Wedge

Yeah, it's long overdue, and it'll be core so it will be less of an issue to maintain. Fun fact of the day, this will also have IP support, something I never wanted to add to Annoy User, though I understood why users did want it and that's why it's going to be here.

Also, I'm pleased this finally motivated me to add 'percent' type support in the admin panel.

So I ran into a headache with bans.

In Wedge[1] viewing of IP address is its own permission. This is, generally, a good thing because of all the people who want to hide IP addresses every which way.

But banning is a separate permission. Now, while it's somewhat unlikely, I can envisage the situation where someone has the power to ban but no ability to see IP addresses, which means it's somewhat dangerous giving them IP addresses as a ban target since they won't have that information.

This leads me to one of three things:

1. Requiring both view-any IP and ban permission to actually ban. (Seems to me it will cause support topics)

2. Making it so the ban UI doesn't allow them to create/edit IP/hostname bans if they don't have the power to see IP addresses. (Complicated)

3. Not having the IP visibility permission at all and tying it to the ban permission.

See, here's the thing. I have no idea what the point of having IP addresses visible anywhere is (not even in the likes of track IP or even moderation log) if you can't do anything with it. Seems to me that the only thing that actually really makes use of it is banning, and if you can ban, you can see all IP addresses - and if you can't ban, you can't see them. I'm struggling to envisage any case at all where you would need IP addresses but not the power to ban, more importantly what can you do with an IP address if you *can't* ban anyway?

1.	SMF doesn't do it this way, it ties the permission to moderate_forum.

Well, gmail.de seems to redirect back to gmail.com but I gather some people were able to send emails from it :/ gmail.ru isn't owned by Google.

If you've added a message, there will be a thing on the front page of moderation filters. The left hand column will say 'Moderate the post' and under it for that rule will be a link, '(and show a custom message)' which is that popup.Well, it triggers onchange, not onkeyup.That's a matter of opinion :P Basically, it is exactly how I designed it, even down to that little detail. Whether that's right or not is another question - it is OK if the design is wrong provided it's changed for the right reasons and everything else is done to support it.

The only problem with altering it in that fashion is that there's no user messages or anything, nor any logic to show any, in the event of the user trying to add something stupid. Thus it triggers onchange and only if there's something valid does it show anything. But it wasn't done out of laziness, it was to cause the user to stop a moment and check they'd put in what they meant to put in before they hit the add or save buttons respectively.I pretty much abuse the help popup as that anyway, and all the popups I've done (oh, and the plugin readmes as well are shown that way) are done through abusing that template. Making a generic popup would be good.

Oh, it won't be a problem. The biggest hurdles about support - file permissions - aren't nearly as much of a problem (or shouldn't be :D)

Remember that vB has been around for over a decade, as has phpBB and because vB has been around that long, and survived, it's been very much the 'go to' software, despite Internet Brands trying so hard to kill the momentum with 3.7 onwards (which is when their meddling started, 4.0 was the first version that was solely produced by them and Kier himself even said that it couldn't be done in the timescale that IB wanted it done in, seeing how the manager of Jelsoft was lying to IB about how far development into 4.0 was, the whole thing's a nuclear CF.)

I'd love to see Wedge there this time next year but I'm also aware that MyBB has an awful lot of snobbish fanboys who will tell all their friends not to use Wedge because it's 'a modified SMF'. Lots of arrogance right there.

(Mind you, interesting fact, MyBB was copyrighted from 2003, just as SMF was, and yet their forum is less than 1/4 the size of SMF's support forum.)

Don't worry, vBulletin is going to come crashing down a bit when vB 5 lands, it's going to upset a lot of people. Not to mention that the lawsuit against XenForo has effectively frozen development now, to the point where there has been no new releases, not even bug fixes, in the best part of a year, and I'm given to understand that one of the two developers has also left the company.

Next year is going to be a very interesting year since I see no reason why we won't be able to push forward to some kind of public release.

It's not even like you can search for Mobile Safari either, since pretty much every mobile browser seems to send that header.

Apple is going to continue to refuse alternate engines for the time being.