Wellington Phoenix Men

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over 13 years ago

Hey Guys,

Welcome to the new forum system! 

Couple of quick things:

  • It should be much snappier and more reliable than the last system...
  • There are most likely bugs. Sorry about that in advance. Let me know and I'll get 'em fixed up as soon as possible.
  • There are probably a couple of things missing. I have plans to add a few more features and am easily bribed.
  • If there's anything else I'll be hanging around for a bit to check up on it...
Enjoy!
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 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

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over 13 years ago

Ph-ph-ph-ph-f-f-f-aster!

I know, I know, its serious!

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over 13 years ago

nice one Nik.

Just one thing that the old site did - under the topic it has a link to "1,2,3,..last post" page (saves lazy people like me from one click :) )

Emoticons?

Founder

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It feels amazing to use, way faster than what it was before. I like the new editor as well, very sleek. Is there an easy way to add a button to get to the last page of a topic from the active topics page? It's just a small thing that would make it easier to use, but thanks for getting this up and running (without a trainwreck this time). 

EDIT: Feverish beat me to it.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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over 13 years ago


Hey! I can post! I can post!!! Whoop whoop, shirt off.... now what did I want to say? Thanks wellnik, a thousand thank yous

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 13 years ago

Massive credit to WellNik for this. We toyed with a few open sauce off the shelf type options and then Nik went "fuck it, I can write a better piece of forum software with my feet". 

And he did.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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over 13 years ago

Oh wow, so this isn't Vanilla? Nik is a legend.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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over 13 years ago

I also bullied him into launching it tonight when he wanted to wait for more user testing. I had more faith in his ability to cut code than he did ;)

It's pretty awesome I reckon. This editor is seks.

Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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over 13 years ago

I really like how we can switch to HTML. Will make posting the league table a helluva lot easier.


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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over 13 years ago

patrick478 wrote:

Oh wow, so this isn't Vanilla? Nik is a legend.


Yeah, I'm a masochist so decided to code my own. Does leave us with a significant Big Red Bus problem but I'll make sure I look both ways crossing Wills St.
For anyone who's interested, it's a Rails 3.1 app running on top of MySQL. We're on a 2GB VPS with OpenHost (thanks Tyson), and I'm using memcached pretty heavily plus a decent amount of database tuning so we're using all 2GB :)
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over 13 years ago

hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?


Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.
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over 13 years ago

Is there any 'mark all forums as read' button? At the moment it every topic has new posts on them. Also, is there a page that just shows only threads with new posts?

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over 13 years ago

Feverish wrote:

nice one Nik.

Just one thing that the old site did - under the topic it has a link to "1,2,3,..last post" page (saves lazy people like me from one click :) )

Emoticons?


Alright, added it to the Trello board.
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over 13 years ago

Ryans Rovers wrote:

Is there any 'mark all forums as read' button? At the moment it every topic has new posts on them. Also, is there a page that just shows only threads with new posts?


Yeah, I didn't know what to do there as it was a bit of a pain to extract the "viewed" state from Drupal so I basically punted on it... 

Where would make sense for a "Mark All Read" button? There's no page that shows only threads with new posts either, but I can add that - it's just a slight PITA to tune. Consider it on the board!
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over 13 years ago

Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...

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Marvelous effort this, so much faster now.


Trophy manager sub board seems to of disappeared.

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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over 13 years ago

Seems like post counts aren't updating, that's pretty fail so I'll get on that.

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over 13 years ago

Azevo wrote:

Marvelous effort this, so much faster now.

Trophy manager sub board seems to of disappeared.


Hurm, that's not ideal - let me look into that. It's definitely still around somewhere :)
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wellnik wrote:

Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...


I recommend deviant art smilies, theres a bunch of them.


Edit: Whole category devoted to smiley packs. (Noticed it's a bit of hit and miss with some of them)..


http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/emoticons/packslarge/

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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over 13 years ago

wellnik wrote:

Ryans Rovers wrote:

Is there any 'mark all forums as read' button? At the moment it every topic has new posts on them. Also, is there a page that just shows only threads with new posts?


Yeah, I didn't know what to do there as it was a bit of a pain to extract the "viewed" state from Drupal so I basically punted on it... 

Where would make sense for a "Mark All Read" button? There's no page that shows only threads with new posts either, but I can add that - it's just a slight PITA to tune. Consider it on the board!
Could just have it as text on the top right of the category forums, along the same level the 'Forums' and 'Active Topics' tabs.
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over 13 years ago

wellnik wrote:

Azevo wrote:

Marvelous effort this, so much faster now.

Trophy manager sub board seems to of disappeared.


Hurm, that's not ideal - let me look into that. It's definitely still around somewhere :)

Trophy Manager is back and it even got elevated to a full category! (that's my way of spinning the fact that we only support 2 levels of category...)
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over 13 years ago

New card on Trello board: 3 levels of category.

Joking.

Actually on the Trello board: "Nik to tell Smithy he was right about going live."


Incredible stamina. No shame. Yellow Fever.

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wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.


Dont know if it is my computer or not. will be interested if others say the same. Anyway I am loving this, well done Wellnik  :)


Edit, easy to post an image too  



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over 13 years ago

hepatitis wrote:

wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.


Dont know if it is my computer or not. will be interested if others say the same. Anyway I am loving this, well done Wellnik  :)


Hmmm, wanna drop a screenshot? Also try hitting ctrl/cmd+0, sometimes you've zoomed in or out...
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over 13 years ago


Hehe I'm Back .........................

A dog with a bone :)

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over 13 years ago

wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

wellnik wrote:

hepatitis wrote:

 Good luck

Seems a lot snappier, I like that

Print is a bit small, can that be sorted ?

Hey - whereabouts is the print a little small? I think I copied most of the styling from the old site so it should be pretty much the same, but I'm sure it's no biggie to bump it up a bit.


Dont know if it is my computer or not. will be interested if others say the same. Anyway I am loving this, well done Wellnik  :)


Hmmm, wanna drop a screenshot? Also try hitting ctrl/cmd+0, sometimes you've zoomed in or out...

Was me, all good now after taking your advice.  Emoticon : slightly embarrased
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over 13 years ago

Smithy wrote:

New card on Trello board: 3 levels of category.

Joking.

Actually on the Trello board: "Nik to tell Smithy he was right about going live."


It's like Inception, stuff gets slower the deeper you go... 

It remains to be seen if you're right... there are still a few pretty glaring issues that I'm now scrambling to fix...
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over 13 years ago

This is fantastic. Thanks wellnik you're a champ.

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over 13 years ago

hepatitis wrote:
Was me, all good now after taking your advice.  Emoticon : slightly embarrased

All good :) Need those damn smilies O_O
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over 13 years ago

The more I explore this, the more awesome it gets. Image posting is a breeze!


Yellow Fever - Misery loves company

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Some smiley packs.. They all download as .rar files with each smiley as individual .gifs or .pngs or whatever. 

http://kissbomb.deviantart.com/art/Smiley-set-162068634?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=82

http://sereneworx.deviantart.com/art/the-emoticon-pack-48758881?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=20

http://gomotes.deviantart.com/art/damotes-67654552?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=105

http://aocom.deviantart.com/art/emotes-one-51111030?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3Acustomization%2Femoticons%2Fpackslarge&qo=115

I am a noob and don't know how to hyperlink with this at the moment haha.

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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over 13 years ago

wellnik wrote:

Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...


Would be very cool to have some Nix themed similes for the forum!! I could possibly volunteer some designs if people were interested.. 
Although not sure if itd be worth it


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over 13 years ago

Top work Nik.


News, did you walk home?

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over 13 years ago

playwithFire wrote:

wellnik wrote:

Oh, and emoticons/smilies are already on the list. If anybody has a creative commons/cheap set that they like let me know...


Would be very cool to have some Nix themed similes for the forum!! I could possibly volunteer some designs if people were interested.. 
Although not sure if itd be worth it

Hah, I'll definitely add 'em in if you make some...
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over 13 years ago

So is this vanilla?

Noice flavour!!


"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion. 

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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over 13 years ago

Junior82 wrote:

So is this vanilla?

Noice flavour!!



This is Siggy ;) Flying elbow to the head of the old system...
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