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Re: Last game you finished + 2 lines review.

 May 26, 2013, 09:24:21 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in Last game you finished + 4 lines review.  (Started by San2 May 30, 2010, 07:06:56 pm
 Board: Gaming
System Shock 2.

Played that back in 1999 and it's still one of my favorite games ever seen.
Review: Awesome, scary, innovative (even by today's standards), unforgiving, epic. And it has Shodan, nuff said :)

Yeah, oooooold stuff, but recently made available on GoG for $10 and a couple days later on Steam aswell. The new version is a bit updated with a new dark engine build coming from some dubious source (but certainly from a skilled developer with access to the original source code). People are suspecting that it's either based on the code that leaked a couple of years ago or might have been written by an ex-developer from looking glass or irrational and released anonymously. The engine has lots of new features and works fine on modern hardware (+operating systems) and with some 3rd party updated graphic resources, the game does look decent.

    

Re: my little overhaul

 November 03, 2012, 06:25:26 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Makurayami said, November 01, 2012, 10:32:08 pm
Don't know if this is related to the overhaul per se, but the search box keeps giving me this:

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SphinxQL: Unable to access the search daemon
Looks like the sphinx server is down or otherwise acting up (this is a background process that indexes all posts and allows for very fast fulltext search queries - unrelated to the forum software itself, but without it, search cannot work). Only the server admin can fix this.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 October 13, 2012, 03:28:43 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
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SilverSkin said, October 12, 2012, 08:03:30 pm
I wonder... is this normal?
Do you guys see anything strange here?
http://mugenguild.com/forum/index.php?action=search2

I control clicked search in a tab which opened another one with that address
Nah, not normal. Clearly a bug, because it's - for some unknown reason - loading the template twice when using the search2 action directly. Will look into it.

Edit: Should be fixed in the last commit.
@Valodim: It's only the two lines in Search.php that fixes the double templates thing on the search2 output.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 September 12, 2012, 04:30:03 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Found and fixed a few quirks with the inline editors under IE (7/8).
  • auto-resizing not working when quoting a message
  • messed up formatting (particularly line breaks) when using the inline-modify message feature

They are already commited to github and should appear here soon though you may have to force-reload pages to refresh scripts.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 September 11, 2012, 02:55:10 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
RicePigeon said, September 10, 2012, 08:31:14 pm
Go Advanced doesn't seem to rectify the problem either. Not on IE7 at least. Will try on Firefox later.
IE 7 is an unsupported browser. IE8 minimum. And no, it's not going to change in this software.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 September 04, 2012, 11:22:49 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Valodim said, September 04, 2012, 06:34:26 pm
yeah it does. gonna work on that (but not today)
It's on the todo list for one of the next updates. The smiley selector is a mess, because it currently cannot deal with smileys of different sizes. That's why it looks totally messed up.

The [ x ] is just a missing smiley image for a smiley that it otherwise part of the smiley pack.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 September 01, 2012, 01:22:17 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Iced said, August 31, 2012, 11:58:11 pm
Besides if a user wants to block the alert box, that is their problem. The alert box was a good feature, the allert system isnt intrusive enough
Yup, exactly and that's why I killed that darn popup. Intrusive design = bad design.

@Valodim: could be doable with a most simple plugin. Just hook into boardindex, check $user_info['unread_messages'] (it's != 0 if there are some unread PMs) and embed some javascript code into the header, using a hook template for header_area.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 31, 2012, 11:49:05 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Zzyzzyxx said, August 30, 2012, 05:28:38 pm
I wonder if it's possible to enable the user to modify PMs that were already sent. Other forums have this feature, and it's indeed useful.
Very bad idea and not possible with the way the pm system works in this forum. It's pretty much like email - once sent, no way to modify it.
     Posted: August 31, 2012, 11:54:54 pm
Iced said, August 31, 2012, 12:34:40 am
Even then if you made a big error you can always send a post after, it would give out the chance of some stupid stuff going on, like someone sending an insulting pm to x persons then recalling it before one of them got to read it. Leave it as it is.

Give us back a popup tho, I really miss it.
The popup feature was completely ripped out of the code, so it's not really easy to get it back. I replaced it with the notification system, because the latter is *much better* and it's how modern web applications work. A popup that jumps into your face when you open a web page is really bad design and a bit "90's style".

Besides, you cannot really implement it in a way that will circumvent all popup blockers, so if a popup is the only notification system, chances are high some users will miss it.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 26, 2012, 06:28:20 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Cyanide said, August 26, 2012, 05:46:50 am
I'm going to have to ask if the quote/modify/reply buttons be shifted. Once more, editing posts to give them the filter icons in releases. I need to scroll right down a very long post just to click a button. After doing this 7-8 times i am justifiably tired of scrolling. Previously it was enter thread and click. Unless you have a hotkey to go to the second post.
The buttons belong to the bottom of a post, that's more logical and pretty much standard in *any* modern forum software. SMF was the only one that (wrongfully) placed these buttons at the top of the post.

If you just want to edit the icon, you can click the icon in the post's title bar - no need to modify the post. Now, it appears that this doesn't work (yet) with the custom icons in your release topics, but it should. Need to check with Valodim what's needed to implement this (probably just a couple of hooks to allow his modification to customize the post icon selection window).
    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 22, 2012, 08:01:01 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
GBK667 said, August 22, 2012, 01:47:36 pm
It is possible to ignore moderators. Thats sometimes a really good thing, but is that intended?
Yes, that's how ignore lists have always been working in SMF. You can ignore a mod but that doesn't prevent the mod from punishing you.

Due to the nature how buddy- and ignore lists are implemented, its not easy to change this as it would have to check the status and privileges of ignored members at run-time, which would probably have too much of a performance impact.

What if you previously ignored a mod and the mod loses his moderator privileges for example - in theory, the mod should then automatically go to the effective list of ignored users (and vice versa, of course).

Also, moderators can be members of any user group and a moderator may only be a moderator for specific boards, unless he or she is a global moderator. So additional checks would be necessary to determine whether a moderator is valid for the current board/topic or not. All in all, it's quite complex matter that would require a lot of additional code for very little benefits.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 21, 2012, 04:51:30 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Valodim said, August 21, 2012, 11:25:12 am
I actually downgraded the api at some point because my sphinx daemon is "older", ie, debian squeeze. I'll see if upgrading is easily possible.
Well, you can easily check this by inserting the listen = port#:mysql41 directive into sphinx.conf and then try to connect to this port with the mysql command line client. If the connection is accepted, it should work.

Alternative: Compile sphinx from the official source tar ball. It doesn't have many prerequisites and compiled fine on my own testing server which runs a fairly old gentoo linux (probably older than squeeze).
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I always wondered why those were even disable-able. They aren't nearly intrusive enough to require that kind of option...
It's a remain of original SMF. In SMF it was possible to display quick moderation options in 3 ways:
  • Off at all
  • Check boxes
  • Little icons (one for each function, like remove topic).
I've killed option #3, but off and check boxes are still there. I may or may not remove this as well, because, like you said, the check boxes are neither intrusive nor annoying and a moderator needs them anyway, otherwise he cannot perform any moderation task.
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That span wasn't.. floating right.
That was my fault. I removed a few obsolete classes from the base.css and collateral damage hit a few non-obsolete :)

    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 21, 2012, 04:37:41 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Cazaki said, August 21, 2012, 08:17:35 am
There's all kinds of horrible things going on with the mobile version of this site on android, maybe you know that already but when i have the chance ill actually list most of them, though i know you probably arent focused on mobile accessibility
The mobile theme is simply incomplete. A better version is in the works.

    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 20, 2012, 05:13:30 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
c001357 said, August 20, 2012, 04:52:56 am
having the checkboxes next to posts for batch removal/split back would be pretty useful
They are still there. Make sure, you have not disabled the Show quick-moderation option in your profile.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 19, 2012, 02:36:54 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Aionios said, August 19, 2012, 07:21:19 am
Looking back at what the site resembled a few weeks ago...*shudder*...I can definitely say this is an improvement, now that things have been more "stabilized". The color scheme's easier on the eyes (resembling the old color scheme pretty much), even the banner's back lol. Still not used to the new PM system however. Not sure I'll like it as much as the old format, but it's a start to say the least.
You can change the default view for your PMs in the preferences. The "conversation view" is the new one, but you can still have the old flat- or single message view.

     Posted: August 19, 2012, 02:48:13 pm
Cyanide said, August 19, 2012, 07:09:44 am
An Error Has Occurred!
Unable to access the search deamon.

DAEMON! No wonder it's not working, it's looking for a spelling mistake  ;P
Lol :)

Regarding the Sphinx error messages when choosing specific sort methods: They'll soon go away but first I've to check with @Valodim: whether the installed sphinxd is compatible with the SphinxQL API (which should fix the errors and improve search performance even further).

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Also, i have been experiencing slow page load. I have now worked out what was causing it and told google analytics to go fuck itself. That particular thing seems to utterly bog down the connection in NZ and adds about 20 seconds to any page load. It's like 56k.

Is there a good reason for that to be on by default? I'm leaving it off, but if it doesn't need to be on, could be worth having the default setting as off.
Afaik, G analytics isn't even enabled here and I cannot locate the embedded code in the HTML output (and no, I've not disabled it in the profile).
    

Re: Game Screenshots

 August 19, 2012, 02:12:02 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in Game Screenshots - Post game names! (Started by Jellyball October 13, 2007, 12:11:01 am
 Board: Gaming
TempesT said, August 19, 2012, 03:33:29 am
They look pretty similar, he's playing on low settings.
Not exactly low, but yes, the screenshots were taken on my notebook, using the standard graphics engine at about medium to high quality settings.

Aion also provides a hq engine which looks *a lot* better than the shots in my post, but my notebook can't handle it (the hq engine needs a really powerful video card with plenty of shader performance). With everything maxed and the hq engine, Aion can look as good as Tera.
    

Re: Game Screenshots

 August 19, 2012, 12:00:05 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in Game Screenshots - Post game names! (Started by Jellyball October 13, 2007, 12:11:01 am
 Board: Gaming
    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 18, 2012, 09:55:08 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Jmorphman said, August 18, 2012, 12:28:40 pm
also this happened

Some (few) pages are not yet converted to the new template system and the old template apparently wasn't updated for the bigger header image. This will more or less fix itself with the next couple of updates, because the old template system will go away soon.
    

Re: Game Screenshots

 August 18, 2012, 09:39:24 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in Game Screenshots - Post game names! (Started by Jellyball October 13, 2007, 12:11:01 am
 Board: Gaming
I'm not really into fighting games, but anyway..

Who can name the game? :)





    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 18, 2012, 12:15:56 pm View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Just No Point said, August 18, 2012, 11:43:06 am
If I accidentally click the YOUR NOTIFICATIONS button instead of the WHAT'S NEW dropdown arrow the window it opens will cover the WHAT'S NEW options and I have to refresh the page to get rid of it.
Or you can just leave the popup window with the mouse pointer and it will (or should) disappear. If it does not, browser info please.
    

Re: my little overhaul

 August 18, 2012, 11:23:28 am View in topic context
avatar  Posted by Nightwish  in my little overhaul - 31/01/2013: Nothing Major to Report. (Started by Valodim August 01, 2012, 01:38:50 pm
 Board: Feedback
Cyanide said, August 18, 2012, 09:27:59 am
Requesting a way of getting into advanced modify with a single click. I'm correcting icons in the releases section right now and clicking modify>advanced editor is a bastard.

Unless there is a quicker way to do this.
You can try a middle-click on the modify link as a workaround. Depending on browser, it will open the full editor in a new tab/window. However, it doesn't work in Chrome for example, because Chrome (and most other webkit-based browsers) do not distinguish between left or middle mouse buttons.

It works in Firefox and Opera though.

Edit: Separate option for quick/inline modify shouldn't be difficult to implement. Will look into it...
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