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alaskanassasin

Can we get more threads on the mobile homepage and less of the leaderboard?

JohnInCarolina

lkapigian

JohnInCarolina said:

LoL

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

That’s funny but without ruffling any feathers, The Big Green Egg forum leaderboard is not one I want to be presented on. Honestly I’ve been trying to post often to help with keeping this place relevant. 

Ybabpmuts

Me too. I just feel like I'm totally misunderstood in this endeavor 

alaskanassasin

With only ten posts on the main page, and I don’t see myself clicking beyond that I will probably miss many interesting posts furthering my disinterest 

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

With only ten posts on the main page, and I don’t see myself clicking beyond that I will probably miss many interesting posts furthering my disinterest 

If you select Forums and then Egghead Forum (on mobile) you are shown many more threads and no leaderboard.

JohnInCarolina

alaskanassasin said:

JohnInCarolina said:

That’s funny but without ruffling any feathers, The Big Green Egg forum leaderboard is not one I want to be presented on. Honestly I’ve been trying to post often to help with keeping this place relevant. 

It’s OK this is all just part of my firestorm charm offensive.  I guess it needs a little fine tuning.

alaskanassasin

JohnInCarolina said:

alaskanassasin said:

With only ten posts on the main page, and I don’t see myself clicking beyond that I will probably miss many interesting posts furthering my disinterest 

If you select Forums and then Egghead Forum (on mobile) you are shown many more threads and no leaderboard.

Seems like that should be the home page and remove the stickies. 

Eggdicted_Dawgfan

This helped me in the meantime- Do what John mentioned and save that as a bookmark and use that when you want to get to the site. Then it’s basically your home page. Problem is, when done reading a thread, you have to click back instead of the banner. The banner takes you back to the home page with only 10 threads. 

lousubcap

Yep- all in with streamlining the opening view for viewers (desktop luddite here). The near term deal is as mentioned above, as that move nets 30 threads per page at least for luddites on a desktop view and can count to 30 (glad that I can still manage that.)  FWIW-

Botch

Eggdicted_Dawgfan said:

This helped me in the meantime- Do what John mentioned and save that as a bookmark and use that when you want to get to the site. Then it’s basically your home page. Problem is, when done reading a thread, you have to click back instead of the banner. The banner takes you back to the home page with only 10 threads. 

On a Mac, I always CMD-click on a thread, which opens it on another tab.  When finished, just hitting "Delete" gets rid of it and returns me to the previous page.  I do this on all forums.  

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

Me too. I just feel like I'm totally misunderstood in this endeavor 

It’s almost like you keep telling the same joke over and over again, despite nobody laughing, but you keep telling it anyway.  Ever get that feeling?

Ybabpmuts

Um ... never. You ever get the feeling like there's a worm in your bum and you're sitting in church and you don't know how to manage the sitch. It happened to me once it was so disturbing that I made church underwear out of 80 grit sandpaper, if I grt an itchy bum in church now, I just swoosh side to side, ten cents in the basket later, I'm good to go.

John, you make me laugh 

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

Um ... never. 

Ybabpmuts

Nope never. My momma always said I refused to grow up, but that's just because I loved wearing diapers until I was eight and nobody made them big enough for me then, the transition was tough on momma, but she forgets how the first eight years we could go anywhere where there wasn't a bathroom. 

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

Nope never. My momma always said I refused to grow up, but that's just because I loved wearing diapers until I was eight and nobody made them big enough for me then, the transition was tough on momma, but she forgets how the first eight years we could go anywhere where there wasn't a bathroom. 

Well then I suppose the question is why you feel misunderstood?  Because the impression you give is of someone with no self awareness whatsoever. 

Ybabpmuts

I haven't even looked at myself to see if I even have self awareness. I'm afraid it would be a self fulfilling prophecy 

Ybabpmuts

Not only that, but If I looked at it and it was so enticing that I touched it and broke it, I'd have to buy it. Who knows how much something like that costs.

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

I haven't even looked at myself to see if I even have self awareness. I'm afraid it would be a self fulfilling prophecy 

Well, you’re the one who said they felt misunderstood.  I’m just asking why.

lousubcap

And just to lighten the atmosphere-

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2sz_YwwwQ4

Song by The Animals with an intro by Ed Sullivan. 

Fat finger edit fix.

Ybabpmuts

I'm not a they.  All that to ask why I feel misunderstood? It's because of my twisted sense of humor, what else would it be. 

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

I'm not a they.  All that to ask why I feel misunderstood? It's because of my twisted sense of humor, what else would it be. 

Well there it is.  You do have some sense that it’s all funny to you, but nobody else.  So why keep pushing it?

I think that’s the definition of insanity - doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different outcome.   

Ybabpmuts

John I never expect any particular outcome at all, so I can't be insane by your definition. I could care less about the outcome. It is what it is, good, bad, or indifferent. You don't understand it's not like I'm sitting here thinking this **** ahead of time so I can type it out, I sit down , read a post and the stupid **** comes out of my head while I'm typing. I don't know what to tell you other than I know it's not normal that this happens and I know I come out with some twisted ****, but it's not on purpose.

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

John I never expect any particular outcome at all, so I can't be insane by your definition. I could care less about the outcome. It is what it is, good, bad, or indifferent. You don't understand it's not like I'm sitting here thinking this **** ahead of time so I can type it out, I sit down , read a post and the stupid **** comes out of my head while I'm typing. I don't know what to tell you other than I know it's not normal that this happens and I know I come out with some twisted ****, but it's not on purpose.

Right, you’ve written this before.  But this would indicate you feel like you don’t have a choice.  That whatever comes into your head, you have to type it into a post, that you’ve lost agency over your own actions.  That is simply incompatible with a recognition of feeling misunderstood.   

Ybabpmuts

I never said such a thing. I have total control over reading what I wrote back and clicking post or not.  The fact that I read something and post off of some f'd up **** in my head is totally separate from whether I post it or not I'm. You have no idea what I wrote and don't post on here.

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

I never said such a thing. I have total control over reading what I wrote back and clicking post or not.  The fact that I read something and post off of some f'd up **** in my head is totally separate from whether I post it or not I'm. You have no idea what I wrote and don't post on here.

So what you’re telling us is that, you know it’s twisted, but you don’t care what anyone else thinks, so you’re posting it anyway, and at the end of all of this… you still feel misunderstood? 

I think we understand you perfectly.  We understand that you are being a jackass. 

lousubcap

Well now, that escalated...

Ybabpmuts

Two totally separate actions. I write the stupid **** off of the top of my head, but posting it is a totally separate action. Sometimes I do post it and sometimes I don't. I'm well aware of how f'd up my brain works John, I've lived with it for 58 years, and I'm sure everybody else on here probably knows how f'd up it is as well. But you, the big professor from Duke belittles me like that on the forum. You should be proud of yourself. I hope the fleas of a hundred camels find your underwear drawer.

You're a full grown man, one can assume, yet you seem to lack compassion and empathy for people who are going through **** and have one outlet to deal. 


Shame on you professor shmuck

JohnInCarolina

Ybabpmuts said:

Two totally separate actions. I write the stupid **** off of the top of my head, but posting it is a totally separate action. Sometimes I do post it and sometimes I don't. I'm well aware of how f'd up my brain works John, I've lived with it for 58 years, and I'm sure everybody else on here probably knows how f'd up it is as well. But you, the big professor from Duke belittles me like that on the forum. You should be proud of yourself. I hope the fleas of a hundred camels find your underwear drawer.

You're a full grown man, one can assume, yet you seem to lack compassion and empathy for people who are going through **** and have one outlet to deal. 


Shame on you professor shmuck

I’m not belittling you.  I’m just trying to get you to appreciate that, believe it or not, other people here are reading your posts.  This basic fact seems lost on you.  

Because you wrote that you know your posts are messed up on the one hand, but that you don’t care how people here take them on the other!   That kind of attitude isn’t going to endear yourself to many here, don’t you agree?

It’s like telling a neighbor “I know my dog pooping on your lawn every day and me just leaving it there isn’t OK, but I don’t care what you think.”  

It’s not very nice, is it?

Ybabpmuts

I'm not being a jackass. I was a donkey last week but it was a birthday party for me nephew and we all looked and I had the most nipples to pull it off. I'm not proud of it John. To be honest, one was more like a warble, but when it comes to kids parties, there's almost no distinction between nipples and warbles.