I just released a semi-large batch of changes to the site's code.

- "Prettier" URLs for messages and events... much shorter, and even vaguely readable. This will help with Google searches, too.
- fix user profile links to be usable without javascript
- signature in posts is offset by line via CSS
- quoted passages are displayed more space-efficiently
- a couple tiny bugfixes, and
- some minor moderation-tool tweaks

I've still got at least 3 more "big" features I'd like to go live with, but are either only partly complete, or need a lot more testing, so they'll wait a while.

If you encounter any problems, please let me know via this thread. Especially with navigating/posting messages or events.

ben said:

Hey, I got a new "kick MrBliss' arse" button, great!

By the way, I just figured out why the site was slow--the ISP made a hardware change (negative change) and didn't alert me. It's been this way for 10 days! I am talking to them about it, but it might not be fixed for another day or two. Sigh.

Way ta go, Ben!!

So with the new Quote feature, this will cut down on long wave-shaped posts where people are quoting people who are quoting people who are quoting people? I noticed this function is different now...

Anxiety said:

i like

wait..the quote thingie doesnt fix the quote within a quote within a quote within a quote thingie...


hey ben, cant you fix it so only the last quote shows up? so you dont end up struggling to read within quotes..its rather annoying...

Good work Ben

sosgemini said:

it's not clear to me exactly how that would work... you mean have it delete the inner quotes? please explain...

and maybe you can get rid of that separator line thingy in your sig now sosgemini

ben said:

You're finally installing air-conditioning aren't you!

any new emoticons at all, ben?

The quote boxes are not showing up in my browswer. Just the text, but no separators.

ben said:

exactly...

sosgemini said:

and better?

sosgemini said:

and actually..im not to sure logistically how it would work..however, i know that other forums i visit, only the most recent quote is carried over..dont know if your system can do it..or if you even want to do it...but the box in the box in the box isnt as hard to read as all the "quote" listings...

sosgemini said:

I'm actually trying to do this...and yeah, the idea is to delete anything inside of quotes that are nested more than 1-2 levels deep (I'm going with 2). Maybe put the word (snip) on the inside. Posters are just lazy...more often than not, they just hit reply and start typing...

I couldn't figure out how to do it with regular expressions, so I'm stuck with a left and right scan of the string for [ quote] and [ /quote] working my way inward.

Am not happy with the new quoting... is it possible to add quote marks to the quotes?

So it becomes:

roverlo:"
someone:
roverlo: text text text"

At least you know where the quote ends?!

roverlo said:

but surely the big blue box around the text tells you where the quote ends, no?

don't like the new quote feature... AT ALL. hard to differentiate who's saying what in multiple quotes within quotes.



as for the rest, great job!

AaronMaximus said:[quote]don't like the new quote feature... AT ALL. hard to differentiate who's saying what in multiple quotes within quotes.


but should you even have more then one quote?

i always found that far more confusing when there was the whole

someone said:

someone said:

someone said:

someone said:

someonelse said:


that was just (if not more) annoying

hey..i made tabs with that above post..damn you org!! damn you all to hell!!

sosgemini said:[quote]

AaronMaximus said:

then perhaps it should elminate all but the message to which one is actually replying, which would clear up the confusion of both systems.

i notice now that many old threads are locked

bump proof time capsules

AaronMaximus said:[quote]

sosgemini said:

thats what teller and i were talking about

sosgemini said:[quote]

AaronMaximus said:

yes, well!


i must've gotten lost in all those quotey boxes

ian said:

Which big blue box?
Am using webbrowser IE 5.5 and OS Windows 2000...
[This message was edited Thu Sep 18 7:29:55 PDT 2003 by roverlo]

roverlo said:

Hmm I am using IE 6 in Windows 2000 and I can see the quote boxes.

Basically when you quote someone, the quote should appear in a blue box. Perhaps your colour-depth on your PC is turned down too low or something?

ian said:

perhaps it's an IE 5 vs. IE 6 thing. because i'm on Windows 98 using 6.something and it's working for me too.

distracting and confusing, but it's working

ian said:

At home (now) using IE 6 and Windows 2000 it works indeed... kind a like it actually

So I guess it is IE 5.5...

When I click on page 2 in General Discussions Forum, I end up back at the main Forums page?

Am I drunk?

Or is there something on page 2 you don't want me to see?

mcmeekle said:

Let this be a lesson to all of you - if you must shove crayons up your nose, please at least have the common sense to stop when you feel some resistance. This has been a Prince.org Public Service Announcement.