776

(8 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Why on earth would you want somebody to be able to post topics and then not see the replies to them. That defeats the whole purpose of the forum.

777

(5 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

The word is "poll" not rate. I've changed the topic title so you get more response.

Did you delete cache_config.php from the cache directory before you reinstalled it.

779

(69 replies, posted in News)

Quaker: If people want to try 1.3 then they can get it from SVN. If they don't know how then they probably shouldn't be thinking of running development software in the first place. Making a distribution package availabe might confuse some people and lead them to believe it is more stable than it really is particularly if the link originates from this site.

If you add it to base.css then it will cover all the styles.

#vf td.tcl span.byuser {
  height: 0;
  position: absolute;
  left: -10000px
  }

Or if that gives you problems

#vf td.tcl span.byuser {
  display: none;
  }

782

(8 replies, posted in Feature requests)

Sounds like a prime candidate for a commercial licence.

783

(25 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

You might get a nice surprise when you have enough posts or topics to generate more than one page. Also take a look at it in Opera, Mozilla or Firefox with the page navigation extension.

784

(25 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Nobody said this was ready for beta testing. Please do not report bugs.

785

(25 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Which is also why the moderator controls got moved. People were always asking how to make things sticky etc which is a sure sign of an interface fault, things should be obvious.

786

(25 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Well at least thats confirmed my view that the footer is not the right place for useful stuff. Thanks for that.

787

(6 replies, posted in General discussion)

Elzar wrote:

Bit SimpleBitsy for my liking.

I wouldn't have said so, no more than any two column blog is like any other two column blog.

788

(121 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

Welcome Bashrat and good luck with the exams.

789

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 discussion)

It marks the report as read. Yes, we do know it is pretty meaningless which is why its been changed to "Mark as read" in the next version.

And I suppose that's not good, right?

Its not good because its exactly the same as looking at a forum without searching at all.

But I want to ask you this: What is the advantages of defining the days to search for, I mean, it's still sorted by time, so why not just search for let's say 2 weeks no matter how old posts you are looking for?

Lets say you have a big forum and several hundreds of posts in the last 2 weeks. First of all its hell of a waste of effort producing all those results pages when they are not needed. Second, if say you have 30 pages of results of posts within the last 2 weeks do you really want to have to go through them to find the point you actully wanted to start at.

Thinking about it, I'm rather surprised that nobody has produced a mod which adds time to the search criteria. On a big board it might be quite useful to say list all posts/topics in a particular forum which are less than 2 weeks old. That way if you've been away on holiday you don't have to trouble about new post indicators, you just do  a time limited search. Like I say, I'm surprised it hasn't been done as anybody who knows a bit of sql could do it easily. In fact, its probably just a cut and paste job on the existing search functions.

No elegent way - What do you think of taking away the "Mark all topics as read" link and put a "Show unread posts" link there instead that would show all unread posts ever, in chronological order (like "Show unanswered posts")?

How big would he database have to be to store the id's of every post that every user had never read. Or are you talking about a global list of posts that nobody had ever viewed?

Also there is one thing I would like to know: is there a reason for why "Show recent posts" has a time limit while there is no time limit for "Show unanswered posts"?

Because recent is a finite period of time though exactly what consitutes recent is a matter of opinion. Unanswered is a state of being which is fixed until the post is answered.

Let's say that you log in to your account but you don't have time to read all new posts, then the posts will not be marked as unread the next time you log in. Then you can find these posts with "Show recent posts" but not if you wait to long to log in again, because of the time limit. Because of this I think it would be great to take the time limit away. But maybe there's some other reasons for keeping it?

If you take away the time limit then you have a search for all posts on the forum regardless of when they were posted, in other words a search which returns every single post ever posted.

One option would be to remove the recent posts link alltogether and add a predefined period search to search.php via a dropdown e.g. 1 days, 2 days, 7 days, 1 month etc. That would be a really easy mod if not a feature.

793

(2 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 troubleshooting)

You change the value in the language file not in the code. Just look in the index.php langauge file and you should find it. Just remember you only change the value on the right.

Would it not be rather confusing if the category descriptions and forum descriptions are in the users langauge and then the posts themselves are in a different language. People will reasonably assume that if a forum description is in say French then the whole forum including the posts will also be French.

795

(10 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 bug reports)

If you find any more please post back in this thread. I'm making this sticky for a little while so people see it.

796

(10 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 bug reports)

Go to section 3.2 of base.css and add this

/*Begin IE7Win Fix */
.pun .inbox {min-height: 1px}
/* End of IE7Win Fix */

797

(10 replies, posted in PunBB 1.2 bug reports)

Its the beta. It seems to be the peekaboo bug which was supposed to be fixed in beta 2. There is a simple hack which is just a variation on the hack used to fix IE6.  which I will post a little later today when I've tested it and maybe Rickard can implement it here. It should be just one line in the stylesheet.

The reason for removing them is they can conflict with the standard key assignments of screen readers and various other user agents.  The current thinking amongst the accessibility community is they are a bad idea but if you must use them then they should conform to the current UK Govenment standard. Alt+S has become he standard accesskey for skip navigation.

A redirect forum is one where there is no forum but just a link to another forum. There are some here if you look at the foreign language forums on the index page.

Mark all as read would still be needed because there might be tons of new posts in forums or topics which you aren't interested in so there will be lots of new post indicators cluttering up the place.

I'm not sure this conversation serves any more purpose than debating Swedens tactics when they meet Brazil in the World Cup Final. Best to get there first and then see what happens.