Bugs? Suggestions? Issues?

[Raiders]

That's a good idea, actually. I had halted my work on match-cut.net because I didn't really like the layout I was using and was unsure if that was the right content.

[Sycophant]

Hey, is it possible to get some kind of extension that would allow strikeout text? I've occasionally found the desire to use strikeout text in service of a hilarious joke.

I have determined that my inability to use this feature is one of the ones that makes me take Match Cut too seriously. I think I will be a much sillier and more tolerable poster if I have this option available to me.

[Raiders]

Hey, is it possible to get some kind of extension that would allow strikeout text? I've occasionally found the desire to use strikeout text in service of a hilarious joke.

I have determined that my inability to use this feature is one of the ones that makes me take Match Cut too seriously. I think I will be a much sillier and more tolerable poster if I have this option available to me.

Sure

[Sycophant]

Sure

Raiders, you're king shit of fuck mountain awesome!

[MadMan]

This site sucks the big one rocks!

[EvilShoe]

This is a really useful addition.

[Sycophant]

Can we weight rep power based less on post count and more on rep points? I think the system might be due for some rebalancing.

[D_Davis]

Re: Match-Cut.Net

Raiders,

Was thinking about the MCDN project and where it might end up going. I know your initial idea was a database that archives our consensuses and List-Fus and whatnot, but that sounds like it could be quite cumbersome to maintain. What about a wiki? I've seen some video game forums do this where their members collect common and dissenting opinions on games so there's an easy reference to the peculiar tastes of individual members and segments of the community.

Wikis are actually surprisingly easy to set up and maintain, and viewing or editing access can be restricted if it becomes necessary, while not requiring one or two people to assume the whole burden.

Just a thought. Always willing to help out where I can/should.

Love,

Sycophant

This is a cool idea. Something more like Giant Bomb?

[Sycophant]

When people (like me) browse the forum invisibly, do we show up as guests in the Who's Online list?

[Kurosawa Fan]

When people (like me) browse the forum invisibly, do we show up as guests in the Who's Online list?

No. The number of members online just won't match up with the number of members listed by name underneath.

[Sycophant]

Thanks for the speedy reply!

[Spun Lepton]

The site needs a "shit-eating grin" emoticon, dang it.

:D <----- is lonely

[Raiders]

What do you mean? Looks fine to me.

:D

[MadMan]

Finally its here :pritch: :D

[Ezee E]

How tough would it be to create a chat room? I think it'd work very well here.

[Dukefrukem]

not difficult at all considering there's dozens of mods for it

http://tufat.com/s_flash_chat_chatroom.htm

[Raiders]

Oh yeah, announcement:

Negative rep is gone.

[MadMan]

Oh yeah, announcement:

Negative rep is gone.Not surprising, if only because I'm sure a few instances of misuse resulted in this decision. Still it was a way of checking back any posters who joined simply to troll or act like complete jackasses. I won't really miss it, and I never received any, regardless.

Oh and I'd participate in a Match-Cut chat room, but I'm not sure it would be used enough to warrent the creation of one.

Finally I like the new smilies. :cool: is awesome :pritch:

[Melville]

Can we get that smiley with the squiggly mouth that we had at the old site? You know, the one that looks sort of disgusted?

EDIT: also, why is it that if I get repped by somebody with over 10 rep power, I only get 10 rep points? It makes sense to have a ceiling on the number of rep points that somebody can give, but then what's the point of the rep power going above 10?

[B-side]

Can we get that smiley with the squiggly mouth that we had at the old site? You know, the one that looks sort of disgusted?

EDIT: also, why is it that if I get repped by somebody with over 10 rep power, I only get 10 rep points? It makes sense to have a ceiling on the number of rep points that somebody can give, but then what's the point of the rep power going above 10?

I've noticed this as well.

[Raiders]

I created a mod to set the max rep power given to 10 but there's no way for me to make it cap the actual "Rep Power" feature at 10. It will continue to increase based on the settings I have created. You just will max out at giving power at 10.

[Melville]

I created a mod to set the max rep power given to 10 but there's no way for me to make it cap the actual "Rep Power" feature at 10. It will continue to increase based on the settings I have created. You just will max out at giving power at 10.
Makes sense. What about the smiley? Is it unavailable?

EDIT: in case my vague description was too vague, here's the one I'm thinking of: http://planetsmilies.net/confused-smiley-17420.gif

[Sven]

Over the last few minutes, all of a sudden, much of the site's text has become boxes for me. New font I don't have?

First 2010 post.

[Sven]

Over the last few minutes, all of a sudden, much of the site's text has become boxes for me. New font I don't have?

First 2010 post.

Ne'ermind. My computer's just wiggin'.

[Watashi]

Is there any way to remove size limits on avatars? I'm trying to make a new avatar and even at the lowest settings, it doesn't go below 24Kb.

[Raiders]

Is there any way to remove size limits on avatars? I'm trying to make a new avatar and even at the lowest settings, it doesn't go below 24Kb.

Sorry but no. I doubled it from the recommended settings and we don't have unlimited space.

[MacGuffin]

Wats, you might want to see what this (http://www.myimager.com/) site does for your image. There's an option to remove either color or quality in the image, depending on if its a gif or a jpg, in order to make the image smaller.

[Sven]

Site sometimes being a little slow for anyone else?

[Spinal]

Site sometimes being a little slow for anyone else?

I see what you're up to.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Site sometimes being a little slow for anyone else?

Yes. Often, actually.

[D_Davis]

Yes. Often, actually.

Yeah, same here.

[Ezee E]

Not really.

[Raiders]

Yeah, not sure what to tell you. I'm not seeing any issues.

[soitgoes...]

Site sometimes being a little slow for anyone else?Yes. It has been slower than usual over the past couple weeks.

[Raiders]

:|

[MadMan]

I blame Sven.

[transmogrifier]

Yes. It has been slower than usual over the past couple weeks.

From what I can figure, the larger the thread, the longer it takes to load. Some stats:

FDT - 46,000 posts, 14 seconds to load
Random Thoughts - 22,000 posts, 13 seconds to load
Video Games - 10,000 posts, 12 seconds to load
NFL - 4,000 posts, 5 seconds to load
The News Thread - 3,000 posts, 3 seconds to load

Now the actual times may vary according to the time of day etc, but the ratio is about the same. The FDT has been particularly annoying over the last 10 days or so.

[Sycophant]

This hilariously happens after the FDT is renamed to "We're Gonna Need a Bigger Film Discussion Thread".

Maybe it's time for an actual new FDT?

[MadMan]

This hilariously happens after the FDT is renamed to "We're Gonna Need a Bigger Film Discussion Thread".

Maybe it's time for an actual new FDT?Probably. But will it happen? Perhaps.

[Mara]

THANK YOU FOR FIXING LOVE YOU VERY MUCH

NAT

[MadMan]

Yeah good work, Raiders. Although the e-mail address listed at the bottom of the error filled page that I saw doesn't work anymore, or something. I tried e-mailing yesterday to find out what the hell was up with the site.

[Qrazy]

I had one suggestions but I don't know how easy it is. Would it be possible to expand the amount of PMs one can send and receive? I find myself frequently having to go in there and clean that out.

[Raiders]

I had one suggestions but I don't know how easy it is. Would it be possible to expand the amount of PMs one can send and receive? I find myself frequently having to go in there and clean that out.

Don't really want to do that in order to keep the total size down. Unless you are intending to blackmail someone, I would think deleting them after done with them would be fairly easy.

[Ezee E]

Don't really want to do that in order to keep the total size down. Unless you are intending to blackmail someone, I would think deleting them after done with them would be fairly easy.
It's three clicks. I see no problem with it either.

However, I'm sure Qrazy isn't trying to blackmail anyone. He's just trying to show his Madman side and get to deleting them eventually.

[Qrazy]

It's more so that some messages contain useful information or interesting conversations that I don't especially want to delete, but fair enough if it would be too taxing for the site.

[Raiders]

When I upgrade to the larger server space, I'll probably increase them. We are close to running out of space right now, so give it a little while.

[MadMan]

It's three clicks. I see no problem with it either.

However, I'm sure Qrazy isn't trying to blackmail anyone. He's just trying to show his Madman side and get to deleting them eventually.I actually have kept all of my 40 PM's, and don't see the point of deleting any of them since I rarely receive any, actually :P

[Raiders]

Eh OK, so the transfer of files is taking forever. The forum will be switched in a couple days. I'll let you know before I have to turn it off again.

[Raiders]

Alright... that took longer than expected but the database has been successfully transferred and everything should be good to go.

[B-side]

Could we get YouTube tags?

[MadMan]

Alright... that took longer than expected but the database has been successfully transferred and everything should be good to go.Cool. I remember getting a "Guys, I am moving the database to a new server. This will take a little while. We will be back soon..." message, which was both a tad concerning but also amusing.

[Dukefrukem]

Anyone else having MC timeout every once in a while?

[Irish]

Anyone else having MC timeout every once in a while?
Yes. Thought it was my wifi burping at first or see bigger DNS issue.

[Kurosawa Fan]

It has happened for me a couple times today as well.

[Raiders]

I think it is a server issue. It seems to be intermittent enough to not warrant a complaint, but I'll keep track of it.

[Kurosawa Fan]

The site is running extremely slow for me today, and just a couple clicks ago Chrome gave me a malware warning, saying freemoviewallpaper.com or something like that was trying to install malware on my computer. Any idea why that would happen.

[Winston*]

The site is running extremely slow for me today, and just a couple clicks ago Chrome gave me a malware warning, saying freemoviewallpaper.com or something like that was trying to install malware on my computer. Any idea why that would happen.

Been getting this too.

[Irish]

Testing

Edit: Weird.

[Dukefrukem]

TO again

[Dukefrukem]

To again

[Dukefrukem]

to again

[Kurosawa Fan]

Just happened for me as well.

[Ezee E]

For me, I've been getting posts that I've already read showing up in the "new posts" area when I read. Never happened before.

[Dukefrukem]

I'm using this thread to log the TO events so they can be compared with the logs on the server. My posts above occurred on three different computers on three different networks.

[Scar]

For me, I've been getting posts that I've already read showing up in the "new posts" area when I read. Never happened before.

The only ones that do this for me are the Poll threads from the Horror Battle. My best guess would be that it registers as a new post every time someone votes.

However, I did have some time out issues a few days ago.

[Thirdmango]

yes, every poll that is voted on gets put as new even if no one commented. So in the 2012 new films if someone votes on a film it'll be put to the top.

[Ezee E]

yes, every poll that is voted on gets put as new even if no one commented. So in the 2012 new films if someone votes on a film it'll be put to the top.
Boo...

Also, timeout.

[Kurosawa Fan]

It's been really bad on my end this morning. Very slow, and timing out on a regular basis for the last hour. Anyone else experiencing this?

[D_Davis]

It's been really bad on my end this morning. Very slow, and timing out on a regular basis for the last hour. Anyone else experiencing this?

It's been like this for me for the last week or so.

[Dukefrukem]

It's been really bad on my end this morning. Very slow, and timing out on a regular basis for the last hour. Anyone else experiencing this?

Yes. Worst I've seen it lately.

[Raiders]

I have registered a complaint with the hosting company. There has been bad performance for a while now.

[MadMan]

Huh I thought it was just my internet being problematic. I guess I didn't think there was something wrong with the actual site. Cause yeah at times its loaded really slow.

[Dukefrukem]

Running very fast today.

[Raiders]

The hosting company has made some changes/upgrades to our server (why it was down for a while), so we'll see it if helps.

[D_Davis]

The hosting company has made some changes/upgrades to our server (why it was down for a while), so we'll see it if helps.

Thanks, Raiders. Everything seems to be running well right now.

[dreamdead]

I echo DD. Thanks for keeping this site at its peak, Raiders.

[Watashi]

Fuck you Raiders. I want my Match-Cut 24/7.

[MadMan]

Hopefully the changes lead to the site running even more awesome :pritch:

[Dukefrukem]

database failure today. First since the upgrade.

[Kurosawa Fan]

database failure today. First since the upgrade.

Yep, experienced the same, as well as very slow speeds for a bit afterward. Seems to be running smoothly now.

[Dukefrukem]

database error

[Dukefrukem]

database error

[Kurosawa Fan]

Just had one (database error) about ten minutes ago, and the last few days the site has been dragging intermittently on my machine.

[Lasse]

Just had one (database error) about ten minutes ago, and the last few days the site has been dragging intermittently on my machine.

Same.

[Raiders]

Just had one (database error) about ten minutes ago, and the last few days the site has been dragging intermittently on my machine.

DB errors are nothing I can fix. I have noticed no performance errors. Stop lying.

Seriously though, if it is only a few minute occasional interruption, there isn't really much to do.

[MadMan]

Well its stopped for now, so that's good.

[Dukefrukem]

DB errors are nothing I can fix. I have noticed no performance errors. Stop lying.

Seriously though, if it is only a few minute occasional interruption, there isn't really much to do.

Change Hosts? Servers should be close to 99% up-time, especially for a low traffic internet forum. The fact that we're seeing this happen on a regular basis suggests the host is not very reliable.

Just sayin.

[Raiders]

Change Hosts? Servers should be close to 99% up-time, especially for a low traffic internet forum. The fact that we're seeing this happen on a regular basis suggests the host is not very reliable.

Just sayin.

I don't have a server all to myself and am not going to ever get one. And I'm fairly certain that a couple minutes every few days is more than 99%. I am satisfied with the performance on the whole and the price, which I pay by myself, is very nice.

[Skitch]

I have an issue with this site.

While I would never ever pay for sites like twitter and facebook (even though I'm on them almost daily, if they wanted money I would bail instantly), Match-Cut seems to be entirely funded behind the scenes. I do not like this at all. I feel like this is a small knit community of folks that have known each other for a long time. I love coming here. I am bad at the random donation.

I humbly request a once a year fundraiser thread.

[Dukefrukem]

I don't have a server all to myself and am not going to ever get one. And I'm fairly certain that a couple minutes every few days is more than 99%. I am satisfied with the performance on the whole and the price, which I pay by myself, is very nice.

I'm fine with this if this is the community's voice too.

But I just want to point out that 99% up time when compared to 24 hours. The fact that I've posted multiple database errors in this thread suggests its nowhere near 99% up time. I'm only on from 7am-5pm mostly (1/3rd of the day)

And I second Skitch's suggestion of a yearly campaign.

And you don't need to have your own host to get 99% up time. Again I question the quality of the host providing service.

[Raiders]

I'm fine with this if this is the community's voice too.

But I just want to point out that 99% up time when compared to 24 hours. The fact that I've posted multiple database errors in this thread suggests its nowhere near 99% up time. I'm only on from 7am-5pm mostly (1/3rd of the day)

And I second Skitch's suggestion of a yearly campaign.

And you don't need to have your own host to get 99% up time. Again I question the quality of the host providing service.

That is 10 hours a day, or 600 minutes. You mean to tell me you notice a DB error or server down error for more than six minutes every single day? I think that is highly unlikely.

I don't mean to get petty, but this site is up 99.5% of the time at least and since moving servers, which I'm sure has had a few initial pains, the site performance has been much better with respect to speed. I honestly think you are complaining about nothing. I appreciate your love of this site, but a couple instances a week for a mere few moments doesn't seem to be an issue, unless everyone feels the way you do. So far, you are the only one who has continually complained.

[Sycophant]

I don't care to see anything changed. It runs great as far as I can see, and the less work and fewer headaches for Raiders, the better.

Raiders has long been promised open wallets by a lot of us, including myself, and usually declines or ignores such volunteering of funds (except for a certain fundraiser a few years back when we initially moved?). I don't blame him.

[Irish]

Weird. I haven't noticed any slowing in the service or seen any errors at all.

[Thirdmango]

I see the errors once in a while, and when I do I check my gmail then I come back and it's fixed so I don't say anything. But then twitter gives me errors and so does facebook. Life of the internet. You gonna get errored.

I had actually thought of this a while ago and if people aren't interested that's fine but I thought we could set up one of those facebook groups as they are now where it's completely private and can't be searched and is only available to people who put other people on it. That it exists is so that if there is an actual problem and the board is down for some reason then peeps can post there so everyone knows what's going on so we're not scared.

[Dukefrukem]

nevermind

[Lasse]

I just want to say that match-cut is the only site that I can go to without getting an error.

Well done, match-cut.

[Qrazy]

It would be nice to be able to attach .rtf files to messages.

[Qrazy]

Woops, I should have put this in the suggestions thread, didn't see it before.

[Dukefrukem]

Hey no database errors since my previous posts!

Is it possible to raise the PM limit again?

[Dukefrukem]

Hey no database errors since my previous posts!

Is it possible to raise the PM limit again?

bump?

[Dukefrukem]

Bump.

[Ezee E]

I take it that he's saying no without saying no.

[Dukefrukem]

He doesn't respond to my PMs about other things too. Maybe it's personal.

[Raiders]

He doesn't respond to my PMs about other things too. Maybe it's personal.

Pretty sure that's not true, but in any case, I am not increasing the PM limit. I have explained in the past it seems an unnecessary use of space. Do you really need to save more than 100 messages?

[Scar]

If they're that important, you can download your PM's to your computer for storage.

[Dukefrukem]

Pretty sure that's not true, but in any case, I am not increasing the PM limit. I have explained in the past it seems an unnecessary use of space. Do you really need to save more than 100 messages?

You said it was an unnecessary use of space, I dropped the issue and then you raised the PM limit anyway. I figured you were open to it, but when you don't respond to PMs, and don't respond in the suggestions thread, I have no way of reading your mind. Consider this case closed.

[Raiders]

You said it was an unnecessary use of space, I dropped the issue and then you raised the PM limit anyway. I figured you were open to it, but when you don't respond to PMs, and don't respond in the suggestions thread, I have no way of reading your mind. Consider this case closed.

WTF are you talking about? I have never raised the limit. What PM did I not respond to that has anything to do with this?

[Dukefrukem]

WTF are you talking about? I have never raised the limit. What PM did I not respond to that has anything to do with this?

Well someone raised the PM limit from the default to 100 (at least for me). I assume the administrator did this.

and I was referring to PMs in general.... If you don't respond my PMs on general inquiries and compliments, what makes me think you'd respond to a PM requesting a PM limit increase.

[Thirdmango]

:/

My pm limit is 100 and hasn't changed as far as I know.

[Dukefrukem]

Ok I'm going insane but I thought the default was 50.

[Thirdmango]

:lol:

[MadMan]

I just got an error message for the first time, ever. Weird.

[Kurosawa Fan]

What happened to the rep system? In my User CP, I can see the rep comments and links, but I can no longer see who repped me. Is this something I did?

[Scar]

What happened to the rep system? In my User CP, I can see the rep comments and links, but I can no longer see who repped me. Is this something I did?

Mine's working fine.

[Kurosawa Fan]

This is a shot of mine:

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4/mike3245/ScreenShot2012-11-04at81744PM.png


I've looked and can't find any way to change the setting of this page.

[amberlita]

Erm, does anyone else feel awkward seeing KF's rep messages? I feel like he just unzipped his fly.

[Irish]

I kinda need to know who is sending KF little "<3" messages.

[amberlita]

I kinda need to know who is sending KF little "<3" messages.

I just assumed that was you.

[EvilShoe]

I never visited the "My Two Cents" thread, so this time it wasn't me.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I never visited the "My Two Cents" thread, so this time it wasn't me.

Nice try, bud.

Shoe was responsible for all of them.

[Winston*]

My rep comments work fine.

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8510/26009095.gif

[Irish]

You've posted a lot of funny thing over the years, Winston, but I think that one tops them all. :lol:

[EvilShoe]

I can't decide if that's real or not.

[Kurosawa Fan]

At least it wasn't the PMs.

[Thirdmango]

I've been trying to recreate your problem to no avail.

[Raiders]

OK, KF. It has been fixed. It was a usergroup problem. Spinal and chrisnu would have been having the same issue but they probably wanted you to think you were alone.

[Kurosawa Fan]

:lol:

Thanks for the fix. And thanks for nothing, Spinal and chrisnu.

[Dukefrukem]

I kinda need to know who is sending KF little "<3" messages.

I know who it is.

[Dukefrukem]

Nice try, bud.

Shoe was responsible for all of them.

Check again?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Check again?

I love you too, Duke.

[EvilShoe]

Well, that just went from funny to creepy.

[Dukefrukem]

Haha I just wanted credit for the <3 rep in the My Two Cents thread.

But I generally sign all my rep with a heart. So everyone gets love from me.

[Irish]

Anyone else getting weird timeouts and VB database error pages?

Has happened twice in as many days & never seen it before now.

[Scar]

Anyone else getting weird timeouts and VB database error pages?

Has happened twice in as many days & never seen it before now.

Not recently, but several months ago I got a couple.

[Dukefrukem]

Anyone else getting weird timeouts and VB database error pages?

Has happened twice in as many days & never seen it before now.

Yes

[Qrazy]

"Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on www.match-cut.org.
Content from files.dardarkom.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.
Malware is malicious software that causes things like identity theft, financial loss and permanent file deletion."

[Melville]

"Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on www.match-cut.org.
Content from files.dardarkom.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.
Malware is malicious software that causes things like identity theft, financial loss and permanent file deletion."
Anyone know anything about this?

[Raiders]

Should be fixed. Boner had linked an image in the Movies that exist thread.

[Pop Trash]

Should be fixed. Boner had linked an image in the Movies that exist thread.

NEG REP!

[Stay Puft]

How do I see who has rated threads in the 2012/13 forums? I can't figure it out now. I only see that "Current Rating" bar under the Rate This Film option.

[Ezee E]

How do I see who has rated threads in the 2012/13 forums? I can't figure it out now. I only see that "Current Rating" bar under the Rate This Film option.

Good question. I'll look into it.

[elixir]

Am I missing where you can make yourself "hidden" while logged-in? No one can know I'm here.

[Sycophant]

Can we double triple check to make sure we actually want Facebook integration, and that it's the right kind? I'm scared of that. This may be my general aversion to change speaking, but it scares me.

[Thirdmango]

can we look into the clicking the banner taking us back to the main forum?

[Ezee E]

can we look into the clicking the banner taking us back to the main forum?

If you click on the Match Cut logo, it'll do just that!

[Raiders]

If you click on the Match Cut logo, it'll do just that!


Or if you click the "Forum" link just beneath the banner on the left.

[MadMan]

I um have no idea what movie the banner is from, but it looks cool. As does that awesome logo.

[Dukefrukem]

Can we double triple check to make sure we actually want Facebook integration, and that it's the right kind? I'm scared of that. This may be my general aversion to change speaking, but it scares me.

Yeh I dont think we need that. BUT, that's not to say you can't "login through facebook" which makes it easier for new folk to join up. Practically every site has this feature today. Makes registering super easy and maybe we'll see some new people around.

[Ezee E]

Yeh I dont think we need that. BUT, that's not to say you can't "login through facebook" which makes it easier for new folk to join up. Practically every site has this feature today. Makes registering super easy and maybe we'll see some new people around.

That's the intention really.

[Thirdmango]

Or if you click the "Forum" link just beneath the banner on the left.

This is true except when in private messages or your control panel. Forum disappears and the only way back is clicking specifically on the logo. So if we could have forum be added to the part where it says new posts and calendar that would be helpful as well.

But still I would say for the future if it's at all possible clicking on anywhere in the banner would take you back to the main page. That way when someone is making the banner they aren't constrained to having to have the logo in the top left hand corner.

[Watashi]

Do you think it's possible to increase the size of the avatar? Not the actual size, but more than 24kb.

[dreamdead]

Just switched avatars and the size seems to have decreased (even though they're all from the old site). Did I do something stupid?

[Dukefrukem]

:D <-- hey shit eating grin works again

[Sven]

Doesn't need to change, but the Views/Replies column is an eyesore. Too many letters and numbers. It ought to just be replies, because who cares how many people view the thread?

IMO, OC.

[Ezee E]

Doesn't need to change, but the Views/Replies column is an eyesore. Too many letters and numbers. It ought to just be replies, because who cares how many people view the thread?

IMO, OC.

Another hack.
I'd also like to get rid of the post counts, which is also a hack. I'll look into this tomorrow. vbulletin.org has them all, just need the time.

[number8]

Hm? Those aren't hacks. I can easily get rid of those by modifying the template.

<-- See, I just added rep points.

[number8]

Why did you want to get rid of post counts?

[MadMan]

I don't mind the post counts, but then again I'm endlessly checking mine because I'm going to hit 15k at my third message board, which is just crazy to me (and a sign that I have no life, heh :sad: )

[Sycophant]

There's something kinda tacky to me about having the number of posts made by a user next to all of their posts. I'd like to hide them from that panel. Also, having both reputation and rep power looks a bit much to me.

[Raiders]

I've always liked pretty much nothing in the postbit user panel. Always just liked the name, title and avatar. The rest seems unimportant and tacky.

[Ezee E]

Hm? Those aren't hacks. I can easily get rid of those by modifying the template.

<-- See, I just added rep points.

Guess I should look closer. I just don't like the busyness that the profile shows. Name, title, av, and maybe rep points for me.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I noticed the standard rep system is in place, where if someone reps me with a rep power of say, 38, I get all 38 rep points rather than the 10 point cap that Raiders had in place. Is this something we want to rectify, or does no one care?

[Melville]

I've always liked pretty much nothing in the postbit user panel. Always just liked the name, title and avatar. The rest seems unimportant and tacky.
Yeah, I'm in favor of removing all the numbers and join date. Now that there are notifications for rep, there's no (non-tacky) reason to have the rep next to every post, and the other info is just visual clutter.

Thanks to whoever added the multi-quote button back in.

[Sven]

The 10 point rep cap prevents competition, so I favor that.

[Ezee E]

Power cap is now set at 10.

[Dukefrukem]

The 10 point rep cap prevents competition, so I favor that.

I dont think anyone here really cares about that sort of thing. I know I will never have as much rep as Mara and I accept that.

[Irish]

I dont think anyone here really cares about that sort of thing. I know I will never have as much rep as Mara and I accept that.

A cap makes reputation largely pointless, and the system only worthwhile for sending mini-PMs to one another. (Personally, I find mini-PMs to be valuable, but only if the ability to give rep isn't capped itself).

number8 has over 7,000 rep. I have ~2000. But as far as these numbers are concerned, we both have the same influence. That makes no sense.

[Raiders]

A cap makes reputation largely pointless, and the system only worthwhile for sending mini-PMs to one another. (Personally, I find mini-PMs to be valuable, but only if the ability to give rep isn't capped itself).

number8 has over 7,000 rep. I have ~2000. But as far as these numbers are concerned, we both have the same influence. That makes no sense.

I did it to prevent the inevitable exponential growth of people's total rep (not rep power) due to multiple people giving them 30+points and thus the gradual erosion of any relevance the system really has. The way I had it set, it was gained more through longevity and posting prowess and at some point, it seemed unnecessary to keep increasing. The power is less important than the total rep score anyway.

[Watashi]

Bring back neg rep. I've been backlogging certain posts that I've been itching to bring down the fury.

[Ezee E]

Bring back neg rep. I've been backlogging certain posts that I've been itching to bring down the fury.

I get to neg rep. Bahaha.

[number8]

Neg rep Wats every time he asks for a banning.

[Irish]

I did it to prevent the inevitable exponential growth of people's total rep (not rep power) due to multiple people giving them 30+points and thus the gradual erosion of any relevance the system really has. The way I had it set, it was gained more through longevity and posting prowess and at some point, it seemed unnecessary to keep increasing. The power is less important than the total rep score anyway.

True. Either way, you get stuck with a different set of problems. Either you cap the system and undercut the overall utility, or you deal with what's essentially "rep inflation" over time.

Still, it seems odd to me that if number8 continues to be popular and I never post again (boo-hoo), we'll still have the same level of influence on other people's scores, ie: there is no erosion there.

*shrug* There isn't a lot you can do about it without implementing a different kind of system.

[Dukefrukem]

Neg rep Wats every time he asks for a banning.

Please yes.

[Dukefrukem]

Can we move Members who have rated this film right under the Poll Results? It's currently at the way bottom.

[Raiders]

In addition to Duke, I would recommend changing the "View All" to "Click to see ratings" just because I'm sure some people, especially newbies, will not make the connection.

[DavidSeven]

Any chance we could also see the statistical mean when we roll the cursor over the star rating icon like we were able to at the old site? Any other method of being able to see that number would work too.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Hate to pile on about the ratings, but it also doesn't seem to be showing half stars. John Dies at the End has one five star vote and one four star vote. On the old site, it would have shown 4 1/2 stars as the overall rating, but here it's showing five.

[number8]

Wow, the old site had a lot of functions I never knew about (I never rate movies, ever).

[Raiders]

I created a custom star system that would calculate and display half-star ratings. That is not inherent to vB and I don't know if there is a mod since the work itself was done in the threadrating.php file.

[Irish]

I created a custom star system that would calculate and display half-star ratings. That is not inherent to vB and I don't know if there is a mod since the work itself was done in the threadrating.php file.

That's pretty damn cool.

If you still have the code, should be easy to just port it, no?

Edit: Also, if one really wanted to go crazy, then the sorting algorithm should be designed to sort ratings by significance. Eg: Listing a movie with 3 stars & 40 ratings ahead of a movie with 5 stars & 3 ratings.

[Dukefrukem]

OH! We also need to update the favicon!

[number8]

OH! We also need to update the favicon!

Updated days ago. Hard refresh your browser.

[number8]

Apparently Madman rated this thread 3 stars.

[Raiders]

That's pretty damn cool.

If you still have the code, should be easy to just port it, no?

Edit: Also, if one really wanted to go crazy, then the sorting algorithm should be designed to sort ratings by significance. Eg: Listing a movie with 3 stars & 40 ratings ahead of a movie with 5 stars & 3 ratings.

Yeah, I do, but it was fairly simple and not sure if the php file is still the same.

As for the sort, I had developed a routine Bayesian model but never did implement it. I think it is doable in the forumbit or forum view templates. I'll let number8 handle it how he wants.

[amberlita]

B-side mentioned it in the other thread and I'd like to second it: can we get a link back to the forum index at the bottom of threads? It was present at the old site and when I hit the end of a long thread page it was easy to go back to the index by clicking that link. Currently, I'm hitting the Top link and then clicking the banner, which seems like a pointless extra step.

[Irish]

Yeah, I do, but it was fairly simple and not sure if the php file is still the same.

As for the sort, I had developed a routine Bayesian model but never did implement it. I think it is doable in the forumbit or forum view templates. I'll let number8 handle it how he wants.

I'm sure all the templates are changed, but hell we can just force number8 to figure all this out. It's his job, after all. :D

[number8]

I'm sure all the templates are changed, but hell we can just force number8 to figure all this out. It's his job, after all. :D

Don't make me monetize this bitch.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Love the ticket stubs for new posts. Thanks.

[Thirdmango]

I don't know if this is a thing or if this was a thing on the old thread cause I don't remember.

So when I have a smaller browser I know have to h-scroll a lot or else I need to make my browser bigger, which doesn't do me well if I want to watch something on my computer at the same time. Is there a way to make the system go with whatever size you decide to make your browser to a certain extent? Or is that all asking too much? I don't know as this stuff boggles my mind.

[number8]

I made the forum a fixed width because of the banner.

A solution, though, would be to switch to the mobile site.

[Irish]

Don't make me monetize this bitch.

:lol:


Is there a way to make the system go with whatever size you decide to make your browser to a certain extent?

Technically, yes. number8 could employ a responsive design that swaps out stylesheets depending on the size of your viewport (ie, the size of your screen). Doing this is a helluva lot of work though.

[amberlita]

You guys all sound so smart. It's disarming. Can we go back to the way that used to be?

[Raiders]

I can't for the life of me figure out why, but on my iPad, when clicking to un-spoiler the text, I am redirected to the forum.php home screen.

[number8]

Technically, yes. number8 could employ a responsive design that swaps out stylesheets depending on the size of your viewport (ie, the size of your screen). Doing this is a helluva lot of work though.

He's talking about the browser window size, not his screen. It's really just a matter of setting the forum CSS width to a dynamic value—which it was before until I changed it to a fixed pixel size when I implemented the banner bg—but it's gonna make the header (not to mention image and video embeds) overflow off the postbits and make the page look weird and I'd just prefer the forum look to be uniformed than deal with assigning dynamic CSS values to every one of those unpredictable elements.


You guys all sound so smart. It's disarming. Can we go back to the way that used to be?

Sex stuff. Batman Batman.

[Irish]

He's talking about the browser window size, not his screen. It's really just a matter of setting the forum CSS width to a dynamic value—which it was before until I changed it to a fixed pixel size when I implemented the banner bg—but it's gonna make the header (not to mention image and video embeds) overflow off the postbits and make the page look weird and I'd just prefer the forum look to be uniformed than deal with assigning dynamic CSS values to every one of those unpredictable elements.

I was trying to use layman's terms for 'mango, but you're right -- viewport isn't technically the "screen size" on some platforms.

On mobile, though, for all intents and purposes, it is (because you can't minimize mobile browsers).

You can use CSS @media queries to scale the header image (and change the layout) depending on the size of the user's brower window.

Here's a list of examples:

http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/responsive-webdesign-examples/

Click through to any one of those sites, then play around with the width of your browser window on the desktop. You'll see that the layout automatically changes to accommodate the new size, and the images all scale appropriately.

Edit to add: Implementing something like this is usually worth it, but it's also a HUGE pain in the rear, because you've got to build, test, and maintain multiple stylesheets for different resolutions.

[elixir]

Is there still a way to search and get posts not threads in the results? Since the latter is kinda useless if it's in the FDT. Also, um, invisibility? Is there a way to do that or...not a big deal, haha.

Thanks for everything (did I ever say this?!?).

[Irish]

@elixir - The "invisible" option is hidden under Settings > General Settings. It's the first option on that page under "Login & Privacy." Any administrator or moderator will be able to see you even if you set this option to "on". Right now, that's ~6 users.

Go here: http://matchcut.artboiled.com/profile.php?do=editoptions

[elixir]

Yeah, idk, i often just keep this tab open so maybe it looks like I'm always on...I swear I looked at that page! Thanks :D

[Melville]

Is there still a way to search and get posts not threads in the results? Since the latter is kinda useless if it's in the FDT.
In Advanced Search, click on "Search Single Content Type".

[elixir]

Welp. Thanks. I won't go through my idiocy of how I failed to realize that, but yeah I'm pretty dumb...

[Melville]

Welp. Thanks. I won't go through my idiocy of how I failed to realize that, but yeah I'm pretty dumb...
Ha. It had me confused too when I first tried it. I'm not sure of the purpose of the "Search multiple content types" option or the option of searching for a forum, given the small number of forums. Seems like we could do away with that.

[Irish]

Welp. Thanks. I won't go through my idiocy of how I failed to realize that, but yeah I'm pretty dumb...

You're not dumb. vB has a habit of throwing 10,000 options at you when you're really only interested in like two. The search page is a good example of this. It also puts information (like rep info) in weird places (under "Settings"? WTH?).

Rule of thumb: Never blame yourself. Always blame the software.

Or number8. :D

[DavidSeven]

Gotta admit I kind of miss those rep bars too.

[Dukefrukem]

Can we add "sort by rating"? in the film database sections? I liked that feature on the old site.

[Dukefrukem]

Updated days ago. Hard refresh your browser.

Ah yay.

[number8]

Can we add "sort by rating"? in the film database sections? I liked that feature on the old site.

You still can. "Thread Display Options" under the threads.

[Dukefrukem]

You still can. "Thread Display Options" under the threads.

Yes but there is supposed to be a link at the top, next to Replies.

[DavidSeven]

Nice job updating the ratings displays, 8 & E.

[Irish]

What's the upper threshold on reputation given per day? I just hit the limit for the first time on the new site -- "You've given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later." This seems to be a rolling limit, but I never know exactly what the hard number is.

Is there any way this limit can be raised? I like throwing out rep for the posts I enjoy, and having a ceiling on this seems, I dunno, weird.

[Kurosawa Fan]

What's the upper threshold on reputation given per day? I just hit the limit for the first time on the new site -- "You've given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later." This seems to be a rolling limit, but I never know exactly what the hard number is.

Is there any way this limit can be raised? I like throwing out rep for the posts I enjoy, and having a ceiling on this seems, I dunno, weird.

Don't know what the cap is, but I agree a cap in a small community like this is unnecessary. I doubt very highly that posters will collude into giving each other massive rep to raise their score, and if they did, I doubt very highly anyone here would care.

[MadMan]

I for one love having a huge rep number to give out. Its makes me feel like Santa Claus, only skinnier, without a beard, and with less hair. Oh and lacking reindeer, elf slave labor, a secret North Pole base....

[Sycophant]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I am positively fascinated with how each time someone hits "New Posts" the number at the end of the string in the URL goes up by one.

[Irish]

This has nothing to do with anything, but I am positively fascinated with how each time someone hits "New Posts" the number at the end of the string in the URL goes up by one.

AFAIK, vB caches the terms of all searches, so that number increments by one anytime anyone does any search at all. If you use the search box or "Advanced Search" and then click "New Posts," you'll see the number increment each time.

Why it feels the need to do this is something of a mystery to me.

[Raiders]

Yeah, searches are stored as a table in the database, so the searchid field (which is what you see at the end of the URL string) obviously increments as a new record is created. What this tells you is that we have already done 2559 searches. This includes every possible search on the site.

This allows you to archive your search terms, though not sure why you would need to. The parameters of the search file prevent you from seeing other searches though by simply changing the number at the end of the string. It will simply return no results.

[Irish]

Just curious: Has the "buddy list" feature been excised from this version of vBulletin?

The list still seems to exist somewhere in the database, but I can't find anywhere to edit or add to it on the front-end.

[Raiders]

Just curious: Has the "buddy list" feature been excised from this version of vBulletin?

The list still seems to exist somewhere in the database, but I can't find anywhere to edit or add to it on the front-end.

Isn't it the "Contacts" under Settings > Networking?

[Irish]

Isn't it the "Contacts" under Settings > Networking?

Aha! Thanks!

[Ezee E]

Is there any actual use to the buddy list?

[Winston*]

For the Top Film's First Seen Thread, is it possible in vBulletin to either put a spoiler tag within a list or start a list at a number above 1?

[Sycophant]

I like that if I go to my profile page, I can just look at all the posts I've made. It's great because it allows me to just bask in how awesome and witty and interesting I am.

[Dukefrukem]

Err, Meg seems to be having a weird thing going on with his account... where his posts delete themselves and his avatar and sig are both deleted. Very weird.

[Thirdmango]

So luckily we have a record of his posts, so they aren't gone forever. I went back and looked and it seems at the moment to only be affecting the posts he's made since the site integration. As I'm not a tech guy I have no idea what's going on but we've gotten an email notification so that's how I found out insanity is happening. Hopefully we'll figure this out asap.

[Robby P]

I've had a couple of posts not show up after I submit them. Is anyone else having this problem? Not a big deal, just kind of wondering where they are going?

[D_Davis]

Something happened over the weekend - for some reason all of the links I have attached to images no longer work. In the music forum, I post pictures of albums with links, and this morning none of the links are there any more. When you click on the image, it just views the image.

I tried adding new links to the images, and they don't work.

[number8]

Something happened over the weekend - for some reason all of the links I have attached to images no longer work. In the music forum, I post pictures of albums with links, and this morning none of the links are there any more. When you click on the image, it just views the image.

I tried adding new links to the images, and they don't work.

I know why that is. It's because all images are now linked to the gallery feature. I'll see if it can't be tweaked to just affect certain images.

[Robby P]

I've had a couple of posts not show up after I submit them. Is anyone else having this problem? Not a big deal, just kind of wondering where they are going?

Okay, I figured it out. I was hitting the 'Reply to Thread' button when trying to submit a post, which just erases your post, evidently.

[Dukefrukem]

Okay, I figured it out. I was hitting the 'Reply to Thread' button when trying to submit a post, which just erases your post, evidently.

I've done this so many times.

Can we bring back the quick reply box?

And

The arrows expanding/contracting the reply box?

[number8]

What are you guys talking about? The "Reply to Thread" button brings up the Quick Reply box. I am using it for this post.

[Scar]

What are you guys talking about? The "Reply to Thread" button brings up the Quick Reply box. I am using it for this post.

Yep. I just clicked on 'Reply With Quote', which opens up the quick reply box.

[Dukefrukem]

What are you guys talking about? The "Reply to Thread" button brings up the Quick Reply box. I am using it for this post.

It's confusing and adds one more click instead of the quick reply box just being there like it was in the past.

At least bring back the arrows.

[number8]

Yep. I just clicked on 'Reply With Quote', which opens up the quick reply box.

Yeah, all the reply buttons bring up the Quick Reply box.


It's confusing and adds one more click instead of the quick reply box just being there like it was in the past.

At least bring back the arrows.

What arrows?

[Scar]

What arrows?

Don't know, but there's a resize arrow in the lower right corner of the quick reply box.

[Dukefrukem]

Don't know, but there's a resize arrow in the lower right corner of the quick reply box.

OMG thank you.

[Robby P]

What are you guys talking about? The "Reply to Thread" button brings up the Quick Reply box. I am using it for this post.

If you click the "Reply to Thread" button after you have typed your text into the reply box, the text is deleted.

[number8]

If you click the "Reply to Thread" button after you have typed your text into the reply box, the text is deleted.

Ohhh. Well, yes, it would reset it because it would load the box again.

[Sycophant]

Just so you know, I did that the other night and pressed CTRL+Z and got my post back.

[Sycophant]

If it's not too much, could we just straight up bring back all the old smilies? These new ones feel off.

[EyesWideOpen]

For some reason when I copy and paste something with a comma it automatically adds a second space after the comma instead of only one like in the copy.

[Raiders]

I can't for the life of me figure out why, but on my iPad, when clicking to un-spoiler the text, I am redirected to the forum.php home screen.

By the way, this is still happening and it still seems strange to me. Is anyone else who has an iPad having this issue? I am using the full site, not mobile.

[number8]

By the way, this is still happening and it still seems strange to me. Is anyone else who has an iPad having this issue? I am using the full site, not mobile.

I don't have an iPad, but I can't recreate this problem on an iPhone and a Kindle. I also tried using a User Agent to trick Chrome into thinking it's an iPad, and it still works fine. Are you using Safari?

[Irish]

The spoilers work for me on an iPad 2 using Safari & iOS 6.1, but I've had a similar problems on sites like Reddit.

Your browser isn't firing off the JavaScript event that shows and hides spoiler text on a user driven click. Since the spoiler is actually just a link at the HTML level (here, one that's going to "http://matchcut.artboiled.com/#"), the browser treats it as such and delivers the home page.

Fixing this means changing the JavaScript ... annnnnd that's where I stopped investigating. I don't envy number8. Messing with vB Javascript sounds like a severe PITA.

Edit: To stop the browser from delivering another page, the code needs to be changed to dynamically generate the URL of the user's current position on the page. That won't make spoilers work for Raiders, but at least it would no longer forward people to the home page.

[number8]

Raiders, do you know if you have Javascript disabled?

[Raiders]

I am using Safari and JavaScript is enabled.

[EyesWideOpen]

Not sure what's going on with this poll. (http://matchcut.artboiled.com/poll.php?pollid=276&do=showresults) It says only one vote but three people have voted on it.

[TGM]

That happened after a thread merge. Three people voted in the original thread, only one in the new thread, and just something went wacky after the merger.

[number8]

Something happened over the weekend - for some reason all of the links I have attached to images no longer work. In the music forum, I post pictures of albums with links, and this morning none of the links are there any more. When you click on the image, it just views the image.

I tried adding new links to the images, and they don't work.


I know why that is. It's because all images are now linked to the gallery feature. I'll see if it can't be tweaked to just affect certain images.

Fixed. Now the image resizer only affects images with no links.

All your album link posts should be back to normal now, D.

[Acapelli]

hey is there anyway you guys can add an option to embed soundclouds?

thanks

[number8]

Ask and ye shall receive.

https://soundcloud.com/passionpit/carried-away-viceroy-remix

[Acapelli]

sweet! thanks 8

[Dukefrukem]

My New Release Thread is going to have to wait until I get home from work (sorry was at a funeral yesterday) until I can fix this issue I'm having at work. It's worked fine since the site launch and something happened last week that:

1. Completely disables/hides all of the BBC code buttons in IE8 (left side)
2. Totally freezes MC when I press any of the IMG or VIDEO buttons in Chrome (right side)

Thoughts?

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/Dukefrukem/MC_WTF_zps9d65dce3.png