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.

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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Leaps & Bounds

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Although I was told repeatedly the Wi-Fi on this plane was busted, I tried it anyway, and voila, it worked. I also guess that means I get a pretty decent connection, since I’m probably the only one who decided that I’d give it a shot no matter what their staff repeatedly announced.

Anyway, I’m pleased to note that the complaints/kudos ratio is getting smaller and smaller with SlopeTalk and although there’s plenty of development left to do, I wanted to mention a couple of important new elements. First of all, we’ve made the arrangement of information in the Latest Posts pane more efficient, and as you scroll down the list, it’ll automatically load more and more posts. Also, when you click any of the post titles…….

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