There are some inconsistencies in both the Blue Moon and Futaba styles, with regard to the size and formatting of text labels in the Create new thread and Reply form areas.
The spacing of the Create new thread title is off in Futaba, Headline, and Toothpaste.
None of the styles that utilize rounded corner borders have them in the Create new thread area.

>>266

I told you to shift-reload!

>>89

>But the body text is even more important, and that goes at the bottom. So I dunno.

Yeah, I considered this too. I'm mainly suggesting for the sake of convention.

We definitely don't need a separate page for creating new threads (I get bad memories of Shiichan), mainly because it's inconvenient and requires a whole other page for something that really shouldn't. The fact that it'd be at the bottom of the board page already detracts bad posters with itchy trigger fingers. I think most of us have an "End" key on our keyboards, so we don't really have to scroll all the way down anyway. :) Really, the only issue I have with moving the post box to the bottom is that it ruins my personal visualization of new threads falling on top of the "stack of threads" and replies emerging from below the "stack of replies".

In reference to >>90, there's something I see on every 2ch board that is a lot less prevalent in Western counterparts (barring certain 4-ch boards): a rules/disclaimer block at the top, above the thread-list, with links to a newbie guide, site FAQ, and the like. Yes, it may be an annoyance to veterans, but being at the very top means it's most visible to newbies. That way, we don't get a constant influx of people wondering whether or not they need to fill in the Name and Link fields and what the hell sage and tripcodes are.

And maybe this: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1126586277/5

requesting features:

• >>n and >>q and anything else that can be used in the url.

• a "catalog" page for wakaba, like some futaba boards have.

>>9
I mentioned the option because on highly active boards it's helpful to know which threads will be gone in the next few minutes.

>>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).

> the only boards that use them are image boards where you have to load images anyway.

Correction: http://www.akatsukimanga.com/kareha/

>>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.
Having a specific trigger to trigger ID would also work.

>discussion of only one comment box, then you couldn't talk about sage/fusianasan/whatever

You could only trigger the functions in a specific format, say

:link-sage
:name-blah#faggot

lol comment

I do not believe this was an actual request, but it is obviously possible and usable. Another way would be escaping keywords that you want to post.

> partition to kill secure tripcodes

Why? If you are going to get rid of secure tripcodes you should get rid of tripcodes by the same reasons. On another note, why have I seen partition instead of petition multiple times?

>So I misspelled one word once. Sue me!

My point was that it is unnesessarily obtuse, not nit-picking that you misspelled it.

>This is a widely used system. There is a very low learning curve here. sage = does not bump thread when replying, that's all there is to know. People can then figure out why it is useful on their own.

You would think there is a low learning curve, but that is not really the case. For example, on an imageboard, what effect do you have making a sage post (with no real content) with prune oldest and a permasage limit? What about prune oldest with a permasage limit that excludes sage replies?

>trigger replacements

I'm not sure what to replace sage with, if anything. Down certainly doesn't describe it (to me it implies the reverse of age, which is not the case). don't_bump or dont_bump? show_host or show_ip works for fusianasan imo... show_ID to trigger ID?

http://wakaba.c3.cx/test/sanitize.pl?html=%3Ccode%3E+%E3%8B%8B%E3%8F%A1%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A+%E3%82%94%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0+%E3%82%94%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B0+%E3%82%94%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0+%E3%82%94%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0+%E3%82%94%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0%E3%82%94+%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0%E3%82%94+%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0%E3%82%94%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B2%E3%80%B0%E3%82%94%E3%82%94%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E3%80%B3%E3%80%B5%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B3%E3%80%B5%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B3%E3%80%B5%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%83%B7%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B0%E3%80%B0%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%28%E2%99%9B%E0%B8%BA%D0%94%29%28*%E3%82%9C%E2%88%80%E3%82%9C%29%EF%BD%9E%E2%99%A1%E2%84%B3%E0%B8%BA%E2%84%B4%E0%B8%BA%E2%84%AF%E0%B8%BA%E2%9D%A4%E2%84%92%E0%B8%BA%E2%84%B4%E0%B8%BA%CE%BD%E2%84%AF%E0%B8%BA..._%E3%80%86%28%E3%82%9C%E2%96%BD%E3%82%9C*%29%E3%8C%B0%E3%8C%B0+%E3%8D%89%E3%8D%8D%E3%8C%A7%E3%8C%94%E3%8C%B6%E3%8D%8A%E3%8C%A3%E3%8C%A6%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E3%8C%80%E3%8C%81%E3%8C%82%E3%8C%83%E3%8C%84%E3%8C%85%E3%8C%86%E3%8C%87%E3%8C%88%E3%8C%89%E3%8C%8A%E3%8C%8B%E3%8C%8C%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA+%E2%98%A0%E0%B8%BA%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E2%98%BC%E2%99%AD%E2%99%AC%E2%99%AB%E2%99%A8%E2%99%A9%E2%99%A7%E2%99%A6%E2%99%A5%E2%99%A4%E2%99%A3%E2%99%A2%E2%99%A0%E2%99%A1%E2%99%90%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%91%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%92%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%93%E0%B8%BA+%E2%99%94%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%95%E0%B8%BA+%E2%99%96%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%97%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%98%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%99%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%9A%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%9B%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%9C%E0%B8%BA%E2%99%9D%28%EF%BD%A5%E2%88%80%EF%BD%A5%29%2F%E3%83%BE%7E%7E%E2%95%8B%E2%94%93%21%E3%8B%A6%E3%8B%B8%E3%8B%AD%C2%B0%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%7C%E5%A3%81%7C%E3%80%8D%E3%82%9C%CF%81%E3%82%9C%29%E3%80%8D%E3%80%80%E3%83%8E+%E3%83%BD%60%60%EF%BD%9E+%E5%8A%9B%E3%8B%A6%E3%8B%B8%E3%8B%AD%C2%B0%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E2%80%89%E3%80%80+%E3%80%80+%EF%BC%8F%E2%80%89%E2%8C%92%E3%83%BD+%E2%80%89%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E3%80%80%E2%80%89%E3%80%80%2F%E3%80%80%C2%B4_%E3%82%9D%60%EF%BC%89+I+am+sorry%E3%80%81%E2%80%89the+%CE%B2%E2%80%89%CE%B1%E2%80%89%CE%BA%E2%80%89%CE%B1%E2%80%89kopipe+couldn%27t+be+carried+out%E3%83%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%BB%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E3%80%80%E3%80%80%7C%E3%80%80%E2%80%89+%E3%80%80%E3%80%80%2F%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E2%80%89%E3%80%80%E3%80%80%7C+%2F%7C%E2%80%89%E3%80%80%7C%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E3%80%80+%2F%2F%E3%80%80%7C+%E2%80%89%7C%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0D%0A%E3%80%80%EF%BC%B5%E2%80%89%E3%80%80+.%EF%BC%B5+%E2%80%89%3C%2Fcode%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E

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> people like admins might prefer to use them

but they have capcodes now...

>>70

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> Personally, I find the reverse order listing, as well as the random order listing, to be a bit silly & useless.

Well, no, duh, that's the point. They're jokes.

> The only useful bonus feature here seems to be the comma range seperator, but it seems even in that case there is not much benefit to it (saves 1-3 links in the average case that it is needed, which is rare to begin with).

On the contrary, it's very useful when referring someone to a specific discussion in a thread where several discussions are going on, since you can make a link that only shows the relevant posts. Not just on the board but when linking to threads elsewhere.

Semantical nitpick: shouldn't the "Page top" link be called "Thread list"?

The "Entire thread" link on the thread page is missing a "/" at the end.

Removed it when redesigning the page head, haven't figured out quite what to do about it yet. It needs to be changed, but to what, I'm not yet sure.

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.

While we're on that note, can there be a config.pl option to toggle between opening file attachments in a new window or in the current window?

Here's a fun little game for you all!

I'm looking into adding support for using HTML markup in addition to WakabaMark, but since most boards use XHTML, I can't just let through any old HTML, and most people can't write well-formed XHTML. Also, I don't want any cross-site scripting going on. So I've tried to write a piece of code that takes any horribly written piece of HTML, sanitizes it by removing all tags and attributes that are not an approved list, checks the attribute values, and turns it into well-formed XML.

Now I'd like to see if anyone can break this. The objective is to get some Javascript onto the page, or making the page break in Firefox (or any other browser that parses XML strictly), or otherwise causing trouble. Have at it!

http://wakaba.c3.cx/test/sanitize.pl

>>220
I meant only using the extra post for autoclose situations where the thread has exceeded the defined postcount limit in config.pl. As for the implementation, couldn't you just have Kareha use post_stuff() and (somehow) replace the timestamp with "Over XXXX Thread"?

>>108
I don't think that restricting specific users' posting priviliges is useful in any way except restricting them from posting.

>>108,113
"fusianasan" is for when a user wants to prove that he is posting from a certain place (like a school, a company's network or a military base).

>>112
A keyboard shortcut for "reply" in Kareha or "submit" in Wakaba would be nice to have.

n is implemented, but not for >> yet.

Also, >>1 is, as it is, only added to URLs of the form xx-yy and lxx. 2ch doesn't add >>1 for single-reply URLs, and if you're using commas, I figure you can add >>1 yourself if you want it. I'm not sure if this is the best behaviour, but that's how it works at the moment.

> The "entire thread" link can easily be changes to link to the files in /res/ instead of going through the script, but that would make it somewhat less convenient when you want to consturct custom URLs, so I haven't done it.

A better solution would be to use mod_rewrite to rewrite all /kareha.pl/$number/ links to /res/$number.html
It schould be a lot faster then running the script and the links stay the same.

> metadata

Not sure, that would require a database redesign and I don't want to force people with a current install to do that. Also, it seems something like that would work better for a whole new script, properly designed around the idea.

> config.pl parameter for a generic image that takes the place of a deleted image (ie, Hello Kitty)

Ah, good, been meaning to do, forgot about.

> 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.

None of those seem useful to me, because I'm of the opinion that bans are to prevent abuse, not to punish users.

> Replace HTML error pages with dialog box equivalents using JavaScript.

Would require a bunch of hidden-iframing and such. I'd like to do a complete re-design full of javascript trickery, and this idea would fit better in such a context... That is to say, I'm lazy and the current version is robust, and I'm loathe to go around changing it, since it would introduce new problems.

> Kill user deletion. I can't see any case for when it'd have constructive uses.

On image boards, it has a very definite use - people do fuck up and post in the wrong thread, or create new threads. It's better if they can clean up after themselves. In Kareha, you can already disable deletion.

> Conversion to mod_perl?

As far as I know, it should work in mod_perl already, modulo some prototype bugs. I'll try to get those fixed.

> 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?

That would require a LOT of code, especially when you don't want external dependencies, so it's a bit iffy.

I vote yes, but that is obvious isn't it?

>>326

>You need to explain what you're talking about before I can do anything about that.?

See attached screenshot. It's in every style but Pseud0ch.

>No. I'm too lazy to figure what that's supposed to do, and I don't think anybody actually wants to use that in the first place.

Well the functionality is already in kareha.pl, right? All you need is some modifications to the mode_message template. You can check out the 2ch-like boards on Futaba for reference, though I'm pretty sure I've seen other 2ch-like boards that implement multi-paged functionality with a different layout. Personally, it isn't all that big a deal if it's just a template issue though.

>There's no database to keep IP data in, and I'd prefer to keep the script completely agnostic to IP addresses.

No need for a database, just a text file. You're right about storing IPs, though, but then how can you implement a banning system? Do you use an encrypted IP like the algorithm to generate ID codes?

>No, because I don't know what you mean.

I mean that (for example) if I wanted to replace the permasaging function under the MAX_POSTS condition (permasage after X posts) with the thread-closing function (close after X posts), all it would require is a simple replacement of the proper function references in post_stuff(), correct?

>>327

>(optional) preview page

Excessive, methinks.

>Is there a reason why the post box is so small and pushed to the side?

Because mode_message is modeled after the 0ch layout. To compensate for the smallness, it expands automatically when you click inside it.

>Forced fusianasan would be fine I think, if they had advanced warning.

This can be easily done manually with rules.html

>>38
Sorry, I guess I should've worded that more clearly. I was referring to the ability for users to delete their own posts. It's counter-productive to discussions when a user deletes his own post and a quick replier later quotes or references it. It also encourages users to be lazy with posting, because they can always go back and hide their mistakes.

Thought of something else: can there be the ability to separately place a title on a board and what the head <title> element says?

Like "Music" for the header but "foolchan - music" for the title in the browser window.

>>324
I've heard they use it on a per-IP basis for troublesome posters on 2ch. It could also discourage people from being jisakujien (supposing ID is disabled) or posting in a certain thread unless they're totally willing to have their host revealed.