TrekBBS Contest: Name the Twitter Bird!

[Hermiod]

J. Allen wrote:

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I know how you feel. I have an Acer Aspire One, resolution 1024x600. This setup just eats up all my screen space. I'd have better luck using a Ouija board and a bag of tea grounds.

I don't think it's even just an issue for non-premium members since all of the sidebars have gotten wider. It doesn't even look right on my 1680x1050 display at home.

It also increases the need for a mobile friendly version of the site as it doesn't display very well at all on my phone anymore.

I can understand that the state of the advertising market is such that these things might be necessary but I'd buy a premium membership just for the option to turn the sidebars off entirely.

Oh, and as for the bird, this place is run by a Romulan - wrong type of bird entirely.

[Zion Ravescene]

Mike Farley wrote:

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Or even better: Zathras.

Or maybe: Zathras.

I prefer Zathras.

Awesome Possum wrote:

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Gene, the small bird of the galaxy!

This I like.

Serial thread killer wrote:

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Big blue

How about Little Blue?

Hermiod wrote:

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I can understand that the state of the advertising market is such that these things might be necessary but I'd buy a premium membership just for the option to turn the sidebars off entirely.

Might not help for the mobile version, but I've hacked up a quick GreaseMonkey script, downloadable here. Install the GreaseMonkey plugin, save the file as untwittrekbbs.user.js, open in firefox, and you get to enjoy the BBS in wide-screen glory once again.

[Australis]

I'm missing something, it just opens the file in FF as text

[Hermiod]

Rocketman wrote:

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Might not help for the mobile version, but I've hacked up a quick GreaseMonkey script, downloadable here. Install the GreaseMonkey plugin, save the file as untwittrekbbs.user.js, open in firefox, and you get to enjoy the BBS in wide-screen glory once again.

Thanks! That worked perfectly. My point remains, though, I'd prefer to be able to turn it off without using a script.

Re: Australis: Have you installed the GreaseMonkey plugin? It should open up a screen offering you to install the script.

[Australis]

No, I don't think it offered. Give me a minute.

ETA: Whoops, missed the bit about installing the GM add-on. Now done. Still the same. What directory should the js file be in? I've put it in FF\modules

[captcalhoun]

deadmeat

[Mistral]

Jeez-this thing cuts my screen in half at home! Kill the bird, kill the bird, somebody, kill the bird!(Sung to the tune of Oh, Clementine!)

[J. Allen]

Mistral wrote:

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Jeez-this thing cuts my screen in half at home! Kill the bird, kill the bird, somebody, kill the bird!(Sung to the tune of Oh, Clementine!)

Well, it's not actually the bird causing it. It's the new "features" block that has been expanded. I like to call it "Screen Killer".

J.

Australis wrote:

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No, I don't think it offered. Give me a minute.

ETA: Whoops, missed the bit about installing the GM add-on. Now done. Still the same. What directory should the js file be in? I've put it in FF\modules

Shouldn't matter. As long as you give it a filename ending in .user.js

[Serial thread killer]

Zion Ravescene wrote:

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How about Little Blue?

I like

[Scout101]

J. Allen wrote:

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Well, it's not actually the bird causing it. It's the new "features" block that has been expanded. I like to call it "Screen Killer".

J.

There's no reason they couldn't reduce the size of the sidebar, is there? Better off to have a readable BBS, and then Twitter links that take 2 lines to get through. It's just a friggin' link, after all.

And if the top banner ad isn't going to stretch to fit the new size, seems like there's room for BOTH banner ads up top. and can lose the one on the right.

Then again, tough to discuss this when the QSF threads are locked down at the first sign of anything other than praise. Be nice to actually discuss these things rationally...

[captcalhoun]

oo! new one: 'lunch'!

[Australis]

It's not the Twitter pic. Not. At .All.

Future plans include having a 300 pixel wide column on that side. Much too wide for my little screen.

Rocketman, Under Extensions --> Greasemonkey --> Options, there's a window titled Mange User Scripts. In the Included Pages frame, it won't let me add the tbbs website, or edit the script in the left frame. What am I doing wrong? (FF 3.5.2, Win XP).