Site suggestions/bugs

I'll give it a look... phears the arcane cookie login system

aha. :smile:

Cant wait till this 'snarkpower' goodness is realeased; you'll have
ub3r l337 h4x0rs jumping on you from all over the phpbb security
forums. :smile:

It could be one of those suggestions that would boost snarkpit into the upper echlons of awesome. Or what have you. Anyway...

[ google ] bbcode. [/ google ]

Although it might result in any support request being replied to with:

google it...

However, it might be a quicker, and more simple way of telling people where to go.

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Well, I've just made a daily post limiter system, so n00bs can only make a certain number of posts every 24 hours. Dark|killer is the first person (and probably not the last) to test it out...

i think "site suggestions/bugs" should be disqualified as "most popular" thread

especially since my site bug thread was knocked out of the running by a certain owner :razz:

if i recall it was "is it to early..."

whispers

i have been working my movie thread up through the ranks for months now.. and its nearly pure to boot.

... and Dark|killer, in his infinite n00bism, gets himself banned for failing to understand the subtle nuances of the 10 day ban and planning to hack the website (he has an l337 coder friend, apparently!)

Coder friend, heh, i doubt it!

And he can learn as well to be good like you lot!

bump - the [ google ] bbcode ?

Another suggestion: What about a "last visitors" window in the profile? Would be nice to see who was browsing my profile.

Google bbcode has been added: e.g. cheese though it doesn't like being reversed, can't be arsed to write that in right now :wink:

Good idea ding, I'll have a think as to how I can make that work...

(he has an l337 coder friend, apparently!)

By looking at his pic it looks like his friend is a head crab

I'll have a think as to how I can make that work...

In viewprofile.php, or whatever; get the current logged in username,
and write it to the database, make a table something like this?;

tbl_snarkpit_profilehits

username hit1 hit2 hit3 hit4 hit5

ding pleb1 pleb3 pleb7 pleb99 pleb3

then just shuffle the usernames acros the hit rows...?

Well, yes, but it's quite inefficient to have another table, and you have the problem of shuffling (you'd need another column to do that!)

Another suggestion: What about a "last visitors" window in the
profile? Would be nice to see who was browsing my profile.

I know that everyone else is probably a lot less paranoid than me, but
that would creep me out, I'd feel like I was being watched all the
time. (the information in the whos online box also makes me
uncomfortable, its like people are reading over my shoulder).

Also, if that feature was implemented, you'd probably get constant
bored newbies PMing with stuff like "what do uthink of me, I see yoo
looked at my profile I am from england and have 2 dogs" etc. etc.

Personally, I would like to be able to set an 'invisible' mode, so that
people don't know what particular page I'm looking at. :smile:

Yes, I like the 'login as hidden', although I've nothing to hide.

Lep: Almost as bad as cookies. :sad: However;

<!--code-->Code:[quote]<div style="font-family:courier"><pre>//Rip all the hits from the table

$hit1 = $userdata["username"];

$hit2 = $row["hit1"];

$hit3 = $row["hit2"];

$hit4 = $row["hit3"];

$hit5 = $row["hit4"];

echo "profile hits" . $hit1 . $hit2 . $hit3 . $hit4, $hit5;

//Write the $hit# variables to the database.
[/pre][/quote]<!--/code-->

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Leperous</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>... and Dark|killer, in his infinite n00bism, gets himself banned for failing to understand the subtle nuances of the 10 day ban and planning to hack the website (he has an l337 coder friend, apparently!) </DIV></DIV>
THAAAANK YOOOOU LOOOORDDD

This thread is called "Site Suggestions and Bugs" - NOT "off topic incoherent babbling about crap"

Off topic posts will deleted.

with the massive influx of new people has also resulted in a massive influx of tutorials. some have proved informative, some not. many have been very poorly implemented as well, and as such are not as desirable as the better worded/constructed counterparts.

we need to either be more stringent in our accepting of tutorial, or we need to send them back for tweaking. creating a monstrosity that involves almost 1 full megs of screen shots is not acceptable. how it could slip though the crack is unknown, but closer inspection must be enforced.

poorly worded, or vague ideas are also not a choice, and should be returned for better results.

if the members are to utilize this resource, it must be with the very least amount of trouble necessary to illustrate an informative tutorial. tutorials cannot always be short, but they must be concise, or as concise as the topic will allow.

if the people responsible for the authorization of these tutorials is not able to check them fully due to time constraints, or whatever real life may be, perhaps some sort of a voting system can be implemented where a tutorial can be more closely monitored by the users. if a tutorial receives enough legitimate complaints, it is removed.

legitimate does not mean 10 complaints of the same problem, it can also mean 10 different complaints all of one each. as long as each complaint is real, and not just bad relations with members personalities. this would eliminate the retaliatory attempts from the members whom had to rewrite their tutorial.

the present authorization procedure is allowing poor examples to slip though and needs to be addressed, before the pile gets to big to sift through. before long, the problem will be so intimidating that only course of action, will be no action at all, and this is entirely unacceptable.

/ 2 cents.

Yes I agree some recently are crap and I'm loathe to auth them, but I figure if they are that bad they'll be badly rated by the masses- you've already got a voting system!- and delete them if they don't go down well.

Unfortunately though there haven't been many decent tutorials being written recently, but I'd hope over the next few weeks all the old masters who've finished off their (potential) competition entries will crawl out of their caves :wink:

Not guilty before you PM me, whore :razz:

Some kind of reporting system is a good idea though.

lol no I've been authing some too, don't worry, not 100% your fault :wink:

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Leperous</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>lol no I've been authing some too, don't worry, not 100% your fault :wink: </DIV></DIV>

i think... he was talking to me. :sad:

Leperous said:
lol no I've been authing some too, don't worry, not 100% your fault :wink:

i think... he was talking to me. :sad:

No you big buffoon :razz: chuckles I'm gonna have to get some of those depends you tell us about!

I like the new drop down menus from the main navigation bar, but in
Firefox the background is transparent and there is no border which
makes it look a bit crappy and somewhat difficult to read. Looks great
in IE though :smile:

Utterly lame and annoying, please, god, get rid / option in profile. It feels like some sort of crappy tutorial website... arg.

I just noticed the drop-down menu's. They look nice and are a bit
time-saving, so I'd say keep them. It could be nice though to have
them disappear instantly when you click anywhere on the current page,
so when you want to read what's behind them or click a tiny link there,
you can force them to go away instead of having to wait.

Nevertheless, a nice addition to the pit. Keep it coming! :smile:

They look fine to me in Firefox... hrm, I'll have a play around.

Ah its working better now, though the red border only appears on the left and top of the box in FF now.

Cannae fix that I'm afraid :sad:

it could be something wierd at my end, but the menus have appeared without the background and border in IE, at at other times appeared with them.

heheh ^_^ nice menu's lep ! they simplify things

Drop-down menus are great. WD Lep.

Why'd you get rid of the forums thing on the left? :sad: I actually used that.

option in profile

Seconded.

I like the high-res option though.

If you insist on having those drop downs at the very least, put a border all the way around the drop down.

Drop down menus needs to be a profile option, if such is possible. It makes it hard to click on the General Banner link the old fashioned way :sad:

Like I said, I'm finding it very hard to modify the Javascript so borders appear in Firefox/etc. but I'll try. And I'll make them a profile option...

... why aren't you using CSS for the drop down? OH WAIT, IE doesn't support that part of the standard. :razz:

Sorry. I'm not helping, am I?

I have some drop down menu stuff, but it only works in Mozilla/Netscape/etc. I believe in the "If (IE) return false" areas you can place working IE dropdown code.

However, if you want it to be mouseover and not click drop down, you'll need to do some tweaking. Or you could steal SAP's site code.

I am using CSS you pimp :razz: It's because some browsers DON'T seem to support sizing/width standards when it comes to JavaScript, which is where the drop-down widths have to be defined.

Take a look at this. http://www.webbedenvironments.com/dhtml/code/18_NavigationControls/MenuDropDown/index.html

It does work in IE and looks the same, except when highlighting, but I'm sure you can alter some of the IE area code to make it smoother.

Ok, let me know if it's not working still. If for some reason you really hate them, you can turn them off in preferences.

badass, they have borders in Mozilla. Okay, I'm going to turn them off now :smile: I don't think it's a matter of hating them, it's just ... personally, I'm used to browsing the site through the main page, I mean there's the link on every page.

Just a personal preference ... which I'll apply in a moment.

[EDIT]
Um ... could you put the links back to the forums on the front page if you have the drop downs disabled?

Dunno if this is too late, but I got the borders to appear in Firefox AND Internet Explorer by changing:

<!--code-->Code:[quote]<div style="font-family: courier;"><pre><div id="forumContent" class="dropdown"
style="width:165px;height:114px">
[/pre][/quote]<!--/code-->

to

<!--code-->Code:[quote]<div style="font-family: courier;"><pre><div id="forumContent" class="dropdown"
style="width: 165px; height: 114px; background-color:black;
border: 1px solid #AA0000">
[/pre][/quote]<!--/code-->

So if you're autogenerating them with PHP, it should be easy to modify.

Edit:Probably some issue with the DIV not inheriting the BODY properties by default in FFox while working in IE?

Well, then why are the links coming out the right colour? Hrm anyway I think they work for everyone now, if not upgrade your browser or turn them off! :razz:

It looks the same in IE and Firefox now :smile:

The drop menus were my idea... intitially lep was against it, but I thought the snarkpit needed something- reminds me a lot of an old MS dos style gif website atm...

Typical. I'm the only one who still has completely transparent menus...
ah well. I've also turned them off, but is it possible to make it so
that if you turn off the menus the old forum list on the front page
reappears? I used to use that thing a lot, don't know if anyone else
did.

Tech Support forum of sorts? Or not :razz:

may I ask what code is doing it?

cos I may be able to help.

Also, someone bought that same book as me :razz:

Am i right in thinking the drop down menu is in div tags?

Good job getting the drop down borders working in FF, looking fiiiiiiiiiine :smile:

I think you should make the forum list on the index page an option
rather than auto-off WITH drop down and auto-on without. IMO, the more
customisable the site the better.

Yes, I too have invisible backgrounds on my dropdown menus. However...I am in a computer lab at school, and this is not my own. Maybe they have something deactivated....