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Post Post #375 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:45 am

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Autolock OP
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Post Post #376 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:55 am

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The end of twilight as we know it???
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Post Post #377 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 2:57 am

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In post 376, RedCoyote wrote:The end of twilight as we know it???

That will only apply to deadline Twilights. Twilights due to hammer when Mod isn't online will still exist.
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Post Post #378 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 3:59 am

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Post Post #379 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:23 am

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Post Post #380 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 4:29 am

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all hail Kison
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Post Post #381 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 6:11 am

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Post Post #382 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:41 am

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In post 373, Plotinus wrote:I checked some threads that I started to see if the autolock was live yet, and the autolock option is available for a mafia discussion thread that I started, but not for the game that I'm modding in Road to Rome or any Private Topics that I've started.

Good catch. I'll have a fix for this tonight. Game moderators & private topics use some workarounds to enable locking confined to specific threads in their forum.
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Post Post #383 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:44 am

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In post 382, Kison wrote:
In post 373, Plotinus wrote:I checked some threads that I started to see if the autolock was live yet, and the autolock option is available for a mafia discussion thread that I started, but not for the game that I'm modding in Road to Rome or any Private Topics that I've started.

Good catch. I'll have a fix for this tonight. Game moderators & private topics use some workarounds to enable locking confined to specific threads in their forum.

Thank you, I appreciate that!
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Post Post #384 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:49 pm

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That issue has been fixed... Private Topic & Mafia moderators should now be able to use the autolocking feature.
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Post Post #385 (ISO) » Fri Apr 29, 2016 8:56 pm

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In post 384, Kison wrote:That issue has been fixed... Private Topic & Mafia moderators should now be able to use the autolocking feature.
It works now, thank you!
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Post Post #386 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 6:47 am

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Post Post #387 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:24 am

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How bout autounlock?
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Post Post #388 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:43 am

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So you can start the day pre-flip? Would only work if you could also submit a post on a timer.
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Post Post #389 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:46 am

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Mish Mash might have some use for it.
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Post Post #390 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 2:31 pm

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Cool. Does this functionality work on all skins? (Only asking bc Private Topics can only have people added on a couple skins, right?)
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Post Post #391 (ISO) » Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:45 pm

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Auto lock will work on all skins.

Auto unlock isn't on my radar but it's certainly possible that it will be added at some point.
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Post Post #392 (ISO) » Mon May 02, 2016 4:03 am

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Autounlock should be fairly easy with autolock implwmented.
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Post Post #393 (ISO) » Tue May 03, 2016 12:56 pm

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Can it not automatically change to my set timezone when I go to copypaste the output of the countdown tag?

I just got confused when I entered and had the autolock want to happen 13.5 hours before the deadline hits.
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Post Post #394 (ISO) » Wed May 04, 2016 8:48 am

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TIL I learned that when you mouseover the avatar of someone on V/LA, it tells you the date they're off V/LA. However:

Date format is dd-mm-yyyy, all in number form. While this is my natural format, being British, it's really ambiguous and I had to search a bit deeper to find out if it was dd-mm-yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy since the latter seems to be the standard. Papa Zito suggested the format still be that order, but with word for the month. This makes it way easier to discern the order of the date format.

(Also, the month is done as " 5" rather than "05" which leaves an awkward space, but if you figure out how to implement the text that becomes a non-issue)

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Post Post #395 (ISO) » Thu May 05, 2016 7:07 am

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In post 394, Davsto wrote:TIL I learned that when you mouseover the avatar of someone on V/LA, it tells you the date they're off V/LA.

If you think that's cool you should mouse over Kison's sig.
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Post Post #396 (ISO) » Thu May 05, 2016 7:39 am

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Post Post #397 (ISO) » Tue May 24, 2016 9:34 am

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Sup.

New changes:
  • Hovering over the V/LA ribbon in a topic will now display the return time of the user in the format:
    Tuesday, May 24 2016

  • Thin avatars will have their height constrained to 40 pixels in site chat. This resolves the issue where thin avatars would stretch absurdly high.
  • Two changes to help alleviate performance issues with site chat when navigating across the site:
    • Only up to 30 messages will autoload per page load. You can still load more by scrolling to the top of the window and hitting "Load More Messages."
    • Some enhanced coding is in place to improve the load speed of messages. Should be several times faster than the old method.
  • If a user has a custom username color on the board, their name will now show up with that color in site chat.
  • The "ISO" link displayed at the top of every post will now encode the brackets "[]" so the URL can be pasted into a post without breaking. See .
  • The "Join Room" link in the "Rooms" tab in site chat will now be pushed to the far right in mafBlack, similar to other skins.
Upcoming projects in no particular order:
  • Post Masking: Tired of switching accounts and posting as the wrong alt? The goal of this project is to allow you to pick a confirmed alt to post as in a thread while signed into your main account.
  • Automated Signups: This project has been kicked around for years and worked on by many people. Let's get it out the door.
  • Bookmark Folders: Seems like people want them.
  • Site chat enhancements:
    • Configurable settings such as custom message format, custom notification triggers & methods.
    • Fixing issues that occur when there are too many windows to fit in the width of the page.
    • Forcing animated avatars to display their first frame only, without any animation.
    • Fixing the crappy way the "ROOMS" tab resyncs itself(it auto expands any closed rooms in the list).
  • Some others being discussed like new mobile skin, new web pages, analytics, party app, etc.
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Post Post #398 (ISO) » Tue May 24, 2016 9:36 am

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In post 397, Kison wrote:Post Masking: Tired of switching accounts and posting as the wrong alt? The goal of this project is to allow you to pick a confirmed alt to post as in a thread while signed into your main account.
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Post Post #399 (ISO) » Tue May 24, 2016 10:01 am

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Kison is the man.
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