Niggling problems remaining in new Codex - also for identifying possible bugs

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Speaking of smilies, gimme buttons as smilies plz.

It's already possible to insert nearly any button rating into a post:

 

[Twiglard]

Hmmm... If I click on the tag links in this thread: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/celebrating-20-years-of-rpg-news.145000/#post-8192127

It comes up as, "about:blank#blocked". Anyone else get that?

No.

Also, if I look at any image in the galley: https://rpgcodex.net/gallery.php?image=14953

The image doesn't load.

I just fixed it. Apparently the gallery was the only one prepending 'https:' to site url.

 

[Haba]

Speaking of smilies, gimme buttons as smilies plz.

It's already possible to insert nearly any button rating into a post:

Unfortunately some are still broken for me, pls fix:

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Unfortunately some are still broken for me, pls fix:

 

[Gregz]

Twiglard Why can't we ignore threads?

 

[Twiglard]

Twiglard Why can't we ignore threads?

It costs 30$.

 

[Utgard-Loki]

ignoring some POS should not make their created threads invisible. many dicksuckers like morgoth created primary threads for major games like metal gear solid v.

 

[Ismaul]

Speaking of smilies, gimme buttons as smilies plz.

It's already possible to insert nearly any button rating into a post:

Maybe I'm getting bugs or doing it wrong, but drag-and-dropping from the rate menu pops them in as links like so:




Annoying.

And inserting them as images via the url is not as convenient as it could be.

 

[Jonathan "Zee Nekomimi]

working fine for me

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

And inserting them as images via the url is not as convenient as it could be.

Inserting the button ratings is as simple as incorporating any other image into a post, and unlike random images on the internet they're already conveniently located in a place where you can easily copy the URL.

There would only be a slight improvement in convenience by having the button ratings also located in the smilies drop-down menu, and there isn't any point in adding to that menu until the underlying problem with it is fixed, namely that it reduces the size of the Codex's stock images to a ludicrous extent, in order to fit them into a space with an unnecessarily constricted horizontal dimension, rather than broadening the drop-down menu and increasing the size of the smilies.

 

[Twiglard]

ignoring some POS should not make their created threads invisible

Ignore options

[ ] Remove ignored content​

If checked, the content from users that you ignore will be completely removed.​

In fact I feel like forcing it off for everyone through a database query.

And done, it's now off for newly-registered users and set to off for everyone else. For reference:

diff --git a/addons/AddonFlare/GlobalIgnore/_data/options.xml b/addons/AddonFlare/GlobalIgnore/_data/options.xml
index 06cd232..c71516f 100644
--- a/addons/AddonFlare/GlobalIgnore/_data/options.xml
+++ b/addons/AddonFlare/GlobalIgnore/_data/options.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <options>
   <option option_id="af_2wayignore_registrationDefaults" edit_format="template" data_type="array">
-    <default_value>{"af_ignore_remove":"1","af_2way_enable":"1"}</default_value>
+    <default_value>{"af_ignore_remove":"0","af_2way_enable":"0"}</default_value>
     <edit_format_params>af_globalignore_option_template_registrationDefaults_2way</edit_format_params>
     <sub_options>af_ignore_remove
 af_2way_enable

MariaDB [rpgcodex_xf2]> update xf_user_option set af_ignore_remove = 0;
Query OK, 25237 rows affected (0.138 sec)
Rows matched: 25346  Changed: 25237  Warnings: 0

 

[†††]

ignoring some POS should not make their created threads invisible

Ignore options

[ ] Remove ignored content​

If checked, the content from users that you ignore will be completely removed.​

In fact I feel like forcing it off for everyone through a database update.

You still have to scroll down the page and click on "show ignored content" and do that every time you visit the page. I get that's how Xenforo works and you can't do nothing about it, but it's cumbersome.

 

[Twiglard]

you can't do nothing about it

 

[Ismaul]

And inserting them as images via the url is not as convenient as it could be.

Inserting the button ratings is as simple as incorporating any other image into a post, and unlike random images on the internet they're already conveniently located in a place where you can easily copy the URL.

Hey man, I'm lazy I want efficiency.

 

[Lazing Dirk]

So there I was looking at the source of the page for shits and giggles out of curiosity after seeing the htm thread. Did you realise your pages are filled with literally hundreds of thousands of extra tab characters? In one case there was a gap of 353 lines - containing 2,571 tabs - between the end of a list tag and the end of an underline tag. In a page of 730k characters, over 133k (almost 20%) of those characters were tabs. That's a good chunk of bandwidth being spent on literally nothing. What's going on there?

Also the forum went down just as I was about to post this so clearly this is some kind of secret encoding used by spies or something and must be fixed.

 

[Raghar]

Yea it's bit complicated. I tried to save some interesting pages, and what appeared after I looked at them offline was utterly horrible.

I'm not sure why this page have this source, it looks weird.

Also there were some 500 errors today.

 

[Haba]

And I got the fucking .html download again after the site came up.

 

[Ranselknulf]

The codex died suddenly earlier today.

Please check into boosting the server.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

"11. Popup on user name/avatar - Since it is possible to obtain this popup by clicking on a user's name or avatar, there is no need for this popup to appear when the cursor hovers over the name or avatar, which often occurs unintentionally --- Grimlorn"

I think a bit of a delay was added to the pop-up that appears from hovering the cursor over a username or avatar, and with this delay this is no longer a problem.


As always, if you have previously identified a problem on the list, please occasionally check on whether they have been resolved.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

would it be possible to add sorting functions to the gallery, Twiglard ?
e.g.,
https://rpgcodex.net/gallery.php?album=77

to have this sort in natural order?

 

[DarkUnderlord]

I don't think there's any sorting on the gallery, other than by date images were added. Sorting alphanumerically should be doable.

 

[Cloaked Figure]

you have to credit rex exitium in the footer for the design

 

[Skinwalker]

One niggling problem I just noticed: user tags look exactly like plain bolded text, unless you hover/click on them. Not a huge deal, but would be stylistically-correct to indent user tags in a special way (underline?).

Cleveland Mark Blakemore vs Cleveland Mark Blakemore

P. S. It is possible that if you stare at this comparison for a very long time, you may eventually start noticing very subtle differences. My point still stands.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

Why?

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

One niggling problem I just noticed: user tags look exactly like plain bolded text, unless you hover/click on them. Not a huge deal, but would be stylistically-correct to indent user tags in a special way (underline?).

Cleveland Mark Blakemore vs Cleveland Mark Blakemore

P. S. It is possible that if you stare at this comparison for a very long time, you may eventually start noticing very subtle differences. My point still stands.

We already have an entry about hyperlinks no longer being set to a specific color; this problem could be resolved in the same manner. I'm partial to silver hyperlinks, myself.