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Underground Warehouse => Treasury => Topic started by: Damaris on January 11, 2007, 06:54:30 PM

Title: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 11, 2007, 06:54:30 PM
If all goes well, we will be performing normal system upgrades early next week- don't be alarmed if the forum goes into maintenance mode Monday or Tuesday.

The upgrades will likely take only a few hours, and hopefully we will have all of the bugs worked out prior to the actual upgrade, meaning no broken bits!
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 11, 2007, 06:56:17 PM
.. or, at least, not broken for very long. :-)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: RJ on January 12, 2007, 01:26:50 AM
Shweet! Unless it breaks down, of course. Then I'll be a sad squirrel.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Gabi on January 12, 2007, 05:02:22 AM
Thanks for the warning.

Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 11, 2007, 06:56:17 PM
.. or, at least, not broken for very long. :-)
You can always count on llearch to add that line. :D
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 11:23:45 AM
Hiya, all.

The forum upgrade went smoothly, and took approximately half an hour, as mentioned, rather than the upwards of 1-2 hours expected/feared.

You guys shouldn't notice a thing, mostly. There are a couple of minor details that should be broght to your attention.

One, Damaris mentioned, which was the personal options changing - there are now a few extra options, one of which has defaulted to on - that being, "Receive reply notification only for the first unread reply."
This shouldn't affect anyone, apart from those actually using notifications. Note that this should probably be left as it is, unless you have a good reason to change it.

Two, there are a couple of new themes in the themes collection, and the default SMF theme has been updated. However, we haven't updated the DMFA or Inverted Dungeon (forum default) themes. Yet.


Watch this space. Or, indeed, almost any other space, since we'll try to keep you updated when we do make changes. For the moment, we're going to drop back and play about on the test forum, so don't hold your breath.


Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 16, 2007, 11:26:01 AM
I'm going to assume you've noticed that people (or at least just me) can't use the "mark as read" button in the forums without an error.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 11:27:01 AM
Please, don't. I never use that button, so...

I'll have a look and see what's changed with that.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Gabi on January 16, 2007, 11:28:29 AM
Nice job. :)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 11:36:43 AM
Ah.

The default theme (and classic, and babylon) now use a sesc variable - the old code didn't.

So, for the moment, that functionality is broken. As is the jump-to-new-posts feature. :-/

Whilst I don't use the former, I -do- use the latter, so I now have a(nother) strong incentive to get the other half of the update sorted out.  :-)


I'll do what I can, but there's upwards of 4 copies of 4000+ lines of code to sort through, and they've changed from using tables to using divs, so it's not exactly straightforward.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 11:52:05 AM
Aridas: Try that.

If it works, let me know, and I'll roll it across the other themes.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 16, 2007, 11:58:19 AM
yup, it works now.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: DigitalMan on January 16, 2007, 12:03:07 PM
I... don't notice anything different :B But with 4000 lines of code, I'm impressed nonetheless. Especially since it works.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 12:12:23 PM
I hacked two lines, not the whole 4000. :-)

I've now put that into the Inverted Dungeon, Gardens, CVRPG, Cursed Prison, and Banquet themes.

Any further bugs anyone might notice, please let me know :-)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 16, 2007, 01:36:59 PM
I see that the profiles can now be viewed without logging in.  Good stuff - it makes the links within the Wiki work :P
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 16, 2007, 02:55:15 PM
QuoteLlearch wrote:
You guys shouldn't notice a thing, mostly.

Mostly. Pah! What I noticed is that the default theme for the forum still hurts my eyes. And from that it dawned to me that I must have been logged out. After changing that the theme is back to it's former color-fame. Yay.

You want to error-review? Can do that. >:3

I can't applaud nor smite. I get an error screen instead.
QuoteAn Error Has Occurred!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.
[edit: Logging out and in doesn't help either.]

Also: I can't use the "Insert Quote" button from the Topic Summary below the posting screen.
I get the following error window:
QuoteAn Error Has Occurred!
Unable to load the 'quotefast' template.

Oh, Can you change "An Error Has Occured" to "A MoW chewed on this file" or something? :P >:3
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 03:34:57 PM
ok, applauding and smiting I'll ignore for the moment.

The inserting quotes, I'll look into.

The Mow Chewing, probably not. I -may- look into it for the DMFA theme -only-, but only after we get the rest of the upgrades sorted.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Darkmoon on January 16, 2007, 04:38:48 PM
When you're on the front page of the forum, you can't Mark as Read the entire forum...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 16, 2007, 04:41:17 PM
Was that ever an issue?
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Gabi on January 16, 2007, 04:44:32 PM
And the FAQs button on the forum header leads to...

Quote
Warning: main(faqs.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53

Warning: main(faqs.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53

Warning: main(faqs.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'faqs.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 16, 2007, 05:31:49 PM
Tapewolf, I'll be breaking that for you again.  I don't want people's e-mails being harvested.  Sorry!

Llearch, I'd give you karma, but since it's broken... ;)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on January 16, 2007, 05:35:20 PM
The 'Mark as Read' function isn't working. :<
Quote from: CMFSession verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 16, 2007, 05:39:03 PM
Quote from: Damaris on January 16, 2007, 05:31:49 PM
Tapewolf, I'll be breaking that for you again.  I don't want people's e-mails being harvested. 

Fair enough.  That's actually one of the reasons I pointed it out here.
While it's handy for the wiki, it seemed worth making people aware of this so anyone who didn't like it could object.  I'm assuming that the ability to see the birthdays in Guest mode is related to that effect as well?

..and presumably you can't modify the code so it shows the profile but censors the address if you're not logged in..?
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 16, 2007, 05:48:45 PM
It probably could be done, but I really dislike guests having access to profiles.  It's a personal preference thing.  Honestly, I'm uncertain what information is on there that is necessary for the wiki, though...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Castle Pokemetroid on January 16, 2007, 06:03:01 PM
I think you need to fix the spell checker. It is very blank when I use it and gives me no results.

Very, bad, since I'm bad at spelling. Lucky I have a hand spell checker though . . .
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 06:16:57 PM
markasread on the front page - fixed.

FAQs - I'm gonna leave that as noncritical, and come back to it later.

Haz: Uh. Which theme are you using, and are you talking about the front page, or within a specific board?

Castle: Ah... I'm gonna leave that one. I suspect the problem is the names of various things have changed, so I'm gonna update the code (rather than insert a quick hack, as the other fixes have been) and come back to it, ok?

And Damaris - there's nothing critical, but several people (myself included) have linked back from our wiki profiles to our forum profiles. Being aware that you must log into the forum to see it would be something useful to add to the template on wikuwiki, though.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on January 16, 2007, 06:20:46 PM
Heh, I was going to quote you, llearch, but apparently that isn't working, either. :rolleyes

Anyway, I'm using the New Classic theme, and I'm talking about for specific boards.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 16, 2007, 06:37:21 PM
I fixed the birthday issue, and broke the profiles for the poor Wiki people. (and that makes more sense- I was very confused about the whole thing previously)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 06:41:32 PM
The, ah, New Classic one is -slightly- different to all the others. So I can't fix one file and then upload it to all of them, as I did with the others.

Given there are a total of 3 people using that particular theme, I'm, ah, going to politely ignore it for the moment. :-)

I -will- get back to it, but it's going to have to remain busted for the present time.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 16, 2007, 06:42:35 PM
in the meantime, we have a selection of lovely other, handmade skins that you can try! :D
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on January 16, 2007, 06:42:57 PM
No problem, nothing essential, just a nuisance. ;)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 07:01:19 PM
Yeah, yeah.

Haz, you're sorted. Shush. :-P

(quoting is still busted)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on January 16, 2007, 07:05:57 PM
:boogie
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Castle Pokemetroid on January 16, 2007, 09:26:47 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 16, 2007, 06:16:57 PM
Castle: Ah... I'm gonna leave that one. I suspect the problem is the names of various things have changed, so I'm gonna update the code (rather than insert a quick hack, as the other fixes have been) and come back to it, ok?

Sure, ok. It's just your spell checker is better than mine.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Azlan on January 16, 2007, 10:02:56 PM
I've noticed a lack of spell check functionality in the RP area.  The text does not display nor does it seem to register anything.  This problem is present in Firefox 1.5.0.9, IE 6 and IE 7.  Likely nothing major.


Insert quote error in all areas of forum: An Error Has Occurred!  Unable to load the 'quotefast' template.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Darkmoon on January 16, 2007, 10:24:24 PM
I haven't ever tried the spell checker. However, Firefox 2 has a spellchecker built in. You might consider upgrading.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Azlan on January 16, 2007, 10:38:50 PM
Quote from: Darkmoon on January 16, 2007, 10:24:24 PM
I haven't ever tried the spell checker. However, Firefox 2 has a spellchecker built in. You might consider upgrading.

Bah, upgrading!  Well maybe...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Netami on January 16, 2007, 11:31:53 PM
Beware, they add the X box on every tab instead of at the end of the bar like in the earlier versions. Pretty annoying if you're used to clicking the corner.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: superluser on January 17, 2007, 12:54:28 AM
Quote from: Azlan on January 16, 2007, 10:38:50 PM
Quote from: Darkmoon on January 16, 2007, 10:24:24 PMI haven't ever tried the spell checker. However, Firefox 2 has a spellchecker built in. You might consider upgrading.
Bah, upgrading!  Well maybe...

Do it.  It's totally awesome.  Firefox 2 is really slick, and it checks your spelling as you type.  It's what I always wanted, but was too lazy to do myself.  Its vocabulary, however, is rather limited.  It has neither speciation nor phantasmagorical, though it does have the proper name Nietzsche.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Supercheese on January 17, 2007, 01:28:28 AM
Quote from: Netami on January 16, 2007, 11:31:53 PM
Beware, they add the X box on every tab instead of at the end of the bar like in the earlier versions. Pretty annoying if you're used to clicking the corner.

Odd, back in the day when I first started using Firefox I installed an extension to put those Xs on each tab because I liked them better... I was glad they adopted this as standard in 2.0. *shrug*
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 17, 2007, 04:02:46 AM
Quote from: superluser on January 17, 2007, 12:54:28 AM
Do it.  It's totally awesome.  Firefox 2 is really slick, and it checks your spelling as you type.  It's what I always wanted, but was too lazy to do myself.  Its vocabulary, however, is rather limited.  It has neither speciation nor phantasmagorical, though it does have the proper name Nietzsche.
I don't think the spellchecker was designed for someone with quite your level of erudition :P

By the way folks, you can still view profiles as guest.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Gabi on January 17, 2007, 05:31:24 AM
There are fewer members on the memberlist. Did anyone prune the inactive ones or something?

Oh, and Happy Birthday, llearch! If it is indeed your birthday.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Darkmoon on January 17, 2007, 07:17:30 AM
I pruned them 3 days ago.

As for the x's on the tabs, I removed them entirely with Tab Mix Plus, so it's not like I ever noticed. I prefer to double-click close the tabs.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 17, 2007, 07:44:45 AM
Azlan, if you look up three posts from yours, you'll note that I've already seen the quoting issue.

We're looking into it, but it's not exactly simple. (they've changed the js and css that the html references as a result of the php that we get to see. Oh, and the html has moved from v3.2 to v4.0, and changed from using tables to using divs. You wanna look at the code, sure, but...)

And yes, Gabi, it is indeed my birthday. I slept through half of it already, so it seems like a good one :-)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 17, 2007, 08:05:42 AM
Quote from: Tapewolf on January 17, 2007, 04:02:46 AM
By the way folks, you can still view profiles as guest.


Ahh nevermind... looks like you've done the "hide the personal info" thing.  Excellent!
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Gabi on January 17, 2007, 09:44:47 AM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 17, 2007, 07:44:45 AM
Azlan, if you look up three posts from yours, you'll note that I've already seen the quoting issue.

llearch, does the offer you made Azlan go for me as well? I could give it a shot.

Hey, I can quote!... Sort of. Now the XML appears style-less and the quote is shown on the pop-up, but not inserted into the message.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 17, 2007, 02:17:18 PM
Yeah. I got that far and left it, to go work on a full upgrade.

Yay.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Azlan on January 17, 2007, 10:39:45 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 17, 2007, 07:44:45 AM
Azlan, if you look up three posts from yours, you'll note that I've already seen the quoting issue.


I just want to poke at it... my function in life is to insure the seamless functionality of the universe and for once I can point, laugh and don't have to do anything about it!   :mowhappy
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 18, 2007, 06:01:30 PM
The BBC-tag-button for Fontsize vanished and the tags don't work any more.

;) Damaris must be happy. :rolleyes
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 18, 2007, 06:13:47 PM
That's deliberate. Sorry...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 18, 2007, 07:26:54 PM
Yes, Damaris was happy to find that particular function.  And since we'd had several complaints about it, I decided to make use of it.  Sorry guys.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Azlan on January 18, 2007, 10:21:46 PM
Quote from: Tiger_T on January 18, 2007, 06:01:30 PM
The BBC-tag-button for Fontsize vanished and the tags don't work any more.

;) Damaris must be happy. :rolleyes

Darn it... I liked that, you know... because sometimes I only have a little to say...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 19, 2007, 01:34:19 AM
Who says you can't do that still? :rolleyes :mowwink
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Gabi on January 19, 2007, 02:13:38 PM
That's not the same, you know... :rolleyes
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 19, 2007, 08:44:51 PM
That's all that's left.  :P
*shrugs*
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 19, 2007, 08:57:17 PM
Quote from: Gabi on January 19, 2007, 02:13:38 PM
That's not the same, you know... :rolleyes

It can do the same, it can be just as annoying, so in a way, it is the same. :/
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 19, 2007, 09:25:53 PM
Actually...

I believe I have a workaround that will still work.

I'm not going to tell anyone how it works, though. That would be mean to Damaris...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 19, 2007, 10:49:33 PM
I could always just put it in the rules... ;)

Besides, you still have color :)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 20, 2007, 12:03:52 AM
I don't know if it's related to the upgrade (or if it's been mentioned before - it's kinda late and I'm not going to check all incarnations of this thread right now), but some of the thread icons are gone. The Yappity thread and Secret Santa seem to lack one of their icons when you check the forum they are in. Apparently, this image (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/Themes/DMFA/images/topic/veryhot_post_sticky.gif) is missing in the DMFA theme at least.

It's not exactly an urgent issue, though ^^;
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 20, 2007, 12:52:58 AM
and some.. or one.. of the icons (for the dmfa theme at least) are missing... as far as i can tell, since i don't have any unread messages right now, it's the read message icon.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Faerie Alex on January 20, 2007, 09:36:54 AM
Okay, I'm having a minor problem with the CVRPG Classic theme. If I go to a member page and click "Show general statistics for this member." then I have to highlight the bars on the graph. They're the same color as the background.

I had this issue before; just thought I'd mention it.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Darkmoon on January 20, 2007, 10:50:57 AM
That's probably because I made the images wrong. I'll look into it later once all the skins are ready for me to tinker with.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 20, 2007, 12:01:01 PM
Quote from me:
"Who says you can't do that still? :rolleyes :mowwink"


No more, Hmpf! Spoilsports.
It's not as if it was really that tiny with the sup-tag. :<
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 20, 2007, 12:05:40 PM
Quote from: Tiger_T on January 20, 2007, 12:01:01 PM
Quote from: Tiger_T on January 19, 2007, 01:34:19 AM
Who says you can't do that still? :rolleyes :mowwink
No more, Hmpf! Spoilsports.
It's not as if it was really that tiny with the sup-tag. :<

It was when you used them multiple times. ;)
A dozen opening SUPs, the text, and a dozen closing SUPs = Teh Tiny
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 20, 2007, 01:33:16 PM
I didn't use them that way.  :<
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 20, 2007, 01:36:19 PM
Quote from: Tiger_T on January 20, 2007, 01:33:16 PM
I didn't use them that way.  :<

It wasn't removed because of you. But there are bound to be people who'd love to do it. :< *gives you a cookie*
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 20, 2007, 01:40:31 PM
Oh, now that sucks.  The ability to add footnotes was one of the more immediate improvements over The Nice, and now I'm going to have to go through the entire 42000 words of CJP and try to find them all.
So I hope you can forgive me if I'm not exactly overjoyed.

Hmm - is there any chance of adding a footnote smiley?  That would help...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 20, 2007, 02:09:00 PM
You could press the quote- or edit-button, copy your text from there, paste it in a text-editor and let it search the tags for you. This way you could find them easier. ;)

Hmm, how about this one? : :deal   
:P :giggle
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 20, 2007, 02:15:06 PM
Quote from: Tiger_T on January 20, 2007, 02:09:00 PM
You could press the quote- or edit-button, copy your text from there, paste it in a text-editor and search for the tags to find them easier.

Yes, that would work, although now that I look more closely, the system seems to have done a relatively sensible job of not interpreting them.  When I first checked it, it seemed to have just swallowed them - which did not make me a happy bunny as you can tell from the post.
Nonetheless, I'll miss using them - in fact I'll probably try to use them anyway, from force of habit.  >:3

**EDIT**
For the record, I'm glad the reduce-the-font thing has been removed because that was annoying.  But the superscripts were useful.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 20, 2007, 05:26:54 PM
We'll... uh... see if we can allow the superscript, and subscript, but limit the number.

There -may- be a way...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on January 20, 2007, 05:30:25 PM
Yeah, if the super and sub scripts aren't abused, there's no problem with them.  I just forsaw *someone* (not necessarily any person in particular) abusing them heartily once they figured it out.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: TheGreyRonin on January 20, 2007, 05:33:12 PM
*raises hand meekly* Um, Ma'am? Miss Damaris? When do we get our applause/smites back?
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 20, 2007, 05:36:02 PM
Quote from: Damaris on January 20, 2007, 05:30:25 PM
Yeah, if the super and sub scripts aren't abused, there's no problem with them.  I just forsaw *someone* (not necessarily any person in particular) abusing them heartily once they figured it out.

Yes.  If you or Llearch can fix the superscript, I would be extremely grateful.  If you can't, well I'll have to use 'ยน' instead - but that might not work on all browsers or countries or something >:3

And yes, I'd be interested in how the applaud/smite thing is coming along.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 20, 2007, 06:13:43 PM
Quote from: TheGreyRonin on January 20, 2007, 05:33:12 PM
*raises hand meekly* Um, Ma'am? Miss Damaris? When do we get our applause/smites back?

When I finish updating the code. It's not going well - I keep getting interrupted by real life.

You -can- applaud by opening the page in the SMF Default theme, in the mean time. Which is a pain, but doable (open another tab on your profile, change, refresh the tab you want to applaud, applaud, then flick back to your profile and change back, and refresh again...)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: TheGreyRonin on January 20, 2007, 06:28:01 PM
 Hm. I'll just hold my niceness in check for now then...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Eibborn on January 20, 2007, 06:44:32 PM
Hm. This has been going on since before the update, but as long as we're submitting little glitches or whatever:
When I am at the main index, it tells me that I am not logged in, but when I enter a subforum I am. Is there a way to just keep me logged in on the main screen? Like I said, not a big issue, just a little irregularity.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 20, 2007, 07:08:06 PM
Quote from: Eibbor_N on January 20, 2007, 06:44:32 PM
Hm. This has been going on since before the update, but as long as we're submitting little glitches or whatever:
When I am at the main index, it tells me that I am not logged in, but when I enter a subforum I am. Is there a way to just keep me logged in on the main screen? Like I said, not a big issue, just a little irregularity.

Yes, actually. Just set http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php as your forum start page. Leaving out the "www" part seems to do the trick. Yes, that means that whenever you follow the link from the DMFA site, stuff goes weird (from what I saw at least - encountered this in the university comp. pool a while ago and fixed it by simply not following that link anymore)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 20, 2007, 08:23:31 PM
Ah, so www. is causing grief?

We'll get Amber to repair that particular link, then. Thanks, Sid.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Eibborn on January 21, 2007, 12:41:40 AM
Yes, thank you! :)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiny crested flint on January 21, 2007, 03:56:12 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 20, 2007, 08:23:31 PM
Ah, so www. is causing grief?

www. has always caused grief 'cause it's the only acronym that takes longer to say in shortened form than saying the full phrase (world wide web).
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 21, 2007, 05:22:36 PM
wubwubwub is shorter than world wide web? :-)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on January 21, 2007, 05:33:06 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 21, 2007, 05:22:36 PM
wubwubwub is shorter than world wide web? :-)

IIRC someone at The Register coined the word 'wonk' to replace 'www'.  Apparently everyone they tried it on was able to guess what it meant without asking, the only snag being it sounds too much like something else.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 21, 2007, 05:43:52 PM
German comes in handy there. We (basically) just pronounce the acronym the way you'd pronounce "veh veh veh" ;)

(Disclaimer: I suck at phonetics and stuff, so this might not be the most accurate description. :animesweat)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: bill on January 21, 2007, 06:21:13 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 21, 2007, 05:22:36 PM
wubwubwub is shorter than world wide web? :-)
I prefer "Information Superhighway" myself.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 21, 2007, 06:47:06 PM
How about 'fae fae fae', Sid?
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 21, 2007, 07:04:30 PM
Quote from: Tiger_T on January 21, 2007, 06:47:06 PM
How about 'fae fae fae', Sid?

...as phonetics for "www"? O_o;;; If anything, I'd go with Vae...

(And good God, now I had to imagine Mab and her parents being the power core of the Internet...)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 21, 2007, 07:13:11 PM
Ok, you're right.

Nice mental image by the way. >:3 :rolleyes :giggle
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: superluser on January 21, 2007, 10:08:51 PM
Someone once suggested trouble-u (triple double-u).  I keep meaning to use it, but I forget.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: ShiningShadow on January 23, 2007, 12:20:23 PM
on my side my applaude and smite is giving me an error. The Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again. Can you help me out please pretty please  :)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Sid on January 23, 2007, 12:56:39 PM
Quote from: ShiningShadow on January 23, 2007, 12:20:23 PM
on my side my applaude and smite is giving me an error. The Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again. Can you help me out please pretty please  :)

This has already been mentioned (on the first page, even). So no worries, it's on The List. :)

EDIT:
There is also a workaround to this:
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 20, 2007, 06:13:43 PM
You -can- applaud by opening the page in the SMF Default theme, in the mean time. Which is a pain, but doable (open another tab on your profile, change, refresh the tab you want to applaud, applaud, then flick back to your profile and change back, and refresh again...)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 23, 2007, 04:06:55 PM
Can I quote you on this when someone asks again on the next page or so? :P >:3
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 27, 2007, 03:34:11 PM
it looks like this "quotefast" thing is broken while typing a reply, in the DMFA theme at least. I get no quote at all, as compared to the broken quote that i can copy-paste.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Gabi on January 27, 2007, 03:35:04 PM
Really? I use the DMFA theme and I still get the popup with the quote.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 27, 2007, 03:36:50 PM
Not in the message place, when you're replying, not using quick reply. "quote" is working on the topic's page and not in the post reply/preview section.

Oh, and sometimes threads seem to randomly not show me the (new) button and picture, even though a post has been made to a thread i haven't visited since the post. Not sure what that's about.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 27, 2007, 05:03:16 PM
Must be lokal. It works for me with DMFA-theme.
Well.. the 'quote' button on the forum does - the 'Insert Quote' one in the reply page doesn't.

But then again... I mentioned that on page one. :P
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 27, 2007, 07:00:34 PM
you're saying it works but it doesn't work. make up your mind >.>
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 27, 2007, 08:16:45 PM
 :blankstare

This one: (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/Themes/DMFA/images/english/quote.gif) (located in the right corner aboth every post in any thread) works.

And the [Insert Quote]-link under [Topic Summary] in the [Post reply]-screen does not.

*sigh*
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Aridas on January 27, 2007, 08:18:46 PM
Exactly. So why are you repeating it? I said mine in the posting area doesn't work, and then you went and said it did, followed by saying it didn't.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on January 27, 2007, 08:24:08 PM
I may have misinterpreted your description of the problem.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Kasarn on January 28, 2007, 08:57:29 PM
Well, the Banquet theme has a double hash sign in its CSS.

/* A code block - maybe even PHP ;). */
.code
{
color: ##C0C0C0;
background-color: #2F0101;
border: 1px solid black;
margin: 1px;
padding: 1px;
font-size: x-small;
}


Courtesy of Firefox's error console :B
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 29, 2007, 09:55:17 AM
Thanks, Kasarn. That's fixed.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Xuzaf D on February 09, 2007, 04:43:59 PM
My spillcheck is brokin. Porbably from Me over using it,

DO SUMTHING!!!
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: superluser on February 09, 2007, 05:23:13 PM
Quote from: Warlike link=topic=1977.msg88938#msg88938
date=1171057439
My spillcheck is brokin. Porbably from Me over using it,

DO SUMTHING!!!

Or you could just upgrade to Firefox, which has a spiffy built in spellcheck.

Oh, all right.
Does something (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=2152.msg88943#msg88943)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Xuzaf D on February 09, 2007, 10:08:59 PM
Roffle.

Nice. I give it four out of five kupo's.


:moogle :moogle :moogle :moogle

And two out of five kweh's.


:choco :choco
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: TheGreyRonin on February 11, 2007, 04:16:26 PM
...The hell was THAT?!?

Just took me ten minutes to get the forum to load. Tried from my bookmark, from the CVRPG site, and ffrom DMFA as well. Got either the stanard IE message about connecting to the internet, or a funky page saying it couldn't be accessed because the index page was missing.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tapewolf on February 11, 2007, 04:21:53 PM
Quote from: TheGreyRonin on February 11, 2007, 04:16:26 PM
...The hell was THAT?!?
Just took me ten minutes to get the forum to load.

I assumed it was a routing problem.  If I wasn't the only one it may have been an actual outage.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: ITOS on February 11, 2007, 04:22:35 PM
It did seems to be down a few mins. Maybe they fixed something, like the +/- system or the spell checker. :confused
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: superluser on February 11, 2007, 04:28:28 PM
Quote from: ITOS on February 11, 2007, 04:22:35 PMIt did seems to be down a few mins. Maybe they fixed something, like the +/- system or the spell checker. :confused

Well, karma's still down.  So is quotefast.  And the Spell Checker.  Er, whatever you were trying to do, it didn't work.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 11, 2007, 07:37:57 PM
Wasn't me. Might have been something else, but it wasn't me updating things.

heck, I've got a test forum to test these things on, and the upload is ~30 secs or so, really, so you're unlikely to notice when I -do- update it. just so you know.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 11, 2007, 10:24:18 PM
....just in case everyone missed it, I updated four parts of the system, and think that most everything should work now...


If there's anything I missed in my fixfest, please let me know...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on February 11, 2007, 10:26:35 PM
I still can't quote. :cry  Er, use the quote button, anyway.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 11, 2007, 10:37:31 PM
*cough* erm. I should point out here I've only worked on the DMFA theme.

So if, as Haz, you're using New Classic, you're out of luck. In the short term, anyway.

Once I get a week or so in this, and no complaints - or all fixed - I'll roll it out to the others. So it's coming, Haz. Sorry for the confusion...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: xHaZxMaTx on February 11, 2007, 10:45:36 PM
Ah, kk, no probs.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Xuzaf D on February 11, 2007, 11:01:54 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 11, 2007, 10:37:31 PM
*cough* erm. I should point out here I've only worked on the DMFA theme.
Dammit... I forgot the problems differ from theme to theme. I use CVRPG in case somebody wants to ficks mi spelcheck.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 11, 2007, 11:18:20 PM
That should get fixed when the changes I've pushed through DMFA get parcelled out to all the others.

FWIW, it works for DMFA. So...
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on February 11, 2007, 11:23:00 PM
Just so you all know, our server company does occasionally have issues.  It's not something you can really avoid on the internet.  Thankfully, this group is rather speedy about fixes, unlike some companies we've seen and/or worked with.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Xuzaf D on February 11, 2007, 11:29:30 PM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 11, 2007, 11:18:20 PM
That should get fixed when the changes I've pushed through DMFA get parcelled out to all the others.

FWIW, it works for DMFA. So...

That would be awesome if I knew what a FWIW was. You computer people are so smart when it comes to pc terms.

Spell Check is still blank, even if there are obvious mistakes in my spelling. I think it's a problem.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on February 11, 2007, 11:31:44 PM
For what it's worth.

It took me a while to figure out too.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 11, 2007, 11:34:11 PM
Quote from: Warlike on February 11, 2007, 11:29:30 PM
That would be awesome if I knew what a FWIW was. You computer people are so smart when it comes to pc terms.

Spell Check is still blank, even if there are obvious mistakes in my spelling. I think it's a problem.

It will be. Unless you're testing with the DMFA theme, it will remain broken for the moment - basically, I'm screwing about with that one, and no others, until I'm happy we've got it sorted. once we've got it sorted, I'll upload those changes to all the various themes, and at -that- point, your spelling will start working. I think. Unless something else is broken.

Is that about what you wanted to hear, Warlike?
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Xuzaf D on February 11, 2007, 11:42:56 PM
QuoteFor what it's worth.

It took me a while to figure out too.
It's not worth anything to me that you know what it means; I  want to know what it means...

oh... never mind...

QuoteIs that about what you wanted to hear, Warlike?
Yes. I wasn't making the connection to where you already fixed the one and that it should be working on the other. Maybe it's the term "parcelled out." I really don't hear that enough in my travels.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: superluser on February 11, 2007, 11:52:54 PM
Quote from: Warlike on February 11, 2007, 11:29:30 PMThat would be awesome if I knew what a FWIW was. You computer people are so smart when it comes to pc terms.

You can always just say SMYOAALTS (http://www.lorebrandcomics.com/omglol.html) (this comic is SFW, but some of the others aren't): Spare Me Your Obnoxious Acronyms And Learn To Spell.

...Actually, that might be even more appropriate now.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Tiger_T on February 12, 2007, 04:35:40 PM
Looks good so far. I haven't encountered any problem.

*scrolls through the thread*

Well, apart from:
Quote from: Gabi on January 16, 2007, 04:44:32 PM
And the FAQs button on the forum header leads to...

Quote
Warning: main(faqs.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53

Warning: main(faqs.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53

Warning: main(faqs.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'faqs.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/damaris/public_html/main.php on line 53
>:3

Any news on limited [sup] or [sub] tags?

8)
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: superluser on February 12, 2007, 06:31:01 PM
Quote from: Tiger_T on February 12, 2007, 04:35:40 PMAny news on limited [sup] or [sub] tags?

Or any chance of getting a smallcaps tag?
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on February 12, 2007, 11:17:43 PM
Limited size tags are not a priority right now.  Small is never going to happen again, as I hate them, and have recieved complaints from many people about them.

Sorry guys.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: superluser on February 13, 2007, 12:15:35 AM
Quote from: Damaris on February 12, 2007, 11:17:43 PMLimited size tags are not a priority right now.  Small is never going to happen again, as I hate them, and have recieved complaints from many people about them.

I have no issue with small being gone, and I found it kinda annoying, myself.

But without smallcaps, we can never quote Death!  They aren't that small, either; they're the size of the lowercase letters.
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: Damaris on February 13, 2007, 10:37:00 AM
smallcaps isn't a bbc code that is supported by the forum.  While it might be possible to hack it someday far, far in the future, it's not one that is easily added.

We'll discuss it in the admin forum, but I'm really not the hugest fan of hacking things- they have a tendancy to break more easily the more you adujust them.  And while we do have a wonderful box of coding, I don't want to drive him over the edge, as he should probably try to get some sleep every now and again (which last I checked, he wasn't).
Title: Re: IMPORTANT NEWS AND INFORMATION!!!
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on February 24, 2007, 10:21:42 AM
Incidentally, there's a bug in the polls I'm working on that almost nobody will have seen - this is why I haven't done a full copy out to the other themes.

Just in case anyone was wondering.