Forum upgrade

[John Cooper]

RSS is installed. You can now add a live bookmark to your browser window, which will list the latest posts.

Cheers,
-John

[John Cooper]

it was possible before to modify the sort order of posts within a forum by clicking on the row description. I mostly felt the desire to sort by last post/reply. this functionality seems to have gone. can this be re-enabled?

Sorting posts by column heading was my of my (many) code-additions to the phpBB 1.4. I like it too - which is why I added that code However, one of the big downsides of all my customizations to the code was that it made upgrading the forums very very difficult. This time, I'm going to try to avoid personalized mods, as much as possible. This way, when phpBB 3.0 is ready, we can switch over relatively easy...

Cheers,
-John

[petal]

I'm seeing the orange on grey buttons on the login screens and the reply screens (like the one I'm typing this in now)

I don't know if it's of any imporatance in this situation but I'm using the Microsoft internet explorer.

Oh I just checked in Mozilla, where it looks fine, so the problem is prolly Microsoft specific... go figure

Internet Explorer is infamous for these kinds of errors.

Cheers!
Thomas

[kylie]

hi john,

Sorting posts by column heading was my of my (many) code-additions to the phpBB 1.4. I like it too - which is why I added that code

maybe you consider sharing your modifications with the developers, so it could be a standard feature in later versions. I suppose there is a lot of people who would like it...

However, one of the big downsides of all my customizations to the code was that it made upgrading the forums very very difficult. This time, I'm going to try to avoid personalized mods, as much as possible. This way, when phpBB 3.0 is ready, we can switch over relatively easy...

I see... it's beta2 right now, which means nothing, of course. did you check whether our beloved feature will be included in 3.0 anyway, or if it would be easy to re-implement it later?

-greetings, markus-

ps. I'm already about to miss it... *sniff*
pps. afair there was a list in the faq, describing the various levels of pulsar geekdom. not that I expect to breathe fire or levitate too soon, but...

[John Cooper]

Hi Kylie,
I found a standard phpBB2 mod to do it, and I'll install it when I have a chance.
Works a bit differently than my click-the-headers mod:
"adds a sort box at the bottom of the viewforum, allowing to sort topics per title, author, time, and of course last reply, ascending/descending"

Cheers,
John

[hubird]

yes, but I remember John himself mentioned that was one of the points that had to be taken when upgrading the forum.
It got discussed for a while, and was accepted fast

edit, oops, didn't scoll down enough to view John's answer

ps, I'm glad the planetzzzz logo will stay, let there be things in life that don't change

[kylie]

yes, but I remember John himself mentioned that was one of the points that had to be taken when upgrading the forum.
It got discussed for a while, and was accepted fast

well, I started reading the forum update thread after being faced with the fact it had already happened
there was almost nothing I really missed before. now I do. but john already offered help, and I think I can live with the sort box (yes, I'd prefer it on top of the table, but you can't have everything... )
the memberlist would be an example where it is already implemented.

thanks, john, for offering. by the way, some news concerning pulsar geekdom levels?

-greetings, markus-

[kylie]

hi stardust,

[joke]
what about dynamic ranks:

a half gary = half the posts gary has atm
a third hub = 1/3 of hub's posts
a quarter tom =1/4 of Tom's post count
[/joke]

too dynamic, imho. as the threshold varies, it incorporates recalculating the level value everytime one of the top guys increases his counter. I don't know whether phpBB provides such a function or john is really willing to pick his pocket calculator every morning to update...
additional, it will become harder and harder to raise one's own level, given the current posting speed. hell, it's even more dynamic than MOVeq+

-greetings, markus-

[Audiographe]

RSS is installed. You can now add a live bookmark to your browser window, which will list the latest posts.

Cheers,
-John

YES
It's very very cool

@+

[John Cooper]

yes, but I remember John himself mentioned that was one of the points that had to be taken when upgrading the forum.
It got discussed for a while, and was accepted fast

Huub,

the thing that we were forced to lose was my custom tagging and filtering mechanism for uploads to the music/devices/etc forums- when you posted a new topic, you were required to add certain tags (like genre, price, etc), and then viewers could filter a forum view by genre/price/etc. We all agreed that no one really used those filtering features very much anyway, so we lost it in the upgrade. I converted those tags into text at the top of each existing music/devices/etc topic. New topics won't have those tags, unless users specifically type them in themselves.

What Kylie was referring to was simply the ability to sort topics in a forum view by author/date/etc. That's a much smaller mod, and as I mentioned - has been done in a standard mod that I can install.

Cheers,
John

[John Cooper]

pps. afair there was a list in the faq, describing the various levels of pulsar geekdom. not that I expect to breathe fire or levitate too soon, but...

You're right- phpBB doesn't list the ranks in the FAQ anymore. Bummer.
Well, here they are:

Neophyte Poster 0
Budding Pulsarian 11
Aspiring to Pulsar Geekdom
Pulsar Geek 71
Totally Obsessed Pulsar Geek 176
Pulsar Disciple 500
Guru Pulsarian 1000
Levitating Fire-Breathing Pulsar Overlord 2000


These levels/titles were set up waaaaay back in the day, before we realized just how obsessed you guys really are
I don't think we ever expected to have users with thousands and thousands of posts!

Dunno whether it makes sense to change them now, or just add more levels, or start from scratch with new names, or what?

No, there's no support for dynamic ranks. But the idea of a half-gary totally cracks me up

Cheers,
-John

[garyb]

i am honored to be your Dominar...
bring the slave girls now.

[John Cooper]

Hi Kylie,
I found a standard phpBB2 mod to do it, and I'll install it when I have a chance.
Works a bit differently than my click-the-headers mod:
"adds a sort box at the bottom of the viewforum, allowing to sort topics per title, author, time, and of course last reply, ascending/descending"

Cheers,
John

Ok, this is installed and working now.
I like my old way better, but this'll do for now.

Funny, my first test was to display announcements, sorted by date ascending, and the first post was this one:
http://www.planetz.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=889

How's that for a coincidence
-John

[hubird]

remarkable!!

[wayne]

wow!

I wonder how sub is doing.

[kylie]

hi john,

Works a bit differently than my click-the-headers mod:
"adds a sort box at the bottom of the viewforum, allowing to sort topics per title, author, time, and of course last reply, ascending/descending"

thanks a lot . yes, it's ok for now, but if you should ever feel the need to re-establish the old behaviour, don't hesitate
and, yes, I did not mean custom filters. just sorting by post date and reply date. and, maybe author, yes... nice thought...

Funny, my first test was to display announcements, sorted by date ascending, and the first post was this one:
http://www.planetz.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=889

amazing does this planet(z) have his own ghost?

-greetings, markus-

[Gordon Gekko]

the membership agreement seems to be gone... does it mean we can act like retards?

[John Cooper]

the membership agreement seems to be gone... does it mean we can act like retards?

The agreement is still there:
http://www.planetz.com/forums/profile.php?mode=register

You just don't see the link in the menu, after you've logged in.

I should add a "No acting like retards" clause to the agreement

Cheers,
-John

[Gordon Gekko]

rats! ok i was refering to this link http://www.planetz.com/forums/bb_regist ... =agreement

it is located beside the off topic section on the main page

cheers

[John Cooper]

Oops! Thanks for catching that Legros.
I updated the link.

-John