[WikiEN-l] Watchlist

Sat Aug 9 19:37:59 UTC 2003

>james-
>
> >> I've set the default cutoff to one hour
>
> > That is driving me MAD!!! WHY??? The only reason I use my watchlist is 
>when
> > I log on after being off for 10 of 15 hours to see what pages I am
> > interested in have been worked on in my absence by others. Instead I end 
>up
> > being told what was worked on in the last hour, which I can see from the
> > blooming Recent Changes anyway! I end up having to do a second watchlist
> > search having reset the perameters. An hour-long search is worse than
> > useless.
>
>I agree, the 1 hour default is kind of silly. We really need to find a
>solution that allows watching thousands of articles without delay. Since
>Brion is an avid watchlist user himself I'm sure he'll optimize it some
>more, but if not, I'll try to see what I can do.
>
>Regards,
>
>Erik

Thanks Eric,
The irony is I purged my watchlist, cutting over a thousand articles from 
it. But it still is very slow and when it finally shows up on the screen, 
with the crazy 1 hour limit, I often end up with a grand total of 1 on the 
list or sometimes none, requiring me to do a second search with a longer 
paremeter. BTW 'recent changes' is causing all sorts of problem to my 
browser. Sometimes it takes so long the browser Camino times out (I have 
already had to stop using my favourite browser because it constantly timed 
out when in wiki). Either that or the browser gets stuck putting the page 
together and I end up either unable to use any other pages for anywhere else 
in the net because the cursor is spinning as it waits and waits and waits 
for wiki to throw up the page, or out of frustration if I want to use 
something else I end up having to 'force quit' the browser completely. The 
best of luck with finding a solution.

JT

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