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Features / Re: New revs - Public comments
« on August 1st, 2011, 10:05 AM »
Quote from Arantor on July 29th, 2011, 01:27 AM
The reason for using strtolower done like that is for accuracy. JavaScript's one is way more aware of things like UTF-8 than PHP's has been for a long time, and I suspect with PHP 5.4 this will have to be revisited anyway.

But ultimately the two have to be done exactly the same for password hashing to actually work, so JS has to then proceed to use the exact same case adjuster even if the browser could do a "better" job of it.
Yes, I suppose so.
Which is why it's only used in sha1.js... :)
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I had actually fixed that locally, though I've not committed what I have because I'm not happy with it yet, concerning how users select timezones. Still not sure about that, maybe I should just commit what I have (which is to use a timezone column in the user's table and fallback to the offset for the time being)
Is my fix okay for you? Feel free to rewrite it... I only fixed the error, really.

Another question.
Your number convert function -- isn't he comma_format stuff going to kill performance if used on a larger scale...?
Do you plan to convert more strings into using that? Or should I do it? :P
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The Pub / [Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« on August 1st, 2011, 09:15 AM »
Here's a test with a modified object behind the text. (Playing with settings :P)
I moved the text inside the object, colorized only the first letter (as in the original logo), and changed the font to a Helvetica clone.
The best point IMO is that readability at reduced size is increased tenfold. And it still looks sexy (albeit a bit less?) in large size.
Of course it's also less original. Helvetica eh... It's like Arial, only a bit better :P
Then again, Wedge uses Arial everywhere... As I said, I made peace with it.

:edit: Also added a black version, and a version with a smaller wedge object...
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on August 1st, 2011, 12:09 AM »
Nah. English is way easier.
French is crazy. Even Japanese is a bit easier.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on July 31st, 2011, 11:03 PM »
Quote from Arantor on July 31st, 2011, 08:28 PM
Hopefully it will help discourage bringing more of the SMF drama here because frankly I'm fed up to the back teeth of every little thing that need not be a problem then being blown out of proportion by people who have demonstrated every possible way to fuck up a community of people who were happy to contribute their time and energy.
Pete, you're still feeling too concerned about SMF.

Let's just sum it up in four words: they don't deserve it.

Repeat: they don't deserve it.

SMF is dying. All of the drama that we're seeing is the surface. The developers lack any motivation to work on SMF 2.1 (let alone 3.0), the only two devs left are on hiatus or something. The support team does what it does currently best -- "la la la la laaaaaa". The managers don't manage a thing. And ex-teamies with absolutely no rights over people can get away with censoring stuff they don't like.

Yes, Kindred, I'm talking about you -- o thou so holy. You still go ahead and give people lessons. But you won't even acknowledge your involvement in this. So yeah, keep doing what you do best. Keep trying to hide the truth. SMF is dying because no one at SMF cares about the software, they only care about the image of the project.

Karl Benson officially gave me full ownership of Aeva today (I want to thank him for clearing that up.)
Which means I can now freely delete Aeva Media *AND* Aeva Lite from the SMF website. Which I'll do once the first usable version of Wedge is out. Along with all of the other mods I made. (Which isn't much, but still.)

That's my way of saying 'thank you' to the SMF managers for how they treated the people who really care about SMF, the software. Most of which have put their trust in us and jumped on the Wedge ship. Thank you all. Wedge won't disappoint.
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Off-topic / Re: Dial Up BBS
« on July 31st, 2011, 10:54 PM »
And that's your first post... Not bad for a Friend who's been registered for months :niark:
Welcome eheh.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on July 31st, 2011, 07:10 PM »
Quote from ARG on July 31st, 2011, 05:30 PM
Although removing all of your posts will throw a lot of conversations off course and deem them pretty much meaningless,
Isn't that the point of your site? :P

runic, are you talking about my issue or K@'s?
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The Pub / [Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« on July 31st, 2011, 07:06 PM »
Oh, I've been doing the same myself with Inkscape... I 'tried' Illustrator but I have issues with it. I don't really connect with it, at least for now. In Inkscape I was able to apply drop shadows (filters) of my choice to the font version, and best of all -- it applies in real time to text changes.
It's hard to change the letter spacing though. In both software, I have to click the text tool, click between two letters and change the spacing manually in the toolbox. In Illustrator, I can't move the text itself (or at the very least didn't get to find the feature to do so). I'll probably be going for Inkscape in the end.
Anyway, these vector program thingies... They're cool. Way more powerful than PSP7. But also way harder to use... :-/

Still haven't found the 'right' balance between beautiful and readable, for now. Looking into other fonts, but even PT Sans doesn't look as 'good' as Segoe UI Light when it comes to logo-demoing.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on July 31st, 2011, 01:41 PM »
So, regarding my issue with the Aeva Media censorship...

Is anyone in the SMF team in charge of dealing with this?
Will I have to clearly speak out the names of the two people involved in the censorship, and who clearly overstepped their role limits? This also means I take the matter in my own hands, and it's not going to be pretty.

Or will this all be dealt with internally, my page restored to normalcy and a formal apology be issued on the incident?
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The Pub / [Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« on July 31st, 2011, 12:10 AM »
Nice font... I like the w.
I'm trying to edit your stuff in Inkscape. Apparently your converted the font to outlines so I can't just change the font style...?

When it comes to letter spacing, the following is my favorite (still a Segoe UI Light.)
As you can see, for logos I prefer to have relatively tight font spacing. (I manually moved each of the letters.)

Is there any way to add shadows without duplicating the outlines? Illustrator seems to have a drop shadow option that is 'linked' to the parent text itself.
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The Pub / [Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« on July 30th, 2011, 10:28 PM »
Any more feedback...?

The font may be a bit too thin in small sizes. Maybe I should use segoe ui at small sizes. Or PT Sans.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on July 30th, 2011, 09:34 PM »
I don't own the copyright. Smf does. It's their lifestyle :niark:
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on July 30th, 2011, 08:32 PM »
The only reason is that I don't want smf users to have to settle on some shitty mod (sm* galler*, shh!) instead. But then again, if they don't switch to Wedge when it's out, means they don't care about their media area so I'll remove AeMe from smf when Wedge is out.
The difference now is that if smf doesn't undo their changes, I could care less about AeMe over there. The losers are their users -- and, ultimately, them.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on July 30th, 2011, 07:11 PM »
Quote from Arantor on July 30th, 2011, 07:05 PM
You know as well as I do that once you signed the CLA you no longer had the right to remove your own posts as I proved a short while ago.
Well, you signed it and you still were able to remove thousands of posts manually... I could do that, too. If I weren't banned of course...

Also, that doesn't imply there's a *logic* in keeping my posts and censoring what they want.
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Best decision I ever made was removing my account for a second time. In hindsight I shouldn't even have bothered setting up that account because it hasn't brought me anything but hassle.
+1.

I'd remove it, too... If I could remove my posts as well.
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Other software / Re: "Paid for" shit.
« on July 30th, 2011, 06:09 PM »
Okay, took a minute to compile what was edited out of the AeMe mod page... (Again, without even telling me.)

- "from the Wedge team" (in the copyright), including the link, and the [/center] tag, which as a result breaks the layout. It's not even WELL done...

- "The commercial branch is now part of the Wedge software, where it is available for free."

- My account's website link was also deleted without warning or anything. You know, this place where ANYONE can put ANY link they want? Especially if it's THEIR website?

If they don't want my website linked on MY account, then they might as well remove my account as well, because I'm not sharing any of my 6k posts over there with people who don't want to even acknowledge my existence.

<sigh>
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Off-topic / Re: Resolution
« on July 30th, 2011, 05:21 PM »
Well it's not perfect but I don't mind. In a few months we will switch to wedge anyway.