The Legendary Next Update (365)

348 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-27 17:17 ID:Heaven [Del]

I notice some weirdness with the CSS changes sometimes. For example, the first post on a -100 page will sometimes have the first character of the post enlarged. >>2 looks something like
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/>2 until it is mouse-overed or you change the CSS, but then it goes back to large again on refresh. Also can happen with lowercase letters. Some of the field labels also change size from refreshing in a certain CSS versus just switching to it.

>It's all a design & layout question. I'd like to have the interface reduced to what is absolutely neccessary, esp. since I do not think many people really want to even bother or bother very often with the whole markup question.

Why have a name field or link field? For the majority of posts they are not used, or only used for sage. As stated earlier, they are not even needed for the bare minimum of usage. You want to prove it is you posting? Use a gpg signature or something and a third-party extension, it is just fluff that is not needed at all!

I'm all for having a system that is easy to modify to the end-user's wants and needs. However, there are going to be plenty of users that are not hardcore enough to make or use such options. Therefore, the normal functionality should be pretty usable.

People seem to pop-up whenever something that would change the interface to shout it down. They seem to fear any change and normally give no reason other than it would clutter things up or some nonsense. Does the CSS selector -really- get in your way? It is probably a whole ten pixels! Is having the More options thing really ruining your experience, or are you just against it on some principle? Personally, I would move it below the comment text-area or something, as now the tab amounts between the main fields has changed.

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.

155 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-19 13:42 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>154
Kami! Nice ID.

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

>>191

Thanks for reminding me that I need to fix the CSS for the captcha!

173 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 01:57 ID:Heaven [Del]

> He meant saging a thread just because a part of the actual e-mail address contains the word "sage."
> You know, like [email protected].

Well, then you are out of luck, aren't you? So you want to enter your E-Mail but cannot because then the post wouldn't bump then? Solution: Write it in the comment field, problem fixed.
There is no reason to change well-known keywords for this or even turn this into a frustratingly unconvenient tickbox/checkbox.

110 Name: anon!21anon4H3U 2005-10-17 20:22 ID:Heaven (Image: 1024x768 png, 36 kb) [Del]

src/1129602164301.png: 1024x768, 36 kb

WAHa, WAHa, it's a bug!

Pressed back after creating an error message in karaha (trying to reply to this thread, forgetting to type something in here), refresh does nothing!

84 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 12:11 ID:Heaven [Del]

> some other trickery

I smell JavaScript coming in about >>90-120

129 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-18 17:18 ID:Heaven [Del]

Damn, I was about to plug >>96 when I saw you uploaded the new version. Thanks for listening WAHa, you're awesome. :D

(Does this work like rules.html in mode_image? Is the board title inserted automatically in templates.pl or is it part of that separate html file?)

Already a few nitpicks though: (1) index.html#menu and index.html#1 links should be automatically inserted to the right of the board title (or below if you're looking at it without CSS), and (2) the "Create new thread" title isn't really necessary, since the widget button already explains its function (like with the reply box).

Unrelated: in 2ch thread lists, position numbers are followed by colons, not periods.

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

> people like admins might prefer to use them

but they have capcodes now...

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.

202 Name:   2005-10-20 19:06 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>201

Yeah, no, maybe. Using secure trips for capcodes also adds extra protections against accidentially misspellingyour capcode and leaving it open to attack.

5 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-12 17:15 ID:Heaven [Del]

Additionally, I'd like WakabaMark to be fixed somehow.
I don't know how, though. You know my resentments.

Finally, thanks for your fine work throughout all this time.
It is appreciated!

245 Name:   2005-10-22 10:56 ID:Heaven [Del]

Wow, >>243 sure looks like shit in Safari. What the hell? Looks right in Firefox, though.

264 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-22 18:51 ID:Heaven [Del]

Random post: The test thread could use some linking in the notes at the bottom (what's the common nomenclature for that one?).

73 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 08:21 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>71
forgot to add that turning the CSS selector and Admin functions into drop-down menus and moving them to the right side of board and thread title headers would remove that top bar entirely on the front page.

250 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-22 12:58 ID:tsGarR30 [Del]

>>249 Then the default should be no markup.

188 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-20 11:10 ID:Heaven [Del]

> partition to kill secure tripcodes

signed

> add functionality for multiple uploads in one post.

I think this was decided against before.

92 Name: anon!21anon4H3U 2005-10-17 14:00 ID:Heaven [Del]

This my just be me, but I'd like a link to the entire thread in karaha at the top of threads.

106 Name: qube3.mackey.miyazaki.miyazaki.jp 2005-10-17 15:49 ID:JzjmoL7r [Del]

test

355 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-28 19:32 ID:m/57LIb/ [Del]

There needs to be a separate page for bans, at least.

140 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-18 20:03 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>137
I also noticed that you removed the CSS selector in individual thread views. Personally, it seems both the Admin options and Style selector are a bit of a hindrance to the overall layout. Don't get me wrong -- I think the drop-in Style capability is fantastic-- but it just doesn't seem to play nice with the current 2ch page design.

The thing is, don't most or all major browsers these days allow users to change CSS styles from within the application itself? I know Firefox does, at least. Maybe the selector isn't really necessary.

124 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-18 07:43 ID:9mxxoE2M [Del]

>>123
signed

287 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-23 19:25 ID:Heaven [Del]

Oh, and the navigation bar on the error page should probably look like the one on the thread page.

281 Name: Anonymous : 2005-10-23 18:18 ID:Heaven [Del]

<a href="#">Is that true?</a>

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.

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

>>54
I really don't understand what the problem with the current system is. You must be confused. ┐('~`;)┌

61 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-17 02:10 ID:Heaven [Del]

>>58
Fuck you for giving me <blink>

48 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-15 17:08 ID:Heaven [Del]

I've also had an idea swimming around: an option to only count actual thread bumps in MAX_RES (not "sage" posts). I think it would lead to making each bump more valuable so that people don't do so wastefully and unnecessarily.

33 Name: !WAHa.06x36 2005-10-14 05:01 ID:gBva8ggI [Del]

>>32

Your browser momentarily regressed to an old bug and then got better? Who can tell?

>>22

Running in pure perl would be ideal, portability-wise, but in practice implementing a JPEG loader and saver from scratch in Perl is both a lot more work than anyone wants to do, and the result will also be too slow.

As was already stated, making a statically linked executable lets you distribute pre-compiled binaries that people can just upload along with the script.

60 Name: Anonymous 2005-10-16 21:29 ID:Heaven [Del]

The test thread seems to be broken too.

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