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Messages - Arantor
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Plugins / Re: Plugins I refuse to do
« on November 9th, 2011, 01:16 PM »
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I don't think topic pages have a blog variation?
It's on my todo list, and has been for a long time. And yes, the message index isn't clean because I can't decide how it should look :/
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Plugins / Re: Plugins I refuse to do
« on November 9th, 2011, 12:19 PM »
Yup, I see my point was missed entirely.

First up, I'm not preventing someone else writing such a bridge. I'm merely not going to do it myself, and won't stop anyone else writing one should they choose to do so.

From my POV, there are so many things I find wrong with WP it isn't even funny... you can't even change the permissions in each group without a plugin or hacking the code directly, for example. Not to mention the seemingly never ending stream of updates and fixes they send.

The thing is, what is the physical difference between a forum and a blog? Both have posts, both have replies, an out of the box setup on WP is just a streamlined variation on a single forum board; the difference is almost entirely just presentation with some UI mojo thrown in. Since a lot of the UI mojo and underpinnings either are built or are going to be built in time for 1.0, there's very little reason to actually run two very different pieces of software when all you want is a nice blog and a forum. As a bonus you even get the facility to have a common theme for free. (To me this is more important than having a bridge)

There's no real reason why Wedge shouldn't be considered a viable CMS base for building almost anything you care to name on top of it.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 9th, 2011, 02:06 AM »
Quote from ~DS~ on November 9th, 2011, 02:04 AM
Quote from DoctorMalboro on November 9th, 2011, 01:21 AM
Bring. The. Scary. Weeping. Angels. Back.
Fixed it for you.
THIS. Not the moving-and-not-so-scary-wussy-Angels.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 9th, 2011, 01:32 AM »
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I mean, the world will collapse because of his name? I don't think that's actually all that matters? Isn't the who what matters? It's not Moffat's best idea, but it might turn interesting...
Oh, no, no it won't be that. While it's quite true that it is the 'oldest question' and is 'hidden in plain sight', it's evident that it won't be what the Doctor's real name is. Took me a while to realise that, haha.

It's someone. Someone the Doctor knows of. It isn't "Doctor who?" but "Doctor, who?" As in "Doctor, who is it?"

I don't think the Christmas special is the fields of Trenzalor, at the fall of the Eleventh. It hasn't had enough build-up like a season arc. It might be, however, the Oriental Express in Space.
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Bring. The. Bloody. Daleks. Back.
Jesus Christ no. While I appreciate that they have fought every single incarnation of the Doctor (we never saw them expressly against Eight, the intimation from Nine's debut episode is that he is only recently regenerated, and that he would have done so only in the last time of the Time War, so that would make Eight the incarnation to have fought in the Time War)

Also...

Mighty Morphin Dalek Rangers
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Off-topic / Re: Yuck...
« on November 9th, 2011, 01:25 AM »
I don't see that as a huge problem, my problem with the WP admin panel is that it's bland. There's little colour, little atmosphere.
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Off-topic / Re: Blogging meets Forum: Are we too late?
« on November 8th, 2011, 09:15 PM »
I don't see that it's much different from a forum, just streamlined and minimalist.
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on November 8th, 2011, 04:57 PM »
At that price?

I'm willing to pay for things but £5 for the base package then £5 fir each of the two expansions is taking the piss.
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Off-topic / Re: Hmmm
« on November 8th, 2011, 02:09 PM »
That's a bug in SMF, been there since at least 2009 when I first encountered it. Not sure why it happens but I'll investigate and make sure it's fixed in Wedge if nothing else.
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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 8th, 2011, 12:05 AM »
I've just been so wrapped up with other stuff I haven't even looked at it yet :(
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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 7th, 2011, 11:21 PM »
Quote from Nao on November 7th, 2011, 11:16 PM
I'm assuming 'Words' sounds bad in English, then...?
It's just bland. Thoughts at least is more descriptive.
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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 7th, 2011, 11:00 PM »
Haha

@Nao, you're right, of course, it would elevate their apparent standing. Hmm, I got nothing better. :(
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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 7th, 2011, 08:49 PM »
Quote from ~DS~ on November 7th, 2011, 08:43 PM
How about 'protest'? :P
OccupyInternet
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Features / Re: Thought system
« on November 7th, 2011, 08:43 PM »
Unless we borrow from Facebook and call it a status...
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Off-topic / Re: Honey pots
« on November 7th, 2011, 01:45 AM »
Since /register/ is not in search engines directly, one presumes they're either guessing or scraping the code and finding the reference to /register/ in the form?

The other thing is, I'm looking for more general trends, since I can't pull off stunts like that generally, there are things like accessibility issues when doing things like that.
Posted: November 7th, 2011, 01:40 AM

In other news this honey pot is actually very hardcore. It even makes use of the integration hooks in SMF 1.1 to bridge it because I'm far too lazy to write mod code for both branches when I don't have to.
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Off-topic / Re: Hmmm
« on November 7th, 2011, 01:18 AM »
Thanks for the links, I'll check them out, hopefully it'll give me something to work with :)