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Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Nov 3, 2007.

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  1. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Remove all ads!
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    Well, that could be easily taken care of by making a forum rule. And then having you personally editing every post that didn't comply.

    Of course, you're probably too much of a wuss to take that route.

    :p
     
    Splunge, Nov 11, 2007
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  2. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    :p

    It does look weird when quotes don't nest though, I'll give you that. Hard to decide what's the lesser of two evils here.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 11, 2007
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  3. chevalier

    chevalier Knight of Everfull Chalice ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    Hmm... Would there be any plugin to make the info section on the left shrink if the post itself is not big?
     
    chevalier, Nov 12, 2007
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  4. Colthrun

    Colthrun Walk first in the forest and last in the bog Veteran

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    Aaah, nice to see the old gem-looking 'new post indicators' are back. I didn't particularly like the noticeboard images. :thumb:
     
    Colthrun, Nov 12, 2007
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  5. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    chev, possibly, though it'd make more sense to just rearrange the stuff that's there so that it was more in line with the old boards.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 12, 2007
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    It took me 1 week to get my file on these boards up. The password needed reseting and the timer on my email kept expiring :confused:

    Still, my first post on the new system. :)
     
    The Magister, Nov 13, 2007
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  7. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] If anyone is reading this and needs help making the switch, please don't hesitate to contact me!
     
    Taluntain, Nov 13, 2007
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    Very nice Tal, I love what you've done with the place, I'll be sure to come by and post from time to time :).
     
    The Gatekeeper, Nov 16, 2007
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  9. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] If you're wondering why all of your "post read" markers have reset to the start of this month, it's because I've switched to storing this information in the database and no longer in cookies. So seeing which threads have new posts in them and which posts are new since your last board check should now work accurately (and also from any computer that you log in on). After you've viewed all new posts for today, you can hit the "Mark Forums Read" link at the bottom of the forums list on the front page of the boards and the next time you visit, you'll properly see only new posts being highlighted.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 16, 2007
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    Yeah, after I spent an hour or so on the forum it's alot nicer than the old version. I see you've moved to using more sophisticated hosting techniques (you gone to SQL from the old CGI-bin) and you added a cute little reputation module for people and threads. Good stuff, the loading times are great, no spambot attacks, and the database transition seemed to have gone very smoothly. If you did this alone, excellent work Tal!
     
    The Gatekeeper, Nov 16, 2007
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  11. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Thanks, I'm glad you like it. There's a lot more of the good stuff to come. ;)
     
    Taluntain, Nov 16, 2007
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  12. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    I've made a few changes to the date & time display. We're also switching to am/pm instead of the 24 hour time format for the moment.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 16, 2007
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  13. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    I've moved the post icons block above the text entry area now, so it's like it was on the old boards again.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 17, 2007
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  14. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    With PM's that have several replies back and forth, is there any way to see everything starting from the original message to the most recent response? Because the way it is now, if you click on a PM, you only see that message, and none of the stuff that came before it.

    And I'm glad to see some of the other changes you're making. When are you going to make the switch back to UBB? :p
     
    Splunge, Nov 17, 2007
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  15. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Nope, the PM system in vB is fundamentally different from UBB's, where PMs were more like private threads. In vB, PMs are actually what the name suggests; separate private messages. In the future vB might get a private thread system too, but at the moment, it is as it is. For the record, I think UBB's implementation of private threads was much more convenient.

    As for switching back to UBB, heh... I really miss some of its features and can't understand why they haven't been implemented in vB (yet), or why they've gone with a different implementation (which is almost always worse or less convenient), but overall, vB is a huge improvement and a platform I can build on for years to come, so I'm relatively happy with it.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 17, 2007
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  16. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Yeah, I know. There are some things I liked about the old Boards that the new one doesn't have, but all in all, this one is much better. :) I'm just happy that I can have the occasional opportunity to be nostalgic for the good ol' days. :geezer: :p
     
    Splunge, Nov 17, 2007
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  17. Maertyn

    Maertyn There's nothing I cannot embrace! Veteran

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    Hi there,

    good work with all the importing! I just wanted to add one observation: The buttons don't fit with a dark background at all (white edges). But you already posted that things will undergo changes, so good luck with that!

    - Maertyn
     
    Maertyn, Nov 17, 2007
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  18. Nakia

    Nakia The night is mine Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    I find it very easy to move around in the new Board. Congratulations, Tal, things seem to be working well.

    So far the only thing I do not care for is that Rep thing. It ask you to rate a post but I get the feeling you are rating the poster. If someone makes two good posts you can only rate one then you need to go rate posts by other people before you can rate the second good post. Hope that makes sense. I understand what I'm saying perfectly.
     
    Nakia, Nov 17, 2007
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  19. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Yea, I'll get a new set of buttons and other relevant icons when I get around to it, but there are still a few things with higher priority than that at the moment.

    Edit: Nakia; rating threads (with stars) and using reputation (via the scales icon in every post) are two completely different things. Rating threads is done on a thread level; you don't rate a specific post inside a thread.

    Reputation, however, gives you the ability to add or take away a specific poster's reputation points, but this is not exactly a post-level rating because it doesn't show publicly anywhere who got what reputation for which post.

    I'm not quite sure what you mean (so I thought I'd explain the two concepts just in case). Or are you saying that you can't rate (with stars) two threads by the same poster consecutively?
     
    Taluntain, Nov 17, 2007
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  20. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Don't worry Tal, I usually don't know what Nakia is saying either. :p Of course, that isn't saying much, because I usually don't know what I'm saying. :D

    Qhydtr gjsdytr bf dld afl!!!

    :p
     
    Splunge, Nov 17, 2007
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