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Re: Cookies & Re: Nmid's 1000 Tue, 10 July 2012 16:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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m.a@stars wrote on Tue, 10 July 2012 15:46
Ron wrote on Tue, 10 July 2012 18:10
Hmm, it used to be 7 days, which seems excessive to me.

Hmmm, excessive why? Surely needing to re-login every 24 hours is worse? Asleep at cptr

Hmm, are there many other forums that don't require a login more than once every 24 hours?

Personally, I believe 24 hours is fine.



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Re: Update Notice Tue, 10 July 2012 16:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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m.a@stars wrote on Tue, 10 July 2012 15:50
Ron wrote on Tue, 10 July 2012 21:15
Found it, its set on a forum by forum basis, and can be inherited. Now turned on for this forum.

It doesn't seem to include icons inside signatures. Confused2

Actually, smilies in sigs is turned on. img tags inside sigs is turned off.

I guess during the upgrade process, the smilie in your sig got changed from a smilie BBCode to an actual img tag, which would not work.

I edited your profile for you and changed the img tagged smilie back into a BBCode smilie. Now it works.



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Rating of threads. (Also what's with no polls in sub forums?) Wed, 11 July 2012 02:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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When I tried rating the topic earlier (using the stars theme), it gives the error "Failed to submit: error".
The rating, however, does get registered.

Rating threads with the default theme works fine, with no error message at the time of rating the thread.

Just to point out, threads that have been rated can still be read if you use the "today's messages" filter setting of the forum. You can reply to messages using that page and read/edit your reply the same way.

ps - What's with no polls in sub forums?


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Re: Rating of threads. (Also what's with no polls in sub forums?) Wed, 11 July 2012 02:18 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There are members(s), invisible members and guest(s) visiting this board. [Administrator] [Moderator]
Our users have posted a total of 52670 messages inside 4372 topics.
Most users ever online was 5 on Mon, 09 July 2012 02:26
We have registered user(s).


Numbers missing for users online and how many registered members we have.
This is from the stars theme.



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Re: Cookies & Re: Nmid's 1000 Wed, 11 July 2012 08:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ron wrote on Tue, 10 July 2012 22:17
Hmm, are there many other forums that don't require a login more than once every 24 hours?

Dunno, this is the only place that I visit so regularly. Rolling Eyes

And anyway, what's the big deal with more frequent re-authentications that we need to sacrifice the ease of use? Sherlock



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Re: Update Notice Wed, 11 July 2012 08:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ron wrote on Tue, 10 July 2012 22:20
I guess during the upgrade process, the smilie in your sig got changed from a smilie BBCode to an actual img tag, which would not work.

I edited your profile for you and changed the img tagged smilie back into a BBCode smilie. Now it works.

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Re: Cookies & Re: Nmid's 1000 Wed, 11 July 2012 13:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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m.a@stars wrote on Wed, 11 July 2012 21:30
Ron wrote on Tue, 10 July 2012 22:17
Hmm, are there many other forums that don't require a login more than once every 24 hours?

Dunno, this is the only place that I visit so regularly. Rolling Eyes

And anyway, what's the big deal with more frequent re-authentications that we need to sacrifice the ease of use? Sherlock


Two ways of going about anything.. The question could also be asked another way - what's the big deal of logging in once a day Wink.
With browsers remembering passwords, it's just an additional two clicks and page loads.

Anyway, I think the cookie session has been extended. I don't need to log in repeatedly.



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Re: Rating of threads. (Also what's with no polls in sub forums?) Wed, 11 July 2012 15:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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nmid wrote on Wed, 11 July 2012 02:07

ps - What's with no polls in sub forums?


Um, which sub forums? I may have to adjust permissions, as this newer version of FudForum does things in a slightly different way.



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Re: Rating of threads. (Also what's with no polls in sub forums?) Wed, 11 July 2012 15:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Vanilla 2012.

Good to see the member counts working again.



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Re: Cookies & Re: Nmid's 1000 Thu, 12 July 2012 03:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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nmid wrote on Wed, 11 July 2012 19:55
With browsers remembering passwords...

... and security going out the window... Rolling Eyes

But seriously, why bother setting up a door if people are gonna leave their keys in it? Whip



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Re: Cookies & Re: Nmid's 1000 Thu, 12 July 2012 04:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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m.a@stars wrote on Thu, 12 July 2012 09:54
nmid wrote on Wed, 11 July 2012 19:55
With browsers remembering passwords...

... and security going out the window... Rolling Eyes

But seriously, why bother setting up a door if people are gonna leave their keys in it? Whip

Having the browser remember passwords is only a security risk if others have access to the computer, or if the computer gets stolen. And if the computer gets stolen, then it doesn't take long to change the password.



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Re: Update Notice Sat, 14 July 2012 16:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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RE: Stars theme

I see the black theme when I first visit the forum, but once I am logged in, it reverts to the white and blue look (which I guess is the default). This happens when I am using google chrome, but not IE, so I guess it is a Chrome thing.



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Re: Update Notice Sun, 15 July 2012 01:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Daniel wrote on Sat, 14 July 2012 22:06
RE: Stars theme

I see the black theme when I first visit the forum, but once I am logged in, it reverts to the white and blue look (which I guess is the default). This happens when I am using google chrome, but not IE, so I guess it is a Chrome thing.


You need to change it:
Control Panel - Account Settings - Theme: Stars

Btw: Is it possible to make the Stars Theme the default?

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Re: Update Notice Sun, 15 July 2012 22:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Altruist wrote on Sun, 15 July 2012 01:55
Daniel wrote on Sat, 14 July 2012 22:06
RE: Stars theme

I see the black theme when I first visit the forum, but once I am logged in, it reverts to the white and blue look (which I guess is the default). This happens when I am using google chrome, but not IE, so I guess it is a Chrome thing.


You need to change it:
Control Panel - Account Settings - Theme: Stars

Btw: Is it possible to make the Stars Theme the default?


It is supposed to be the default. I'll check again.



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Re: Update Notice Wed, 29 August 2012 09:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Is there any way to disable (maybe on a per user basis) the truncation of long posts.

I quite often drop threads onto my phone for reading later, only to come across a [Show the rest of this message] tag...

I've not come across a thread where the bandwidth saved by not displaying the whole post wasn't instantly eaten up ten times over by the required reload!

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Re: Update Notice Wed, 29 August 2012 10:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I'm not aware of anything but long posts are quite rare on this forum - most people exchange insults with few words.

The common exceptions are someone announcing a new game and listing all the game parameters and rules and secondly accounts of games that have finished.

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Re: Update Notice Wed, 29 August 2012 22:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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[XAP
Bob wrote on Wed, 29 August 2012 06:04]Is there any way to disable (maybe on a per user basis) the truncation of long posts.

I quite often drop threads onto my phone for reading later, only to come across a [Show the rest of this message] tag...

I've not come across a thread where the bandwidth saved by not displaying the whole post wasn't instantly eaten up ten times over by the required reload!



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Re: Update Notice Thu, 30 August 2012 04:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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BeeKeeper wrote on Wed, 29 August 2012 10:21
I'm not aware of anything but long posts are quite rare on this forum - most people exchange insults with few words.

The common exceptions are someone announcing a new game and listing all the game parameters and rules and secondly accounts of games that have finished.


At which point the requirement is low, so it might make sense to disable it entirely ??

Looking at the FUDforum forum it does seem to be a board wide configuration - the only discussion I can see is of adding a fudge factor, so you don't reload a page to reveal a final word rather than an essay (which was the intent of the limitation I think)

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Re: Update Notice Thu, 30 August 2012 05:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I just find it hard to wrap my head around the argument that people could have issues with the bandwith at SAH in this day and age, when a 56k dialup connection or cell with 3g have plenty of capacity to spare - and I doubt any of us are restricted to those.

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Re: Update Notice Thu, 30 August 2012 05:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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And disabling images is the way to deal with bandwidth limitations (One avatar can be several kB, that's alot of text!) - not truncating text, certainly not when the rest of the text isn't ajaxed in, but is a whole page reload!

I suppose you might try javascript compilation on the client side and importing the posts as individual files so they could be locally cached, but it's a waste of time in the (western) world as it is today.

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[XAP
Bob wrote on Wed, 29 August 2012 06:04]Is there any way to disable (maybe on a per user basis) the truncation of long posts.

I quite often drop threads onto my phone for reading later, only to come across a [Show the rest of this message] tag...

I've not come across a thread where the bandwidth saved by not displaying the whole post wasn't instantly eaten up ten times over by the required reload!


Yes, that would be great.
I am very much in favour of getting rid of truncation.

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Re: Update Notice Mon, 03 September 2012 09:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Perhaps a longer message limit would be a better idea....
Even if it's only 1/1000 posts, someone could drop an insane amount of data, just to troll. Keeping the safety measure intact with an increased safety limit might be a better option than just getting rid of it.


..and when I mean longer, I mean really longer.



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Re: Update Notice Wed, 12 September 2012 21:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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[XAP
Bob wrote on Wed, 29 August 2012 09:04]Is there any way to disable (maybe on a per user basis) the truncation of long posts.

I quite often drop threads onto my phone for reading later, only to come across a [Show the rest of this message] tag...

I've not come across a thread where the bandwidth saved by not displaying the whole post wasn't instantly eaten up ten times over by the required reload!

Unfortunately, I cannot find that option in the admin settings.



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sahforum2 vs sahforum Fri, 14 September 2012 21:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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When will we be heading back to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/. ?
I was going through some old archives and the links don't work with the change to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/.

It's easy to replace the link, but.....



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Re: sahforum2 vs sahforum Mon, 17 September 2012 12:57 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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nmid wrote on Fri, 14 September 2012 21:42
When will we be heading back to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum/. ?
I was going through some old archives and the links don't work with the change to http://starsautohost.org/sahforum2/.

It's easy to replace the link, but.....

I know... one more small upgraded needed, which will need a style upgrade as well. Also I need to tweek the new user registration process, as over 300 spam accounts were recently created. I've deleted them.



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