Forum Software FAQs [updated 23 Jan 2013]

Unknown

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Anonus

Is 10000 enough?

Unknown

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Justice4243

Wait, we have control over how big the posts can be?

Seconding that it should be increased. 

Imipolex G

Bigger is better!

Anonus

10000's not enough, hmm? What would be?

I admit I kept it at 8000 because of textwalling...

Princess Alice

It's 10,000 characters now, increased from 8000. Is that good enough?

Anoninja'd

Princess Alice

@Lee, when you're around:

Would it be possible to tweak the link color to make them stand out from the black text a little more?

lee4hmz

I'm here. I'll have to look at the source, since I don't remember where the link color is set at.

Anonus

This is software-related:

When I deleted Cream's account, the option I chose broke wiped out other people's posts in threads he was the OP of. Sadly, no database backup prior to April exists, so anything after that is gone for good.

Lee is installing a script to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again.

lee4hmz

The Spoilers plugin has been installed and enabled.

Tre

Thanks, Lee.

Salix Babylonika

how does it work

Princess Alice

[ spolier ] Discord Kills Dumbledore [ /spoiler ]

but without the spaces in each tag.

Salix Babylonika

Spoiler:

I am actually a fluffy bunny

like so?

Viani

[spoilers] jews [/spoilers]

Imipolex G

Spoiler:

jews

Ace Rimmer

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

I am a spoiler

Princess Alice

The Sandbox is that way

Princess Alice

I went ahead and updated the OP, elaborating on the stubbornness of YouTube embeds and adding information about timestamps and spoiler boxes.

LW

This is not super important at all, but would it be possible to change the gender settings to add a "Classified" option? IJBM II seems to have an account settings option that changes the "[IJBMer] changed his/her profile picture" to "[IJBMer] changed their profile picture" in activity and I was wondering if we could do that here too.

Feel free to not worry about this if it is annoying to mess with, since activity is the only place where any of that really comes up.

Anonus

UE must have done something to the code. We'll have to ask him...

Anonus

He had this to say about it:

"One line of SQL:

ALTER TABLE GDN_User` MODIFY COLUMN `Gender` ENUM('m','f','n') NOT NULL DEFAULT 'm';

And this patch:

http://vbprog.zonexus.net/randomcrap/vanilla/gender_patch.diff

There's a couple sections about spoilerboxes and newlines; just ignore those."

lee4hmz

Huh. The "WYSIWYG button" TinyMCE patch doesn't work all that well (it only works in certain places, and not at all on the mobile site, and the other one appears to replace the default Vanilla editor and requires patching Vanilla to work properly.

Princess Alice

Ouch.

Though having no WYSIWYG editor on the mobile site is probably a good thing.

lee4hmz

A simple one that can do italics, bold, hyperlinks and IMG would be nice, since typing angle brackets on most Android keyboards requires pressing two different shifts and makes things really tedious.

Princess Alice

True, true.

I've yet to get CLEditor to work properly on any of my devices, though.

Justice4243

Anyone else having issues where they can only get the spoiler tags to work about 50% of the time?

Princess Alice

I haven't tried it yet but I suspect it's the same old thing as the video embeds, where if there's any sort of HTML tag touching the code the parser fails to, well, parse it. :\

Tachyon

LouieUU said:

This is not super important at all, but would it be possible to change the gender settings to add a "Classified" option? IJBM II seems to have an account settings option that changes the "[IJBMer] changed his/her profile picture" to "[IJBMer] changed their profile picture" in activity and I was wondering if we could do that here too.

Feel free to not worry about this if it is annoying to mess with, since activity is the only place where any of that really comes up.

curious as to whether this might at some point become a thing

Miss Miko Mayonegg

I asked about this already; maybe they forgot. :D Or maybe... uh oh *checks new rules*

79. Homosexuality is immoral and may not be discussed here -- take it to a porn site!
80. There are only two genders. You cannot change your gender. Doing so is immoral.
81. Public displays of affection are sexual in nature and thus unacceptable. Take it to PMs, and only

o_o

Sredni Vashtar

^ What is this from?

Miss Miko Mayonegg

I made it up. :D

Sredni Vashtar

Aha. Now I am less confused.

Princess Alice

I went ahead and asked Unknown Entity (IJBM's webmaster, who coded it up for them) how it's done. Actually installing it will have to wait until Lee has some free time, though.

MetaFour

Is there any possibility of letting the user choose a plain text editor for entering posts, rather than the WYSIWYG one? Or is that an issue with the forum software beyond your control?

When I'm using a keyboard—which is all the time, because I don't have a smartphone—I prefer to type the tags myself, rather than clicking a button with my mouse. I can compose messages faster when I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.

Anonus

MetaFour said:

Is there any possibility of letting the user choose a plain text editor for entering posts, rather than the WYSIWYG one? Or is that an issue with the forum software beyond your control?

When I'm using a keyboard—which is all the time, because I don't have a smartphone—I prefer to type the tags myself, rather than clicking a button with my mouse. I can compose messages faster when I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard.

Click the piece of paper with the <> on it.

Hexartes

Would there be any way to just hide NSFW posts from opt-outs?

Sredni Vashtar

I think that such a thing would not only require some kind of special markup system wherein posts could be hidden, but some kind of mechanism by which a poster would have to determine the nature of their own post and mark it as such or have a mod hide the thing manually. That strikes me as unfeasible and undesirable.

Granted, I am neither a moderator nor a coder, so I cannot say for sure. But in my humble opinion, it sounds like more trouble than it is worth.

Hexartes

I don't want to feel like I'm missing some part of the Heap's history just because of my age though. I mean, I'm mature enough to handle the sight of nudity.

Imipolex G

If it's any comfort, not much goes on in the NSFW thread except for "I think this picture is kinda hot" and "check this out, it's totally disgusting!"

Nothing of any redeeming social, cultural or intellectual value

Obā-san

Imipölex G said:

If it's any comfort, not much goes on in the NSFW thread except for "I think this picture is kinda hot" and "check this out, it's totally disgusting!"

Nothing of any redeeming social, cultural or intellectual value

Sredni Vashtar

Well, d'n'b derails and pointless rambling, too, and the occasional off-colour web comic strip or silly .gif that wouldn't fly elsewhere. But no, it's nothing especially interesting, or at least nothing that you can't see elsewhere here, naughtiness aside.

How old are you, anyway?

Hexartes

Turned 16 on the 24th.

Sredni Vashtar

Wait a minute: Can you actually see NSFW threads on the main page but not actually read them?

That should probably be fixed, if so.

^ Congrats! You're a youngin'!

Tachyon

Heapers who aren't opted in can't see NSFW threads on the main page.

Sredni Vashtar

I thought not, but I was making sure.

Hexartes

Would it be possible to implement a system where there'd be a banner or something on the top of the home page whenever it's a Heaper's birthday?

Misery

Can your own posts be removed when you double post or anything like that?

Irene

Would it be possible for a single poster to switch the forum design from a drop down menu? Namely cause this version is hard for me to read due to the font/smaller text.