The Legendary Next Update (365)

145 Name:   2005-10-19 04:10 ID:gBva8ggI [Del]

>>140

So, does that mean you approve of removing the style selector on subpages? I just woke up and I'm confused.

Anyway, Safari doesn't, as far as I know, let you pick stylesheets. And IE obviously doesn't. Also, not even Firefox will actually remember your choice, making the ability completely useless anyway, unless coupled with Javascript on the page to save the setting.

> The Futaba template is missing the "No File" checkbox next to the File field in the Post New Thread area.

That's because Kareha has no "No File" check in the first place, and I'm not sure I want to add code just for that (since it'd have to be optional anyway).

213 Name:   2005-10-21 14:44 ID:Heaven [Del]

> More information on the all threads page, date of the last post? file size?

That might be somewhat useful, I suppose. I'll have a look at it.

> A quote button that puts >>n and puts the post prefixed by > in the reply box

There's already a way to put in >>n. However, quoting an entire post is seldom something you want to do anyway, so I don't think that's worth cluttering up the page with a million buttons for.

> Different secret strings for different functions (e.g. one for ID generation and one for secure tripcodes)

Most admins probably don't get point of the secret string anyway, and asking them to put in several is just too annoying. In retrospect, I'd like to add a second layer of hashing to these, but that'd mean breaking secure trips AGAIN.

> A trigger for turning wakabamark off and one for forcing a monospace font

I've been trying to work out a more elegant solution for this.

343 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-27 09:51 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>342
Well, for example, in both forms the text labels are bolded when they shouldn't be, in Futaba and Blue Moon. If you take a look at Blue Moon, the text labels in Create new thread are larger than those in the Reply box.

36 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-14 13:29 ID:8YdETsDh [Del]

I had a number of good old threads from this board bookmarked so I could read them later and wrap my head around their ideas, but then I lost them all in a hard drive crash (strike two, Western Digital!). I also had a number of Japanese BBS's linked from this board bookmarked so I could take a look at their software's functionality and get some other ideas.

Anyway, these are all non-template suggestions:

  • Topical category metadata in new thread creation so only one instance is necessary per site (further fine-grained behavior with PATH_INFO would let you nest one category inside another and view multiple categories of threads at once).
  • Thorough search functionality a-la notchan, using PATH_INFO. This might not be possible without implementing a per-post metadata system though.
  • Elaborating on the above, per-post metadata for "sage" status, for future-proofing in case someone wants to remove the functionality from the e-mail field (onto a checkbox, for example).
  • config.pl parameter for a generic image that takes the place of a deleted image (ie, Hello Kitty)
  • Fine-grained banning options that let you choose whether or not the user is blocked from reading a board, posting to a board, or both. Another parameter defines the duration of his ban ('0' for permaban), and another defines a reason/message displayed when the user tries to access a board.
  • Replace HTML error pages with dialog box equivalents using JavaScript.
  • Kill user deletion. I can't see any case for when it'd have constructive uses.
  • Conversion to mod_perl?

I also have an early idea swimming around in my head about only bumping threads a few positions up, instead of to the top. Another idea is actively bumping threads down, either by a few positions or to the bottom. I'm not exactly sure yet what good it'd be for.

Also...

>* I'll add thread closing to Kareha, but I was thinking of setting the default behaviour to never permasage or close threads.

I think this is ideal for the time, until we have enough statistical data to derive thorough auto-permasage and auto-delete/archive algorithms. Just add the functionality for mods to manually set these statuses, but remove the "permasage at 1000" behavior.

The standalone thumbnailer project is a great idea too. As a suggestion, how about adding functionality to also read and thumbnail document files like TXT, PDF, and DOC?

228 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-21 17:35 ID:13VMAtd0 [Del]

   ∧∧
  (  ・ω・)    It's late
  _| ⊃/(___
/ └-(____/

   ∧∧
  ( ・ω・ )    Good night!
  _| ⊃/(___
/ └-(____/

  <⌒/ヽ-、___
/<_/____/
 ̄ ̄

318 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-25 17:35 ID:Heaven [Del]

style:none plz!

197 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 14:02 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>196
Actually, a solution to >> links with static pages is to simply make them reference a certain point on a certain page number for that thread (ie, http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/1129153864/index2.html#197).

289 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2005-10-23 19:40 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>288

Return links are actually not a very good idea. I know some browsers will clear all input fields if you follow a link back to the page you came from, but leave the fields intact if you click the back button.

105 Name:   2005-10-17 15:17 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>103

Noted.

13 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-13 02:13 ID:Heaven [Del]

I have always found that it's more difficult than one would think to implement features that will measure "popularity" in a satisfying way that isn't open to abuse in one way or another.

169 Name:   2005-10-19 19:04 ID:Heaven [Del]

How come this is now the by far biggest thread on this board?

Maybe it's because I'm posting useless replies like this one!

344 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2005-10-27 10:34 ID:SjmelPTB [Del]

>>343

"When they shouldn't be?" They've always been bolded.

88 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 12:39 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>86

>Why should it?

Because it's one of the two requirements for creating a new thread, and it's a lot more important to have a well-defined topic than to fill in your name.

>It's more convenient if you want to start a new thread, but for those who don't it's one more form to have to scroll by.

Good point.

>Any idea why?

I dunno. I guess it's just another one of Futaba's countless layout quirks.

122 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-18 06:32 ID:Heaven [Del]

About the etyomology of "fusianasan":
http://4-ch.net/nihongo/kareha.pl/1102656968/224-

256 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-22 13:23 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>255
By replacing it with AN EVEN DUMBER PUN!

271 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-23 16:32 ID:Heaven [Del]

Did you ditch customizable capcodes?

How about placing the Formatting menu to the left or right of the "File: " field? I'd also like to see WakabaMark changed to its real name (Markdown).

A few other considerations:

  • Using "◆" as the default tripkey character.
  • No need for the "Navigation: " text before the navigation links in subpages
  • In Pseud0ch, post numbers should be the same size/format as the rest of the header text
  • I'm still thinking that subback should be as minimal as possible: no navlinks, title, or last post/filesize data. Then again, I'm from the school of following 0ch blindly.
  • Variable admin permissions per password
  • Is the Admin bar gonna come back before the final version?

Small details aside, this is seriously shaping up to be an amazing release. Your efforts are much appreciated, WAHa.

49 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-15 19:03 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>48

That is an interesting idea, and one that deserves some more thought.

203 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 20:58 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>177

> It's not worth comparing until it doesn't break regularly.

The only problem with it is that it doesn't do paranoid file writes. The fact that the entire server occasionally breaks isn't related to how broken the script itself is.

201 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 18:28 ID:Heaven [Del]

> people like admins might prefer to use them

but they have capcodes now...

282 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2005-10-23 18:24 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>280

I'm not sure. On the one hand, people expect that to work. On the other hand, it can be a bit annoying. On the third hand, it's not all that annoying anyway.

178 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 06:26 ID:Heaven [Del]

> and/or let your oldtime users tell newbies.

Like so? http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1124991549/7

228 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-21 17:35 ID:13VMAtd0 [Del]

   ∧∧
  (  ・ω・)    It's late
  _| ⊃/(___
/ └-(____/

   ∧∧
  ( ・ω・ )    Good night!
  _| ⊃/(___
/ └-(____/

  <⌒/ヽ-、___
/<_/____/
 ̄ ̄

279 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2005-10-23 18:05 ID:gBva8ggI [Del]

>>278

How do you figure it's redundant?

339 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2005-10-27 05:53 ID:Heaven [Del]

> I'd like to have the interface reduced to what is absolutely neccessary

That's why there is a "More options..." link, instead of putting the controls there on every single thread everywhere.

317 Name: !WAHa.06x36 : 2005-10-25 15:45 ID:Heaven [Del]

So, I made the All threads page a lot fancier. Might need some shift-reloading to get the proper CSS.

Is this about done, besides the admin bit? I'm getting a bit tired and distractions are looming to the left and right.

198 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 16:35 ID:Heaven [Del]

> but when I hit refresh I get the same order.

Browser cache. Try shift-refresh.

It doesn't take a specific range, just >>r30 for 30 random posts.

215 Name: 214 2005-10-21 15:03 ID:Heaven [Del]

Whoops, sorry. I read "close" instead of "permasage".
Permasage on filesize seems pretty silly, yes.

357 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-31 11:19 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>354
admin.pl with a separate HTML page in ./admin (so it can be accessed simply by appending "/admin" to the board URL). It should have every possible admin feature available in kareha.pl, including rebuilding caches, modifying the spamlist, and nuking the board.

333 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-26 20:33 ID:y5Ya7L3/ [Del]

>>327-328
All of this would be better handled by an external application. I think you are putting way too much work into user gimmicks as it is.

More options means putting more buttons, links, etc. into the interface. I am still bothered by the "More options...", but I am just a text purist (doing my fair share of AA, though) anyway, so meh meh... ( ´・ω・`)

185 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 09:52 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>184
If people are going to decide to use custom names for paramaters, then there isn't much you can do about it anyway, or is there?

This thread has been closed. You cannot post in this thread any longer.