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Off-topic / Re: Page load bottleneck
« on June 4th, 2013, 01:55 PM »
Which is WP loading and running.
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Off-topic / Re: Page load bottleneck
« on June 4th, 2013, 01:14 PM »
WordPress: the only CMS I know that takes 20 queries to display the content on a fresh install to guests.
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Off-topic / Re: Welcome to prehistoric times.
« on June 4th, 2013, 06:23 AM »
Network-attached-storage, i.e a device whose sole purpose is dumping pure storage onto a small network. I have a NAS kicking around somewhere but I realised that for backups, a Firewire-attached hard drive was vastly quicker than pumping GBs across a wifi link.
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Plugins / [Plugin] Re: User Mentions v1.0 (9th March 2013)
« on June 4th, 2013, 06:11 AM »
Sweet. So then it's just about the display of avatars in the auto suggester, which would be awesome.
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Features / Re: Culmination of Permissions Ruminations
« on June 4th, 2013, 06:08 AM »The lovely thing with roles is you could ship with the normal user/moderator/admin (or when Arantor doe the CMS user/contributor/moderator/admin) and then those who deem it needed could add any other number of levels. Maybe have user/staff(think low lever moderators)/Supervisors(Think normal moderator)/Manager(Think admin light)/Owner/Admin. Yes I know kind of doable with groups and perms however roles ads a level of flexibility that can't be beat and witht he right UI may be even easier to use.
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Off-topic / Re: Welcome to prehistoric times.
« on June 4th, 2013, 05:30 AM »* Arantor still has to mentally remember that Nas is not a colleague from the SMF days :P
(He helped build SimpleDesk with the UI aspect of it and did the theme for simpledesk.net, which oddly enough I found today in my archives, yup, I had the theme on my local install and proved SD worked with SD's theme haha)
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Features / Re: Culmination of Permissions Ruminations
« on June 4th, 2013, 02:57 AM »
Oh, sure, but it's still something that has to be factored in ;)
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Features / Re: Culmination of Permissions Ruminations
« on June 4th, 2013, 02:55 AM »
Until that user wants to hand over the keys to the kingdom on retiring or whatever ;)
There are an awful lot of edge cases that need to be thought through on that stuff, and I might just leave it that part along for now.
There are an awful lot of edge cases that need to be thought through on that stuff, and I might just leave it that part along for now.
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Features / Re: Culmination of Permissions Ruminations
« on June 4th, 2013, 02:50 AM »
Thing is, physical groups is actually the sanest way to handle post count badges. The difference is they're just not attached as if they were real groups. Sort of virtual physical groups. Or physical virtual groups.
Other software doesn't even do the virtual group business, half the time there's not even the option for distinct badges per group, but simply 'number of pips for this level of posts' and a new title if you're lucky.
For me it's a tough one to balance flexibility with ease of setup.
The whole primary/secondary thing made sense in SMF when primary dictated what badge you would see in the boards (except when you're a local moderator but that's another shitfest entirely). It's also handled as such in the DB, but since it's not something we use (multiple badges, yo) it's a legacy concept.
As far as creating other admins goes, it gets messy because you have to do something with the inherent notion of 'admins have every permission' which would have to essentially go (or be reformulated) to support admin permissions being handled this way.
Other software doesn't even do the virtual group business, half the time there's not even the option for distinct badges per group, but simply 'number of pips for this level of posts' and a new title if you're lucky.
For me it's a tough one to balance flexibility with ease of setup.
The whole primary/secondary thing made sense in SMF when primary dictated what badge you would see in the boards (except when you're a local moderator but that's another shitfest entirely). It's also handled as such in the DB, but since it's not something we use (multiple badges, yo) it's a legacy concept.
As far as creating other admins goes, it gets messy because you have to do something with the inherent notion of 'admins have every permission' which would have to essentially go (or be reformulated) to support admin permissions being handled this way.
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Off-topic / Re: Welcome to prehistoric times.
« on June 4th, 2013, 12:31 AM »
Better still, TempleOS :niark:
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Plugins / [Plugin] Re: User Mentions v1.0 (9th March 2013)
« on June 3rd, 2013, 10:45 PM »
I hate licensing issues :(
On happier news, XenForo has added something similar to their core in 1.2. There are two key differences that I see... firstly they handle spaces (can't remember if we do or not, though I seem to remember talking about it)
Secondly, and this is more of a matter for @Nao: the auto suggester in XF also includes the user profile alongside the user name. Is this something we want to consider?
Thirdly, they don't worry quite so much about positioning for the suggester popup for mention purposes. It seems to align to the left of the window on the row directly below the cursor's current position. But they're now using Redactor rather than TinyMCE. It's much lighter than TMCE but I think it's still bigger than what we have - but it's probably a bit more reliable.
On happier news, XenForo has added something similar to their core in 1.2. There are two key differences that I see... firstly they handle spaces (can't remember if we do or not, though I seem to remember talking about it)
Secondly, and this is more of a matter for @Nao: the auto suggester in XF also includes the user profile alongside the user name. Is this something we want to consider?
Thirdly, they don't worry quite so much about positioning for the suggester popup for mention purposes. It seems to align to the left of the window on the row directly below the cursor's current position. But they're now using Redactor rather than TinyMCE. It's much lighter than TMCE but I think it's still bigger than what we have - but it's probably a bit more reliable.
* Arantor thinks we really need to spend time with the WYSIWYG editor to make it a viable competitor... there is a reason everyone else uses off the shelf components (XF = Redactor, IPB = CKEditor, WordPress = TinyMCE, vB = CKEditor)
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Plugins / [Plugin] Re: Notifications system (1.0)
« on June 3rd, 2013, 10:39 PM »I probably should mark items as read as soon as they're previewed, though.
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Off-topic / Re: json_decode and arrays
« on June 3rd, 2013, 09:33 PM »
One takes into account server time, the other does not...Quote Known bug.
I came back to home page after posting and the NEW icon showed up for this topic..