| Post 21 | New | Posted December 10th, 2006 |
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| Icey the pirate. arrr 
| Cerbera wrote: How about reverting to the old smiley patterns, or allowing both the current codes and the old ones? For example, people use :) all the time (even you!) but iceyboard doesn't turn it into the appropriate smilie. Ack, not this again! I thought we had already debated this to death. I use :) because I want it to be displayed as :) I'm not a fan of smilie icons for things that can be displayed easily and recognisably as text. Although now I think about it, the "Disable smilies" checkbox is fairly useless, because no one would write :smile: unless they wanted it to be turned into a smilie. Cerbera wrote: Typing :smile: is a lot harder and less intuitive. I think one of our reasons for going to that system is that a lot of other places do that, so it would be natural and known to people already. It's easy to type anyway and you can just click on the smilie icons. Cerbera wrote: How about creating paragraphs and line breaks in the same way most blog comment systems do What benefits will it provide to people using the board? Cerbera wrote: Allow simpler writing of lists! That's a good idea. So done! You can now use just [list]. Cerbera wrote: How about adding a [c] BBcode which produces <code> markup? Also done. It's the "code inline" option from the basic tags. Cerbera wrote: (EDIT) You could probably remove the Edit reason box. I think nobody uses it and this would save some scrolling to reach the message buttons. Maybe some people find it useful. I'm not around much so I can't really see how much it's used in reality. Anyone find it useful? Cerbera wrote: Oh, here's a picture of your position: fixed; sidebar working correctly in IE7: Yay! I've updated the message on the edit profile page. p.s. You can get rid of the "provided by" stuff from the IE titlebar by going here: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main and then deleteing the Window Title string. It'll go back to the default then. ------------------  |
| Post 22 | New | Posted December 10th, 2006 |
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Dan Wei
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| Post 23 | New | Posted December 10th, 2006 |
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| scully designated drinker 
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| Post 24 | New | Posted December 10th, 2006 |
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Dan Wei
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard 
| Hooray for simplified [list] tags and the [c] tag. (Btw, well done on your message parser to make cope with that sentence properly.)I think icey's idea of removing the join date and post count from beside forum messages is a good one. That information is very rarely useful. I think staff members should keep their role beside messages, though. Then when they reprimand newcomers in the GTA areas they'll know it's coming from on high. Since typing :) on pretty much any other forum would create a smiley, I think that's the behaviour everyone except icey would want. ;) (Same with winking.) Principle of least surprise and all that. The <p> idea would give themes more control over styling messages. It also gives the content better structure which would aid search engines. It's not something users would notice directly and isn't a big deal. Just a "nice to have" sort of thing.Oh, I've noticed a bug: the smilies in icey's message are being turned into smilie graphics when creating a message. I guess the topic preview isn't reading the "disable smilies" setting for that message? You could probably run a query through the database to see if people were specifying an edit reason? ------------------
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| Post 26 | New | Posted December 10th, 2006 |
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| scully designated drinker
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| Post 27 | New | Posted December 24th, 2006 |
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| Icey the pirate. arrr
| Cerbera wrote: Oh, I've noticed a bug: the smilies in icey's message are being turned into smilie graphics when creating a message. I guess the topic preview isn't reading the "disable smilies" setting for that message Good catch - Fixed. Cerbera wrote: You could probably run a query through the database to see if people were specifying an edit reason? Aye: 84686 posts 7872 have been edited 1348 had an edit reason So 9.3% of all posts have been edited. Of those, 17.1% have an edit reason. ------------------ |
| Post 28 | New | Posted January 11th, 2007 |
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| ameer cunt smasher!
| I just wanted to say- On the Online Members page, I appreciate that the button in the corner says "Go!", suggesting that we aren't merely looking at logs of active members, but embarking on an EXCITING ADVENTURE. ------------------   |
