Riven said:
I wonder what the percentage of users still use IE6 and earlier are?

About 30%. Unfortunately a lot of companies are IE6 only as their company intranets only work with IE6 and they daren't change it. Some just also don't want to have to deploy IE7 due tot he work involved, and they won't use anything other than IE because the likes of Firefox's server deployment features are utter crap.

Firefox is around 20%, Opera < 1%, Chrome and Safari abour 3-4%, and the remaining largest single chunk is IE7

However on technology related sites (ie sites whose users have any sort of basic clue) Firefox is about 50%, IE about 20% and the rest mostly Safari with some Opera and (increasingly) Chrome

For snarkpit about 22% is IE, 34% Firefox, 3% Opera, 3% Safari and (helpfully) 36% 'unknown', but I put this down to globat's webstats being crap. I'd guess it's mostly made up of Firefox running extensions and possibly Chrome.

Here's the sort of crap randomly added by globat:

<?php @register_shutdown_function("__sfd1229464065__");function __sfd1229464065__() { global $__sdv1229464065__; if (!empty($__sdv1229464065__)) return; $__sdv1229464065__=1; echo <<<DOC__DOC

DOC__DOC;
} ?>
<?php @register_shutdown_function("__sfd1228928734__");function __sfd1228928734__() { global $__sdv1228928734__; if (!empty($__sdv1228928734__)) return; $__sdv1228928734__=1; echo <<<DOC__DOC

DOC__DOC;
} ?>

Which makes the script call a function (or functions) every time it finishes running, and fk knows what they're doing 'cos the names are totally screwy.

Oh, and you can access the phpymyadmin page for the globat database just by going to the correct URL - no password, no login, nothing, totally unprotected. Sooner we're off them the better tbh.

Ok m8 I dunno, I've just changed my email, my pw, and used the password retrieve thing and it worked each time... so fkknows tbh, dunno whats happening.

I've added my email address to the "activation failed" error message so they can email me directly if they have a problem.

I redid the snarkmark code so that it now stores a fixed value. This is updated if you visit the control panel > snarkmark link, and will also be when you add any new content.

But right now you may no longer immediately see the effects when you change the snarkmark values... the reason I did this is because calculating everyone's rating dynamically is expensive as you have to pull all the stuff they've ever uploaded from three different tables, loop through it and work out the values... I wrote a script to resync everyone's rating but haven't put it into an admin control yet - but I will so you can resync everyone manually. In the meantime the resync on that cp page will act as a sort of occasional resync when users visit it.

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Yes there is a problem with accounts and reactivating on globat. I have pulled my hair out trying to get things to work because what does work one day doesn't work the next. They have changed the way the server handles $_GET and $_POST requests at least 3 times (this has to do with why the slashes randomly appear in posts), some days the mail function plain doesn't work so noone gets emails, then it suddenly does, sometimes it sends a glut of backlogged ones... but even then with the activation emails the code is wrong because the database query fails... I've tried to fix things as best I can but I honestly feel like Sisyphus

The code for creating/reactivating etc has been redone for this new site - it had to be because I've completely changed the user database. I've redone the way the activations system works anyway.... the system on globat is just the code from the old site by leperous because I didn't want any problems so just stuck with what worked... but obviously it hasn't gone well! I've also added a contact page and additional error/help pages if something goes wrong so that it's easier for ppl to contact me if they are having trouble.

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The globat code is basically abandoned as far as I'm concerned, I'm sick of coding around their fking crappy server bollox and downloading my own code from there to find out it's had extra stuff added to the start and end of it (no kidding - remember when the original site had those hidden porn links appear in the code this time last year? and it was a cross site scripting attack that had added the code to the index files? I'm sure globat's servers are compromised)

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thanks for the pm link bug, will fix

Riven said:
Excuse YOU Sir! But I think my avatar looks just fine!
-I polish it every day!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

OK, a couple of things...

clicking on any PM user icon brings me to a "Find User Failed" page: http://opal.lunarbreeze.com/~snark3/index.php?p=cp&pma=new&pmr=6381
Ok, when I was testing the $M rate page for the super admin panel, I changed the fixed rates for downloads and articles to 10 from 0 and updated it. When checking my own profile snarkmarks, it says I'm still receiving none from downloads even though I have 1. -Does that download need to have at least 1 rating in order for the fixed rate to count at all? I thought fixed rates are given automatically after uploading that item, and then the percentage from ratings is added to that fixed rate?

So, shouldn't my number have changed whenever I updated the fixed rate for downloads?

Also, I've gotten another request from a user about their account not wanting to work for them. I'll PM you the details on the globat site, but this seems to be a re-occurring problem. Is there something more to this than the person forgetting their username or password? -And has there been any fixes for it on this new version of the site if there are any bugs involved?

Excuse YOU Sir! But I think my avatar looks just fine!
-I polish it every day!

-Na, I bet the transparency is double crap in IE6, -Oh well I wonder what the percentage of users still use IE6 and earlier are?

I've started doing the laborious task of cross-browser fixes, and have redone quite a lot of css and some actual layout code to get IE6 working - ctrl+f5 to refresh your stylesheets if the forums look a mess.

The new code that pops up the right map screenshot from the map page needed to be redone too, and I'm having to call a function constructor to get the code to work in IE 6 (because it doesn't support DOM1+), which is slow because it forces an eval... but at least it works and there isn't really much js going on anyway so shouldn't be a problem.

Also, your avatar looks crap on IE Riven because it doesn't support the transparency.

whaaaa?

[Edit: ahhhh it was because it was using the number of topics to paginate the threads... 'cos you can increase that in your user profile now and it ballsed it up. Fixed!]

Also, I haven't done anything for the past few days 'cos I've been horrendously ill D: Progress will hopefully resume shortly.

This thread and the "all visitors please read" thread are missing their paging buttons in the thread list on the general banter forum page.

BTW, I like the new "hot topic" icon! Sweet!