Customizing the board with some of the old bb features?

Post by **Zherog** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:37 pm

Bigode wrote:
Zherog wrote:That doesn't exist in phpBB; you can only have one sig. As far as I know, BbSuckAss is the only forum software that has multiple sigs.
Rightly so, I'd say - why bother with a pile of them? But the one thing I miss from "SuckAss" is the excellent search (well, at least it worked excellently for a small forum, while not even that can be said from here ...).

Search here can sort of be fixed. The problem is that phpBB maintains a huge ass table for searching - essentially, it has one record for every word in a post - and we didn't load that table during the conversion. There's a process to load it, but it takes the better part of a day to run, and doesn't have "incremental commits" in the script, which means that if the script needs 24 hours to run and it dies after 23 hours 59 minutes, we'd have to start from the beginning.

Honestly, we were expecting Google and such to be all over indexing the site; crawlers from Google and Yahoo were both very active on the old forums, so we made a (bad) assumption that they'd be all over the place here, too.

On another matter, is there any way to make the forum display more posts per page?

I think this is possible. Let me check on Nifty's admin page to be sure though. I'll edit in info...

edit: Yes, both posts per page and threads per page can be set in the Admin console. Fbmf -- if you want to make this change and need help finding it, let me know.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:52 am

I would really love it if the ignore list could make its way back asap.

Jacob_Orlove · Post by **Jacob_Orlove** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:04 am

Surgo wrote:I would really love it if the ignore list could make its way back asap.

And if not, could we maybe disable image posting somehow?

Bigode · Post by **Bigode** » Thu May 01, 2008 2:05 pm

Jacob_Orlove wrote:
Surgo wrote:I would really love it if the ignore list could make its way back asap.
And if not, could we maybe disable image posting somehow?

So seconded.

Post by **Zherog** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:53 pm

Jacob_Orlove wrote:
Surgo wrote:I would really love it if the ignore list could make its way back asap.
And if not, could we maybe disable image posting somehow?

I keep searching for an ignore feature (because I think it prevents a ton of problems), but I haven't found anything.

As for controlling images, can you give me a better idea of what you want to do? If I have a better idea what you'd like to accomplish, I can search the MOD database to see what's out there; of course, the decision to install or not is entirely up to fbmf.

I have a Firefox plugin that allows me to block images - either a specific image, or I can use wildcards to block from an entire site. For example, I've used it here to block tzor's sig image and Crissa's avatar image. That plugin is AdBlock Plus, for those who are interested in that.

Jacob_Orlove · Post by **Jacob_Orlove** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:07 pm

I'd like either of these two:

1) disable the [img] tag.

2) put some kind of option in our user profile to let us selectively disable the [img] tag (and, ideally, choose whether we want to see Avatars and Signatures or not too).

The first is probably much easier (should just be an option in the admin control panel), but if there's a mod to allow the second, that would be awesome.

Post by **Zherog** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:04 pm

Jacob_Orlove wrote:I'd like either of these two:

1) disable the [img] tag.

2) put some kind of option in our user profile to let us selectively disable the [img] tag (and, ideally, choose whether we want to see Avatars and Signatures or not too).

The first is probably much easier (should just be an option in the admin control panel), but if there's a mod to allow the second, that would be awesome.

The first is definitely easier. You're correct that it's just an option in the control panel.

For the second, I know I've seen a mod that allowed a user to control whether or not they saw sigs; I think it also allowed you to control avatars. I don't recall seeing one that controlled images as a whole, though. I can look.

Jacob_Orlove · Post by **Jacob_Orlove** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:05 pm

Zherog wrote:The first is definitely easier. You're correct that it's just an option in the control panel.

For the second, I know I've seen a mod that allowed a user to control whether or not they saw sigs; I think it also allowed you to control avatars. I don't recall seeing one that controlled images as a whole, though. I can look.

I'd have to check which boards this specifically applies to (they may not be phpbb), but on several other boards, I enabled some option in my user profile that makes all pictures display as links, rather than images.

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Fri May 02, 2008 1:52 am

How about a limit on the size of pictures? It could script to give a size tag to something, like the flash does.

-Crissa

Bigode · Post by **Bigode** » Fri May 02, 2008 7:19 pm

Crissa wrote:How about a limit on the size of pictures? It could script to give a size tag to something, like the flash does.

-Crissa

As far as I understood our talk, it didn't have anything to do with smoking avatars. And other than that, why not go all the way, preventing any sort of accident (except involving others using one's computer), and simply link pictures elsewhere?

Post by **fbmf** » Fri May 02, 2008 10:28 pm

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Jacob_Orlove · Post by **Jacob_Orlove** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:39 am

Jacob_Orlove wrote:Getting the ignore list back would be awesome.

I know we're not allowed to talk about who we are (or would) ignore, but let's just say new developments have made this a higher priority. Any sign of a patch or plugin?

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Wed May 21, 2008 8:20 am

Bigode wrote:As far as I understood our talk, it didn't have anything to do with smoking avatars. And other than that, why not go all the way, preventing any sort of accident (except involving others using one's computer), and simply link pictures elsewhere?

...Because I can currently insert pictures of insane size and totally make the text unreadable?

There's these tags that can be used to tell the client what size to display an image.

-Crissa

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:14 am

Crissa wrote:
Bigode wrote:As far as I understood our talk, it didn't have anything to do with smoking avatars. And other than that, why not go all the way, preventing any sort of accident (except involving others using one's computer), and simply link pictures elsewhere?
...Because I can currently insert pictures of insane size and totally make the text unreadable?

There's these tags that can be used to tell the client what size to display an image.

-Crissa

Some forums do have auto-resizing probably to prevent that exact occurrence of expanding the text box to 2000 characters wide. You click the image, and it expands.

As for an ignore function, could some of you just, I don't know, ignore? Or do you truly lack the self-control to not nerdrage when something offends you?
I trust in FBMF to set limits, and he does so when situations desperately need moderation, but on an average daily, weekly, or monthly basis there isn't much to get worked up about.

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:30 am

sigma999 wrote: As for an ignore function, could some of you just, I don't know, ignore? Or do you truly lack the self-control to not nerdrage when something offends you?

It's like how all those awful TV shows and tragic news stories get so much ratings. If ignoring offensive material was that easy, Something Awful, Maddox, etc. would be ghost towns.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:10 am

Eh, maybe. Like a car wreck, most can't help but slow down and gawk. Or seriouspost when someone trolls for the lulz.

Jerry · Post by **Jerry** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:37 am

sigma999 wrote:Eh, maybe. Like a car wreck, most can't help but slow down and gawk. Or seriouspost when someone trolls for the lulz.

That's why I automatically assume that whenever someone posts something so ridiculous/off-the-wall, I first assume them to be a troll unless sufficient evidence is provided to the contrary; it helps raise my hopes in humanity.

Post by **Zherog** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:18 am

As for an ignore feature, v3 of phpBB has it. Now that my vacation is done, I'll be digging into some stuff again, as well as asking Neil for his expert opinion on matters.

Jacob_Orlove · Post by **Jacob_Orlove** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:47 am

Zherog wrote:As for an ignore feature, v3 of phpBB has it. Now that my vacation is done, I'll be digging into some stuff again, as well as asking Neil for his expert opinion on matters.

The signal-to-noise ratio is falling again. An ignore feature would be awesome.

Surgo · Post by **Surgo** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:14 am

It would be wonderful if v3 of phpBB also fixed the retarded tag issue (how did they not do that a long time ago?).

Post by **fbmf** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:56 pm

Jacob_Orlove wrote:
Zherog wrote:As for an ignore feature, v3 of phpBB has it. Now that my vacation is done, I'll be digging into some stuff again, as well as asking Neil for his expert opinion on matters.
The signal-to-noise ratio is falling again. An ignore feature would be awesome.

Still nothing on this software.

Game On,
fbmf

Bigode · Post by **Bigode** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:19 pm

Could you increase the number of posts per page? (Please, anyone who would be opposed to it, post here - if there's anyone, I'll start a poll.)

Post by **fbmf** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:58 pm

Let me check.

Game On,
fbmf

Post by **fbmf** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:02 pm

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The Posts Per Page has been increased to 25, which was what the old TGD board was set to. I'd like to keep it there. Any objections?
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Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 12:58 am

No objections here.