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Is there a way I can step through the home pages of other users so as to look for an imperfectly remembered diary? A member index? A diary index? Being able to look through a list of diary titles in a given month or week would be helpful.  Being able to go directly to the home page of a member from a list would also be helpful.

At present, I can access home pages only by clicking on the user name on a comment or diary.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 02:49:13 PM EST
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If you click on "Search" in the "Menu" box (normally top right), you get the searcdh interface. With a pull-down menu, you can select dsifferent searches, including diaries by author handle same for frontpager stories, and comments. Or, alternatively, a search term in all diaries/FP stories/commnts. If you enter no search term at all, you can get a list of all diaries.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 02:58:07 PM EST
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Thanks.  I had viewed that search feature but didn't think of some of the approaches you suggest.  I am used to looking through tables of content, index and bibliography.  Sometimes I remember a Diary title, usually not fully, sometimes not at all, but I could pick it out of a list.  Same for tags.  I'll just have to noodle around.  My biggest problem is when I remember who posted something, but they haven't posted recently.  I have no easy way to get to their homepage.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 04:11:18 PM EST
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One thing I forgot to note: there is a checkbox for Archive search. Diaries (and their comments) older than 1 month are archived. If you check the checkbox, the search is only in the archive, if you don't check it, then only in the active diaries. (Search is not the most user-friendly feature of SCOOP, I hope we can do better in an upgrade of ET.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Jun 6th, 2008 at 03:33:22 AM EST
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Thanks.  I am one of those benighted individuals, who, if there is a way, especially with software, I will screw it up.  At least I haven't been able inadvertently to crash they system, yet.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat Jun 7th, 2008 at 06:06:57 PM EST
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I think all the "homepages" have the same url format:

http://www.eurotrib.com/user/(username)/diary

Google works too.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 03:00:05 PM EST
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Thanks, that works great when I remember the username.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Jun 5th, 2008 at 04:14:59 PM EST
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