Pom Pom
Greetings to our Australian commentards from the vultures top secret R&D bunker.
Be nice, etc.
37 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2010
just for those that care about the details ...
We'd recently changed the base href urls from http://www.theregister.co.uk to //www.theregister.co.uk which will, eventually, help if/when we get around to implementing https ...
Sadly, ie9 and below seems to struggle with such urls in a base href.
We believe if you were seeing this problem, it was because you were using IE9 or below.
In the short term, we've given IE the full http:// url, and noted that as something we need to fix more correctly before https can happen.
Enjoy the weekend :)
ahem, slight snafu in who got what1.
should be fixed
$techies->whip
1 : bronze lacked extra html, and silver the ability to edit posts. Both should be fixed. Sorry :/
ps. I used my special powers to get a bronze badge long enough to post this, then reverted back to regular commentard ...
bytemark.co.uk or hetzner.de/en or rackspace.com would get my vote.
bytemark because they're a solid little uk outfit with an approach i like, and you can get savvy engineers on irc for support. Used them for years. See also bigv.io. Not used it, but sounds whizzy, if a bit pricey.
hetzner 'cos the price of some of their dedicated servers is just nuts. I know of a couple of clued up users who've been happy with them for a year or two at least.
rackspace cause if it's good enough for El Reg ...
With a bit o luck, that should now be fixed. Thanks for the suggestion :)
The links reflect where we guess your nearest Amazon company is. If you are in the UK you should get .co.uk and .fr in France. Sometimes we guess wrong.
For people in Amazon free countries, we default to .com. Either we guessed wrong or you are in a country that has yet to be assimilated/blessed by Mr Bezos & co.
ps. we have writers in the USA, Spain, Australia & beyond too. Plus we do list prices in other currencies dollars if it's appropriate http://reg.cx/1GXr
I think you're asking for an un-threaded view, so that each post regardless of whether it's a reply to another or a "new" one appears in strict chronological order.
Noted. In the immediate term, while far from ideal, the (Atom) feed for each forum does provide that.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/feed/forum/2010/08/20/spanair_malware/
fwiw, I can assure you we spend a substantial amount of time thinking about our readers/users/commentards and making stuff better for them. The balance is always what is the most valuable use of the time/resources.
Obviously we *can* add voting to already published stories. We opted not to here.
The issue here was simply that we wanted subtle differences when compiling a list of the best stuff (Android apps) than we wanted when having a more free-form discussion.
The former wanted a url for the thing being rated, which made no sense for a regular discussion. The icons ("Where's the Paris Hilton angle?") also didn't seem approriate when building the list of top ten iphone games, etc. although I grant you that this could be debated. Possibly at length ;)
Compare
http://forums.reghardware.co.uk/forum/1/2010/05/03/top_ten_iphone_games/#comment-form
and
http://forums.reghardware.co.uk/forum/1/2010/04/30/review_peripherals_data_locker_enterprise_1tb/#comment-form
Then there is the list of suggestions/posts. Mixing (new) suggestions in between (older) discussion about stuff seemed like it might be more confusing than helpful.
And so we concluded: either it's a list of user suggestions to rate, or it's a discussion. And articles already published with discussion attached remain as that.
It's not perfect and we are curious how you'd like to see it work.