Bugs, Fixes, New Features (Old)

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 09:36:21 AM

I'm starting a proper thread to address bugs, fixes, and new features. If you see problems, please post them here (and change the subject so it will be easier to keep track of). I'll also cover the new features as I activate them.

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 09:38:27 AM

OK. Quoting is fixed for real now. Should work like it used to. For you people using flat view, the link is now below each message, so you can quote whichever message you want.

Al DeFlorio · March 05, 2004, 09:48:26 AM

Age, will there be a way to switch from threaded to flat view and back within the thread?

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 09:50:57 AM

It was discussed in the user name/real name thread. It doesn't look like the developers care, so after I get all the major stuff sorted, I'll try to do that.

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 10:33:55 AM

You can now attach files to messages. For now, just .jpg or .gif files up to 250k. They won't be shown in the message. Just as a link that others can download.

Hillel · March 05, 2004, 10:53:54 AM

Thanks for your continued hard work on this site, Adriano. A quick question: How do you create a flat view of a selected topic? There used to be a "button" near the bottom of a selected thread, but I can't find it. It's likely I'm being blind and/or dense, so please forgive.

kaelistus · March 05, 2004, 10:55:49 AM

Hillel, go to my profile, and set it from there..

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 10:59:13 AM

Yep. What he said. This was being discussed in the user name vs. real name thread, so I guess I should mention it here too. For now, the only way to do it is to go to My Profile > Forum Settings and select it there. I'm going to try to make a quick link like it used to be when all the major problems are fixed though.

crodger1 · March 05, 2004, 02:06:40 PM

Age,

next message and previous message used to work temporally (so you could find the first new message in a previously read topic and just hit those buttons to move forwards in time). The new ones just move down the list seqentially, right (as opposed to temporally)?

Chris

pat · March 05, 2004, 02:19:35 PM

This is minor, but I would prefer to that the threads not paginate, i.e., that all messages in a single thread be on a single page. Or to be able to set that.

Also, the Profile has a field called "Real Name" (which became unfilled with the version change). You could possibly hack the display to use that.

rhovorka · March 05, 2004, 02:30:09 PM

[Q]pat Wrote:

This is minor, but I would prefer to that the threads not paginate, i.e., that all messages in a single thread be on a single page. Or to be able to set that.[/Q]
I agree, and was just going to suggest that.

jtwcornell91 · March 05, 2004, 03:23:27 PM

Is that one of the features that's going to be brought back? Very useful for those who check the eLF frequently.

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 04:18:52 PM

[Q]crodger1 Wrote:
Age,

next message and previous message used to work temporally (so you could find the first new message in a previously read topic and just hit those buttons to move forwards in time). The new ones just move down the list seqentially, right (as opposed to temporally)?

Chris [/Q]
The database design and much of the functionality was altered significantly to improve speed and this might be one of the casualties. I'll look into it when I get a chance, but I have a hunch that won't be possible any more.

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 04:23:36 PM

Well, I can increase the number shown per page. It can get unwieldy with very long threads, but definitely something I can do if that's what people want.

As for the name thing, the old version used to look up user information for each message in a thread to get the name info. The new version writes the author name with the message to save db calls and speed things up. (That's 100 extra database calls every time you load the page if the thread has 100 messages). There are also other reasons. When Facetimer decided to start posting as other people, some of them requested I change the names, which was a pain in the ass. That's not possible now. It's going to stay like this. But like I said, if you want to make a new account, I'll change all your old posts to reflect the new name.

CowbellGuy · March 05, 2004, 04:25:23 PM

All the code I wrote for that page is now obsolete with the new database design. Storing the new message info in the database was my own hack, so I knew how to get at it easily. That's now built in to the new version, so it will have to all be rewritten. I'd like to get at it eventually, but I'm not sure if or when it will happen.