Thai Visa Breaking News Ticker

[womble]

I'm a little dissappointed that the so called breaking news in red near the top of each page on the forum is often several days old.

That's hardly breaking news........

Just wondering if it will become more up to date in the future?

IS it a direct link to the nation, is it up to them to keep the news more up to date, whoever it is should keep breaking the new stories as they happen as it's a great idea if only it was more up to date.

[sassienie]

Yes, you naughty Mods.

I shall be reporting you to the not updating the news police.

[dantilley]

It's an RSS feed from this URL http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/rss-1.html so not directly connected to The Nation I doubt.

[neverdie]

I wonder how many people signed up for the SMS service and if they get the same breaking news as we get above in the red????????????????

[dantilley]

I wonder how many people signed up for the SMS service

According to this interview, "a few thousand". I suspect that may be a slight exaggeration though...

[neverdie]

^ Yes, well maybe george is cooking the books, I don't know. I guess its kind of like the amount of members here at thaivisa, the little counter says 90,000 or there abouts but clearly theres only a few hundred regular posters, i dont know how many of those numbers account for people like the WONG family and all the other twits that come into the thread trolling etc. Then theres the banned people etc, I wonder how many members there really are?

[Lite Beer]

The Red Ticker Tape is the sole responsibility of Thai Visa.

It is still pretty new and under review. There will be minor changes in the near future.

Thank you for the feed back.

[george]

The ticker is now showing less articles, now 6 instead of 10 items, so it should be more fresh.

We have also slowed down the speed of the ticker as requested.

You might need to refresh the browser with CTRL-F5 in order to see the new version.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[Jingthing]

I would like the option of turning it off completely.

[dantilley]

Looks better. Minor point, but the current headline about the Clockwork Orange thing partially disappears behind the Google search form. Perhaps worth bearing in mind for the future that shorter headlines are better, or make it so that the two areas don't over lap.