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• • how about adding "viewed x times" to the line under the topic titles?

  n/t

  • 12 commentsMost recent by 3stripe July 2005Add-ons
• • This could be stupid: Comment reply form.

  I've been noticing that on threads that cause pagination, if you wanted to make a reply to a topic that had several pages, you can't do so until you reach the final page. I'm not sure if this is good or bad but having a reply on every page of said thread would be nice.
  
  I'm done, because If I make any more suggestions, I'm afraid jonzey will choke slam and mark will stomp me.

  • 15 commentsMost recent by outbreak July 2005General
• • Who has experience with MediaWiki? (RE: Documentation)

  I've just set it up on my server, and I want to copy over the documentation I've currently got at lussumo.com/docs, but I haven't got the faintest idea how to use this thing. Talk about a confusing app. I'm sure once I've been using it a while I'll love all of the features, but right now I just want to delete it.

  • 41 commentsMost recent by Egglet July 2005General
• • Setting the default style

  So I am trying to set the default style to a customised version of the default vanilla style. I entered the proper relative path to the custom style (styles/grey/) on the application settings panel in the field that allows you to specify the location of the default style, but for some reason, new users are set up using the original vanilla default style.
  
  any ideas?

  • 9 commentsMost recent by trabus July 2005General
• • Style Sheet WIP

  I haven't got a name for it yet and it's still WIP.
  But i thought I'd share it anyways just to get some feedback.
  
  Untitled
  
  It's made from the original style and I've only worked/tweaked my way down to the discussion page. Haven't checked how it work in any other browser then FF on XP yet.
  I'm afraid it might be a bit too light tho..
  whatcha think?

  • 20 commentsMost recent by jonezy July 2005Vanilla 1
• • user info bug in css (probably)

  I haven't had time to look at this, since I'm at work (and I should look like I'm working).
  
  But if I don't have a picture, but I have an icon, there is a positioning bug that appears in Safari (WebKit) and Firefox (Gecko) (haven't checked IE) that places the icon on top of the text. Attached is a picture from my browser here (Safari - latest 10.4)
  
  

  • 13 commentsMost recent by FLC July 2005General
• • user account created on ?

  when i look at my admin user...there is an actual date displayed like "Jun 22nd 2005" but for every other user ther is "x hours, minutes or whatever ago"
  
  any idea why that could be?
  
  by the way i noticed that in this forum there is also a sort of inconsistency...try to search for users and leave the texfield blank...then you can see...some accounts say created 5 days ago and some have dates displayed. i dont know why this is...maybe its obvious but not for me :D

  • 17 commentsMost recent by Minisweeper July 2005General
• • Icon and Account picture should not be resized automatically

  Hi there!
  
  I just noticed that icons that are smaller than 32x32 are also resized.. Same with account picture..
  
  Those should only be resized if they are larger than the maximum allowed size.. Otherwise I need to edit the pictures before using them and make smaller images larger to avoid the bad quality after Vanilla resized them :(

  • 37 commentsMost recent by Ben July 2005Vanilla 1
• • View posts since last visit

  I'd like to see a cut down, filtered list of new topics since my last visit.
  
  Again, in a sort of phpBB way. I'd also settle for an RSS feed extension tyhat would achieve the same thing.

  • 10 commentsMost recent by ichigo July 2005Vanilla 1
• • Do you prefer navigation on the right or left side?

  I was using some of the different stylesheets on here, and I noticed how some have the navigation area on the right side as opposed to the left (like the default theme).
  
  Which do you prefer and is there a reason why?

  • 25 commentsMost recent by jarred July 2005Vanilla 1
• • 22 Hours ago.

  22 Hours ago? Help, im stuck in time!

  • 21 commentsMost recent by ichigo July 2005General
• • category pull down in while in a discussion

  it would be nice to have a category pull down in the side so i can jump to a particular topic directly from that discussion or to the main discussion page (without having to click the discussions link at the top of the page).
  
  seems like an ideal thing for extensions.

  • 3 commentsMost recent by jonezy July 2005Vanilla 1
• • New Vanilla Site

  Hello,
  
  I've been working with Vanilla and now have a new site up at: http://orthodoxchicago.org. It's a nice script - very smooth, though I have hacked it a bit. (added feeds, email notification, changed bugreports to a contact form, etc.)
  
  Thanks!

  • 8 commentsMost recent by Minisweeper July 2005Vanilla 1
• • Was it my eyes

  or did the colours for read threads just go a shade darker?

  • 2 commentsMost recent by vinay July 2005General
• • Choosing the default style from a dropdown list

  I was thinking it may be easier to set the default style from a dropdown list based off of all the styles available in the style folder. Less chance for user error, and easier than inputting the folder manually.
  
  <edit> btw, I am referring to the sitewide default style, which is set by the admin on the application settings panel.

  • 7 commentsMost recent by Minisweeper July 2005Vanilla 1
• • Cats!

  I thought it would be appropriate to start a discussion about cats. I've got a great cat. I don't have the tools on my work machine to resize the image, so I've linked it.
  
  my cat
  
  more pictures of mr. peepers
  
  Her name is Mr. Peepers.

  • 8 commentsMost recent by NAG July 2005General
• • feeds versus email (notification)

  moe said:
  
  @ichigo
  we could start a whole new thread on that subject, i have a pretty strong opinion on that. :) i don't want to get too far offtopic, so let me just make a few short points (further discussion maybe really in another thread or by e-mail?):
  
  - rss/atom, despite being "the best we have now" is broken by design.
  "push" is not supposed to work that way. everytime you query the feed a
  little forum server suffers.
  - less tech-savvy users don't even know what rss or atom is and will just *shrug*
  - all feed-aggregators work differently. many will not let you comfortably monitor
  individual threads inside one big feed by design (i use rawdog and i like it).
  - i don't want to pull up $rssreader and subscribe/setup a filter-rule everytime
  i post to a thread on forum x or y. a simple "notify me"-checkbox is less hassle.
  - e-mail is really convinient
  (i can just file all notifies into a folder and process later)
  
  ok, this got longer than i wanted. apologize :)

  • 4 commentsMost recent by ichigo July 2005General
• • how about nice urls?

  n/t

  • 2 commentsMost recent by dom July 2005Vanilla 1
• • Copping someone else's name.

  So, here is the deal.
  
  I really want to register a domain name that use to belong to a fairly big media firm on the net. They had several web apps and design things going on.
  
  This is the exact same thing I'd use it for.
  
  Circa early 2003 they just up and vanished without a trace. Deleted a couple thousand user accounts, domain names went free, nothing.
  
  I was thinking of names today and though of theirs and then had some weird sense of deja vu, after hunting around for awhile I finally figured out why..
  
  Is it safe to take over their name if they have effectively dissolved into nothing?
  
  Suggestions greatly appreciated.

  • 20 commentsMost recent by Minisweeper July 2005General
• • how do you rearrange comment form

  Being a PHP novice... how can i rearrange the comment and new discussion form have the submit button be right after the text box and the "Format comments as" radio buttons be last? (i.e. switch the order of the two)
  
  This makes keyboard TAB button much more efficient, especially if you've set up your default Format option in forum prefs. you only tab once to the submit and hit enter.

  • 17 commentsMost recent by Scottish July 2005Vanilla 1