Feature request: Thread log

[moomin]

Would there be any chance of implementing a thread log, much as the chat log? There's a humongous thread in Other Games I'd like to save for posterity, and it would be very nice it was somehow possbile to strip all the HTML formating and all the page breaks and get the thing as a big fat text file.

Please!

[MarkG]

use the "print" link under the title of the thread

example

http://apolyton.net/forums/printthread.php?threadid=60693

[moomin]

That was quick! The service here is outstanding...

[Zoid]

I assume finding the "Show a printable version" link at the top of the page was too hard a task for you...

[moomin]

I'm revisiting this thread since I would like an additional "printable version" feature, if possible.

If you take a look at any longer thread you want to save, like, say this one:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=62491

the first thing you notice is that a very substancial amount of the material is sigs - which are totally uniteresting in most cases.

Since I belive sigs are fetched from the database each time the thread is rendered, would it be possible to supress them entirely when choosing "printable"?

[MarkG]

well, some people might want the sigs

you could trun them off from your options

[moomin]

An option is even better!

Not that I can imagine what kind of nut would want to print out Poly sigs for posterity. A liberal arts grad student looking for evidence of western decadence, perhaps?

[MarkG]

what i mean is that you can NOW turn the sigs off and go to the thread you want and use the print feature