VizionEck Forum 2.0 is just a few weeks away, progress report thread

[Legend]

Arg!!!!!!!!!!

I've spent the day building user walls that actually don't suck. However at each step things got deeper and deeper, and I had to rewrite more and more functions. Scrapping this idea.


Instead I'll just make a very simple script that shows a topic below a profile page. Boom, done.

EDT. Oh look. Within an hour I've already progressed farther than I could in 8 hours with my original approach.

[the-pi-guy]

Arg!!!!!!!!!!

I've spent the day building user walls that actually don't suck. However at each step things got deeper and deeper, and I had to rewrite more and more functions. Scrapping this idea.


Instead I'll just make a very simple script that shows a topic below a profile page. Boom, done.

EDT. Oh look. Within an hour I've already progressed farther than I could in 8 hours with my original approach.

Don't you love how that works. 

[Legend]

Don't you love how that works. 

Or hate it haha.

[7H3]

Myspace died not long after the upped the ante on customization on the user profiles... keep it clean and simple is the best way to go

[the-pi-guy]

Myspace died not long after the upped the ante on customization on the user profiles... keep it clean and simple is the best way to go

Features don't turn away users.  poorly executed implementations of them do. 

[Legend]

Myspace died not long after the upped the ante on customization on the user profiles... keep it clean and simple is the best way to go

Yes the theme of 2.0 is user simplicity. With profiles I'm removing the images, media, and about me sections. They will be replaced with a single BBC textarea that the user can format similar to a signature.

Friends and wall comments are being upgraded to mesh with the rest of the site better. Interfacing with these should be easy, not a chore.

[Legend]

I'm really good at colors

[darkknightkryta]

I'm really good at colors

Spoiler for Image:

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/BKd3de2.png" alt="" class="bbc_img">

Or terrible!

[Legend]

Oh gosh.

Woke up this morning to discover you can't click on page two of the index!

It produces a bajillion errors.

But page 2 on all the sub indexes works fine, so what?

And when logged out page 2 on the normal index works fine.

And if topics per page are set really low then the 1st page shoots out a billion errors too.

But only when logged in on my account.

Test accounts, even when given admin permission, are fine. They have zero issues throughout the site.

It's only my account that is broken.



But I just found out the flaw. My admin account is following a few topics, so that it gets notified of new responses. This system is greedy and is shoving these watched topics into the end of the board index regardless of if they belong or not. Should be a simple fix. Panic levels dropping

Or terrible!

I use a php file to generate my css files while testing. Allows me to control the entire color palette with just some simple sliders.

For that theme I set every color to random.

[Legend]

Gosh darnit.

2.0 auto downloads every single image posted or linked. It creates the thumbnail and in most cases discards the original image.

Well naturally there has to be some limit to how large of pictures the forum can handle. Too large of an image and the forum runs out of allocated memory. Yesterday I set this up as 5mb, but today I discovered that cutting it off at a mb value is practically random. For the server to process an image it needs the uncompressed file, and that can be all over the place.

So I was setting up a system to attempt to load the image regardless, but not terminate the code if it failed. I got this working but couldn't get any functions afterwards to work. It was weird and I just realized I spent 6 hours trying to debug it with no luck.

So nope. Fudge that. Going back to the original. I mean it's not hitting the 5 mb cap until like 70 megapixel images anyway. I doubt most of us want those pics embedded in the first place.

[kitler53]

make posting a psblog article via copy/paste work.  images paste automatically on vgchertz, there is no reason we should be behind that n00b site.

[Dr. Pezus]

make posting a psblog article via copy/paste work.  images paste automatically on vgchertz, there is no reason we should be behind that n00b site.

Exactly

[Aura7541]

make posting a psblog article via copy/paste work.  images paste automatically on vgchertz, there is no reason we should be behind that n00b site.

Chartz has been really outdated for the longest time, but yes, being able to copy/paste articles and images is a must.

[Legend]

make posting a psblog article via copy/paste work.  images paste automatically on vgchertz, there is no reason we should be behind that n00b site.

The new third party sceditor can handle simply html just fine, but it fudges up with full article copying. In the future I might go in and rework it but that's a whole can of worms I'd rather not open.

Instead just be even more lazy and post the link to the psblog. The Machine will copy over the article and pictures for you.

[Legend]

Profile pages are mostly complete. Should finish up all aspects of them before I go to bed.


Next up will be icons on the board index. I want the message icons per post to be more prominent, more important. Thus they'll be added back into the front page.

Also they will become items you can buy in the shop and earn through activities. Some message icons will be one time uses in which you'll need to earn them again, while others will be always available once purchased.

After that I have some minor changes and then I think it'll be ready to open up for public testing by you guys.