Site suggestions/bugs

Are things working now? Sorry about these problems...

You have no need to apologise for any bugs Lep, the site runs a lot
smoother that most, and any issues that do arise are always sorted.

I was just thinking it might be nice to have a forum for the server.
Would be useful for suggestions for additions to the map rotation,
setting changes, organising matches/test nights, chatting about server
performance issues, talk about how awesome last night's Snarkpit vs.
TWHL battle was, and so on. If a forum seems like overkill, it could be
cool to have a sticky or two in general banter - Server suggestions,
and server chat (or something of the sort).

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting ReNo</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>talk about how awesome last night's Snarkpit vs. TWHL battle was
</DIV></DIV>
WHAT?! You played the opposition and I was not invited to come crush them?! :sad:

You've no need to apolgise for any bugs Lep; s**t happens, and you normally sort it out quicker than anybody could hope for.

And about the TWHL thing, it hasn't happened, I was merely making examples of the sorta thing a forum could be used for :smile:

I agree with reno, there should be a separate forum for the new server,
just so the general board wont be cluttered with "OMG THAT F-ING ROCKED
LAST NIGHT ON THE SERVER!!!!!!!!!!!" or "GWIL PUT MY MAP ON YOUR
SERVER!!!"

i have just tryed to make a post on the "snarkpit server - Banter" and
i took me to the "maps" part and didnt post in banter. just to let you
know.

Yeah lep maybe you should have separate sticky threads...because with
your new system that "forces" you to edit posts makes it hard for
someone to make a post in maps, and in the general banter separately:).

When you reply to yourself, it only turns it into an edit if you're posting within an hour of the original post- so if you are updating something, say, a day later, it will make a new post, as normal.

My pit seems to be broken... "Error opening ../pits/tracer_bullet/"

A small suggestion:

Since you implemented the "update notifier" thing, it'd be nice if the "last post" time was updated too if your post was the last one in the thread ... and moved up the index as if it were a new post.

I don't know if it does this with your "auto edit" feature, but it doesn't if you purposefully edit the last post in a thread.

That is a nice point Crono....or, unless it was too difficult, have the user choose which way he wants it displayed on his/her end (like the hotmail inbox).

Also...I think it might be a good idea to have at the bottom of every page a small link that takes you to the top of the page. Thats not a too 'out there' idea is it?

Yeah, I've been thinking about allowing people to define how times are displayed here. (Who knows, in this digitial era day the concept of "6pm" might disappear and be replaced with "3 minutes ago" and "2 days until"!). But the post-edit-thing only happens if you post within an hour of the original post; if you come back to a thread days later it'll work as before.

As for going up the page, you can press the Home button on your keyboard, but I'll put it in the bottom menu :smile:

I reckon there should be a search box in the "people" section that lets you quickly search for a user, as currently you need to go through the member list and find the right letter (or find through some other means, like look for a post of theres or something). Having a search box just like the one in the "maps" section would be ideal if you ask me.

(done- Lep.)

snarkpit has been loading at almost 56k speeds tonight.. server/host related, or my ISP?

methinks its not ISP cause its only the pit, although that is not proof positive. :

For some reason evertime I try and post a reply in one of the Snarkpit
Server thread chapters, the post just disappears and I end up in the
map suggestions chapter. It's really wierd and annoying the hell out of
me. No idea what the problem is.

EDIT: Don't know why but the darned thing is working again :razz: .

Question: On threads with multiple chapters, is there some way of going to the newest posts for each chapter individually?

If not, would it be simple to implement?

Edit: Sorry, I thought I was editing the previous post :sad:

?! You people are insane and breaking my forums!

Agent Smith, what browser are you using, and does it happen when you reply from the quick reply or the full reply page? And fraggard yeah I'll look into that.

the "Insert a smiley" function is not functioning. :biggrin: :smile:

or rather, the images are not appearing in the message window before you hit "Submit"

I now can't actually VIEW the different chapters of the server thread,
let alone post in different ones :sad: I click on them, and I just get
taken to the bottom of the first page of the "banter" chapter. Using
firefox, as always.

Works for me on Firefox 1.0.1 .

Also, Lep, could you make the chapters links bold if there are new posts in that chapter?

Is is possible to take that 'posteri nthe last 5 minutes" thing off the
multible chapter threads. I posted in banter then in theme on the
server thread and they both got lumped together in banter.

I'm using FireFox 1.0 at the moment. It was doing it with both replies.
I had to post in another area of the forums before it would allow me to
make a post in there. I noticed Reno had a similar problem with posts
going into the wrong chapter, thats also happened. Just now I can't
access Map Suggestions, I keep getting taken to the Banter chapter. It
seems to only be playing up in the Snarkpit Server Thread, I've had no
problems elsewhere in the site.

ive got a problem/idea, in the prefab section, you can click on the
image, can you make the image not tiny, but a larger version? like in
the maps section,

ARRGGGHHHHH!!!!! I was writing a long ass post and IE f------- closed the wondow, deleting all that I had written.

I gonna make this short and hope it makes sense. Inside of the quick reply section of when you are replying to the messege there is a link for BBCode and Images....which oddly link to the same place...which I think would be repetitive...but...that is more of a suggestion...not a bug...

Anyway...when the bbcode/images mini window is open, and I move the cursor back into the quick reply section of the window behind it, it automatically sends the bbcode/images window behind the quick reply window....before I even click anything...it just sends it to the back!

Dark Tree, in IE you should be able to click on 'restore lost post' to, er, restore what you were typing. I've also sorted out that cursor thing, and hopefully the chapter stuff to. It's causing a lot of problems coding wise, lots of niggly little bits I hadn't anticipated :/

Wow! The bbcode/images window doesn't automatically send itself back now...and you added a button at the bottom of the page that takes you to the top! I have never seen such an awesome and active moderator like yourself that actually tests out users' goofy ideas and suggestions!

It's like...I have a problem/bug with the site....post it....and an hour later you read my post and fix it!

and...hey...what about a link that takes you to the top...and POOF! there is a link!

Now...What about a link that automatically takes one dollar out of everyones bank account and paypals it to mine?

No really. I appreciate your openness to users' opinions :smile:

Most other websites just use someone else's forum software or programs that are 'released' every few weeks. This is all my own custom stuff, and I want it to be the best godammed site on the internet, so of course I'm going to listen to what you say :razz: BTW chapters are now bold if there's a new post in them.

Nice work lep. The bolding works exactly like i hoped.

They hve always been bold for me if there was a new post....maybe you are referring to something I was unaware of.

Bolding of the link on the forum page, not inside the thread.

I have a complaint of sorts, but am unsure if its me or i am missing something.

of late i have noticed that if a map commenting section is not going exactly how the author likes, he is swapping it for a forum comment.. this deletes all the previous comments. i have noticed that the people who commented before do not come back and reply again. this is making the map seem... better.

if this is the case it needs to be disabled. either you chose a forum reply, or a maps comment reply. you should not be allowed to switch midstream.

if i am mistaken, i apologize.

I seem to have a few minor problems when posting using Firefox (version 1.0).

*When using the Quick Reply function the Font, Font Size and Font Colour menus disappear as soon as I take the cursor of the menu head. Like this:





*The smileys won't appear under the "insert a smiley:", however, they do appear after clicking the "Can't see the box below?" link.

*In the usual New Reply dialog the Font, Font Size and Font Colour menus don't disappear like in the Quick Reply dialog, but they do nothing when I try to change the font/size/color.

Don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but in IE when hitting enter the marker jumps two steps down and Shift+Enter makes a single jump.

Well, just minor things, but still. Perhaps someone has already reported some of this, but I didn't feel like reading through the past thousand post so.. :razz: .

I seem to have a few minor problems when posting using Firefox (version 1.0).
*When using the Quick Reply function the Font, Font Size and Font
Colour menus disappear as soon as I take the cursor of the menu head.
Like this:

*The smileys won't appear under the "insert a smiley:", however, they do appear after clicking the "Can't see the box below?" link.

*In the usual New Reply dialog the Font, Font Size and Font Colour
menus don't disappear like in the Quick Reply dialog, but they do
nothing when I try to change the font/size/color.

Lep said before that he can't do much about these.

Don't know if it's a bug or a feature, but in IE when hitting enter
the marker jumps two steps down and Shift+Enter makes a single jump.

Feature.

Well, just minor things, but still. Perhaps someone has already
reported some of this, but I didn't feel like reading through the past
thousand post so.. :razz: .

Now You don't have to

*When using the Quick Reply function the Font, Font Size and Font
Colour menus disappear as soon as I take the cursor of the menu head

Do you have the same problem when you're using IE? Do you have X-Mouse activated (like I do)?

There is a work-around for it. First click on the font size box,
but before you move the pointer away from the box, use the keyboard
arrow keys to select the font size/color. That's how I get around
the minor bug.

Actually, the focus stealing was due to something else which I've turned off for Mozilla users (and got the format boxes to work properly!)

Woohoo! Thats pissed me off for an insane amount of time, so I'm a happy chappy :smile:

<span style="font-family: courier new;">[size=13]<span style="font-family: verdana;">Like someone mentioned above, Lep, you're very quick to fix the problems people report. <span style="color: violet;">S<span style="color: orange;">e<span style="color: gray;">e<span style="color: rgb(175, 56, 254);">m<span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red;">s [size=16]to [size=13]be <span style="color: orange;">working fine now :smile: .

Still can't see those smileys though, but meh, God didn't create earth in one day either so... :razz:

Keep the good work up!

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Since usernames are unique, how about a [user]username[/user] set of
tags that automatically makes a link to the profile of the username
contained inside? As an alternative (or an addition) you could add in
the url= style thing, with [user=Leperous]Lep[/user] or the like. I
quite often find occasion to link to user profiles and either have to
go grab the URL or simply don't bother due to the hassle. If its easy
to add, this would be a neat addition.

<span style="font-family: courier new;">[size=13]<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: violet;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: gray;"><span style="color: rgb(175, 56, 254);"><span style="color: white;"><span style="color: red;">[size=16][size=13]<span style="color: orange;">

Still can't see those smileys though, but meh, God didn't create earth in one day either so... :razz:

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You can find them by clicking the "can't see the box below" thingie.
But if you do that, you'll loose some features from the original page.
:sad:

I haven't yet been able to get the smilies working in Mozilla, bit tricky... I'll give it another look soon though. And [ user ] tags have been added, though it doesn't check if the person is real: cheese.

The map thread for "dm_rebar" by Ferret has two chapters. The beta 6
chapter says its last post was on the 10th of January by
Campaignjunkie, but in actual fact there are far more recent posts in
that chapter.

possibly 3 or maybe more times this week alone this has occurred.

i find a new map i wanna check out and say so.. something along the lines of "I'll get it later" and a bit of personal info concerning the map.

the maps just disappear. i am unsure if i am frightening them off, if they changed their minds or worse, they are just coming up MIA :sad:

1)i think that if i am upsetting them then the delete option needs removed till they grow a thicker skin.
2)if they are changing their minds after one or two days, then still the delete option needs removed.

if they are just MIA, something needs addressed in the system.

[edit] perhaps i should have checked my PM's first. apparently the map was removed by the author.. shame, it looked interesting. :sad:

Can we turn off downloads without affecting anything else? Whenever I start to play a new map on this server it has to download a file with extension .AIS or something similar..?

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Leperous</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Can we turn off downloads without affecting anything else? Whenever I start to play a new map on this server it has to download a file with extension .AIS or something similar..?</DIV></DIV>

HUH?? what you been drinkin bud.. /methinks this belongs in the server thread.

anywho.. there is a possible bug here

it has a 500k screen.. thats all black :sad:
the 500k is nothing new.. obviously, but it being all black is weird.

The thumbnail is all black, but it turns into a proper screenshot for me once you click it.

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting ReNo</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>The thumbnail is all black, but it turns into a proper screenshot for me once you click it.
</DIV></DIV>
look again Duncan, it turns into a screen with a massive black area attached.. hit the "expand" or whatever its called at the top left next to the X=close button.

[edit] nevermind, i swear i never noticed that massive black area before :sad:

but looking at another screen, it has it too..

sorry, my bad i guess :/

I got the same thing as ReNo. I clicked the black thumbnail and it loaded up.

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting SnarkSephiroth</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>I got the same thing as ReNo. I clicked the black thumbnail and it loaded up.
</DIV></DIV>
well, the issue remains, the thumb is black, and with leps new system, 500k screens are supposed to be nigh impossible.

True it still is a problem that it is black and it is 500k. Whats leps
new system? Does he have a system now that regulates screen sizes? And
if not it might be a thing to concider. Have it where if the person
tries to submit a screen over say 120k then the site will refuse to
take it and give a link to your tut. :biggrin: