Site suggestions/bugs

You mean the absence of the paste button? Just use ctrl+v.

No, I meant the thumbnails should be resized using the same principle
as the one when posting resized pics on the forums, without uploading
them.

I know what you meant. It's a bad idea. You have to understand for that to be resized the php code that resizes it has to download the image first (save it to YOUR cache) and then resize it. It doesn't save a thumbnail when on the forums it just uses plain image tag syntax. (I haven't checked the source, but that's what it looks like, since the image is not smooth)

That means that the entire image has to be downloaded before it can be seen ... which defeats the purpose of a thumbnail.

My suggestion was that they are made and cached on SnarkPit ... that's completely different and a much better option!

I thought all that would have gotten through. I'll explain it again if you like.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Oh, I see. I haven't made a webpage in about 5 years so I kinda forgot the few I knew .

Bug: in the maps-section, select COD. The numbers on the left side indicate over 200 maps, where there are 14.

<div class="abouttext">Message submitted 0 minutes after original post:</b></div>
Bug 2: Select any member profile. Hit the random link on the left ... always leads to a "user not found".

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

i don't know if it's already been mentioned, but it seems that a new user can add a map, somehow rate themselves as a five, then delete their map. without the map, no-one else can rate them anymore, so they get left with a perfect 5. which is a little annoying when we all know that win98 would probably be wearing the 'I R MORON' badge by now.

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i eat paint

Cash Car Star said:
Also, the quick reply window will toss Snarkpit back into the foreground if you mouseover it while it's in a background window. This is highly irritating when I'm browsing the board and running a game that doesn't use the full-screen at the same time. Any chance this can be corrected?

This seems to have gotten lost in the discussion on the optimal thumbnail arrangement (I support being allowed to upload size-regulated thumbnails if pics are offsite). Does anyone else have this mouse-over issue? Does anyone else get as aggravated by background windows that shove their way into the focus like I do?

Doesn't happen to me anymore actually, no idea why. It used to happen
and it did get on my nerves, but I just tested in both FF and IE and
putting your mouse over the text box doesn't make the window steal
focus.

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Please implement a post limit for all new users. Like 7 posts per day or sometihng.

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

...Or just a post limit for HAL.

Would it cost too much bandwidth to have the general banter forum autorefresh every 30 seconds or so?

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

Would it cost too much bandwidth to have the general banter forum autorefresh every 30 seconds or so?

*cough*slow*cough*

This means a new counter is initiated for every single viewer of that page ... or the entire site. It has nothing to do with bandwidth, since, you already have all the hefty stuff loaded in cache, but, counters are pricey.

I came across a instant message program online which was just php, very slow with an auto-refresh.

I'm sure there's a more efficient way to do it, but ... it's just a pain in the ass for a functionality that isn't really needed: If you want it to refresh every 30 seconds ... get a stop watch and hit F5 every 30 seconds :razz:

There may be a way to code some js so your browser does it on it's own though ... hmm.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

If you use firefox you can get the
<A HREF="https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=748&application=firefox" TARGET="_blank">Greasemonkey</a>
extension then get the
<A HREF="http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScriptsGeneric" TARGET="_blank">Auto reload
script</a>
(14th item down) and that will refresh any page you set every minute
also This site has lots of site
specific scripts

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SourDough2.0 - With Strawberry Jam

Just noticed this.

Your "smiley" interpreter seems to not have the definition for the frown smiley. I had to type the image path for it to show.

See?

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

When I try to modify a news post I've submitted before it is moderated,
it gives a "News item does not exist" error. Might be an idea to fix
this so that you can modify your submissions before they are moderated
(in case you left something out etc).

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My site

I am using the white pages condensed version of the site. Quite odd to see all the blandness to be honest. I however have noticed that the left/right margin is not set properly. If my sentence happens to have a word with only 1 letter and also happen to end in just the right place, its hidden behind the up/down scroll arrow. I can live with this but felt it worthy of a post in this thread.

Example image

Thanks for your time.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

That's on your end, UD.

If you want a theme that's for slower connections try the "basic" one, there's less images (such as titles and buttons are just text)

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Crono said:
That's on your end, UD.

I would agree with you Crono except since I posted Slothe has since posted and altered the conditions.

It looks normal now. Apparently it only occurred when I, (the only person on page 3) was the only post present.

Must be a small bug or it would have remained present.

Sorry to waste your time.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Methinks it's about time that the Recently Watched thread somehow be
broken down. For me, when I click on the thread, it takes forever
to load (no exageration) and I thought that there must be a way to
somehow divide it.

If every, say, ten pages where a new chapter, would that slow the loading speed?

I really am just guessing here, but It's a little annoying waiting that long.

The length of the thread shouldnt affect loading time...

But the pit can be very slow at times. I'm assuming this is because of the new server, and cant be fixed.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

Length of a thread shouldn't effect loading time, even "rummaging" through the database wouldn't, since I'm sure Lep used a direct access method and not a traversal method.

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Indeed, I felt the same way, which is why I hesitated to post
that. However, unless Murphy's Law governs my life very strictly,
mty loading time at least triples when posting in thread with many many
pages (this one included)

However, I don't have problems loading an 18 page one such as Recently Listened.

:sad:

Here, I've made a handy-dandy image to show what I mean. The top
one is this thread, the bottom is "at the risk of exposing my secret
identity"



Coincidence? I think not!

Those aren't accurate, just to let you know. The first time I came to this specific page in this thread it said 32 seconds or something around there and it took maybe 5.

But, you're going to have to wait for Lep, since he's the only one who knows how he built the interface between the database and the site.

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Indeed I know they are inaccurate, however it did take at least 30 seconds to load the page.

Suggestion: I have found it nearly impossible to scan the "Maps" forum since my advent into 56k hell. There are just to many images posted to be honest. Would it be possible to write some code so that when you chose "Basic" or "Condensed" that the images revert back to the line of code specific to the URL?

Thanks for your time.

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Suggestion: I have found it nearly impossible to scan the "Maps" forum since my advent into 56k hell. There are just to many images posted to be honest. Would it be possible to write some code so that when you chose "Basic" or "Condensed" that the images revert back to the line of code specific to the URL?
Thanks for your time.

Of course it's possible. That's a good idea though. Changing all user posted images to links.

I second the recommendation. :bandit: *

*Note: I just felt like using that smiley

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

I can't even tell what's going on :smile:

I'm using the default setting, and I don't want to have only URL's in
place of pictures. So instead of making it do that when you use a
certain scheme, make it a seperate option of it's own.

I third it...

It wouldn't be part of the default setting. We're suggesting it's part of the "basic" setting, which is, obviously, for people on slow connections (load it up, you'll see what I mean).

Not sure why those colors are chosen. Maybe it'd be a good idea to make a "56K" theme which looks like the default theme, but effecient as the basic.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

/boo :biggrin:

I've been learning a lot about "proper" CSS and all the crappy margin-handling of the various browsers, if I ever get some free time I'll look into that along with the whole image-conversion-thingy :/

(but do try to make it an option)

Hey guys, i have this idea, i dont know if it would really work here but anway:

I made some small custom tags used for other forums that support Siggies..

So How about adding some custom tags for everyone here ?

For example; snarkpit users get this :



OR

Hammer users get this :



Ofcourse, i can edit the colors and quotes, and to make everyone have
it, you can make a thread and put the URL and let anyone who is
intrested to add it in his signature area, and you wouldn't allow
any other tags except the ones you choose, that would be fun, and maybe
the first hl2 forum that has all of their members with there tag on ?!
:biggrin:

Just tell me what you think, its just a small idea, and i think it would be nice to have these tags under each member :biggrin:

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

I really like those signatures - good work.

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My site

To do that, sig images would have to be enabled, which theyre not, which is something I approve of.

However, those are nice images.

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"If you talk at all during this lesson, you have detention. Do you understand?"

• My yr11 Economics teacher

They're nice images, and you know I like the simplicity... the problem
is that everyone on the forums is obviously a snarkpit user, and most
of us here have used hammer at one point or another. With this in
mind, those two tags are just redundant.

Daft suggestion here, but why not have automated sig images like that based on the number of Snarkmarks? Might possibly work...

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My site

Yeah any of that in this site would be really nice, and morphine, its
just to like, ehnance the appearance a little bit, its nice to have
these kind of sigs, only small ones, nothing else, its just an
idea...Who knows what may happen :biggrin:

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

I have a small request. With someone using condensed mode, the background is white. If anyone uses a font color other than black, it gets very hard to read, and sometimes impossible to do so. If it could be set up so that those forced to use this mode of travel here at Snarkpit that for us the text always stays black. I for one can promise to always assume that text is supposed to be "Lightblue" and not be upset when someone uses it and I see only black.

Thanks for your time.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

I guess this thread is really dead...

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.::Dark|Masta::. - One name. One legend.

I know, but i'm gonna make a suggestion anyway.

PFL (Rest in Peace) had a "most wanted" forum where people could
request prefabs or simply post recruitment threads for
collective-mapping projects or for mods.

Wouldn't this place benefit from something like that?

I was looking at my profile and I noticed that even though I have 0
tutorials, when I mouse over "tutorials" it highlights but isn't
clickable. It's not a serious bug but just something you may want
to look over?

I have noticed that threads with lots of pages throw my 56k for a loop. Some actually load in minutes. (such as this one)

Is there any way to archive all but the last few pages? I know it sounds odd but it almost acts like its accessing the whole thing when it should be accessing only the last page.

Thanks for your time.

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Not sure if this has already been reported; I'm not reading through 54 pages to check, sorry. :razz:

PM messages can't be viewed if Java (from here http://java.sun.com/) has been installed. I have to go to Internet Options->Advanced, then uncheck this option...Java (Sun)->Use Java 2 v1.4.2_03.

If that option is checked, pressing LMB on a PM results in nothing happening whatsoever. Unchecking that option, LMB on a PM opens the PM in a new window as expected.

I have Java 1.5 for my Opera, and it works fine. I got logged out a few times rather quickly, but I've only just arrived, so it could be some setting upon which I have yet to stumble.

i was checking underdog's profile... and i clicked on this button "random" to see another random profile, but it says:

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" align=center border=0>

<TR>
<TD align=middle>There was a problem
User not found

</TD></TR></TABLE>


has anyone noticed of this...?

i was checking underdog's profile... and i clicked on this button "random" to see another random profile, but it says:

There was a problem
User not found

has anyone noticed of this...?

Me.

asterix_vader said:
i was checking underdog's profile... and i clicked on this button "random" to see another random profile, but it says:

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" align=center border=0>

<TR>
<TD align=middle>There was a problem
User not found

</TD></TR></TABLE>


<P align=left>has anyone noticed of this...?

<P align=left>Before someone makes a crude joke about me breaking the website, I didn't.
I noticed this and at first thought something was up, then I noticed that "random" doesn't seem to work at all. "Prev" and "Next" do but not random.

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There is no history until something happens, then there is.

Sometimes there's a bug while posting. I didn't write down the line and function where it took place, should have. Sorry.

In any case, I posted then it thought I was editing the post or something and as a result, when the page refreshed, it gave the error, added my post time everything, but it didn't change the entry on the forum list.

So. I'm figuring it was interrupted in that process.

I've noticed this more than once, probably be a good idea to figure out what exactly causes it to happen, fix it if possible, otherwise send out a PM/News explaining not to do that. Whatever that maybe.

The "Mario" thread is where the effects can be seen ... until someone else posts.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Hmm, happened to me also, though I had no error message. I made a reply
to the same thread, posted it, was taken back the thread as if it had
been added, but my post wasn't there. The "newest post by" thing had
updated and said my post was there, but in checking the thread if most
definately was not.

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Underdog said:
I have noticed that threads with lots of pages throw my 56k for a loop. Some actually load in minutes. (such as this one)

Is there any way to archive all but the last few pages? I know it sounds odd but it almost acts like its accessing the whole thing when it should be accessing only the last page.

Thanks for your time.

i just noticed of that too. it took more than 10s to load the last page of this thread.

Today in particular Snarkpit is even slower than usual. I have a question: Is it possible that the non-active people who are searching through the database for tutorials and such are causing some sort of a slowdown? We have non-active members all the time, but sometimes we have more than others. Snarkpit isn't always slow, just most of the time. I realize some of this could be because of peek user timezones but it cannot account for this level of occurrences I don't think.

This thread alone is like 1,500+ replies? It takes a horrible amount of time to load. In fact, I have noticed that any thread over or near 100 replies has a noticeable slowdown loading.

I can watch the little connection icon that shows my dialup connection processing. When its a short thread it continues unabated, when its long, the little flashes that signify data being transfered halts until a lengthy time later then it begins anew. It has got to be a database access problem.

Hope this helps.

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