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thelastname
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:43 pm
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Just a few suggestions for some possible changes to the threads.
"Railway Photography" be changed to "Railway Photography and Video"
How about having an "Railway Employment" section for discussing jobs available, how to get a rail job and anything else related.
Your thoughts?
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David Peters
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:47 pm
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You start to get to many categories and it could start to get out of hand after a while! 
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FieldShunt74
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:44 pm
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Stay calm and nobody dies! <<Thread Hijack>> 
Sorry about that, I've got a suggestion but I couldn't be... bothered, yeah, couldn't be bothered starting a new thread simply for my meager gripe.
You know when you go into one of the forums, NSW, The Lounge, whatever, and you look at all the recent posts in green and you think "what a load uninteresting bilge!". You know those times, yeah? Well I am inclined at those times to click on the "mark all threads read" link, so as to avoid being lured back under false pretenses. The only downside to this approach that I see is that it returns you once again to the forum you've just decided you're wanting to avoid. That's not mentioning the fact that the page seems to reload from before, if you wanted it refreshed in the now marked as read state you'd need to F5 it, leave that aside.
My request is, could the Mark all threads read link be altered to send the user back to the index page? Or, if that's stretching the friendship, could there be a second link along the lines of Mark all threads read AND return to the index which would do just that? Please?
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michaelgreenhill
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:11 pm
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You already can - when the mark threads as read page does its business, it displays a message saying "All posts have been marked as read", in the exact same style as a forum post or edit.
All you have to do is click the "Railpage Australia™ Forum Index" link above that message, and you'll go back to the index 
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FieldShunt74
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:45 pm
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Well whaddaya know! It does default to dumping you back into the same forum if you twiddle your thumbs too long though. We'll call it problem solved for now but I think it could all be a bit slicker. Thanks.
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Tonymercury
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:37 am
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On another hand (how many is that?) - Is it possible with the search function to just look for a word in the thread title in a particular forum?
Tony Bailey
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michaelgreenhill
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:39 am
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Hmm...there doesn't seem an option there for searching in just thread titles. I'm not sure how hard that'd be to slip in, because I've never actually seen the search engine backend!
You can tell the search engine to look inside x forum and return the results as threads, which will at least let you skim through them to find what you were after.
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Tonymercury
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:19 am
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Which is well and good until it returns 250 threads.
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"East and Southeeast Asia" and "Tokyo"!
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Hitachi_Man
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:13 pm
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| thelastname wrote: | | "Railway Photography" be changed to "Railway Photography and Video" |
How about "Railway Media"?
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FieldShunt74
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:39 pm
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| Hitachi_Man wrote: | | thelastname wrote: | | "Railway Photography" be changed to "Railway Photography and Video" |
How about "Railway Media"? |
Sounds a bit too much like news media to me. Railway imagery?
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tbohlsennswssrg
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:54 pm
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| Hitachi_Man wrote: | | thelastname wrote: | | "Railway Photography" be changed to "Railway Photography and Video" |
How about "Railway Media"? |
How about Railway Multimedia
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awsgc24
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:20 pm
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Howabout a RailWikiPage. With Wiki, topics gradually get rewritten and usual get ever longer (at a slow rate) as more material is added. With Railpage Australia™, topics just get longer and longer in a somewhat dog's breakfast fashion such that is becomes too tedius to read a whole topic through.
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FieldShunt74
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:42 pm
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| Timothy Bohlsen wrote: | | How about Railway Multimedia |
Multimedia is sooooooo 1998. 
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wongm
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:44 pm
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| awsgc24 wrote: | | Howabout a RailWikiPage. With Wiki, topics gradually get rewritten and usual get ever longer (at a slow rate) as more material is added. With Railpage Australia™, topics just get longer and longer in a somewhat dog's breakfast fashion such that is becomes too tedius to read a whole topic through. |
I believe a Wiki was part of RP3 / Shaft / whatever the name of the code rewrite project is.
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awsgc24
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:54 pm
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| FieldShunt74 wrote: | | Timothy Bohlsen wrote: | | How about Railway Multimedia |
Multimedia is sooooooo 1998. |
How about Omnimedia?
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