Forum updates and suggestions

[Amlux]

This thread will be where I put notes about updates and tweaks I'm doing to the site.

I just enabled this extension which anonymizes users' IP addresses. I adjusted the registration page to reflect this. I don't know if those of you who joined before this are effected or not, but just know that I take your privacy very seriously and will not even bother looking at your IP addresses unless I have a legal reason to.

Further things I intend to do on this site:

＊Add more/better smilies
＊Adding post reactions (nothing that effects what gets shown or anything resembling Reddit cancer, don't worry)
＊MOAR?

[Amlux]

We had our first spambot today. A rite of passage for any new forum!

To deal with it, I added a Q&A for registration. It should be pretty simple and straightforward. I hate CAPTCHA in general, so hopefully this should be enough to ward off spambots.

Also a user called saibesen posted some weird shit in the OUTER DARKNESS board. I'm not sure if it's a spambot or not. saibesen, you're being watched. Please prove yourself to be human and cool.

[Amlux]

You might have noticed that text under spoilers on this forum was a pain to read as it was very low-contrast light color text on light colors. No more! I messed around with the .css files of the spoiler extension I had and now it looks very readable:

Spoiler

In fact, I might even go so far as to say that this looks better than the base forum. Maybe I'll tinker with the color scheme some more.

[drummyfish]

Awesome, this helps a lot. Would be cool to replace that top-left phpBB logo with your own too. I think it might be done with something like this?

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.site_logo
{
  background-image: url("your_image_here");
}

Tho perhaps there is some setting for it in the admin stuff, I don't actually know.

[Amlux]

drummy,

Yeah, I'm planning to add my own picture there. I'm going to draw my own hopefully in the next few days ^^

[Amlux]

New site header! It was far harder to set up than you'd think it would be. I guess PhpBB really wants their logo to stay. But I managed to usurp them! Refresh your cache if you don't see it. I wanted it to reference the idea of an Ancient Roman "forum," from which our concept of a forum ultimately derives its name and which we should keep in mind as a model of what our engagement with these sites should look like!

(Though if we take the Heidegger route, the real term we use should be "agora," as the Romans are supposed to have lost all the original contact with the question of being when they degraded Greek into Latin.)

[Amlux]

A few new updates:

Collapsed Quotes: Automatically collapses quotes when they are large enough, which keeps thread real estate from being occupied by nothing but giant blocks of text. Nothing major, but it's the kind of thing that you miss when it's gone.

"Thanks" for Posts: You can give a post a "thumbs up" and offer a "thanks" for it. My hope is that this can give people a way to signal their agreement with, approval of, or interest in a post without having to make an entirely new post. It keeps the forum from being filled with redundant posts all saying the same thing while still allowing for communication. Eventually I would like to do something more advanced with this (such as having multiple different forms of reaction). But at the end of the day, most forms of reactions for posts boil down to "this post is good." So think of it as a short way to say that.

More Smilies!: I added a bunch from my CyTube and elsewhere. You will see them on the right!

Good additions to the site... or not... LET'S FIND OUT!

[Amlux]

Media embedding now available for third-party sites! That said, I don't think it works for frontends like Invidious, so just change your inv.nadeko.net to www.youtube.com and you should be good to go. (You ARE using Invidious, right?) I haven't experimented to see how many sites are supported but I'm pretty sure it's more than just YouTube so give it a chance.

To celebrate: I've been spinning this album recently which absolutely CRUSHES MY SKULL with its intense chugging, grooving, power! It's like everything ugly and mean about beatdown hardcore, deathcore, slam death metal, and nu metal crossed into one album!

[drummyfish]

Amlux, can this thread be used for "bug reports/suggestions" or should a new thread be made? I am noticing small things like for example the page titles are weird ("- Index page", "FORUM STUFF -", ...), probably the forum name is not internally set.

[Amlux]

drummy,

Thanks for the report, and yes i think that is fine. I'll look into this!