Known issues/phpBB3 wish list

[ReaperCharlie]

If you need any UI/UX help let me know (themes, custom fields, etc).

[ReaperCharlie]

First off; i LOVE the vote tags. Thanks a mil ...but for unvote one, people don't usually say:

Unvote: Mr. Flay
Vote: ReaperCharlie

they just say,

Unvote; Vote: ReaperCharlie

sooooo... if the unvote tags are empty, maybe use a semicolon instead of a colon, but when they're full, keep the colon?

idk, is it possible to make conditional statements on tags like that?

[ReaperCharlie]

Actually I came in for something else as well, in the old forum all the iso's were displayed on the same page, now it works like its meant to. Is it possible to break it again to get all the posts on a single page?

YEAH! this was (unintentionally?) awesome!

Heh. I doubt it, actually, Poro. I am eventually going to look into making printer-friendly view more usable again, though... combining that with a View All Pages might get you what you're after.

awwww

[ReaperCharlie]

Imo... if you guys are considering any major changes, here are a few suggestions which would probably shorten the learning curve considerably for those trying to jump into the action.

The order of the categories could be rearranged as shown below, and under the

Mafia Games

forum category, have six forums: Large Games, Mini Games, Newbie Games, Sign-Up Queue, Marathon Days, and ScumChat. Inside Large Games, have New York and Theme Park, and inside Mini Games, have Little Italy and Coney Island.

MafiaScum.net Index

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Administration

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|

--

News

--

|

--

Help!

--

L

--

Site Ideas

--

Mafia Games

--

|

--

Large Games

--

|

-----

New York

- Games without flavor

--

|

-----

Theme Park

- Games with flavor

--

|

--

Mini Games

--

|

-----

Little Italy

- Games without flavor

--

|

-----

Coney Island

- Games with flavor

--

|

--

Newbie Games

--

|

-----

Newbie ONLY Queue

(keeps it simple for newbies to separate this from the other Queue)

--

|

-----

The Road to Rome

--

|

--

Sign-Up Queue

--

|

-----

Newbie forward

(forwards lost newbies to the Newbie ONLY Queue)

--

|

-----

Large Game signups

--

|

-----

Mini Game signups

--

|

--

Marathon Days

--

L

--

Scumchat

(external link)

--

General Discussion

--

|

--

Mafia Discussion

--

|

--

Non-Mafia Related

--

L

--

The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash

--

Archives

--

|

--

Before 2010 June

--

|

--

Marathon Days Archive

--

|

-----

Moving Day 2010

--

|

-----

Update Day 2009

--

L

-----

...etc...

I think reorganizing like this would help in a ton of ways. I don't know how feasible it is in terms of linking and such, but it wouldn't be that much different for current users, PLUS the benefits for newbies would be undeniable.

[ReaperCharlie]

Idk I just thought News and Help! might be some good things to have on the top of the forum list

mith it's obvious you've thought this through quite a bit, so ignore me, it's just an idea. I'm not offended.

*mumbles* I DID spend a good FOUR DAYS writing all that bbcode though... *shakes fist*

___________________________________________________________________

....jk

[ReaperCharlie]

Another problem, I think:

Posts used to only counted towards one's post count when you posted in-game content, but now... I think it's flipped or something. Might wanna check on that.

Edit: LOLWUT. You were already talking about that? 0_o

[ReaperCharlie]

Hopefully it's because the board is running better now and not some random lucky coincidence.

That may or may not be true... the old board DID take a realllly long time to load some times. I'm *extremely* happy with the move so far.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah I know. There's a black <hr> in a bunch of pages that was never there before.

Eyesore!!!

[ReaperCharlie]

I still think it could be cool if somehow we could fix it so that when nothing is enclosed in the UNVOTE: tags, that the colon (:) disappears.

Or if there's nothing inside the UNVOTE: tags, but there is a VOTE: tag immediately following, just change the colon (:) to a semicolon (;).

i.e.

UNVOTE

or

UNVOTE; VOTE: Mr. Flay

instead of

UNVOTE:

or

UNVOTE: VOTE: Mr. Flay

[ReaperCharlie]

Ah, well that sucks. Thanks though, Flay.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah it's just the way phpBB3 works. We must learn to live with it. There has been talk of making it work like phpBB2, but it'd have to be modded in and would probably take more time than it was worth. If it's really that important, just copy/paste and send them individually. Sorry.

Also, I believe Flay's taken the main site search function offline, so that might explain that anomaly. Obviously, don't take my word for it though.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah it doesn't really seem like it'd be useful to split up one message into 12 different messages. At least, normally. So I agree with how they've programmed it.

But yeah, it'd be nice to have JEEP back to make us all pastries and cookies whenever our heart desires.

[ReaperCharlie]

He basically is an admin, he just doesn't have the red text that mith does. That's just meant to denote site ownership, mostly.

[ReaperCharlie]

Finding Firebug is like seeing the light for the first time.

[ReaperCharlie]

Total posts: 7029 |

Search user’s posts or topics.

(1.09% of all posts / 2.99 posts per day)

is a little better.

This one's my favorite.

[ReaperCharlie]

Cool, but, what is the point of it? I mean,

VOTE: Flay

is the exact same as VOTE: Flay anyways, right?
If you really need to know whether or not somebody used the VOTE: tags or the

tags, why can't they just quote the post and check?



...




If this is something you're set on doing, however, might I suggest:

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{padding:2px 3px;color:#900;border:1px solid #900;background-color:#fa9; -moz-border-radius:3px; -webkit-border-radius:3px;}

I mean, if you're gonna get all fancy with it and everything, why not go all-out?

[ReaperCharlie]

... this isn't Windows Vista.

[ReaperCharlie]

Bravo. I still wanna see what my Windows Vista version would look like, rofl.

[ReaperCharlie]

Fixed some weirdnesses with the Compose PM screen last night. Let me know if it gives you any problems, but hard-refresh your browser first. Should be formatted better now...

Bravo. I still wanna see what my Windows Vista version would look like, rofl.

Try going to http://cssdesk.com/ putting your code in.

http://cssdesk.com/HuRKY

Nice site, btw. Bookmarked.

[ReaperCharlie]

...or mith could just change his name to have spaces in it: "Weapons of Mass Construction" instead of "WeaponsofMassConstruction", so it'd wrap.

And isn't the username length limit on most sites usually 16-20, not 25 characters? That's realllly long. 0_o

[ReaperCharlie]

Haha. Yeah.

[ReaperCharlie]

Q: So what do I do about the 150ish PM's you just deleted from the game I'm modding?

[ReaperCharlie]

Boooooooooooo where are my PMs.

[ReaperCharlie]

Of note: Today, for the first time (since the move?) I clicked on the unread icon for this thread and it took me to the first unread post rather than the top of the current page.

That little orange folded page icon probably accounts for 3/4 of my clicks on the site.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah, from her post it looks like she missed the Board Index link, but if I'm not mistaken, I think she'd like to have the whole tree, not just the index...?

i.e. instead of '< Return to Help!' it'd be 'Board index > Administration > Help!', just below the Reply button. Doable?

I would certainly like that too, if it's not too much fuss.

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

ReaperCharlie requires CHOCOLATE CAKE. And a BATTLE AXE, if you have one and are so inclined.

[ReaperCharlie]

Heh. Sweet.


ALSO:

When I search a thread for a string... it seems to stop after a certain number of results.
For instance, I was searching Succession for 'chrono', and I only got results from day 1.

[ReaperCharlie]

ooOOoo. jeep is back.

All hail jeep.

[ReaperCharlie]

...More importantly, what happened to the mafTiger scheme...

Give me $10 and I can have a new version for you by tomorrow.

[ReaperCharlie]

Correct. It's still high on my list to get mods their own rights to delete player posts, but haven't had time to find the right combination of variables. They locked phpBB3 down in some interesting ways...

That they did. And on my boards, I had neither the time nor the inclination to deal with that kind of programming.
Luckily, I don't need anything nearly as specific as Mafiascum does, or I'd be tearing my hair out. Frequently.


Also, I am adding to the wish list (not quite sure if it's here yet) the ability to (when in "posting" or "reply" mode) to be able to quote not a post, but just the link to the post, if you can find it in the Topic Review section.

i.e. When you click "quote", it'll quote the post into your reply wherever your cursor is at the moment. I'd like you to be able to click "quote iso #" and it'll display something like the following:

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[url=https://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.php?p=2684958#p2684958][b]Post #311[/b][/url]

which displays (once posted) as:

Post #311

It'd certainly make guys like me happy, and it'd save me a lot of time when quotewalling.




Also, the ISO #'s don't work in topic review, it just says "#", and that's it still.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah mine goes up to "search this topic". Not sure if it's because I'm on a ghey mac or if it's cause that's what you're talking about.

P.S. Vi, your avatar rocks.

Also, has the 8400 character limit been fixed yet?

[ReaperCharlie]

Also, has the 8400 character limit been fixed yet?

RC, I think it has re: test posts thread.

Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln. *rejoices*

[ReaperCharlie]

Also: MOAR LINKS ALLOWED IN SIGNATURES PLZ.

[ReaperCharlie]

Hrmmm... Maybe that was an isolated error. I got a message yesterday or the day before, saying I could have no more than 5 (...or was it 3?) links in my sig. *shrugs*
I am well aware of the 350 character limit. My current signature is 196 characters without BBcode, and 618 with, so it's obvious that the count does not include BBcode.
Either way, what I tried changing it to was also well under the 350char limit, and I've encountered that issue on other phpBB3 forums before, so I know of what I speak.

Anyway, the problem seems to be gone now, so... cheerio!

[ReaperCharlie]

[*]

View First Post on every page

- had this on the old server, will need to look into JEEP's code for it and see how well it translates. Would like to add a way to enable it by thread owner, not user.

Priority: low.

This is the one thing that I really miss from the old site.

I'd even trade away my opposition to the quote tags in sigs

if you could make it happen again.

My name is ReaperCharlie and I approve of this product or service.

[ReaperCharlie]

/me backhands NS.

/assertion

[ReaperCharlie]

Agreed! ^

I have wanted this for a really long time!

/inb4 somebody says "but you already CAN change the value in the address bar yourself! see?: http://www.mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopi ... 95&start=0 " Yeah, that's true... but it'd still be nicer (especially for people who don't know how forms work) to have the

original

ISO call use $_GET instead of $_POST, so that they wouldn't have to navigate to the second page to get the $_GET request copied to the address bar, and then go back to the first page and/or manually change the &start value to 0 themselves.

Either that, or probably even easier and more convenient:

Just add a "Link to an ISO of this user" feature.

[ReaperCharlie]

Don't know if this is the place for this, but something should probably be done about it regardless. In a newbie game I am modding, one of the users had the option to receive pms turned off and I could not send them a role pm. Might want to put something together that allows users modding games to override that option.

Hahahaha what is that i dont even

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah that's a good point, can we get the dropdown back, Flay? I like that better, it's more user friendly and a lot of people just like charter would (and do) miss that link because they're not looking for a link because they remember a dropdown.

[ReaperCharlie]

Noticed in the process of moderating a newbie game that I'm incapable of deleting other people's posts.

It isn't critical that I delete the post I was trying to. (It was just a double post.) But it might be a nice ability to have back.

+1 but for all game forums

[ReaperCharlie]

I found an issue. Vi has FIVE SCUMMY AWARDS below her name.

[ReaperCharlie]

Try doing a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5 on a PC, not sure on a Mac).

That should clear up your problem with seeing the Edit buttons.

[ReaperCharlie]

Haylen: Newbie-Loving Anomaly

a short story by ReaperCharlie

"It all began one cold winter night...

[ReaperCharlie]

So.... am I the first to notice that ISOs are ALL ON ONE PAGE AGAIN regardless of length?

YAY!!

YARRRRRR!!!!!!

I NOTICED THIS TOO JUST 5 SECONDS AGO

AND I WAS LOOKING FOR THE PLACE TO REJOICE AND I SAW YOUR POST!

HOOOOORRAAAAYYYYY

[ReaperCharlie]

I would like (as a mod) to be able to search topics for terms like "V/LA" without having to go from page to page to page and Ctrl-F it each time.

What it gives me now is a standard "This search term (

v la

) is too short. Please enter a term of 4 or greater characters." or some such.

Sad Reaper is panda.

[ReaperCharlie]

*shrug*

I don't know.

I would use google w/ the modifier "site:ms.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=asdf2345624" but idk if that will work, plus it doesn't index immediately.

Can msutils.net search by thread? Or just by forum... hmmm

Nope, just forum.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah... I knew that was what was happening, but I was kind of hoping that the limit of 4 could be lowered to 3.

I mean, yeah, I'd find all instances of Vladimir Lenin/Kush/Putin as well, but it'd be worth it to find the V/LAs.

Buuut, if its gonna slow search down that much, there's always this awesome thing I can do called R'ingTFT.

[ReaperCharlie]

I can see stripping quotes, and of course backslashes, but why forward slashes?

[ReaperCharlie]

It's cause the styling bolds the one on top. Reverse 'em and the Index link will be bolded.

More on this in [redacted].

[ReaperCharlie]

Very well. My work is done here.

[ReaperCharlie]

It's on both top and bottom. You don't have to train anything.

[ReaperCharlie]

Also going to add 'Jump to page' feature to the

...

that shows up on longer threads. Until/unless we get the dropdown back, that should help a bit.

Mm. I

thought

that was new. It's a very good addition.

[ReaperCharlie]

Hello?

Thank you for the font tags Flay!

Test: edited for Verdana?

[ReaperCharlie]

-__-

Can't tell if it worked or not. What's the default site text, Flay? Do you know?

Doesn't look like Verdana to me. Maybe it's because I'm on a Mac but

[ReaperCharlie]

Also:

"When me and ReaperCharlie are alone in the dark, I like to try to feel things. Usually I get slapped." - Xalxe

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah that makes me

Also, I would like a Wiki link next to the PM link inside of private messages, please.

[ReaperCharlie]

I have never heard the term "widows and orphans" before. *Makes a mental note*

Thanks, NS.

[ReaperCharlie]

Isn't there one character that's all three dots? That one's annoying as f***.

Especially if it's set to automatically change three dots into that character.

F*** YOU, ONE-CHARACTER ELLIPSIS! F*** YOU!

[ReaperCharlie]

You are so off-topic I don't even know what language you're speaking anymore, RC.

…

(all one character. terribly annoying)

[ReaperCharlie]

Same here. But every time I check Completed Requests, it's always full of stuff I've already read. Everything is read, and I still have to click "Mark topics read" to get rid of the high-lit icon on the index page.

[ReaperCharlie]

Shwa! Kison is on the money! Flay is lying, and there ARE hidden Help threads.

Vote: Flay

[ReaperCharlie]

That makes a ton of sense. Mostly because this is how I imagine it (let me know how far off I am):

When a new topic is created, it changes the "forum has unread posts" status of every user who isn't the poster, which, once the post is read, will turn back into a "forum has no unread posts" status. However, when you move the only topic that's unread OUT of it, there is never a chance for the person to read it unless they manually click "mark all topics read."

It only makes sense that we have this problem. Because what other way is the system going to work? Should it check each forum and each post every time we send a new pageload? That sounds far too server-intensive.

Not sure if there IS a good fix here, but if there is, I will be the first to admit I was wrong and welcome it with open arms.

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

Imo... if you guys are considering any major changes, here are a few suggestions which would probably shorten the learning curve considerably for those trying to jump into the action.

The order of the categories could be rearranged as shown below, and under the

Mafia Games

forum category, have six forums: Large Games, Mini Games, Newbie Games, Sign-Up Queue, Marathon Days, and ScumChat. Inside Large Games, have New York and Theme Park, and inside Mini Games, have Little Italy and Coney Island.

MafiaScum.net Index

--

Administration

--

|

--

News

--

|

--

Help!

--

L

--

Site Ideas

--

Mafia Games

--

|

--

Large Games

--

|

-----

New York

- Games without flavor

--

|

-----

Theme Park

- Games with flavor

--

|

--

Mini Games

--

|

-----

Little Italy

- Games without flavor

--

|

-----

Coney Island

- Games with flavor

--

|

--

Newbie Games

--

|

-----

Newbie ONLY Queue

(keeps it simple for newbies to separate this from the other Queue)

--

|

-----

The Road to Rome

--

|

--

Sign-Up Queue

--

|

-----

Newbie forward

(forwards lost newbies to the Newbie ONLY Queue)

--

|

-----

Large Game signups

--

|

-----

Mini Game signups

--

|

--

Marathon Days

--

L

--

Scumchat

(external link)

--

General Discussion

--

|

--

Mafia Discussion

--

|

--

Non-Mafia Related

--

L

--

The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash

--

Archives

--

|

--

Before 2010 June

--

|

--

Marathon Days Archive

--

|

-----

Moving Day 2010

--

|

-----

Update Day 2009

--

L

-----

...etc...

I think reorganizing like this would help in a ton of ways. I don't know how feasible it is in terms of linking and such, but it wouldn't be that much different for current users, PLUS the benefits for newbies would be undeniable.

Still think this is a decent idea, especially with the amount of people needing help for stuff.

(shrug)

[ReaperCharlie]

We can turn the iso # back into a link that goes to that post in isolation view. I imagine that would be useful.

Yes please.

[ReaperCharlie]

*hard refresh

(Ctrl-F5 on a PC, Command-R on a Mac)