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Hi
I've finally installed a new forum to replace the outdated phpBB2: SMF 2.0 (http://www.simplemachines.org/)
I've imported everything (members, boards, posts, ...), so there should be absolutely no loss. I've just deleted inactive members with 0 posts.
I've tried to test the new forum as much as possible, but I couldn't try everything. If you see something wrong or missing, if you have comments, please let me know. I'm open for discussion about everything :)
The current theme is temporary, I installed a free theme and changed it a bit. I'm still working on it, I will update it later.
If you wonder why I used a new URL, on a new sub-domain: it's a constraint of the mod that I use to split the forum into two parts (en/fr). The sub-domain points to the same root as the main domain, and only the "forums" address is allowed on it.
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FIRST POST!
And it is le beautiful!
And apparently I am a hero ^^
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#include <iostream>
int main(int, char**) {
std::cout << "Looks pretty cool!!" << std::endl;
return 0;
}
thanks Laurent for the upgrade! :D
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Nice job!
No bugs so far.
Is this text glowing?
Yes
Wow so innovative and fresh, we're dealing with edge technology here.
Sorry, I'll stop spamming.
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Ooh. Very nice. :D
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Nice and clean indeed ;D
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Very nice indeed, good job. Looking forward to see the new theme.
One issue (well, not a big problem, just thought I should mention it): The favicon is missing.
Also, while you're at it, is it possible to allow embedding videos (like youtube)? I think it will be pretty useful.
How about trying this: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3268 (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3268)
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The favicon is missing
Already on my toto list ;)
Also, while you're at it, is it possible to allow embedding videos (like youtube)? I think it will be pretty useful.
How about trying this: http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=3268
Ok, I'll see this.
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Looking good! Nice and smooth, hopefully not as buggy as the old forums. Maybe now I can click the "new posts" button and actually go to the new posts?
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Nice! Although I preferred the old smileys :(
Some thing that I find a little bit annoying is that code fields are now scrollable already at a relatively small height. Example:
#include <SFML/Audio.hpp>
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
int main()
{
// Create the main window
sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "SFML window");
// Load a sprite to display
sf::Texture texture;
if (!texture.loadFromFile("cute_image.jpg"))
return EXIT_FAILURE;
sf::Sprite sprite(texture);
// Create a graphical text to display
sf::Font font;
if (!font.loadFromFile("arial.ttf"))
return EXIT_FAILURE;
sf::Text text("Hello SFML", font, 50);
// Load a music to play
sf::Music music;
if (!music.openFromFile("nice_music.ogg"))
return EXIT_FAILURE;
// Play the music
music.play();
// Start the game loop
while (window.isOpen())
{
// Process events
sf::Event event;
while (window.pollEvent(event))
{
// Close window : exit
if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
window.close();
}
// Clear screen
window.clear();
// Draw the sprite
window.draw(sprite);
// Draw the string
window.draw(text);
// Update the window
window.display();
}
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
While this feature may be useful to keep posts small, it prevents one from looking at more complex code examples without scrolling all the time.
And the french forum is still empty. Do the forums now use a separate user base? I had to login in the french forum although I was already logged in in the english one.
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(testing quotes :) )
I had to login in the french forum although I was already logged in in the english one.
I guess it's because the two forums are now on two different domains and the cookies cannot be shared.
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Nice! Although I preferred the old smileys
I can change them. I haven't looked at the available sets of smileys yet.
Some thing that I find a little bit annoying is that code fields are now scrollable already at a relatively small height.
This is probably configurable, I have to check.
And the french forum is still empty. Do the forums now use a separate user base? I had to login in the french forum although I was already logged in in the english one.
There's now a single forum (which means same users, same theme, same options, ...), which appears as two separate parts thanks to a special mod.
The french forum is empty because I couldn't import both previous forums, I had to choose. But the old one is still available in read-only mode.
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Okay, so you recommend to reopen project threads in the french forum?
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Okay, so you recommend to reopen project threads in the french forum?
Yes, threads for active projects should be reopened in the french forum, nothing will be imported.
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I've removed the maximum height for code blocks.
I looked at the smiley sets available on the SMF website, but none of them was looking good :(
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Thank you! Also for the edit to C++ code in the other thread.
Okay, then I must use the smileys like this (http://www.sfml-dev.org/old-forum-fr/images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif)
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I've imported everything (members, boards, posts, ...), so there should be absolutely no loss.
Oh, but there is: all messages but one in my inbox are gone.
Is it possible to disable display of smileys?
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good job
but am looking forward to the new theme.
This one is very difficult to read, the grey? back to the grey? fonts are not very high contract. and quite hard to read.
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Disregard me, I'm just trying out the new forums ;)
Also: thanks for the effort as always, Laurent!
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Oh, but there is: all messages but one in my inbox are gone.
Are you sure? Have you checked the display options, maybe they are just hidden.
A bug in the import script is possible, but it looked like everything was ok.
This one is very difficult to read, the grey? back to the grey? fonts are not very high contract. and quite hard to read.
This can be changed easily.
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Nice work. I was wondering why I couldn't get onto the site for a few days. Smiley Test! :) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'( One of each. :)
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Are you sure? Have you checked the display options, maybe they are just hidden.
Oh, you're right ^^"
I didn't notice that the inbox is divided into pages ^^"
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Ooh fancy new forums!
// c++
#include <iostream>
int main(){
while(1){std::cout << ":)\n";}
}
And Lua highlighting works too :)
-- lua style
for i=1,10 do
print i
end
--[[
Multiline comment?
--]]
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I looked at the smiley sets available on the SMF website, but none of them was looking good :(
Well you can add your own smileys (read "pick old forum smiley and put them here").
I have my own set of smileys with default, christmas, summer and halloween themes (last two made by myself) but that's certainly unnecessary for here (http://eve.exofire.net/forum/Smileys/summer/tongue.gif)
Loving the new look (http://eve.exofire.net/forum/Smileys/default/afro.gif)
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I like the new look, but have a bit of a warning for you.
You've now broken all inbound Google links, which will probably do absolute murder on your discovery rate from search traffic. All existing google searches end up on this page ( http://www.sfml-dev.org/forum-redirect.php?t=5373 ), then the redirect doesn't take you to the proper thread.
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It's not a big deal, SFML 2 will be released soon and most of the old threads and old questions won't be up to date anymore.
It will just take some time until Google references this forum correctly, but I think it's ok.
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Any ETA on new theme with better contrast?
not liking the grey on grey hard to readness
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Any ETA on new theme with better contrast?
Not started yet. Progress will be quite slow, I have to release SFML 2 and write tutorials; these two tasks have a higher priority.
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I like it very much! :D
Finally some proper text editing/displaying. And the stuff from the toolbar get insert at the cursor b^position and not just at the end.
Is there another way for inline code than using the tt-tag (like std::vector<int> bla) which uses code highlighting?
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Is there another way for inline code than using the tt-tag (like std::vector<int> bla) which uses code highlighting?
No, I don't think so.
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Two quick modifications:
- restored the favicon
- videos can now be embedded in posts
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My mobile keeps getting an antispam prompt since the upgrade, quite annoying.
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My mobile keeps getting an antispam prompt since the upgrade, quite annoying.
I'm still testing/adjusting anti-bot mods. Can you show or describe me what you get?
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A page telling me I am probably infested with malware, which then makes me do a math problem, then redirects to an identical page with another math problem.
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A page telling me I am probably infested with malware, which then makes me do a math problem, then redirects to an identical page with another math problem.
Is it when you're logged in, or before? After solving the maths problems, can you use the forum normally?
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It was not logged in, after solving the two math problems it allowed me access to the site. At which point I logged in, and upon returning ( without logging out... does anyone actually log out? ), it didn't present me with the spam page.
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Ok thanks for the details. It doesn't appear in my log, so I'm not sure which mod does this, and why. I hope it won't happen too often.
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The search function (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?action=search) seems not to work correctly. For example, if I enter Thor, I get several threads where the word "author" is contained, and even more threads were nothing alike has been mentioned.
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The search function seems not to work correctly. For example, if I enter Thor, I get several threads where the word "author" is contained, and even more threads were nothing alike has been mentioned.
I enabled the "match whole words only" option, should be ok now.
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Is it possible to have links from the old forum redirect to the corresponding topic in the new forum? It's frustrating to run into posts that link to other topics, only to be thrown a page that says the forum has moved with no way to get to the actual topic.
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Nice, now the search works! Although only some minutes after you wrote your post ;)
By the way, why is the forum fixed to a constant width? On my screen, only a little bit more than the half width is filled with the forum frame. This leads to unfortunate line breaks in codes, such as here (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=7431.msg48974#msg48974)...
And something I just remarked and I really like is the warning that a new answer has been posted in the meantime :)
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By the way, why is the forum fixed to a constant width?
This is how the theme works. Other themes, such as the default one, have a variable width.
However the current theme can easily be modified to have a variable width too. So later I can provide two versions of the theme: fixed or variable width, and each user can choose its preferred option.
Personnally, I think that very large lines tend to make reading harder, so it's not an issue for me.
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Okay, didn't know that. Otherwise, the current theme really pleases me, it's just the code lines that are sometimes broken. But at least we write shorter lines like this ;)
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it's just the code lines that are sometimes broken
I changed the CSS to fix this. Now there's a scrollbar instead.
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Sorry, I didn't mean you should change it to a scrollbar (especially not a vertical one as in the example (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=7431.msg48974#msg48974)) :o
I think it was okay before. In case you add a variable-width theme one day, we can use that, otherwise we just write short lines. What do other users think about that?
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Sorry, I didn't mean you should change it to a scrollbar (especially not a vertical one as in the example)
Ah. But isn't it better this way? I always find broken lines of code hard to read. And now it's also consistent with how theregular (non-colored) code tag works.
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I'm not one of those but there are many programmer that break their code automatically when it's longer than a specific length. So a fixed length wouldn't be that bad but I also do not have anything against a scrollbar, I thinks it's better than exploiting the theme (like it can happen with big images) or wrapping the code in a strange way.
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Happened again, always with my mobile, this time logged in. Took a screenshot this time.
(http://flexapic.com/g.ashx?id=8700)
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Great, this time I can find you in the logs.
The mod that is blocking you is the httpBL mod, based on the HoneyPot project. I have no idea why it reports you as a spammer.
Here is the page that gives more information about your IP, maybe you can find out the reason by looking at the details:
http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ip_74.198.9.65
Apparently there's an easy solution:
If you are the owner of this IP address, you can whitelist it by connecting to this paged from the IP itself (or from an IP within /24). Alternatively, the IP will be auto excused after 90 days of no activity.
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Well thats exactly why it's blocking me, it's a mobile. That means the IP address is going to be highly recycled. It also means I don't really own the IP ( it will change the next time I switch off 4g to LTE to 3g, etc... ) so white listing is going to be of little help.
It's not a big deal, but is this a plugin you can set a threshold with?
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There's a threshold, yes. But I can't change it, there are many bots that are caught with a threat level lower than yours.
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I just saw somebody used highlighting for GLSL code, that's very nice. Generally, syntax highlighting is a big improvement from the old forum. Do you consider adding GLSL to the dropdown list of codes (you could replace XML with it ;))?
By the way, do you know whether there are shortcuts for often-used tags like [code=cpp], [tt] or [url]?
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I've added GLSL to the list.
By the way, do you know whether there are shortcuts for often-used tags
I haven't found anything about shortcuts, neither in the native features nor in mods.
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Ok.
Another thing: The Youtube embedding is good, but is it also possible to have links to Youtube without embedding the video? Sometimes I prefer not to flood the post with over-sized video previews ;)
[Edit] Ah, apparently it works when using http://youtube.com/... without www. But why do [url] tags not always yield links? To insert Youtube videos, one can directly post the link...
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And is it possible that we directly get to the advanced search when clicking the "SEARCH" button on the upper left? Because we already have a field on the upper right for direct search ;)
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Yeah, good idea. It's done :)
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Great, thanks! :)