I added a really kewl new feature. The ability to collapse and expande forum categories on the forum frontpage.

So forums that you don't cehck as often you can collapse to make the page smaller.

The settings are saved in a cookie on each users computer so when you return to the forum it will remember which forums you have collapsed.

you can collapse and expand forums by pressing the [+ and -] buttons beside the forum category name.

This new feature isn't fully tested, so if you find any problems please report them.

   

Mmmm, cookies. Good for people, bad for computers.



Cool feature tho.

- CamCKA

   

whats bad about cookies, most sites sue them.

Canadaka.net uses cookies to remember your login session, so you don't have to login to the site each visit. And now to remember collapsed forums.

   

Well, actually, cookies themselves aren't bad. They are just little text files (4k max) that can help enhance your web browsing experience, doing things like remembering settings on a particular page (like which forums are collapsed on canadaka.net) or to allow you the option of not re-logging on every time you visit the page.

And in the hands of a good site moderator like you, they can serve only good purposes.

The only crummy thing about them, is that they can be exploited to gather info about you (what sites you visited, etc.) and eventually you get to a site that uses this vulnerability to profile you and see that you visited 3 sites about Canada, a site about financial forecasts and one about aquarium fish. That company decides you meet the profile for Explicit Farmsex emails, and starts spamming you.

Actually, cookies are pretty low-risk, and we are just going to have to live with them because they are extremely useful little things.

ZD Net article on Cookie Concerns

- CamCKA

   

But also bad for computers... you don't need all those cookie crumbs falling on your keyboard...