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Coligny wrote:Can a thread cross sharing (like 'firstclass' bbs software 'routed' conference) be expectzored with Yanpa's forumz ?
Taro Toporific wrote:Yeah!
yanpa wrote:Coligny wrote:Can a thread cross sharing (like 'firstclass' bbs software 'routed' conference) be expectzored with Yanpa's forumz ?
Buggered if I know what you're talking about... any chance of an explanatory link?
American Oyaji wrote:I can't say I understand what he's trying to say.
yanpa wrote:I have, in an act of post-midnight hackery, reproduced the FG-ish "hot topics" list.
yanpa wrote:I have, in an act of post-midnight hackery, reproduced the FG-ish "hot topics" list.
Coligny wrote:yanpa wrote:I have, in an act of post-midnight hackery, reproduced the FG-ish "hot topics" list.
You forgot to say: "sort of"
BigInJapan wrote:yanpa wrote:I have, in an act of post-midnight hackery, reproduced the FG-ish "hot topics" list.
That's a good idea as not everybody that comes across FG will know to click the "View active topics" link.
Also, I mentioned a little while back about the attachments not showing up to non logged in users, any luck with that?
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yanpa wrote:I have, in an act of post-midnight hackery, reproduced the FG-ish "hot topics" list.
yanpa wrote:Alas I do not have an original FG installation to compare against (at most a couple of static copies), so no idea what the precise original functionality was. Currently it displays the 10 most recently active topics visible to the user - if FG was using another algorithm to defined "hot topics", I have no idea what it is. (It was enough of a challenge to work out, in the context of the phpBB code, a) the appropriate way to extract the appropriate data and b) how to display it).
GomiGirl wrote:yanpa wrote:Alas I do not have an original FG installation to compare against (at most a couple of static copies), so no idea what the precise original functionality was. Currently it displays the 10 most recently active topics visible to the user - if FG was using another algorithm to defined "hot topics", I have no idea what it is. (It was enough of a challenge to work out, in the context of the phpBB code, a) the appropriate way to extract the appropriate data and b) how to display it).
This is correct but I don't think it was the last 10 posts from all forums. It was limited to The Ghetto, News, Media, Tech only. The sorts of areas where people were reposting news, photos and commentary of same.
GomiGirl wrote:The other forums were more personal announcements or limited access ones so not included in the hot topics or on the Front page.
GomiGirl wrote:I know this is a bit premature - but just some notes on the front page as well.
There was a button under the posting window that was "not news" that when checked, made sure that the thread didn't appear on the front page. This was mainly used (if it was used at all) when people were just asking for advice, ranting etc.
The stuff that was fed through the the front page was primarily the same items in the hot topics - news, photos and commentary with the chit chat kept off it. The people visiting the top page, would have no idea about the in-joke goat references etc.
The people who were mostly feeding through the news items were always really good at adding photos or video to the top post. This addition of colour is really helpful in making the topic accessible and fun. Thus this made the top page accessible and fun.
Mulboyne and Taro were really good at laying out the articles so they had the correct lined references to the original source, the by-lines, a quote box and tagging everything well so the articles always looked great. The use of the [floatr] and [floatl] tags were useful in again making sure the page looked great. This set the standard to encourage others to follow suit and not just post a link without anything else.
I think they kinda had a text editor template set up for themselves so it was easy to follow the same format for posting new threads.
IMHO, this sort of "Professionalism" set FG apart from the other chit chat BBS's.
Taro Toporific wrote:yanpa wrote:I have, in an act of post-midnight hackery, reproduced the FG-ish "hot topics" list.
Oh nos, I may have to start drawing up the special guest list to the FG's relaunch matsuri.
yanpa wrote:I didn't know about the [floatr] and [floatl] tags, do you recall what HTML they generated? <span style="float:left"> or something?
GomiGirl wrote:yanpa wrote:I didn't know about the [floatr] and [floatl] tags, do you recall what HTML they generated? <span style="float:left"> or something?
Not sure as they were just in the BB code but not in the top options. You had to know them to use them.
GomiGirl wrote:BTW what are the list and list= buttons doing in the editing set?
yanpa wrote:GomiGirl wrote:yanpa wrote:Alas I do not have an original FG installation to compare against (at most a couple of static copies), so no idea what the precise original functionality was. Currently it displays the 10 most recently active topics visible to the user - if FG was using another algorithm to defined "hot topics", I have no idea what it is. (It was enough of a challenge to work out, in the context of the phpBB code, a) the appropriate way to extract the appropriate data and b) how to display it).
This is correct but I don't think it was the last 10 posts from all forums. It was limited to The Ghetto, News, Media, Tech only. The sorts of areas where people were reposting news, photos and commentary of same.
OK, makes sense, I should be able to tweak the query to limit the referenced forums.
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