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Off-topic / Re: Kudos for Nao & Arantor
« on August 6th, 2011, 08:26 PM »
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Let's just say I'll trust users to properly do linebreaks before adding an img tag.
For now... :niark: No guarantee that'll be the case in the future...
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Off-topic / Re: Kudos for Nao & Arantor
« on August 6th, 2011, 08:17 PM »
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There appears to be a posting bug in SMF 2 RC2 that inserts a hard carriage return after an IMG forum tag
This forum runs a very modified RC4. It's also not a bug, it's by design here because this is mostly the same codebase as on Noisen which is mostly for blogs, and most people when in blogs post big pictures, where the line break makes sense.

Try the bareimg tag instead.
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Features / Re: Calendar dates
« on August 6th, 2011, 01:28 PM »
Nao, all I was getting at is that I'm not bothered by trying to localise the names of the holidays themselves - Christmas is the same in most languages, and stuff like Cinco de Mayo, is written and referred to as in Spanish, even in non Spanish speaking communities.

Producing packages of different dates would be good though.
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Other software / Re: Nao in SMF2 Credits
« on August 6th, 2011, 09:20 AM »
Quote from ccbtimewiz on August 6th, 2011, 05:08 AM
Quote from Arantor on August 5th, 2011, 12:16 AM
It basically includes anyone who's been on the team in the last 5 years.
Except for me, that is. :P
Don't even go there, Chris.
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Features / Re: These two bytes may not matter to you...
« on August 5th, 2011, 03:33 PM »
Then encourage use of other solutions and mash it with a hammer until you feel better :)
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Features / Re: Calendar dates
« on August 5th, 2011, 01:58 PM »
Well, I'm 45 minutes from our great metropolis, and I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing. Certainly, it used to suck when commuting there to be in work by 8am...

I might be surprised; I'll give it an honest go when I make it over there sometime... ;)
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Features / Re: Calendar dates
« on August 5th, 2011, 01:45 PM »
Yes, we do use it as an excuse to get very drunk, don't we?[1] I don't personally, don't really drink, and normally my other half is working and isn't able to go for a drink at lunchtime - and isn't really in the mood for a lot of drinking after work.

One of these days though, we're going to have to hop on a ferry to Eire and have a drink with the natives, so to speak; though I doubt I'll be supping a pint of the black stuff, nor play on that blasted harp ;) I don't really like Guinness...
 1. I'm British in case it wasn't clear.
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Features / Re: These two bytes may not matter to you...
« on August 5th, 2011, 12:47 PM »
I've used addLoadEvent before but now that I think about it, it'd probably be OK with just the add_js stuff.

Put it this way, is there a compelling reason to keep it as it is? Does it perform a task that cannot be accomplished in another way? It sounds to me is though there is no task that it does that can't be done another way.
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Features / Re: Calendar dates
« on August 5th, 2011, 12:43 PM »
It is an Irish thing (St Patrick being the patron saint of Ireland) but the British and Americans seem to celebrate it.

What would be good is providing a package of some description that supplies all the relevant cultural dates, but making them translated doesn't seem to be a big deal to me, more importantly to get the dates provided for different groups.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit & shame on the SMF team
« on August 5th, 2011, 11:21 AM »
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but it is my understanding that the CLA covers only contributions made knowingly and on purpose for the benefit of the project
Yes, that's its intention. But because it's not the best worded definition in the world, it can be used for less honourable reasons, including referencing posts that don't fall under that intention, e.g. Aeva related posts. I have already argued this with Kindred in the past, and my posts were subsequently held hostage[1], even ones that were totally off topic and completely irrelevant to SMF such as in Chit Chat.
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I'd say anyone who has contributed to the community discussions, perhaps in thousands of support posts, knowingly doing that to help the users, would be / is an ass if they demand those posts removed later... Doing so does nothing but hurt the users.
So if the posts reference software that is not available any longer from that site, what good does it do the users to have that information available there?

Also please note, when I started removing my posts, one by one, I started with the oldest first, i.e. the ones least likely to be useful going forward.
 1. I don't have any other definition that suits.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit & shame on the SMF team
« on August 5th, 2011, 10:45 AM »
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Yeah, I remember all of that...
But these discussions came into a dead-end.
Yes, but I'm talking about a series of discussions that occurred *after* you and I tried talking to Kindred originally. But even then, I came to realise how much I was wasting my time.
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I don't see WHERE exactly he put much effort into helping us. To me, it seems like he never planned to help, and decided to hide behind the 'SMF team majority' crap to justify not helping.
I don't honestly care what his actual intentions were, but it seemed to me for much of the time as though it were lip-service.
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Which reminds me that we should discuss this matter for Wedge Media... I could care less about these links really. But were I to provide them as mods, hmm... That would overwrite the custom list or something.
Well, I remember that I was the one who approached you about the adult links in Aeva at the time, because that's the only issue that was raised; it wasn't about censorship at all, simply that sm.org is a family friendly environment and that all mods on it should be equally family friendly.

I won't get into the full debate on that one, either.

On the subject of the sitelist, I'm inclined to agree with you; while it could be folded into the scheduled tasks, it seems like it should just be removed.
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SMF flames are just an aside for me, eh
Just a case of keeping eyes on the prize, you know?
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I can reply in plenty of places -- Bryan's place, SMF-friends, etc...
Sure you can, we both know that. But I get the impression that the mentality from the team was 'he can't reply, so why bother telling him?'
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Nope. SMF Gallery has been around from 2006 to 2008 without any competition (except external bridges), it already had both free and paid versions, the addition of SMG didn't change that.
True enough. I half wonder if someone else will take up the mantle of a new gallery mod as, if and when Aeva Media disappears from SMF's ecosystem, but realise it isn't my problem.
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Anyway---- SMG was out, and quickly surpassed the 'quality' level of SMF Gallery Pro -- we saved SMF users a grand total of $80 by giving them an alternative to that piece of crap
Is it $80 when you include the video addon module? I'd look but his immaturity has meant that he IP-banned most of the UK from smfhacks.com in an attempt to make me go away, and he's not worth the effort of finding a proxy (even if I can fire up a VPN in a matter of seconds)
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That's one of the major strengths of SMF, and they're not willing to lose it. Otherwise I'd have been perm-banned all the same...
So it being over there only benefits them, then? I know there's an argument about promoting Wedge, but you know as well as I do that they're only going to continue censoring.
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Because it raises awereness of Wedge.
What do you think! They can keep Aeva Media as long as they also give me free reigns to advertise its upcoming upgrade. What I've been doing on that page is totally legal, heck. *AND* it breaks absolutely none of their Core Values (to which they could pretend I'm tied to, even though I never was made an official teamie), and none of their written rules.
Sure it does. But only if the team doesn't keep censoring it. Most people don't leave sm.org, heck I'm not even that sure how many of them visited Noisen or here to be honest...

What you've been doing isn't "totally legal" - that's the point. It's fallen foul of several of the unwritten laws of SMF, for which the penalty is censure. Just because it doesn't fall foul of their published and public laws, doesn't mean it is legal, you know how good they are at reinventing and reinterpreting their own rules.
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They can own my posts written on the dev boards, my posts on the beta page, all of my posts related to SMF's development, no problem. But posts related to Aeva Media and stuff? No thanks. I own them. And if I ever take down AeMe from their page, I don't see why these posts should remain online.
They can and will argue that the posts document an extension to the SMF project and thus fall under the CLA. Been there, done that, already had that exact argument with Kindred. They will also argue that they should remain online for the benefit of any existing AeMe users.
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I have no ability to edit or delete any of my own posts. I can't reply to PMs either, and I can't even read the PMs I sent in the past... (Because of a beautiful SMF bug that I fixed in Wedge. Uh.)
And that's just stupid.
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Other software / Re: Nao in SMF2 Credits
« on August 5th, 2011, 12:16 AM »
It basically includes anyone who's been on the team in the last 5 years.
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Other software / Re: Nao in SMF2 Credits
« on August 4th, 2011, 10:06 PM »
Quote from runic on August 4th, 2011, 09:47 PM
* runic goes to make commit that removes Nao :P

nah i couldnt do that... some on team may take this post as serious aswell ... shame on them that do
I don't think it'd make a lot of difference unless they're going to release 2.0-final-second-attempt that includes some bug fixes...
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The Pub / [Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« on August 4th, 2011, 05:57 PM »
At a smaller size, it's not clear if the third letter is a b or a d :/

Hmmm.
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Other software / Re: Nao in SMF2 Credits
« on August 4th, 2011, 02:38 PM »
Not really nice on their part - he's been there since RC5 for definite and probably even RC4 before that, as in he was added when it was all working out, and there would have been an outcry had he been removed.