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Features: Upcoming / Re: Blogs!
« on May 11th, 2011, 05:09 PM »
I left some comments for you about it, Nao, wasn't sure exactly if you had anything else to add?
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Features: Theming / Re: New theme
« on May 11th, 2011, 03:50 PM »
Yeah, that is all that's needed but if you're not technical it can seem scary. As I said, we'll explain more in the future.
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Features: Posts & Topics / Re: Like/dislike
« on May 11th, 2011, 03:49 PM »
The key difference is that while karma/reputation are per user, like/dislike are naturally per post (though you can of course theoretically extrapolate reputation out of likes/dislikes)
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Features: Upcoming / Re: Blogs!
« on May 11th, 2011, 03:48 PM »
Yeah, what has been added thus far is mostly a reimplementation, such as fixing odd pagination issues that cropped up from time to time. The main work to do here is on the templates, actually, but there are all kinds of side features that get included such as categories, tags and even perhaps some of the more unusual and interesting features in WordPress like pinging sites on new post.
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Features: Theming / Re: New theme
« on May 11th, 2011, 03:07 PM »
And the way the CSS compiler works, it becomes very easy; I'm doing a blue design for Innovate, not Imitate when I move that off WordPress and that didn't take long to come out. I doubt I'll provide the actual style code (wanting to keep it relatively unique and all) but I'll certainly discuss how it works.
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Features: Theming / Re: New theme
« on May 11th, 2011, 02:53 PM »
You can alter it yourself, it's almost pure CSS.
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Features: Posts & Topics / Re: Automatic Quote splitter
« on May 11th, 2011, 10:51 AM »
And for genuine discussions too. I'm damned if I'm going to let fear of idiots using things prevent us from building awesome things.
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Features: Posts & Topics / Re: Automatic Quote splitter
« on May 11th, 2011, 10:44 AM »
For the power-quoters who reply paragraph by paragraph, this is actually rather epic.
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 10th, 2011, 10:38 PM »
And it's claiming to beat Duke Nukem Forever...
:edit: I see Fustrate had the same idea, haha
:edit: I see Fustrate had the same idea, haha
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 10th, 2011, 09:24 PM »
To be fair, when that variation was done originally (at least when SD really pushed it), that was a whole year ago ;)
I'm slightly more amused at the typos, almost as though no-one proof-read it first... I suspect I know who did that, and honestly, it's a shade embarrassing that it wasn't proof read ahead of time, and that it wasn't tested on 1024 wide where it would definitely be misaligned.
I have the unnerving feeling of it being how can I put this... rushed and ill-prepared?
I'm slightly more amused at the typos, almost as though no-one proof-read it first... I suspect I know who did that, and honestly, it's a shade embarrassing that it wasn't proof read ahead of time, and that it wasn't tested on 1024 wide where it would definitely be misaligned.
I have the unnerving feeling of it being how can I put this... rushed and ill-prepared?
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 10th, 2011, 02:52 PM »
And it's broken on iPad, being misrendered because obviously everyone uses more than 1024 wide ::)
Also, I happened to notice MrGrumpy being made Support Helper of the Month. Now, fair play to him for supporting, but he has made a total of 64 posts thus far. Yup, 64. Even if that's all in one month, that's still pretty poor (I used to average double that PER DAY!) as a basis for SHOTM, sorry.
I really hope the one person who told me last week that I "use any excuse to twist the knife" even when I don't have any agenda reads this, then they can see that I'm not twisting the knife one bit, I don't have to do that, when the team is more than capable of demonstrating their own incompetences.
Also, I happened to notice MrGrumpy being made Support Helper of the Month. Now, fair play to him for supporting, but he has made a total of 64 posts thus far. Yup, 64. Even if that's all in one month, that's still pretty poor (I used to average double that PER DAY!) as a basis for SHOTM, sorry.
I really hope the one person who told me last week that I "use any excuse to twist the knife" even when I don't have any agenda reads this, then they can see that I'm not twisting the knife one bit, I don't have to do that, when the team is more than capable of demonstrating their own incompetences.
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Features: Miscellaneous / Re: Per-board Languages and Language flags
« on May 10th, 2011, 01:16 AM »
Maybe not because of how our language files are arranged...
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 9th, 2011, 11:57 PM »
Actually, if you read the bylaws, anyone who is a team member, or has recently been, the dues are waived in consideration of services rendered.
Honestly, though, this is the final nail in the coffin in terms of "we value our friends" because it seems to me that they don't, and now they have the balls to admit it.
AeMe is not subject to the SMF licence, it just isn't a problem. As far as code review goes, I'm interested in ensuring that their code does not affect us. Everything else is secondary.
I have an hour or so, so I will actually get that written up right now! I hate the fact that the last couple of weeks in particular, I've been dragged off to one thing before finishing the previous.
Honestly, though, this is the final nail in the coffin in terms of "we value our friends" because it seems to me that they don't, and now they have the balls to admit it.
AeMe is not subject to the SMF licence, it just isn't a problem. As far as code review goes, I'm interested in ensuring that their code does not affect us. Everything else is secondary.
I have an hour or so, so I will actually get that written up right now! I hate the fact that the last couple of weeks in particular, I've been dragged off to one thing before finishing the previous.
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Other software / Re: SMF 2.0 final THIS MONTH?
« on May 9th, 2011, 11:27 PM »
So, the transfer seems to be complete; the team has now published the NPO bylaws, the trademark guidelines and a bunch of other stuff - like a new front page.
I think we can safely say that it's going to emerge on schedule, then, which means we have an interesting few weeks ahead while we merge in the remaining changes, and making sure code is fully compliant (because I am damned if I'm going to let anyone pull a C&D out) then we can proceed as we see fit. But I will do a code review once 2.0 final lands to ensure that the codebase is free of any issues after that, so that we can finally cut loose.
I think we can safely say that it's going to emerge on schedule, then, which means we have an interesting few weeks ahead while we merge in the remaining changes, and making sure code is fully compliant (because I am damned if I'm going to let anyone pull a C&D out) then we can proceed as we see fit. But I will do a code review once 2.0 final lands to ensure that the codebase is free of any issues after that, so that we can finally cut loose.