RE: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-17 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Chris Lott wrote: I agree that I don't want to see del go the route of having too many fields to fill in. Even when they are optional they have a stifling kind of effect. If they are hidden unless you choose to see them, how are they going to stifle anything? Most computer users stick with

Re: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Lott
On 4/17/06, Larson, Timothy E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Lott wrote: I agree that I don't want to see del go the route of having too many fields to fill in. Even when they are optional they have a stifling kind of effect. If they are hidden unless you choose to see them, how are they

Re: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Lott
On 4/17/06, Hamish MacEwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/06, Chris Lott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if it's data that only 20% of users will ever bother with, is it worth worrying about? Firstly I think if the needs and/or desires of 20% of users don't matter, we can stop worrying about

Re: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Justin R. Miller
On Apr 14, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Mislav wrote: The maximum length is 256 bytes, which is that much characters or less if you are using some multibyte ones (if I'm not mistaken about this). One of the early previous threads discusses this. About the documentation - it isn't documented

Re: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Lindsay Donaghe
A suggestion for Joshua - Could you please have the max length set on text box that you can type the description in so that you don't type a whole paragraph and then find it truncated when you look at your saved link? I end up with that happening all the time and it would be really easy to

RE: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Lindsay Donaghe wrote: Could you please have the max length set on text box that you can type the description in so that you don't type a whole paragraph and then find it truncated when you look at your saved link? I end up with that happening all the time and it would be really easy to

Re: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Lindsay Donaghe
Well, people do use del.icio.us in different ways. Maybe a lot (or even most) people don't write long comments or comments at all, but others do. I think the people who do use the comments feature contribute a good bit to the del.icio.us community and should be encouraged. Many times I've

RE: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Lindsay Donaghe wrote: Well, people do use del.icio.us in different ways. Maybe a lot (or Agreed, they do indeed. even most) people don't write long comments or comments at all, but others do. I think the people who do use the comments feature contribute a good bit to the del.icio.us

Re: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Michael Williams
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:50:11AM -0500, Ericka Menchen Trevino wrote: What I'm trying to say here is that it's puzzling, not that I'm unhappy with del or yahoo or anyone else. Are we customers now that del is yahoo owned? It's easiest to say we're users or contributors but what does that

RE: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Lindsay Donaghe wrote: I agree, there are things that I'd like to see in del.icio.us that will probably never happen. I think I remember your discussion before, Timothy about additional fields. Personally, I prefer the way that Furl handles it where you have a field for comments, a field for

RE: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Joshua Schachter
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ericka Menchen Trevino Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 8:50 AM To: Lindsay Donaghe Cc: Larson, Timothy E.; discuss@del.icio.us Subject: Re: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length? This discussion, I think, hints at a larger

RE: [delicious-discuss] notes maximum length?

2006-04-14 Thread Larson, Timothy E.
Joshua Schachter wrote: The main problems with more fields is that a) it scares the bejeezus out of most users, as empty fields are things that MUST be filled to continue, or they are stressed, and b) we need to continue to work on the database for storing this kind of stuff (which will happen