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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 11th, 2011, 04:17 PM »
* Arantor rummages in his big list of ideas he already discarded.

Category level permissions are actually a pain in the arse, not a boon. Five years of forum management tells me this.

Permissions are already complicated enough in SMF, just with outside and inside boards stuff. Now you want to complicate it with a whole extra layer, which has performance concerns as well as practical ones.

Again, you can already do this almost entirely out of the box in SMF 2.0 without much in the way of work, especially since the odds of actually needing per category permissions are low, much much lower than per board permissions.

And before you tell me that I don't know how to do things differently, and don't know how to think outside the box (because I know where this will go otherwise), I should point out that I'm no stranger to designing permissions systems *from scratch*

And this last week I've been making it an order of magnitude more powerful by being able to create departments for that helpdesk which can have different permissions structures.
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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 11th, 2011, 03:42 PM »
And that's the sort of thing 2.0's profile system was designed for.
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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 11th, 2011, 10:37 AM »
No... there's a board type to indicate what type of board it is. Appearance is separately controlled (and it's possible to make a board hidden but accessible, or visible but not enterable)
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Off-topic / Re: If this is "The Pub"...
« on April 11th, 2011, 08:53 AM »
Nesquik is AWESOME. I tend not to indulge because it means I would otherwise consume milk at a ferocious rate.
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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 11th, 2011, 08:53 AM »
I do very much indeed intend that.
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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 10th, 2011, 11:44 PM »
Indeed, and in the current climate, of browsers more than capable of indexing your browsing habits, I rarely type more than "inn" anyway...
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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 10th, 2011, 11:17 PM »
But the site name is exactly what I'm about: "Innovate, not Imitate"
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Off-topic / Re: If this is "The Pub"...
« on April 10th, 2011, 10:40 PM »
Tea's good, it's soothing, hydrating, and refreshing. I drink a lot of tea.
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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 10th, 2011, 10:39 PM »
Well, I'm going to be moving innovatenotimitate.com off WP, so you can expect it to do "the business".
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Off-topic / Re: Texasmans Programming Blog
« on April 10th, 2011, 07:09 PM »
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Too many times now ive made statements that were placed at an insignificant level. I ask for assistance in converting a sql statement to check a couple things and decide what record to bring, and i still havent heard mention of it since.
You want to accuse me of being an arrogant European? Yes, I'm arrogant at times. Usually it's because I end up bring proved right so often. Now you're condemning me because I have neither the time nor inclination to sit and write your code for you and that it's also my fault that NO-ONE ELSE IS. How the fuck does that work?
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The communities around smf and wedge dont have time for me
I can't speak for the other dozens of members here or the thousands of members on sm.org, but you're expecting people to help you in a specialist situation and most of those who do have the skill don't have the time.

This question I ask everyone here: which would you rather I do? Spend an hour going through code for one person, or spend an hour designing/planning/building something that benefits a lot of people? I only have so many hours in the day, and I have to make a hard choice as to what I put my time into. Selfishness doesn't even come in to it - you want to suggest I'm selfish?! Look at yourself first.
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And i have been no more harsh than you chose to be
No, you started out by telling us how we should be doing things without considering for a moment that maybe, just maybe, we were already planning to do it that way and hadn't finished rewriting the other thousands and thousands of lines that need to be modified to make it happen.
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Ill prolly fork wedge, cause i know yall have made leaps and bounds from smf, but with my clean slate and the improvements yall have made, ill write a fork specific for my website
Go nuts, provided you're keeping to the licence. Prove that you're so much better than we are at it, since you obviously think we can't possibly bring anything of value to the table.

Tell you what, I'm tempted to give you the code right now. Not commit access, mind, but the ability to read it and see if you can actually put your money where your mouth is. Maybe it'll shut your whining up.
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Every idea is fresh and clean for me, and all i see is possibilities
Except you don't bother to see if we'd considered them and instead proceed to tell us that's how we should do it like we're little kids and clearly not up to your level. You said that you treated us like equals. Equals do not talk down to people, you did, more than once.
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When i said $context = new wedge(); i visuallized the entire platform running in class constructors with all the different sub classes, boardindex, adminpanel, calendar, etc. How easy it would be to substitue a function in that world.
It doesn't work like that in PHP. The entire platform cannot be in class constructors because it actually makes it harder, not easier, to achieve things then.
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Maybe all this is language barriers or cultural differences, or maybe im excentric or an asshole, but i can assure you, respecting me as much as i respect you, can only benefit you, and me as well.
If you respect me, why have you more than once felt the need to explain concepts to me as though I've not been programming for most of a decade?
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I may never could write the code you can, but i damn sure can challenge you to see a different point of view.
Read and inwardly digest, then come back and tell me about different points of view.
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The Pub / Re: What about the blog module?
« on April 10th, 2011, 04:45 PM »
It's built in.

Specifically, it uses the topics and boards and messages tables - the one difference is that for the board(s) in question, there's a type column that will contain 'blog' instead of 'board'.
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Off-topic / Re: YouTube using short links?
« on April 10th, 2011, 04:11 PM »
You'll notice that Kindred didn't bother to say I could post the link even though it would help SMF users... still, a number of people have PM'd me and they've all been given the link to the relevant post.
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Features / Re: How about PMs being listed in Core Features?
« on April 10th, 2011, 12:03 PM »
Yeah, it's still pulled into the main admin page rather than having a separate page for figuring out what's on and what's off, but I was looking at ways to be able to handle it nicely all on one page.
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Off-topic / Re: Introduction
« on April 10th, 2011, 03:23 AM »
Well, all the boards here are post-count friendly, as my post count should indicate :P
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Off-topic / Re: Introduction
« on April 10th, 2011, 02:57 AM »
@CJ Jackson: Hi and welcome!

@live: It's still good. Not everything has to be funny, or serious for that matter.