Known Issues, Updates, & Suggestions

[brilokuloj]

Suggestions (new boards, functionality, extensions, etc) go here!

I'm totally lost as to what would be wanted or expected out of this, as my last few attempts at running this forum ended up with way too many subforums no one was using. So it's a blank slate, and we can make more boxes as we go along.

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Known issues & priorities

1. E-mail server is not working. Something about configuration
   
2. Cannot request account deletion. (Plugin requires email)
   
3. Markdown mode would be nice.
   
4. Signatures don't work for some users
   
5. Smilie selection sucks
   
6. Post URLs still suck (this can be solved with a plugin but I have other shit to do)
   
7. Birthdays still not hidden by default
   
8. Spoilers not accessible on bbcode bar
   
9. Portal.php is broken
   

[brilokuloj]

UPDATE: Basic QOL stuff - Part 1
Finished October 4

• Mobile-compatible "Eggle purple" style
  

Did this a while ago.

• Hide birthdays by default
  

I was going to disable the display of birthdays altogether, but that looked to be a much larger undertaking than simply setting the default display at signup to "hide". Which means if you've already registered you'll have to go and hide yours at the User CP.

• Ban KSB
  

She is banned. All is well.

• Option to delete account
  

Um, sort of... see here. I need to figure out what is wrong with emails.

• Markdown support
  

This one I did not actually accomplish, simply because I could not fucking figure it out. I gave it a good try though. I was hoping someone had already written a plugin for this but they had not. I was envisioning a toggle on Post Options, like "Disable Smilies".

I know nothing about what writing plugins for this will entail, since I'd have to somehow override the post parser and whatever hell the WYSIWYG editor is going to give me, but I will give it my best shot. If all else fails I'll make a Greasemonkey script that'll work on other forums too.

• Spoiler tags? Do we have those yet??
  

We did not! Now we do. They work like quotes:

Code:

[spoiler=name][/spoiler]

• Add favicon
  

Did this a while ago. Kind of wondering if it should be different from the blog, but I didn't want to muddle the theming too much.

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Next up is Basic QOL Stuff Part 2, where I try again to implement account deletion, some form of markdown support, and any other concerns you guys might have.

[brilokuloj]

Apparently birthdays still do NOT hide by default, despite me literally changing them to do so. So I'm going to investigate that later.

I've also been trying (on Mortis' suggestion) to implement a Discord webhook... thingy, but the forums just... don't see the plugin.

Ahh, forums.

[brilokuloj]

New known issue: apparently signatures are broken, but only for some users. NO clue what is doing this; we're using the default theme, I only have 3 plugins and none of them are causing this. Don't even know what I could do to test it, cries

[brilokuloj]

Added a list of known issues to the first post in this thread.

[brilokuloj]

I think now URLs aren't quite so stupid. Hopefully that doesn't break the webhook.

[brilokuloj]

Well smilies might be more of an undertaking than I thought, since I'm going to have to make them all roughly the same size or else they won't play nice. But I DID add the most important one:

[huckleton]

this is not an urgent suggestion but there should be more thread icons to pick. i love thread icons i think every thread should have an icon

[brilokuloj]

this is not an urgent suggestion but there should be more thread icons to pick. i love thread icons i think every thread should have an icon

I absolutely want to make more thread icons! Just haven't thought of what yet. I love the Something Awful specialty ones but I am not that creative.

[brilokuloj]

Did some rearranging to IHA this morning, namely putting it in its own category and splitting off art vs resources.

[brilokuloj]

please work this time

I'm working on overhauling the EggwareXYZ Discord which means I'm also implementing a webhook there! If you are also a member of the IHA Discord now's your chance to mute one of these channels before you go insane! I have hopefully made them functionally identical.

[brilokuloj]

Hoping to add some more thread icons today so I'm lookin' for suggestions. We obviously need at least one Minecraft one.

(We also need more smilies, like, holy shit)

[brilokuloj]

Finally got off my butt and did it, we have a points system now!

I'm not... 100% sure what I'm going to do with it yet. This isn't Twitch (RIP) so it's not like I can have a soundboard. BUT, I miss stuff like the ticker.

[brilokuloj]

New Post Icons

New Smilies

:paula;

[brilokuloj]

Lots of work but nothing to show yet. Tidied up the postbit so it isn't full of pointless info (look to your left on this post to see what I mean). That's to make room for Badges, which you can buy with your Eggs, EVENTUALLY.

[cheet]

FUUUUUCK badges sound really really good. i will be looking forward to those

[brilokuloj]

I was hoping I could come up with more badges, but I got bored and I wanna do other stuff now, so here. Here's your first choice of badges!

You can buy 'em from the Points Shop, which I will hopefully make easier to find later.

[huckleton]

add spoilers to the BBcode bar?

[huckleton]

i keep assuming that the important posts would be in announcements instead of general discussion, not sure if this is a problem but maybe something to consider if anyone else finds it inconvenient?

[brilokuloj]

i keep assuming that the important posts would be in announcements instead of general discussion, not sure if this is a problem but maybe something to consider if anyone else finds it inconvenient?

Indeed that is where they should be. I only recently made Announcements and was going to move the rest of the threads over once people got used to it being there. I haven't been able to do much work on the forums recently because of the Wordpress debacle.

[brilokuloj]

The Portal had been broken for... a while (gonna choose to not think about it) but I only noticed it recently. It's fixed now!

[thunderzizi]

gallery boke

[brilokuloj]

Hmm. Not broken for me. Might be a permissions issue. I'm taking the weekend off but I'll look into it!

[brilokuloj]

Yup, twas permissions (I added a new role recently for the login boards). Should be fixed now.