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I'd tend to say it'd be too taxing on the server. I mean at least when taking into account the small benefit it has ;)

My problem is that you post so much and such long posts -- they're always interesting to read but many times I'll just consider the fact it'll take me 20 minutes to answer and then you'll answer and that another 20 minutes and that's how I kill so many good conversations with my laziness.
You're just too good with a keyboard. I don't know how you can pull it off.

And that's a very long post for iPod standards ;)

I'm going to Ikea so you have a couple of hours to outdo me. Good luck! :D

Errrrrrrrrrrr.......

I believe I wrote that into Wedge months ago ;)

Look into ob_sessrewrite, there's a preg replace on profile links.
One less thing to do ;)

Kay then.

The member table is so huge, I'd just rather not add fields that aren't gonna be used by everyone.

Didnt we have plans for a generic joined sister table to remove weight from it btw?

- you mean a website can't connect to them using a regular username and pw? You mean they willfully broke many sites?

- it's just that it's only a cache of sorts. If I store the Id I might as well loafd the thought from the thoughts table... Ah well.

Okay, I'll be opening this topic to discuss the upcoming thought system...

For those of you who aren't in our Friends group, you can't access thoughts in here, so I'll redirect you to noisen.com where you can see a list of thoughts on the homepage.

Basically, it's a chatbox, only it doesn't have all that Ajax stuff that makes it look like it's real time and mostly puts a lot more load on your server.

I'm about halfway through my implementation for Wedge. I rewrote a lot of it, and added some features which may or may not work.

- Privacy: determine whether you want your thoughts to be visible to everyone, just members, just your friends, or just you (e.g. a to-do...)
- Edit ANY of your thoughts, including older 'latest thought' or your replies to others' thoughts.
- The latest thought is now in the sidebar. You can either edit it, or write a new one (there are links for that.)
- If you edit a current thought, if the new version has less than 10% differing from the old thought, the original publishing date will be kept. Otherwise, the thought's publishing date is set to now. (This is different from the current implementation where a 20% difference will generate a new timestamp, also it allows you to edit anything.)
- I've removed the 'Default Personal Text' option which means nothing to me... And to anyone else, I'd venture into saying. (Hey, Pete isn't the only one entitled to deleting SMF crap :P)
- Users can no longer set their Personal Text in their profile, if only because they can now set it from any page in the sidebar...

The privacy stuff only has the UI implemented. The 'edit everything' code is barely started, so it doesn't work.
The JavaScript adds an extra couple of kilobytes to script.js, which bothers me a bit (though it'll probably be more like 500 bytes once minified an gzipped), but OTOH it's a pretty neat feature so I think it's best to have it as default...

I'm a bit stumped with storing the latest thought though. Right now I'm storing something like "1500|My thought" in the members table where 1500 is the thought's ID, so that I can easily tell Wedge whether we're currently editing the latest thought (by putting its ID into an invisible part of the form) or simply writing a new thought that looks a lot like an earlier one (in which case the ID is set to 0 at this point.)
I don't want (too much) to get rid of personal_text because some people may not want to use the thought system and still have their old SMF-imported personal text below their avatar and stuff. But I think that storing the thought ID as a 'hack' inside the personal_text itself is not exactly pretty.

Open to any suggestions... I'm off to bed, this weekend was hectic.