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Duke Ravage Registered user Gravebane Zombie Last page view: 5666 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes ago. |
I think it's cool. very similar to what other forums have... although they also do it with the signature. Can that be done? ivan.sourceforge.net |
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Duke Ravage Registered user Gravebane Zombie Last page view: 5666 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes ago. |
and also, here's an idea: on all forums, the title display could be formatted like: [Avatar] (Name) (coustom title defined in settings) (Admin/Mod status if applicable) (idle timer) or something similar. And rather than displaying what forum(s) a user is modding for, just say "Administrator" or "Moderator", and name the mods for each forum in the forum description. ivan.sourceforge.net |
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Duke Ravage Registered user Gravebane Zombie Last page view: 5666 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes ago. |
(goes ahead and triple posts) Another note on the admin/mod thing, that line could be displayed no matter what the status is, just say "Registered User" for non-mod/admins. (And of course "Unregistered User" for unregs... in fact... they could automatically get the coustom title "lurker".) ivan.sourceforge.net |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 7 hours, 29 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
Yeah, my main problem is some bad design desissions I've made in the past. Now the database is full of data and it's hard to change parts of it... Like the sigs, right now the sig is copied into the message body. Sure I could slap on a dynamic sig in about 5 minutes, but that would give everyone double sigs... I'd like to make a script that could strip away all the embeded sigs before I did that. Not very hard to code (have to experiment a bit to make sure I don't strip away to much though), but problematic to run because it would take a long while to chew though the 26.000+ messages in the database and scripts are not allowed to run for more than ~90 seconds on the server, I'd have to make several runs keeping track of how far I'd come along the way :-/ The way mod and admin rights are currently stored is lacking at best I could slap on a new row to the forum table listing the mods and updating it manualy, but I'd prefeer to re-design the way the entire system works instead, will take a bit longer, but that way I'll only have to update all the pages once instead of making a half way hack first and double the work... As for the titles and status and stuff fiddeling with those are a piece of cake (now). I'll look into it tomorow. Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Duke Ravage Registered user Gravebane Zombie Last page view: 5666 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes ago. |
What about this: you take the forum offline, haul the database off the server and make it local, and then run the script, then bring the database back up when you're done? I'd be willing to help with any of this if I could, however i doubt I can. My suspicion is that this is not written in C++, and that's the only programming language I know... Or, another idea: run the script once, cutting it off of most of the more recent posts, and then slap on the dynamic sig. The old posts would end up with double sigs, sure, but how often are the older posts accessed? ivan.sourceforge.net [Edited 1 time, last edit on 6/2/2004 at 20:03 (GMT -5) by Duke Ravage] |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 7 hours, 29 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
It could except I'm on dialup and the database file is ~50Mb so it would take virtualy all day... Best bet would probably to add a temporary row to the message table and just mark messages as I go along, and just run the script multiple times doing only the unmarked messages untill they are all done and then drop the temporary row... Figure once I have a script that seems to work that doesn't eat up whoel messages by accident I'll add dynamic sigs and start removing the old ones (alternatively doing the most recent first). The whole site is ASP 3.0 (Visual Basic script), toying with the idea of upgrading it to .NET in order to lear that (ASP is getting stale, need to keep my skills up to date if I want to find a job it seems (well that and 5 years of work experience aparently :P)). Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Duke Ravage Registered user Gravebane Zombie Last page view: 5666 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes ago. |
Yeah, that could be a slight problem... i'm on dialup also. don't you just hate it? That method seems like a good idea. You could possibly just remove all sig attaching for a while, and write something so that all new posts after the time you removed the sig posting get added to the temporary row, then do the script like you said, multiple times on only the unmarked messages. Good luck with it all. i do know how trying to deal with crappy code is, i'm in the process of cleaning up some code I wrote a few months back so i can add it to other code that some friends are working on, for our programming final. ivan.sourceforge.net |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 7 hours, 29 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
Oook, that seems to have gone better than I had feared. Old sigs have been removed and replaced with a dynamic one (straight from your user profiles), only had to run the "sigsnipper" script twise to get them all. Hopefully no one lost any messages in the process. Think the ods of anyone writing "dash dash dash carrage-return" in a message is quite low (and I only looed for the first ocurance from the end of the message so we should be ok). Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin [Edited 1 time, last edit on 6/3/2004 at 12:13 (GMT -5) by Jan Erik] |
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Jan Erik Administrator Last page view: 7 hours, 29 minutes and 55 seconds ago. |
Oh and also seperated "status" and title so that mods and admins can have titles too (if they want to). Didn't bother with "lurker" titles for unregistered users, first of all they are not lurkers if they post and secondly there is no point, they are unregistered that's realy all there is to say... Jan Erik Mydland HoF admin |
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Ryan Klein Registered user Because I said so is why! Last page view: 1658 days, 6 hours, 25 minutes and 9 seconds ago. |
Well at least you guys are updating as opposed to Thomas |
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Duke Ravage Registered user Gravebane Zombie Last page view: 5666 days, 4 hours and 40 minutes ago. |
lol! ivan.sourceforge.net |