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Off-topic / Re: Scary Times Helping Other Admins
« on June 1st, 2013, 01:28 AM »
So I got up this morning and I finally saw the icons on that forum. So I thought whew, glad that got resolved. I PMed the Admin and said they looked great! He said "I still don't see them!"
:huh:
I said refresh your browser and you should see them, I see them here just fine.
He PM'ed back a few minutes later "Oh now I see them - thanks!"
EEVBlog Forum
:huh:
I said refresh your browser and you should see them, I see them here just fine.
He PM'ed back a few minutes later "Oh now I see them - thanks!"
EEVBlog Forum
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Off-topic / Re: Scary Times Helping Other Admins
« on May 31st, 2013, 02:26 AM »504 is when there's a timeout happening between the request getting to nginx, being passed on to whatever to handle it, and it getting back to nginx. Interesting... I wonder if the site is actually using nginx + PHP/FPM or using nginx as a reverse proxy to Apache. Might be interesting to find out.
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Off-topic / Scary Times Helping Other Admins
« on May 31st, 2013, 02:19 AM »
An electronics forum I go to uses a plain jane SMF install so I offered the Admin to spice it up with some better new post/no new post icons (see attached) more oriented towards electronics. I chose to make them oscilloscope displays with and without a signal.
Well he really liked them, so he PM'ed me back that he uploaded them but nothing changed. :sob:
Well, first of all, I only linked him to two of the needed files since I didn't want to waste time making all of them yet until I knew he liked them. Second, I have no idea where he "uploaded" them to. :hmm:
I just sent him a full set of files and the specific path to upload the files. Sometimes these people scare me. :o
I'm sitting here refreshing his forum waiting for his icons to change ...
Oh Dear - Now it shows 504 Gateway Time-out!
nginx
Well he really liked them, so he PM'ed me back that he uploaded them but nothing changed. :sob:
Well, first of all, I only linked him to two of the needed files since I didn't want to waste time making all of them yet until I knew he liked them. Second, I have no idea where he "uploaded" them to. :hmm:
I just sent him a full set of files and the specific path to upload the files. Sometimes these people scare me. :o
I'm sitting here refreshing his forum waiting for his icons to change ...
Oh Dear - Now it shows 504 Gateway Time-out!
nginx
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Off-topic / Re: Initial forecasts of Wedge installs/conversions
« on May 30th, 2013, 06:32 PM »How about in this board:
"Site Comments, Issues and Concerns
Comments on this slick site? Post them here. (SMF bugs should be reported in Bug Reports.)"
"Dear Mr Sm.org Administrator, have you considered upgrading this forum to Wedge? It is based on SMF but has more features and fewer bugs :)"
Unable to load the 'main_above' template.
:blink:
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The Pub / Re: I asked my people to take a look at Wedge
« on May 30th, 2013, 03:57 AM »The former... guess what's already done?
The latter... for the server load it would likely generate, not so smart (Facebook and Twitter don't run on cheap shared hosting unlike Wedge...)
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The Pub / Re: I asked my people to take a look at Wedge
« on May 30th, 2013, 03:50 AM »
One of my members just posted this -Quote from Kimberly on May 30th, 2013, 03:41 AM
An update counter in the browser tab would be nice. Like when I'm on FB or Twitter it will tell me I have X amount of updates in the tab for that site. And update counter for subscribed topics would be nice. Does that make sense?
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Features / Re: Poll enhancements
« on May 30th, 2013, 02:50 AM »
LimeSurvey - I went back and checked.Quote (See - I'm de-nesting quotes by hand :))Quote from Arantor on May 30th, 2013, 02:39 AM You're probably right (as usual) but I thought a survey gathered the data together in a final presentation. It is a bit much for two or three questions I'll admit.
As you said it would be useful though, at any rate. :)
But in addition to polls what about surveys from within the forum? :hmm:
Well... if you can have multiple polls per topic, where people can vote for multiple answers or score things, and the admin can see who voted what... don't you already have that ;)
As you said it would be useful though, at any rate. :)
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Features / Re: Poll enhancements
« on May 30th, 2013, 02:35 AM »Thoughts?
* Allowing admin to set the maximum number of poll answers (currently no limit)
* Fixing the bug where way too many answers can cause issues
* Option to display the choices randomly to people viewing the poll (because people have a tendency to pick the first one), though the order would remain consistent for viewing results
* Multiple questions per poll
Thinking about Beer, what is your rating of the following brews on a scale from 1 to 10?
1. Guinness
2. Dos Equis
3. Killian's Irish Red
4. Coors
Now thinking about the cost, what is the maximum you would pay for a six pack?
1. $5
2. $6
3. $7
4. >$8
You know there was (is ?) a survey app that you used to be able to install in Cpanel. I used it for a while years ago for surveys that we put together. But in addition to polls what about surveys from within the forum? :hmm:
* Voting with points rather than individual votes (e.g. having 5 points to distribute between 3 answers)
* Pie charts as an optional display type (may or may not use the chart code I had before, dunno)
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Off-topic / Re: Initial forecasts of Wedge installs/conversions
« on May 30th, 2013, 02:04 AM »It has happened that we've offered useful information back to them in the past and got it linked to here, e.g. I seem to recall debates about SMF development, when we'd already done it... hell, I posted a few requests for features with screenshots of what I'd already done ;)
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Off-topic / Re: Initial forecasts of Wedge installs/conversions
« on May 30th, 2013, 01:55 AM »Officially, linking here from That Other Place is still officially verboten, but if there's a useful post here, then it's worth linking ;)
Right?
RIGHT!
So, I couldn't spare that crowd of any useful information on the internets, wherever it may be, now could I? :+1:
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Off-topic / Re: Initial forecasts of Wedge installs/conversions
« on May 30th, 2013, 01:45 AM »
I'd expect word-of-mouth to spread the news of course. Then we could go to other forums, especially ... that other one ... and make some noise. Might be in bad taste so I'd make sure it was OK here first. :)
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Off-topic / Re: Initial forecasts of Wedge installs/conversions
« on May 30th, 2013, 01:36 AM »Doubly so if they don't at least try to read."
Come on guys - let's get real now ...
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Off-topic / Initial forecasts of Wedge installs/conversions
« on May 30th, 2013, 01:24 AM »74
Off-topic / Re: I don't Like Forum Signatures
« on May 30th, 2013, 01:07 AM »Well... SMF and Wedge both offer the ability to cap signature images to a reasonable size, and both offer users the ability to opt out of seeing signatures if they so choose.
Note that Wedge infractions can even handle the case of a user with an annoying signature and you can remove it from them as part of the warning ;)
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Off-topic / Re: I don't Like Forum Signatures
« on May 30th, 2013, 12:54 AM »I don't like forum signatures and always remove the code from the display template. It always serves as a bid distraction especially the ones with big flashy images and also looks ugly on mobile templates.
I've used sigs to make protests at other forums too when the staff are being idiots. I know bad boy. :p
I know somebody doing exactly that right now on ... that other forum. :)[1]
| 1. | not me |