Site Updates

[exatreide]

The last time the front page was updated was over a year ago, we need to keep updating it or the site looks dead. Or maybe add a twitterfeed from KJ anderson or Brian herbert?

[Andrew]

Also disable custom avatars?

[MrFlibble]

Also disable custom avatars?

Seconded.

[Gruntlord6]

Seconded.

I thought they were enabled intentionally.

[Gobalopper]

No they changed something in the new version with avatars... it looks like they turned off the option to have an avatar gallery. I'm still trying to figure out how to turn it back on, I think the only way is with a mod.

[MrFlibble]

For some reason, whenever I try to paste text at the end of any line that's not the last one, it ends up at the start of the entire post.

I've had a similar problem and I suspect it has something to do with Opera (I use it too). Have you tried the "Toggle editing mode" option in the text editor?

[Gobalopper]

I've switched the site over to a VPS install of MySQL so you should see speed ups in page load times. It is a 1 week trail so let me know what you guys think. Is the speed up noticeable?

[Andrew]

So far it seems to be. I should know more when a spammer spams, and I try removing thread and marking account as spam at same time. That usually gets slow.

[Gobalopper]

Server was down earlier due to issues at Dreamhost. For details you can always check their status site:

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

[Lord J]

Heh, I just figured it was part of a SOPA protest.

[Andrew]

Spam checker stop working?

Seems to be more activity past day or so.

[Gobalopper]

There are still a bunch of them showing up in the logs this morning so must just be some getting through.

[Gobalopper]

For those of you who liked the older forum skin they've released an update to work with this version of the forum software. If you wanted to use it you can click the "Change Theme" link at the bottom of the page. The skin is called "FED2k".

If you run into any problems switching just let me know.

[Andrew]

How to change avatar? I go to my profile, hover around avatar, "change" pops up, and only says can upload photo. Where Dune avatars?

[Gobalopper]

It was a change in IP Board code that doesn't let you have an avatar gallery any longer. I've been looking for a module or something to add the functionality back but haven't found anything yet.

[Andrew]

Is it possible in the meantime to have a zipped file that contains all the avatars and available to download by forum members? That way they can download and choose what they want and upload to their profile.

[Nyerguds]

It seems you can't mark the leftover link of a moved thread as Read simply by clicking it. There's no way to mark it as read besides clearing the entire forum section's Unread statuses.

[MrFlibble]

Is it possible to permanently disable the advanced WYSIWYG text editor? Other forums that run off the same engine as ours have an option in the profile settings, but I can't seem to find it here.

[Andrew]

Hey Gob, can you list what filetypes are allowed? It doesn't say when trying to upload anything.

http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/documentation/index.html/_/documentation/administrator-control-panel/forums-tab/post-attachments-attachment-types-r394

[Davidu]

Also the forum downloads section is broken. When i go to http://dune2k.com/Downloads/ the downloads work, but when I go to http://forum.dune2k.com/files/ they don't. And it's a bit annoying because the Dune (I) game music is only on the forum downloads. Thanks in advance :)

[Andrew]

Since I don't think the forum software has avatars anymore, I found links to what I submitted before.

http://users.eastlink.ca/~sherrya/jihad/avatars.html

[X3M]

It seems that smiley stopped working properly for some old posts.

Sorry, it seems that I used something different back then. : -[ for example.

This post may be deleted if you like.

[MrFlibble]

I've also noticed that smileys are not displayed correctly in pre-upgrade posts.

[Gobalopper]

I've enabled some CDN features that may or may not speed up page loading. It will mean the CSS, images, and JS will come from another server which will decrease the resources needed by the forum server. There might be some issues with caching things for to long so let me know if you see problems with it.

 

Hey Gob, can you list what filetypes are allowed? It doesn't say when trying to upload anything.

http://forum.dune2k.com/topic/24249-smugglers-test-campaign-time-based/page__gopid__375001#entry375001
http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/documentation/index.html/_/documentation/administrator-control-panel/forums-tab/post-attachments-attachment-types-r394

This is the list I found: ".aiff .bmp .css .doc .gif .gz .hqx .htm .html .ico .jpeg .jpg .mov .mp3 .mpg .pdf .php .png .ppt .ps .ram .rtf .swf .tar .tiff .txt .viv .wav .wmv .xml .zip"

[Davidu]

Gob, what about some "spoiler" function, in order to avoid huge walls of text or too many pictures? A "spoiler" tab appears in the post and if you click it it will open its contents.