Wedge

Exactly. It's that kind of thing I want to deal with. People aren't built for numbers.

You ask them what kind of car they have, they can almost always tell you the make and model, but not so much the year it came out. People are just better, generally, at associating names with things rather than numbers, it's just how we're built.

On that note a certain star system from a certain space faring game comes to mind[1] :lol:

I'm good with anything that gives us plenty of distinctive names that isn't really used by anyone else. Egyptian mythology is cool, constellations and star names are cool. Not quite so keen on element names unless we pick the obscure ones, heh. Francium comes to mind :lol: And Europium.

1.	The original version of Elite back in the 1980s had procedural systems and whatnot, generated from lookup tables, one of which managed to generate Arse as a system name.

Some good ideas there :)

There's always rare stones, e.g Sapphire, Topaz, Garnet, etc. (just not Ruby :lol:)... "Wedge, the jewel of the forum world" :lol:

I wonder what @Nao thinks.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean ;)

The codebases are quite a bit divergent, and getting further apart in both terms of behaviour as well as appearance - like the member options screen is gone, moved elsewhere and given a sane makeover.

But stuff like this largely hasn't changed and needs to be.

As an aside before I answer the above, it's interesting that even Nao and I don't know the specifics of *every* nook and cranny of Wedge, especially in the SMF heritage.Agreed.I'm of the opinion this feature should probably go anyway. I see more people who want to remove it than would appear to use it.PM notifications do not use the sender's email address.I'd be slightly worried if a member asked that... seeing how there's no option for it at all and it's done automatically ;)I've been criticised in the past for my low opinion of the average user, but I never fail to be amazed how naive (and/or stupid) your 'average user' can be.

For example, it happens probably once a week that someone asks on sm.org about how they fix their message list being 'newest first' and they want it 'oldest first'. You know, like it defaults to. They *must* have changed it and have no idea how they changed it or how to change it back >_<

Do you want the good news or the bad news?

OK, here's the bad news. That screen doesn't exist in Wedge. At all. It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. It's a stiff, bereft of life, it rests in pieces. If you hadn't mentioned it, it'd be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-screen!

The good news is that I turned them all into a single, sane, screen inside the Admin > Members > Member Options screen.


To answer your actual question. There's several facets to it. Firstly, it's not a theme level option like the ones you're referring to, it's an account level option and is stored elsewhere in the database.

Secondly, if you look back to SMF 1.1.x, the option isn't - in fact - 'Allow other users to email me', it is actually 'Hide my email address from others'. Yup, that's right, in 1.1.x the default is to show emails to the world. But the world was a nicer place in 2006. The internet was nicer back then. But it was changed in 2.0, of course.

Making it a preference in the manner you suggest is a surprising amount of fuss at a technical level, when I could just simply remove it from the registration screen. I don't know anyone that would legitimately enable it knowing what it actually meant and it is in their account settings if they want to enable it otherwise.

More interestingly, this raises a bigger question: do we actually need 'emailing other users' anyway? What's wrong with using PMs?

As I see it we could just ditch the ability to email other people, take out that option and users wouldn't have their email address mentioned in their profile at all except to senior site members. Then of course would be the inevitable 'but I can't see emails waaaaah' response. But that's a minority, I hope.

I know it's not a new idea, but I fixed up the old topic maintenance to be a little more useful. (And yes, the checkbox in the category names is indeed a selector for the entire category)

Actually I'd argue they should be moved off the menu anyway. Login is already in the sidebar along with a registration link, and we could always push a logout button there. But that raises the same objection I had to the notifications block being in the sidebar - namely that me and people like me will never see it >_<