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General Category => General Board => Technical Stuff => Topic started by: Eluvatar on January 05, 2007, 02:43:57 AM
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This forum, unlike the Lexicon's old forum, is a Simple Machines Forum. http://www.simplemachines.org
There are a number of differences. Let's start with what it doesn't have.
Con
- There are fewer smilies (I'm working on that, just running into some slight issues)
- There is no shoutbox (I know how to get a shoutbox that will be part of this forum attached to this, I just haven't done so yet due to the overwhelming number of things going on)
- As noted by the registration agreement, because I actually host this place, it is possible for me to go in and look at the database. I cannot see your passwords, but it is technically possible for me to go in and see PMs. I have no intention of doing this however.
- I can't recall anything else-- additions to this list are welcome :D
Pro
- There are some cool tags that are added. Mostly self-explanatory but they are Glow, Shadow (doesn't seem to work though) ,Marquee, Insert Flash (DISABLED), Insert Email, Insert FTP link (If you don't know what this does, don't fuss), Tables (the tag table makes a table, table row makes a row, and inside of that column makes one box), superscript and subscript, and I have no idea what "Teletype" is.
- Not only are there more tags but SMF manages them better. Instead of clicking on the button for a tag making the tag show up at the end of your thing and then have to click it again to make the closing tag appear, when you click the button the tag and its closing tag pop up at the spot where you were typing. In fact, if you have something selected and you click a tag, the begin and close will surrount your selection. (neato eh?)
- SMF has a search function!!!
- We can get various mods and such for SMF.
- A minor thing. If you don't like a category (in the default skin not sure about others) you can press the little
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- There is the ability to attach stuff. Use sparsely :D
- This is kinda under the hood, but masking and permissions works much better. No possibility of an "I think you're not banned but you really are" situation ;)
- Totally forgot-- there's lots of statistics that it shows on posting time etc.
- I just discovered this: QuickEdit is a button at the bottom of the post that acts like QuickReply. I think it's amazing!
I'm sure there's stuff I'm missing. Consider this an official "ask questions about SMF" thread.
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As noted by the registration agreement, because I actually host this place, it is possible for me to go in and look at the database. I cannot see your passwords, but it is technically possible for me to go in and see PMs. I have no intention of doing this however.
AHA!
SMF has a search function!!!
How many people uses search function...?
I just discovered this: QuickEdit is a button at the bottom of the post that acts like QuickReply. I think it's amazing!
This and
There is the ability to attach stuff. Use sparsely
May be very useful though.
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It tells you that people have posted while you've been writing a masterpiece. Invisionfree never did that. This allows you to modify your post to reply to what others have written.
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Huh?
Anyway, this forum also warns that someone posted while I was writing my own post.
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Thanks for repeating what I said ;D
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Whatever.
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Sounds great Elu!
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It tells you that people have posted while you've been writing a masterpiece. Invisionfree never did that. This allows you to modify your post to reply to what others have written.
I like that feature. It especially comes in handy for those with slow fingers and short attention spans. It's helped me a lot already. :D
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Yeah I think that's probably the best change. One thing I forgot about that this kinda keeps from being a con though is that once you post it takes you back to that forum, not that thread.
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But it won't let me use an apostophe in my name! Still miffed about that; no Mor'os, only ugly Mor Os.
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I don't think any modern forum software would let you have an apostrophe in your name. It's very very very potentially destructive to the database <_<
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Yeah I think that's probably the best change. One thing I forgot about that this kinda keeps from being a con though is that once you post it takes you back to that forum, not that thread.
You can change that in your personal settings somewhere. Glad to be of assistance. :D
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Yeah I think that's probably the best change. One thing I forgot about that this kinda keeps from being a con though is that once you post it takes you back to that forum, not that thread.
Oh nice :)
You can change that in your personal settings somewhere. Glad to be of assistance. :D
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Can you add more manly skins? You know, cars, war, pirates, booze, all that stuff.
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Nobody used the search feature in Invisionfree because it never bloody worked. I can think of many times i waded through dozens of threads looking for a post I knew existed, but could not find.
A working search feature? HUZZAH, HUZZAH, HUZZAH.
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Nobody used the search feature in Invisionfree because it never bloody worked. I can think of many times i waded through dozens of threads looking for a post I knew existed, but could not find.
A working search feature? HUZZAH, HUZZAH, HUZZAH.
:)
But now for the evil feature I have added-- double post merging >:-)
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what?
Posted on: January 07, 2007, 01:07:55 AM
what?
Posted on: January 07, 2007, 01:08:14 AM
ooh. It merges double posts automatically. The spammers won't like that. What does it do to your post count?
Posted on: January 07, 2007, 01:09:10 AM
I am not sure. Let's try something....
Posted on: January 07, 2007, 01:10:05 AM
Darn, you do not increase your post count if you reply to your own post.
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Uh-oh.
Posted on: Sunday, 07 January 2007, 12:11:13 PM
That isn't very good. Now we can't spam to ourselves. :(
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Hey you can spam to each other perfectly well, right?
But if enough people don't like the double post automatic merger I'll probably switch it to manual or turn it off entirely.
But I think it makes perfect sense.
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Leave it on, please. Sometimes I had my internet connection lagging and double-posted. It will also prevent those dirty double-posters who intentionally doube-post.
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Like me! Does it say that someone has posted again if they double post over a period of time? You know, adding things, in an RP story, etc.
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It should place a [new] marker on a post when you double post and it merges afterward. Let me check.
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Oh wait I can't check because it doesn't give me the [new] tag because I am the one who posted it anyways, even if it would for double post... <_<
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Oh but what I can check is if it moves the topic up. Let's check that.
Posted on: January 07, 2007, 04:58:40 PM
Oh damn. Someone turned off the feature when I wasn't looking. Sheesh. Well I'll post this and then merge it to see what happens ^_^.
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Well this thread stayed on top of this board, with the 'last posted' of my second post that I merged in. Therefore I assume that it would probably also mark it as unread for other people. But I don't actually know
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Well, I have to admit, I was not too fond of breaking away from the familiar IF setup. I had spent a month teaching myself how to admin them LOL But, one thing I like the most about the SMF forum....
NO IF ToS!!!!!!
*we* control the hosting, we determine what's acceptable, and what is not. Translation... more freedom of speech!
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Well, I have to admit, I was not too fond of breaking away from the familiar IF setup. I had spent a month teaching myself how to admin them LOL But, one thing I like the most about the SMF forum....
NO IF ToS!!!!!!
*we* control the hosting, we determine what's acceptable, and what is not. Translation... more freedom of speech!
Or at least no excuses in limiting it :D
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*we* control the hosting, we determine what's acceptable, and what is not. Translation... more freedom of speech!
Considering Eluvatar is too "civilised" by our standarts, I wouldn't be sure about <_<
EDIT: @ Elu: no offense :P
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But who removed the function to delete one's own posts? I want that back!
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Indeed. Why can't we delete our own posts!?
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It made things far more fluent in RP as you could delete OOC posts that weren't relevant anymore
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To change the topic...
There was a function on Invisionfree that I used quite a lot and found useful: the ability to see what threads members were in. You clicked a link and it showed you a list of online members, and what threads they were viewing/posting in. Why don't we have that here? Privacy?
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http://forum.taijitu.org/index.php?action=who
just click where it says "x Guests, x Users" down at the bottom
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Thanks so much.
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That's a cool one. ;D
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There was a function on Invisionfree that I used quite a lot and found useful: the ability to see what threads members were in.
Hmmm...?
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Yeah, he must get pleasure from that.
Anyhoo, back to more important matters. Eh-hem
Can-we-please-have-the-delete-post-feature-put-back-on-please?
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Could someone please tell me how to moderate the forums. I am a mod in the RP council area and i want to sort some things out in there but i cannot find out how, please help!!!!!!!!!
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You're mod?
Anyway... Who can fix my problem? I seem to directly access www.forum.taijitu.org for some reason. Everytime it says "connection timed out" or something, while trying to connect to forums. I have to use proxy server so I could access forums. Help!
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Try not putting the "www." bit. It's designed not to be used like that.
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Actually www.forum.taijitu.org is supposed to redirect you to forum.taijitu.org -- I tried it and it works for me <_<
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Maybe it's just Balt. :D
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I am pretty fluent in SMF administration (I use it for a number of small groups and client interactions) if you need some help with something.
It is a great app - lots of possibilities.
Fripp
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Indeed it is. I think we're all set, though suggestions for cool mods will be entertained ;) :)
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Just speaking of Simple Machines itself, and the skin of this forum - an other forum I regular has exactly this skin, and simple machines isn't a very common forum, so I thought that was sort of neat.
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A new feature you've probably already noticed-- we now have a spellchecker! Isn't that amazing! :)
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And now I've brought back the new and improved Shoutbox. Let's see how this goes :D
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May I make a request?
As nice as this forums stats page is, it has no top "10 poster today" like IVF. Would it be possible to add This (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1105)?
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And now I've brought back the new and improved Shoutbox. Let's see how this goes :D
OH YEAH?
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I've installed the mod proposed by Akka.
Just so you know there may be a delay in viewing the statistics page now as it has to collect a lot more data
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Um, can we possibly remove that spellchecker again, or at least, let one deactivate it permanently in his settings page? It does not help anyone. Every person who is concerned about their spelling just uses a Firefox dictionary or something comparable; everyone who is not won't use that SpellingCow thing anyways. Besides, it's horribly annoying, especially with those ads :/ .
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Um, can we possibly remove that spellchecker again, or at least, let one deactivate it permanently in his settings page? It does not help anyone. Every person who is concerned about their spelling just uses a Firefox dictionary or something comparable; everyone who is not won't use that SpellingCow thing anyways. Besides, it's horribly annoying, especially with those ads :/ .
Good idea.