Forums » Suggestions

Give me the code that runs this forum, and I'll write an anti-necro feature.

May 10, 2010 ladron link
I'm serious. I'll fix the image width bug while I'm at it.

I understand that you guys would rather spend time working on the game, which is a good thing, but there are a couple of annoying problems with the forum that really impede any useful discussion. Wading through 30 5-year-old threads that nahin accidentally bumped to the front page is not productive for we the playerbase, and I imagine it's an annoyance for the devs as well.
May 10, 2010 peytros link
please don't fix the image width bug it is way too much fun
May 10, 2010 Eris Gagarin link
Why?

Things change...

Badthings can become good. Don't you ever reconsider?
May 10, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
Indeed we do, Eris Gagarin — we are, for example, reconsidering your posting privileges at this very moment.
May 10, 2010 Aticephyr link
lecter, quit being an ass.

Eris: if a thread has died out, but you liked the idea behind it, it is usually better to make a new/improved suggestion and link against the old one.

Ladron, I'd be damned surprised if this happened.
May 10, 2010 tarenty link
Ahem, Ardenus, I didn't "accidentally bump" it. I meant to. And it needed a bump. Also, there was only one. It was a 6-month old thread. Seriously...
May 10, 2010 ladron link
This isn't a one-time thing, bud. You, Alloh, PoL, et al do it multiple times a day.
May 10, 2010 tarenty link
Name one thread other than the Undo Sell All thread that I have bumped in the last five days.

Edited 4:40 (forum time), 5-11-10:

Exactly.
May 10, 2010 Snax_28 link
Why would you write a script to fix the image width bug? That's like building a nuclear powered lawnmower: overkill.
May 10, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
But like a nuclear powered lawnmower, it would also be fucking sweet.
May 11, 2010 Snax_28 link
If overly-complicated-solutions-to-simple-problems is your thing, then yeah, sure.

Edit: Oh, right, you're the one gutting a Jaguar in the attempt to procure yourself a reliable automobile. Forget I said anything.
May 11, 2010 Dr. Lecter link
Muwahahaha.

I mean, I could just buy a 2010 XKR. But where's the fun in that?
May 11, 2010 ladron link
It's not a matter of writing a script, it's a matter of doing a simple scaling on images. It's two arguments in one html tag.
May 11, 2010 Aticephyr link
Shouldn't this just be two if-statements within the markup-to-html translator with a negligible amount of code involved?

Ladron, just assume you know the variable names involved (the only one that would matter I think would be textToBePosted) and post the code to this thread. I'd do it, but I'm lazy.

Though the question remains as to what language the translator is written in (unless I just don't know web-programming well enough to find the answer obvious, which I assuredly do not).
May 11, 2010 Alloh link
Why don't you write a way more usefull feature, an ANTI-TROLL routine?

Such thing would reduce 75% of volume of posts!

Pick any topic on forum, at least 1/2 of its replies are trolling and trolling replies, completely unrelated. That is much more counter-productive than any necromancy ever done.
May 11, 2010 Chaosis link
But then the forum is less fun, alloh.
May 11, 2010 ladron link
Shouldn't this just be two if-statements within the markup-to-html translator with a negligible amount of code involved?

Well, not in the markup-to-html translator specifically, but yeah probably.

Ladron, just assume you know the variable names involved ...

Because that is incredibly implementation-dependent. I don't know what kind of database they're using, or even what server-side processes happen when someone tries to post a response to a thread. Giving Inc two lines of pseudocode is not useful - he already knows vaguely what needs to happen. Giving him something that actually works is.

Though the question remains as to what language the translator is written in

lua
May 11, 2010 Aticephyr link
well, I learned something new. guess I'll leave the web-stuff to you then :).