-And I second that 'auto-check signature' feature.
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Riven on Thu Aug 14th at 6:18am 2008
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Posted by Riven on Thu Aug 14th at 6:18am 2008
Use BBcode instead of html for your sig.
-And I second that 'auto-check signature' feature.
-And I second that 'auto-check signature' feature.
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Posted by Le Chief on Thu Aug 14th at 7:00am 2008
Yeah, I changed it but it isn't updating.
BTW, I like your signature, images in signature ftw!
Posted by Le Chief on Thu Aug 14th at 7:00am 2008
Quoting Riven
Use BBcode instead of html for your sig.
Yeah, I changed it but it isn't updating.
BTW, I like your signature, images in signature ftw!
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by larchy on Thu Aug 14th at 9:03am 2008
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Posted by larchy on Thu Aug 14th at 9:03am 2008
The old site let people put raw html in the database, which is obviously not a terribly great idea. Everything now, be it forum posts, siggies, map reviews etc, should all work with normal bbcode.
There are filters in the scripts which should translate the html in most older posts so that they still display ok.
If you update your signature you'll have to close and restart your browser to see the changes. This is because signatures are one of the things cached on a per-session basis to reduce the load on the database and improve site performance (hopefully). The cache should be updated when you change your siggy... but obviously it isn't so I'll take a look at it when I get time. For now you can use the above workaround though... hope that clears up any confusion.
This may also be the reason for profiles not updating... I'll take a look at sorting the mentioned problems out over the next couple of days.
A separator to delineate stickies is a good idea... I'll add that when I can.
The slashes being added on previewed replies sounds like addslashes() being called in the wrong place or not use stripslashes() on the output... again it will be fixed when I can.
cheers.
Incidentally, how has performance been for people?
There are filters in the scripts which should translate the html in most older posts so that they still display ok.
If you update your signature you'll have to close and restart your browser to see the changes. This is because signatures are one of the things cached on a per-session basis to reduce the load on the database and improve site performance (hopefully). The cache should be updated when you change your siggy... but obviously it isn't so I'll take a look at it when I get time. For now you can use the above workaround though... hope that clears up any confusion.
This may also be the reason for profiles not updating... I'll take a look at sorting the mentioned problems out over the next couple of days.
A separator to delineate stickies is a good idea... I'll add that when I can.
The slashes being added on previewed replies sounds like addslashes() being called in the wrong place or not use stripslashes() on the output... again it will be fixed when I can.
cheers.
Incidentally, how has performance been for people?
[ Edited by larchy on Thu Aug 14th 2008 at 9:09am - total edits: 3]
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Gwil on Thu Aug 14th at 11:02am 2008
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Posted by Gwil on Thu Aug 14th at 11:02am 2008
My performance is fine today, it was a little slow yesterday but I attributed that to Globats side of the operation to be honest. I'll tidy up that front page news as soon as we have a definite competition guideline from Riven!
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Riven on Thu Aug 14th at 3:16pm 2008
Well, I haven't bothered to write one out just yet. I will give it until this Saturday or Sunday to see if anyone else seconds an idea or presents any new ones. Then I will find the best one and structure something out.
-yea, my performance started out really slow, like dial-up slow, then for the past two days it has been pretty fast (or as fast as SnarkPit has always been for me). Sometimes it gets hung up on loading just the forums menu page.
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Posted by Riven on Thu Aug 14th at 3:16pm 2008
Quoting Gwil
I'll tidy up that front page news as soon as we have a definite competition guideline from Riven!
Well, I haven't bothered to write one out just yet. I will give it until this Saturday or Sunday to see if anyone else seconds an idea or presents any new ones. Then I will find the best one and structure something out.
-yea, my performance started out really slow, like dial-up slow, then for the past two days it has been pretty fast (or as fast as SnarkPit has always been for me). Sometimes it gets hung up on loading just the forums menu page.
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
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Posted by larchy on Thu Aug 14th at 3:35pm 2008
Changes:
Line added below stickies
Error corrected where profile text wasn't updating
The profile cache now updates when you edit your profile
Backslashes on forum preview text removed (this was actually to do with the server's php configuration)
AIM contact icons fixed
Profile option added to enable/disable adding signature by default when posting.
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After initially moving over to the new code I noticed everything was pretty slow. I took a look at the database and, after backing everything up for the hundreth time, deleted all the tables which had been made obsolete by the new ones I'd made. This was about... 11am-ish yesterday I think... everything seemed to speed up quite a bit after that, but I don't know if it was anything to do with halving the size of the database or just coincidental as things have always been a bit temperamental.
Just seemed a bit better after I did that, so hope it stays that way!
Line added below stickies
Error corrected where profile text wasn't updating
The profile cache now updates when you edit your profile
Backslashes on forum preview text removed (this was actually to do with the server's php configuration)
AIM contact icons fixed
Profile option added to enable/disable adding signature by default when posting.
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After initially moving over to the new code I noticed everything was pretty slow. I took a look at the database and, after backing everything up for the hundreth time, deleted all the tables which had been made obsolete by the new ones I'd made. This was about... 11am-ish yesterday I think... everything seemed to speed up quite a bit after that, but I don't know if it was anything to do with halving the size of the database or just coincidental as things have always been a bit temperamental.
Just seemed a bit better after I did that, so hope it stays that way!
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by larchy on Thu Aug 14th at 3:39pm 2008
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Posted by larchy on Thu Aug 14th at 3:39pm 2008
Fixed issue that prevented smiley list displaying on the right when posting
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by ReNo on Thu Aug 14th at 8:09pm 2008
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Posted by ReNo on Thu Aug 14th at 8:09pm 2008
Awesome, you work fast Larchy, your like our own website angel 
...Yeah I just wanted an excuse to look at all the new smilies and use one I never have before :P
...Yeah I just wanted an excuse to look at all the new smilies and use one I never have before :P
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by ReNo on Fri Aug 15th at 12:54pm 2008
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Posted by ReNo on Fri Aug 15th at 12:54pm 2008
Just tried to find the memberlist and realised that it's actually really rather hard to get to. In the end I couldn't find a direct link, but had to go to my own user profile and then click the small memberlist link from there. I reckon "members" or "users" should be one of the tabs along the top bar. What do you guys think?
EDIT: Also, the memberlist currently seems to have a couple of issues. Firstly, that you can't sort by postcount, which was the only thing I was interested in sorting by. Secondly, sorting by some of the other things breaks the table (articles, maps, downloads...).
EDIT: Also, the memberlist currently seems to have a couple of issues. Firstly, that you can't sort by postcount, which was the only thing I was interested in sorting by. Secondly, sorting by some of the other things breaks the table (articles, maps, downloads...).
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Riven on Fri Aug 15th at 6:33pm 2008
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Posted by Riven on Fri Aug 15th at 6:33pm 2008
yea, sorting by post count is a good idea, but putting it up on the main nav bar might be a little much. That is, I don\'t think it\'s as important as articles and links. But I can\'t back-up my claim because I also can\'t think of a better place to put it either. 
[EDIT]: It looks like it will add the backslashes if you return to editing after previewing. But if you post it from the preview page they're not there.
[EDIT]: It looks like it will add the backslashes if you return to editing after previewing. But if you post it from the preview page they're not there.
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by RedWood on Mon Aug 18th at 1:10am 2008
Posted by RedWood on Mon Aug 18th at 1:10am 2008
The new site looks good Larchy. Still a bit buggy but its nice over all.
The site is running slow for me. I'll open a form post in a different tab and it will take like 30 sec to start loading but once it does it load rather quickly.
Sometimes when i try to change the pists theme, by way of that neat little button, the page will go blank and not refresh. Even when i try to refresh manually.
I think it be nice if there was a way to jump form section to form section without going back to the main index. Say if you wanted to got form general banter directly to maps.
The site is running slow for me. I'll open a form post in a different tab and it will take like 30 sec to start loading but once it does it load rather quickly.
Sometimes when i try to change the pists theme, by way of that neat little button, the page will go blank and not refresh. Even when i try to refresh manually.
I think it be nice if there was a way to jump form section to form section without going back to the main index. Say if you wanted to got form general banter directly to maps.
[ Edited by redwood on Mon Aug 18th 2008 at 1:11am - total edits: 1]
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Le Chief on Tue Aug 19th at 4:35am 2008
Posted by Le Chief on Tue Aug 19th at 4:35am 2008
By who?
Also, I'm having a bit of trouble noticing the folks signatures, instead of the signature starting under the users avatar, could we have them underneath the forum posts.
edit: If you look at Riven's last post in this thread, you can see the extra slashes, this is the preview error I was talking about before.
Also, I'm having a bit of trouble noticing the folks signatures, instead of the signature starting under the users avatar, could we have them underneath the forum posts.
edit: If you look at Riven's last post in this thread, you can see the extra slashes, this is the preview error I was talking about before.
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 10:55am 2008
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Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 10:55am 2008
I have the invisible user problem too. I got a PM, I think from Muhnay and his name has disappeared.
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Sim on Tue Aug 19th at 11:07am 2008
Posted by Sim on Tue Aug 19th at 11:07am 2008
I preview my posts several times and they look fine, then why I submit I'm sure the ' gets replaced by \\\', looks like it's run over the post twice. Also getting newlines replaced by <br />. Post stays fixed when I edit out all the rubbish.
Also the signatures are annoying being so wide right now, they look like paid adverts. Site is faster than it was a day or two ago. It seems that all maps have 1 rating right now of 0 stars. Unless someone is actually rating all maps 0 stars it's a bit misleading.
Everything else looks good, this site has changed a lot from the yellow on black I was used to. I saw mention of focus moving away from tutorials, is that so? I've spent a huge amount of time reading the HL1 tutorials on this site and recommended them to a lot of people (and still do), and they cover things a lot of sites don't. I'd hate to see them go.
Also the signatures are annoying being so wide right now, they look like paid adverts. Site is faster than it was a day or two ago. It seems that all maps have 1 rating right now of 0 stars. Unless someone is actually rating all maps 0 stars it's a bit misleading.
Everything else looks good, this site has changed a lot from the yellow on black I was used to. I saw mention of focus moving away from tutorials, is that so? I've spent a huge amount of time reading the HL1 tutorials on this site and recommended them to a lot of people (and still do), and they cover things a lot of sites don't. I'd hate to see them go.
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Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 11:13am 2008
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Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 11:13am 2008
The tutorials are still here - just contained under "articles" now. Our chief problem is of course that we don't have enough people writing tutorials. If you wish to volunteer, do so now :P
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 11:13am 2008
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Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 11:13am 2008
The tutorials are still here - just contained under "articles" now. Our chief problem is of course that we don't have enough people writing tutorials. If you wish to volunteer, do so now :P
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 11:18am 2008
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Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 11:18am 2008
Muhnay's name disappeared from your pm because I changed the name of his Moneyshot account to Muhnay and deleted his newer account - see the thread where he asks about this for details.
Aaron's issue looks like a problem with the cache... I'll look into it but might take a while to track that one down.
Moving siggies across is no problem.
I'll take another look at the problems with previews since people are still having issues.
Aaron's issue looks like a problem with the cache... I'll look into it but might take a while to track that one down.
Moving siggies across is no problem.
I'll take another look at the problems with previews since people are still having issues.
[ Edited by larchy on Tue Aug 19th 2008 at 12:19pm - total edits: 1]
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 11:27am 2008
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Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 11:27am 2008
Hmmm... ok, hopefully its fixed now. Sorry about this guys.
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 11:29am 2008
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Posted by Gwil on Tue Aug 19th at 11:29am 2008
Please don't be apologetic larchy 
You have been more than generous with your time and efforts so far, I for one am extremely grateful for the work done so far as i'm sure all other members are too!
If I were a mover and shaker in parliament, I'd set about a bill to have a statue of you erected in some prominent public place!
You have been more than generous with your time and efforts so far, I for one am extremely grateful for the work done so far as i'm sure all other members are too!
If I were a mover and shaker in parliament, I'd set about a bill to have a statue of you erected in some prominent public place!
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Re: The Snarkpit Relaunch
Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 11:36am 2008
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Posted by larchy on Tue Aug 19th at 11:36am 2008
Excellent. It would no doubt shoot laser beams from its eyes and cause all pigeons to spontaneously combust within an 80ft radius.
Changed the display for siggies.... any better?
Changed the display for siggies.... any better?
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