Forum quirks

This forum software is weird to say the least, but being a programmer I think I should be able to work most kinks out of the system.

I've fixed a couple of things this morning:
1) The "Who's Online" thing in the left-hand panel now sorts by username and not userId.
2) The icon/avatars are not re-sized to 32x32 rather than cropped, so if the avatar you choose is slightly too large it now looks alright.

If there are other kinks that you find kinda odd and want smoothing out (in relation to the forum software, I don't want to know what you get up to in private) then let me know and I'll see what can be done about it.

velocity boy:2) The icon/avatars are not re-sized to 32x32 rather than cropped, so if the avatar you choose is slightly too large it now looks alright.

Aww I liked the randomness of how it was before :( making my avatar look like a turd :(

Any chance of bbcode?

Yeah, bbcode can be added :)

It's an extension, and might act weird... but I'll try it out later today and if it appears to work I'll keep it.

rkn:

velocity boy:2) The icon/avatars are not re-sized to 32x32 rather than cropped, so if the avatar you choose is slightly too large it now looks alright.

Aww I liked the randomness of how it was before :( making my avatar look like a turd :(

Jos's was invisible though... centred on the large bit of whitespace in the middle. Made the layout look weird.

Can you make links in the text of posts automatically turn into working hyperlinks? I don't know anything about programming so i don't know if it's possible

Yeah. That should be possible too.

I think it's supposed to do that, but doesn't. It's very weird software.

I'm also unsure about all the yellow on the front page... might make read discussions have a white background and only unread go yellow.

I'll look at this stuff this evening (unless someone suggests a pub).

Can you stick the logo whoever made at the top? that was cool.

Good idea, I'll work out with slamm next time I see him about getting that up there and in the space on the left.

I think it goes yellow when there are responses which you haven't read yet. I find it quite useful.

Yeah, but light yellow all the time, dark yellow for new responses.

I propose, white background all the time, dark yellow for new responses.

Should be easier for guys on laptops and other LCD screens that have low contrast or are affected by being in brightly lit areas (next to a window).

Mine's white all the time with a nice lemon shade when there are new responses. Computers are fucking weird. I'm using IE 6.0 by the way, but i think it's the same on firefox at home.

velocity boy:Good idea, I'll work out with slamm next time I see him about getting that up there and in the space on the left.

no probs, am off to States for 2 weeks on Saturday.
Def sort it out when I get back, should be able to ride by then too fingers crossed(ish)

just refreshed my browser and it's gay pride week in london :-)

Hehe, I prefer to think it's Rapha-style.

It's temporary until I can work out something with slamm.

It has to be temporary, I stole the image ;)

Love the skyline

Not that I know what I am talking about, but have you ever thought of Drupal? I know someone who runs a bike forum using it.

I reckon drupal would be a bit heavy for whats happening on this site - best to keep it simple as possible i would of thought.

Whats the forum though?

Drupal is far too heavy.

What we're running on is called Vanilla, it's lightweight and easy to use. The problem is that it's, well... vanilla. You don't get much with it and have to add stuff through extensions. Even basic functionality needs to be added. A lot of this is community developed and therein lies a problem, no QA ;) So you end up hacking and developing your own plugins.

It's not that bad really, just strange OO PHP to get your head around. But once I'm up to speed with it I'm sure it'll be fine.

Why's there a rough triangle shaped bit on the map just west of Finsbury park which is kinda borded in white and shaded light green?

CTRL+F5 will solve that for you.

The area is called Stroud Green.

OK, Added BBCode throughout... in fact that's all that works now :)

Sorted out auto-linking of links.

Stuff like video's you just insert the URL to the YouTube page and the forum will sort out the rest.

I'm going to be breaking the forum for a moment or two whilst I test some code I just wrote.

Every time I break it I'll fix it as soon as possible, promise :)

See? I knew I'd break it.

I don't think this is a problem with the forum - but something up with me I cant fix.

My laptop got nicked a couple of days ago, so i'm using an ancient one I held onto.

Anyway the issue seems like a cookie one - i come to http://londonfgss.com and i'm logged out (have previously logged in ticking 'remember me'). So i log in and everything is fine. Or instead of logging in i open a thread and then I am auto logged in. But every time I nav away from the site and come back to the index it appears as if I am logged out. I have cleared my cookies/cache a bunch of times but that isnt helping.

Any ideas?

What browser are you using? Can you put the latest Firefox on there and see if that solves it?

Sounds very simply like the browser is treating the cookies as transient rather than permanent.

Oh, and use the full URL: http://www.londonfgss.com/