Wedge

 :lol:

A few of the many, many SMF things I fixed... (Just retrieving keyword 'smf' from last month's SVN commits.)

- In the profile area, when issuing a warning, SMF has code whose purpose is to allow moderators to drag and slide to set the target percentage. Needless to say, it doesn't work at all.
- SMF uses time() in a few areas to determine how many seconds were spent on a task. Very accurate!
- SMF does something like this at some point: in_array('m', array('m,cd,cp')). Sounds like a joke.
- SMF shows a floattop class by default in template_button_strip. It doesn't even exist. Most of their calls request floatleft, they should have used that by default...

SMF does this, SMF does that... These are all bugs I found while reading/assessing/auditing the source code. We're not supposed to do that. The SMF team is supposed to. SMF beta testers, at worst.

Ouch...

I imagine Dragoon in this moment (just joking :P ).

They've always give beta badges to anyone, and not cared a bit about whether or not they did anything. When I was made a tester, I worked hard to 'deserve' it. Pff, I wasted my time. Most of my reports went unnoticed anyway... Wasted talent really. The best beta tester for Wedge is me :niark:

You must love to screw things up enough to be a beta tester :P

Hmm yeah.

They have an awful lot of beta testers and I don't see that many reports from most of them... whereas in ye olden times, you actually had to have proven skill to be able to be a beta tester, now it seems like you pretty much just have to ask to get one.

There are a few of the testers who seem capable enough, but even of those who are capable, I don't see much activity.

Ummm...does putting tags in the site slogan stop some .js file from loading considered a bug?  ;)

Can you be more specific?

I still don't get it why am I a beta tester. I haven't filed a single report since more than a year, I think they forgot about me.

It's not that surprising. Officially, the beta tester group is an 'antechamber' to becoming a teamie. (Either a customizer or a dev -- anything that requires PHP skills.)
However, this is more like an "antechamber to people who're worthy of being in the team but they're not sure about". That's why I stayed there for over two years when some others were in there for a couple of months before becoming devs. (e.g. Nas, who just made half a dozen commits before resigning after months of inactivity.)

In reality, the beta tester group is the SMF team's purgatory. They let you get a taste of development hell, but without the benefits.

Dismal, I don't see anything wrong happening in Wedge with your stuff... Maybe it's the mods' fault or something.

@Dragooon, Nao: Way way back in the mists of time, when it was being discussed about my being a teamie, Karl actually recommended I go into the beta testers area rather than support because while even then (June 09) it was clear I had the skills, they'd noticed I had a bit of a temper because I care about what I do, and that it might not be ideal for me being on the support team...

@Dismal: First up, that's invalid HTML (center is not part of XHTML as far as I remember, and the br tag isn't like that)

Try:

It's so sad... That they make sure that their support team is made up of people who don't care about the software... :PYeah, center and br are invalid in XHTML, but in HTML5 (and thus in Wedge), the non-self-closing br will be fine ;)