Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Oh, Glow Up!

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In the spirit of making SlopeTalk seem as “alive” as possible, we’ve added a feature in which the avatars of users have a circle around them to show how active they are on the page. Green is good ‘n’ fresh, yellow is fading, and if they’re red, it means, yeah, their page is open, but they haven’t touched it in a while. Please note I spent part of the weekend fleshing out the documentation, which you can see here. We are, of course, working every day on this product, tackling bugs and adding features. I appreciate everyone’s active participation and patience.

Look Who’s Talking

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As most of you know, over the course of the past month, SlopeTalk has gone from a totally dead and abandoned project to a resurrected product that is a super-cool new way to communicate. I wanted to mention some of the things we’re working on behind the scenes (in between fixing new problems we have created):

  • Polls whose results automatically update in front of your eyes in real time;
  • Ability to paste graphics directly into comment entry;
  • Restoration of the Comments Search function;
  • Ability to right-click from list of users to get more features;
  • Ability to right-click from list of posts to learn more about them;
  • Be able to see who in the Users list is actively typing a message
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