Hey folks, just wanted to make a post because we were discussing this feature a week or so ago.

As of the newest 11-17-20 build of Mystic a47, the Start Msg Pointers option is LIVE in Mystic, and I just tested it out with a new user account...

In Configuration, New User Settings 1 you'll find the bottom two options are

Start Msg Pointers
Pointer Value

Options are:
First Message
End of Messages
Last (Value) Messages
(Value) Days Ago

And it works really nicely; I currently set it to Last (Value) Messages and entered 10 in the value... that gives the new user 10 msgs in each msg base, and I think thats not too overwhelming.

What values/options do you think you'll run for your new users?? Are you excited that this is making it into Mystic? I am.... cheers ladies n gents;

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P.S. I just realized I posted this WITH the test user. Sorry, but I didn't wanna retype!!

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On 01 Dec 2020 at 11:47a, testinmsgs pondered and said...

First Message
End of Messages
Last (Value) Messages
(Value) Days Ago

And it works really nicely; I currently set it to Last (Value) Messages and entered 10 in the value... that gives the new user 10 msgs in each
msg base, and I think thats not too overwhelming.

What values/options do you think you'll run for your new users?? Are you

I agree it's a nice touch to offer this. Hmm not sure something like the last
X days I expect, not sure how many days though, it would depend on how active the echos were I suppose.

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First Message
End of Messages
Last (Value) Messages
(Value) Days Ago

I agree it's a nice touch to offer this. Hmm not sure something like the lastX days I expect, not sure how many days though, it would depend on
how activethe echos were I suppose.

Yea, I was also thinking days would be a good way - but hosting several FTNs, that all have different traffic, I settled on the 10msgs per base. I'll play around with it, and we have 4 options to choose from so I'm sure we'll figure out what works best in the future.

IMO, anything is better than the full msg bases that a new user had to get thru in previous builds. *I* just learned that [END] took you to the end; I know new users didn't know that little morsel.



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