Pop-up rather than linked BBS

[Extravoice]

I usually access this BB by going to the badastronomy.com website and clicking on the "Bulletin Board" item on the left-hand menu.

Of course, that link now takes me to an introductory page with two choices:

1) Sit and wait 20 seconds for the BAUT to load.

2) Click on the BAUT Icon and pop-up a new window with the BAUT.

The problem is that choosing #2 does not prevent #1 from happening and I invariably end up with two BAUT windows open on my desktop.

Rather than opening a second window, why not just have my browser go to the BAUT when I click on the icon?

[Fraser]

I think Phil wanted to give people some time to get used to the idea that BABB has joined up with the UT forum. You can always bookmark the forum itself. In fact, I have a bookmark to the new posts link.

http://www.bautforum.com/search.php?do=getnew

Drag the "New Posts" link up to your menu bar, and it should give you a little button. How's that for convenient?

[Captain Kidd]

I think the request wasn't to skip the redirect page but change it so that rather than opening in a new page, have it override the 20 second countdown and open the Baut forum in the same window.

[Moose]

I'd agree. I would generally prefer to access the board from the Bad Astronomy page directly, so I can see any new site updates and/or blog entries before accessing the board itself. I find myself skipping Phil's site entirely far more often than I'd like to through the bookmark I'd created to avoid the 20 second redirect delay here.

[Sleepy]

2) Click on the BAUT Icon and pop-up a new window with the BAUT.Well there's the perennial geek favourite answer of use a different browser, right click on the BAUT logo or link and select open link. This will load the new page in the same window, unlike IE.