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I need to recheck, but after I did the move/move back, it was still wrong in certain places like categories. :/

Did you also apply the extra change regarding the category table?

It's another case of Amdahl's Law, but ultimately it's every case where performance can be improved, it's worth doing, provided that it doesn't prevent other optimisations being possible.

It depends how much inelegance you'd be prepared to put up with, and possible performance issues. It would be possible to add a flag in when the tag is detected to be 'nofollow' and reset it when closed, and use that flag in conjunction with the validate function for URL tags. But not the best way it could be handled.I like writing interesting UI, I hate writing dull UI - like the ad management one.I'd personally rather it be rewritten to be the same structure and style as other uses of the generic menus, which also means it would be possible to cleanly extend it with hooks etc. if authors want to do so. But it's ultimately your baby and I'd rather let you make that call.I can't see = ever being used properly in a selectbox (outside the admin panel in which case people are almost certainly not using the keyboard). But yeah, I agree that removing focus would be better.

As it finds them. It steps through the post, looking for each instance of a ], and parses as it finds, with the exception of code tags which are handled separately - first.It's a good idea, but I think it should also be an option too.But of course if you're normally using a keyboard/mouse combo, you'll click, but the selectbox still has focus even when it seems like it shouldn't have.There aren't that many keys you really need to worry about, 0-9 and A-Z are really it, rather than any printable character.

What calculations, exactly, can you cache between calls for the life of the page?

In a typical page, you're calling it ~20 times, each with a different time each time. It's also potentially different for different users, further eroding the value of cache, no?

Well, voting for the donation plugin still wouldn't only have brought it to 2nd place, as I said I'd close it when 20 votes had been cast and at that point, 19 votes had been cast.

I've already written about half of the ad management code (that I want to write for now) and a donation manager will no doubt be second.

No, it means you change your direction as fast as the winds change, like a weathervane. Doing any sizeable project requires investment of time, and someone who is that changeable is probably not going to stay the distance.Given that I was at one point a paying customer, yes, I do think it is a little of my business. But really what I was getting at - and that you seemed to ignore because it was convenient to you - is that you're quite happy to call me out on the faults of mine that you perceive but that you apparently can't take it when I do the same.

If you take someone's money, I do think you owe them some kind of explanation. But really there's a bigger thing here: you're essentially setting the precedent that ViennaBBS will never be suitable for anyone other than yourself, because you just cannot be relied upon to actually develop it or make it available, not even when people pay for it. If you're happy with that being the case and you're happy with the fact that people consider you essentially unreliable, go nuts.And if you notice, I relented somewhat on that, because you suggested I should. Though it's still a case of 'these are the problems, this is how we solved them', which is exactly what I said it was. It is not a claim to be the definitive solution.That is the truest thing you've said here yet: what amounts to 'I don't give a damn what anyone else thinks because I'm not going to listen to them even if they have something useful to say, because it's my life, what I say goes' etc. You sound like a teenager wanting to be treated like an adult.

Have fun with ViennaBBS. Hopefully you won't spend the hours and hours fighting with the same problems we did, oh wait, you won't because you're not building something that anyone but you can, will or want to use anyway. But if you're happy with doing that, building something that cannot ever be used by anyone but you, great. Enjoy it. But don't come here, preaching about how we should do things, when they're not how you do things.

Notice one thing: I left you alone. I got to the point where I realised I was wasting my time suggesting anything to you, and so I disappeared and left you alone. Now I see you here acting exactly how you're accusing me of acting. Please, do me a favour, and fuck off. I don't need or want your pretentiousness around here, and frankly I'm fed up of reading your patronising attitude.

Yup, I already figured anyone with a Friend or Consultant badge would be given a free pass anyway.