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.

Dead Sea Scroll

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In the midst of all the SlopeTalk testing, the most frequent complaint I’ve heard is that the page cheerfully keeps scrolling as new comments accrue. This kind of makes sense, because some folks use comments almost like a ticker tape. However, some people don’t want that. They’d prefer to leave the page where it was and come back a few hours later to pick up where they left off.

I think we’ve fixed this issue. Please make sure that, in Preferences, you have auto-scroll set to Off, as shown below. In addition, please hit Shift-F5 on your keyboard to make sure you’ve got the latest version. In any case, here’s that link again, and I hope it works smoothly for everyone now.

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.