ANNOUNCING: Per-Poster RSS Feeds and maybe other tech

lofighost · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 6:16 am

2 is how it's done with simplemachines' software. gets the job done.
in a more meticulous and possibly headache-inducing approach you could have a checkbox per post and add posts in a few at a time or something.
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Tokyo Rude · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Location: I'm on the phone Derrick!

We had that on IC. I adored it. Then again, I'm crazy.

birdcloud · Joined: 31 Dec 2008

psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

May the good Lord God bless you.
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Tokyo Rude · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Location: I'm on the phone Derrick!

That's a good thing.

birdcloud · Joined: 31 Dec 2008

Mods, I've added a merge thread feature. In the mod panel, check any number of threads and click Merge. On the next page, you can limit the merge to specific posts from each thread (by default all are merged). Threads that have all their posts merged are deleted (because they are now empty). Threads with some posts remaining (because you unchecked them) aren't.

Would a mod try it out soon to double check that I made no errors installing it? Thanks.
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lofighost · Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:02 pm

awesome! worked just fine for me. GOOD
WORK
SI
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!!
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sono hi ga itsuka kuru made / nakanai yo omoidasu yo
kimi wo / inotte / kimi to / waratte

kerobaros · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: St. Louis, MO

God, birdcloud, you are the fucking man. Seriously.

Double points for wanting to dick with PHP so much, 'cause it's always repulsed me. Seriously, language makes me sick to my stomach. (I've got a weird synaesthesia thing with languages, computer and otherwise.)

kerobaros · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: St. Louis, MO

vision, you may have something there.

Mr Mustache · Mean Mr. Mustache Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Bushwick

Is it time to get rid of potions yet?
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psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

birdcloud can you make this shirt not cost six thousand yen? http://www.heroism.jp/moreinfo/kitaro/nobiagari.html

vision if you are a Person of Wealth you might be interested in that shirt.

If you are not a person of wealth, you might still be interested in that shirt, but, like me, unable to justify the expenditure.
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birdcloud · Joined: 31 Dec 2008

Mr. Mechanical · Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:55 pm

http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=22493
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Shiren the Launderer · Joined: 25 Sep 2008

seriously who cares

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

yeah get rid of the things already.
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eskaibo · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Location: no!! my body

Toups, I was going to ironically potion that but then ;_;
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| BLUE | BLACK | PURPLE | · true doom murderhead Joined: 17 May 2008 Location: Austria

now I'll never know how many potions that post got :(

Toups you do know that there's a poll on this and that it's 19/14 for KEEP POTIONS right now

right?

(why are you people so twitchy when it comes to making decisions? y'all be like on/off/on/off/on/off/...)

BotageL · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:38 am

Hey, hey.

Make it so when I click "quote," it puts the quote stuff into the Quick Reply box.

The less page reloads, the better.
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Persona-sama · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:54 am

I'm for what BotageL just said too.
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BotageL · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:51 am

It'd also be awesome if I want to quote multiple people in one post, without having to punch "Quote" in another window, copy that junk into the other post I'm writing, then close the extra window. Just have it toss the post in at the bottom of the Quick Reply window whenever I hit "Quote" on one. That'd rule.
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| BLUE | BLACK | PURPLE | · true doom murderhead Joined: 17 May 2008 Location: Austria

Toups · tyranically banal Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Location: Ebon Keep

okay I'm starting a new poll here so I can get a more accurate non-axe-centric up-to-date feel for what people think about them.

I don't mind them either way. I like a lot of stuff about the idea but feel fine without it.
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BotageL · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 4:25 am

Tokyo Rude · Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Location: I'm on the phone Derrick!

Hey autoembeds are fucking annoying!

spinach · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:53 pm

spinach · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:33 pm

oh my god, birdcloud! you're fucking glorious! i can start a post in quick reply and then hit the reply button to see the post i'd started in regular reply! this is magical and sexy, i wish i'd noticed it before today!
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| BLUE | BLACK | PURPLE | · true doom murderhead Joined: 17 May 2008 Location: Austria

wait what

spinach · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:59 pm

i started typing this post [this one you are reading right now] in quick reply, and then i hit the "reply" button [did that just now] and my post showed up there [everything up to the word "button" which is the last thing i typed before i hit "reply"], where i finished the post and hit submit.

Drem · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: The Planet Bookshelves

Is it possible to get an embed tag that automatically embeds youtube videos from simply the regular link, as opposed to editing the provided embed code from the youtube page? Auto-embedding would clog up threads pretty easily, but a way to simplify embedding videos when wanted would be a great help.

birdcloud · Joined: 31 Dec 2008

BotageL · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:21 am

I guess you could add a Quick Quote button, at least as a stopgap measure. Maybe make it look notably different than the normal quote button to avoid confusion?
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eskaibo · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Location: no!! my body

I never really noticed that E before. It's pretty distinctive!
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shnozlak · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:02 pm

Given the number of sale threads we have how about a Select Button Market Place (users only) where we can post items up for sale. Items deleted when a time limit set by the poster is reached.
Maybe even put a little For $ale sign (earthbound reference optional) next to a poster's name who is currently selling a thing.
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eskaibo · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Location: no!! my body

Shnozlak, the For Sale sign made that idea a clever one.
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This Machine Kills Fascis · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:51 am

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:06 am

/sb/
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spinach · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 2:35 pm

nsfw warnings don't already do the job?
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Drem · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: The Planet Bookshelves

I seem to have a problem with the Quick Reply box. Most of the time whenever I try to submit a post from it, the browser starts working (my cursor icon changes and a loading bar appears) but essentially hangs. It will load indefinitely and will never finish. If I wait long enough and just reload the page, I see my post has appeared. If I choose to preview my post, it loads instantly and I can post normally. This happens in both Opera and Firefox, on different computers, and from both home and work. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't. I'm not sure what the problem is. Any ideas?

birdcloud · Joined: 31 Dec 2008

Quick reply only passes text through to the posting.php script; any stalling with quick reply would have happened just the same with the full reply page. Thing is phpBB simply isn't well designed software. After a post has been successfully put into the database, phpBB goes on to add every word in the post into an index used for searching. This involves dozens of string replace functions which have to run over the body of your post again & again and then finally a couple mass inserts into said indices, which can easily get locked out if someone else is posting at about the same time. And of course, because phpBB uses the MyISAM engine with MySQL, the entirety of the post tables are locked while all this is going on. Post at a busy time and long long waits are, sadly, normal behavior.
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Takashi · Joined: 04 Dec 2006