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[FORUM UPGRADE] Discuss
Ramius
Joined: July 19, 2000Administrator, ClubPA admin
Joined: July 19, 2000Administrator, ClubPA admin
Discussion of the forum upgrade goes here.
If you think the new profile screen is ugly, I agree. No point complaining, though. It seemed better to release now with ugly, and fix the ugly over time, rather than delaying the upgrade.
If you think the new profile screen is ugly, I agree. No point complaining, though. It seemed better to release now with ugly, and fix the ugly over time, rather than delaying the upgrade.
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this should be interesting
Also we are clearly not responsible enough to use this tool.
edit: once it's prettied up, that Profile Page will definitely be better than the old one
edit2: is there a tag cloud visible anywhere?
Also, ho-leeey shit at the profile pages.
You have a wall! and friends!
In three months' time, I'm going to go into every thread in SE++ and compile stats on the tags used.
Tagging stuff!
I just tagged the Linux thread with linux and open source. Click a tag and it shows stuff with that tag.
And you can see who is [strike]e-stalking you[/strike] visiting your profile page!
It's in a cache, so it only updates every 30 minutes.
We can adjust how many tags go to the cloud, and how many days back it shows.
Ramius deserves all the credit for the successful upgrade. I just flipped a couple of bits.
I didn't want to risk sleighting any of our local demigods, so I did a merger.
So much
Fixed that for you.
Example: here's your football forum.
This post is correct as well.
Just went through the first page of D&D and CF taggin' everything
I may spend big chunks of tomorrow doing this for old threads because I have no life
Edit: allowing non-mods to create tags seems like a trap.
Nah, it's not anywhere near as useful if mods have to tag everything. There's spam, but half the useful or informative threads are already tagged.
They can serve several purposes. One example is posted above. Another is that they provide targetted search with options the current search engine just doesn't allow (like 3-letter words, such as Wii or PSP)
Or you just let everyone work through playing with them a bit at first and then it will normalize
it's not like you have to click the bogus tags
Agreed.
does this upgrade solve the DB issues?
please say yes
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Are they going to be used for searching as well?
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I'm assuming all the thread IDs are stored along with the tag.
That makes sense.
Once enough threads get tagged, they should!
Yesss!
alpha, Ramius, what're your postal addresses? I want to send you two a big box of man-hugs each.
Yahoo makes a javascript library called YUI, and it is used in this forum software. In the past, it was hosted here on the forums webserver. Yahoo also hosts it on their own servers, and webpages can just link to it. This is a win for the end-user, because it is more likely to come from their cache, and a win for the webhost, because less bandwidth required. So I opted to turn that remote-hosting feature on. I knew it would throw NoScript warnings, but I figured anyone savvy enough to run NoScript would understand what was going on.