Official Request Thread

[Amhazair]

Originally Posted by Annette

Amhazair and llamabeast,

Do these issues adequately address your requests?

Ah, sorry I hadn't answered you before. I had seen your earlier replies. To be perfectly honest though, I'm not very computer literate (slight understatement ) and I've also been very busy these past few days, getting home really tired, and didn't feel like trying to decipher "complicated" (okay, I'm sure they're quite simple, it just didn't seem that way to my tired, protesting brain) instructions.

I'm quite sure that once things settle down on my end, and I can bring myself to actually ponder the deceptive codical structure you disguised your instructions as, I'll manage to discover the message.

[Mindi]

Originally Posted by Jazzepi

Could you remove the once a minute cap on PMs? I understand it's in place to prevent spammers from abusing the PM system, but I can't possibly imagine that's a problem in the first place since a spammer would have to go to the work of registering an account and then spamming everyone on the board.

Jazzepi

You would be surprised, there are dozens and dozens of banned spammers who created accounts to spam our forums. With the ability to now send to multiple people the same PM, the likelihood that someone could spam hundreds or even thousands of accounts in a short period of time has increased dramatically. As a small company that doesn't have administrators on the board 24x7x365, this is not an acceptable risk considering what that kind of spamming could do not only to our userbase and reputation but also to our server.

How the heck are you hitting the flood control that quickly anyway? You either have lightening fingers or need to be introduced to the wonders of instant messaging services.

[Annette]

Originally Posted by Herode

Still, a little button at the end of each post linking to the top of the page could be nice

Mindi is going to explore options for this once all the issues of broken functionality are fixed.

[Annette]

Originally Posted by Amhazair

Ah, sorry I hadn't answered you before. I had seen your earlier replies. To be perfectly honest though, I'm not very computer literate (slight understatement ) and I've also been very busy these past few days, getting home really tired, and didn't feel like trying to decipher "complicated" (okay, I'm sure they're quite simple, it just didn't seem that way to my tired, protesting brain) instructions.

I'm quite sure that once things settle down on my end, and I can bring myself to actually ponder the deceptive codical structure you disguised your instructions as, I'll manage to discover the message.

Me...obtuse? I'm willing to bet if I can do it, you can, too! Just hope it actually delivers the desired effect.

[Gandalf Parker]

90% of car drivers say they are above average drivers.
90% of computer users say they are below average users.
Of course, those are both impossible.

Gandalf Parker

[vfb]

Originally Posted by Annette

At the top of this page go to "Thread Tool" and select "View Printable Version" form the pull down list. At the top right there's an option to view all posts on one page. You can then either do a save page as a txt file or use your print dialogue to print to pdf file.

That would be very cool! And it's nice to have the printable version. But at the top right I see this instead, not "view all":

"Show 50 post(s) from this thread on one page"

The link looks like:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...?t=29054&pp=50

I tried doing this, but it didn't help, it still only gives 50 posts:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...=29054&pp=9999

[JimMorrison]

Originally Posted by Richard

...much of the presentation layer is stripped out of the core application software and stored in the database templates. Because of this most major mods are de-coupled from the application and actually applied through the templating system. So what that means is that for every style you have, which in turn holds literally hundreds of individual templates, you have to modify each template for every modification to the site...

Well, that sounds like a terrible mess! I won't expect a miracle then. Just remember one day when you're bored (I know you're all kinds of busy now, but eventually), that a lot of users wouldn't mind if there were just some simple color scheme options. If they were buried in the User CP, no one is going to dig it up before they bask in the glory of all of this blue for awhile - or if they do find it that fast, they must really be that averse to these colors.

Anyway, if there were a couple other options eventually, with colors selected to go nicely with the Shrapnel logo (and maybe even make it jump attractively out of the background. ), it would be cool.

[lch]

Originally Posted by Richard

BTW, to add to this, there is another issue with this. The way vbulletin works (which is actually better designed software wise) much of the presentation layer is stripped out of the core application software and stored in the database templates. Because of this most major mods are de-coupled from the application and actually applied through the templating system.

That's the same that phpBB3 does and most of MediaWiki. I really hate it because that means that something that you mod is usually tied to a template. It's extremely difficult to add something if you're not a core developer.

[Annette]

Originally Posted by vfb

That would be very cool! And it's nice to have the printable version. But at the top right I see this instead, not "view all":

"Show 50 post(s) from this thread on one page"

The link looks like:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...?t=29054&pp=50

I tried doing this, but it didn't help, it still only gives 50 posts:

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/print...=29054&pp=9999

I see, yes. So as it is now, a lengthy thread would need to be saved in a series of pages. I'll look into the possibility of improving this down the road.

[Mindi]

Originally Posted by lch

I'd like to request that existing quotes don't get filtered out when you're quoting a post. Or at least only from 1 or 2 nesting levels on. I have difficulty to find what exactly I wanted to cite when those quotes are removed.

I had to find a modification to put into vb to do this as vb by default strips everything but the last reply I think in order to keep things "clean". Anyway, I have installed a mod that allows nested quotes again and have set it to 3 which I think is a good number as a cut off.

Hope this helps!
Mindi