Now this is a Forum :P

by {Qs}Homicidal on 07/16/2008 19:20, 125 messages, last message: 07/31/2008 06:44, 64202 views, last view: 05/05/2024 15:34

http://sauerbraten.mybb3.org/
WIP^ comments are welcome :P

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#106: IM

by SleepwalkR on 07/22/2008 12:08

I have you on my IM list now, Quin, and someone with the nick "Angeles", which I assume is tentus?

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#107: Re: IM

by Hirato Kirata on 07/22/2008 14:51, refers to #106

I'm pretty certain 'Angeles' is quin, from his wikipedia walking days

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#108: Re: IM

by tentus_ on 07/22/2008 15:10, refers to #106

Nah, I'm always either tentus or tsholden (which, when conjugated properly, are the same thing).

I'm really not an IM fan, I guess I'll have to go make an account. :P Any suggestions as to what to use?

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#109: Re: IM

by Quin on 07/22/2008 15:52, refers to #108

I use bitlbee with all my IM accounts, that way I only have my IRC client open. Angeles is probably my ICQ user name, the UIN is like 12 years old now.

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#110: quin cool

by SleepwalkR on 07/22/2008 20:21

Tentus, I used to use Miranda on Windows, don't know if that's still maintained though.

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#111: Miranda

by SleepwalkR on 07/22/2008 20:22

http://www.miranda-im.org/

It's still maintained and has the advantage of being really lightweight.

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#112: Re: ..

by SheeEttin on 07/23/2008 01:07, refers to #102

Re the editing/addendum thing...
Why not just give people a little link (e.g. next to the reply link) that'll let them tack a postscript onto their post? Maybe color the post header if it's been added to after you've read it.

Just making a suggestion... I can't really write PHP myself (though I intend to learn, now that I've got my Internet access back).

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#113: Re: ..

by Quin on 07/23/2008 03:51, refers to #112

You should really hang out with us on IRC man.

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#114: Re: ..

by SheeEttin on 07/23/2008 15:19, refers to #113

Oops. I missed the next page, again... (Hey, there's something that might need changing!)

Anyway, where? freenode/#sauerbraten?

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#115: ..

by MovingTarget on 07/23/2008 16:21

I think that, somehow, the reply button should be made more clear (maybe an actual button?). There are quite a few people who don't use it, and it gets quite irritating to not know what post they're referring to. And if that happens, make the "refers to #x" clearer too (somehow :D). Some people don't see that either (look in the "Totally New Sauerbraten Website thread for an example).

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#116: Re: ..

by Quin on 07/24/2008 07:30, refers to #114

irc.quakenet.org #sauerbraten
irc.quakenet.org #assaultcube
irc.freenode.net #bloodfrontier
irc.gamesurge.net #woop-clan

Just to name a few.. :P

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#117: Re: ..

by Max of S2D [Fr] on 07/24/2008 10:59, refers to #116

irc.epiknet.org #sauercube

(for all the french-speakers out there)

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#118: Re: 'Reply button/text'

by steve_e on 07/24/2008 11:28, refers to #115

Totally agreed - was about the only thing I think this site needs to make it easier to read

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#119: Re: ..

by Aardappel_ on 07/24/2008 20:46, refers to #100

yup, supporting <pre> would be good.

I am not a fan of this 8 link boxes idea. Sounds like you'd make the DB and everything more complicated just for the off chance of reducing link spam posts a bit.

Better would be, as you say, to recognise common forms of link bracketing (html, quotes, bb code) and remove it automatically).

As for inline images, why not have a link (maybe next to "board index") that says "show images inline" that you can click on if you're lazy and someone has just posted a bunch of images. It would reload the page with images inline. It would just be for that page load, or for that session.

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#120: Re: ..

by SanHolo on 07/24/2008 21:53, refers to #119

"As for inline images, why not have a link (maybe next to "board index") that says "show images inline" that you can click on if you're lazy and someone has just posted a bunch of images. It would reload the page with images inline. It would just be for that page load, or for that session."

Even better, a link per Post that calls a JavaScript Function that loads and appends the images of a post to the post. Would-be Web 2.0 so to say. :D

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#121: Re: ..

by Quin on 07/25/2008 05:41, refers to #119

Easy enough, if you're comfortable with JavaScript and/or AJAX.

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#122: I like

by SleepwalkR on 07/25/2008 11:20

SanHolo's idea.

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#123: Inline Images

by graham on 07/25/2008 18:07

Why not substitute inline images for links? A viewer sees a link, it's labelled with the image url, they click it, and then the image is loaded and displayed on the page. Seems more intuitive to me and very simple to implement.

[img]http://example.com/image.gif[/img] is turned into <a onclick="replaceLinkWithImage(this)" href="http://example.com/image.gif" class="inlineimg">http://example.com/image.gif</a>

...requires a trivial amount of Javascript, uses the Image object, no AJAX required:

function replaceLinkWithImage(element)
{
var img=new Image;
img.src=element.getAttribute("href");
element.parentNode.replaceChild(img,element);
}

Use CSS to restyle inline image links to distinguish them from normal links.

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#124: Syntax highlighting

by jbuk2k7s cookie has gone on 07/29/2008 12:16, refers to #123

Whilst this may be a little pointless, how about adding syntax highlighting (but keeping with the colourscheme of the forum) for cubescript snippets, considering the frequency of their use.

Actually, it would probably just add bloat.

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#125: Re: ..

by rancor on 07/31/2008 06:44, refers to #120

That'd actually be really easy, just make a call to insert the image into the DOM on click, should be possible to make it both degrade to a straight link w/o Javascript, and also have it do all of the processing clientside by just marking all links in posts that appear to point to images have a class (minimal overhead in the serverside post parsing code). You could then have the onload handler for the page replace the href for those links with an onclick that modified the DOM to insert the image.

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