmmmm |
| By eric cartman on Wednesday, December 01, 1999 - 02:32 pm: Edit |
I'm not fat, I'mjust big boned |
| By Mr. Hankey on Thursday, December 02, 1999 - 03:21 pm: Edit |
The Christmas Poo |
| By test on Sunday, December 12, 1999 - 08:53 am: Edit |
Testing my disk quota~ |
| By Ron on Monday, December 13, 1999 - 10:20 am: Edit |
So what does that disk quota error message mean? It seems to come and go ... If its a hard limit, then how could it go away, unless something was deleted..? |
| By Shawn Hanna on Monday, December 13, 1999 - 01:22 pm: Edit |
The limit just means that the unix server on which this site resides has become cluttered with temporary files and the sys admin needs to delete them. They aren't that responsible about it and it takes an email or phone call to remind them to do it! |
| By Shawn Hanna on Monday, December 13, 1999 - 02:03 pm: Edit |
I think I'm going to retire the current survey shortly. Any suggestions for the next one? Most inane poster on the Forum? Perhaps something more useful - prospective teachers to bring to town? Suggestions! |
| By Joe M on Sunday, January 23, 2000 - 12:27 pm: Edit |
Here's one that I just came across. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ebertleft/dance/lindylib/lindylib.htm BTW: Thanks to all the Ladies at the Rocket and else where who have been kind and patient with my learning to be a good lead. Joe |
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