New Rant Feature

10-06-2009


So, new feature added to the rant section. Nothing major, just something that was bugging me since I added in the new method of displaying the old rants.

Now what we have is a list of months, as normal, for each year. Since the site didn't start until May 2007, that is the first month that will be displayed for 2007, unlike before when it went all the way back to January even though there were no rants until May. That is bug number one sorted.

Bug number two was that for 2009 it showed all the months of the year, even ones that hadn't happened yet. That is no longer the case. So 2009 stops at the current month, being June for this rant, and will not display July as an option until we get to that month.

I had decided on leaving out any month that had no rant at all, but there was no real point to doing that since I think that has only happened twice in 2007.

Also I modified how you navigate through the old rants, thanks to W* for helping me decide on the best approach to that one.

Another feature that I am toying with is adding the option of allowing comments to be directly applied to a rant, possibly removing the old comment section entirely and just having it as an archive. That is something to think about and work on, if it ever comes online sure you will all know when it happens.

As always, a work in progress. But sure that is where the fun is.

Blue_jester