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I just hid the user post count in Admin: Options. It said it would affect the user list (see below), but the new user list still shows post counts for each person. It does remove the post count in topic view, however.
Show user post count
Show the number of posts a user has made (affects topic view, profile and userlist).
In admin_users.php, there's no field to search for MSN Messenger 
And it would be great if I could filter based on email preference, ie. disabled, but allow form, enabled, etc. That way I could see how many people use the new feature ...
Finally, some are complaining about the lack of HTML in their sigs. (I enabled it in 1.0.1 but it's disabled now and the option's disappeared.) The perfect solution, in my mind, would be to have some kind of "trusted" level, not moderators, but a level to allow HTML in sigs, and possibly in posts as well. Of course, if I could just re-enable HTML in everyone's sigs, that would be a good compromise.
"Show new posts since last visit" isn't a new feature either.
It would be more useful if there was an option to show the new posts underneath the new threads, maybe with a java/CSS toggle. New posts would be hidden by default, you'd click a thread and poof, the new posts would appear right underneath using display:none to hide them on load, and javascript to set display:inline on click ... maybe with up/down arrows to read the beginning of the thread and a box to make a reply in. Hmm, I'm getting interested in this, maybe when 1.1 is finally released I'll try modding the Show new posts page
The point: You don't have to worry about reading every post in every forum that's unread before the new post markings disappear (while you're writing a reply to a post, for example) and it would be faster than clicking on a thread, finding the new posts, reading them then scrolling all the way down to reply, clicking back, remembering where you were at, clicking the next thread, and so on ...
Well ... I didn't expect it to actually parse the code inside of a code tag.
What I did was attempt to post the invalid quote tags inside of a code tag to show you ... it returend an error about missing the starting code tag. But I had written both starting and ending code tags and as far as I could tell, this should have been valid BBcode.
Sure the quote tag was invalid, but it was INSIDE the code tag and therefore shouldn't have affected the code tag itself, correct? So why return an error about the code tag? If you must parse the inside of a code tag, why not tell me it's an error with the quote tag?
Hmm .... Maybe it's me, I can't seem to quite reproduce it exactly, again ... bah. Forget it. It's probably just me, trying to nest two code tags and somehow cancelling out the second code tag, leaving an orphaned code end tag ...
CSpotkill wrote:Edit: Damn, even trying to show what I did, gives me "The BBCode syntax in the message is incorrect. Missing start tag for [/code.]"
Well, the new quote syntax comes with a price. Usernames cannot contain a square bracket and a singlequote and a doublequote at the same time. You cannot register with a username containing all those characters. The reason is that if usernames were allowed to contain them all, there would be no way to determine when the username stops and the quote starts.
Getting a message stating that the BBCode syntax is incorrect when trying to quote a user called ?"?Test\""[]["]?"? is expected because there can be no such user
It is possible to make up an illegal username and quote it, but it will not look good.
I understand and figured that was the "excuse" 
Still, it was kind of confusing to put all that inside a code tag, but it wouldn't let me post it because I was "missing the start tag" of code! I had the start tag of code, it was quote that had the error. Why didn't it just post it or say, Invalid Quote Syntax or similar ...
CSpotkill wrote:Yeah, at most, I'd say you've about 60000 rows and 7 MB of non-attachments
... without the attachments the actual byte size isn't that large ... hmm... the table with most rows is the forum_serach_matches ... with a staggering 131 977 rows ... I guess it mean that one have long posts or something
Well, I stand corrected. Anyway, search_matches is huge for me as well, over 70% of the database is just for the search feature. I guess I've smaller, yet more frequent posts than in your forum. Interesting.
In 2 weeks, I've 36 registered users, 112 topics and 1347 posts.
OS: Windows Server 2003/IIS6 PHP: 4.3.3 DB: MySQL 4.0.17-nt Rows: 30668 Size: 1.48 MB
The only problem I've noticed with PunBB is that sometimes my cookie times out before I can reach all of the replies on the forum and other times I've read every thread but it's still marked the entire board unread. Grr...
I'd say we need an easier way to view all the new posts, though I found clicking on the date of the last post and getting to it is helpful. [Edit: Just saw the New Posts link ... that's very useful, but not exactly what I'm looking for ... ]
I think the Show_New search should show not just the threads, but the new posts themselves, all on one page. Maybe have seperate iframes, to scroll up and re-read the thread, as well as a reply box for each thread, beside the thread's iframe perhaps. Because when your forums are getting tons of posts each hour, it's hard to keep up ... and having the cookie timeout before you finish reading all the replies is annoying, then you have to figure out for yourself what you haven't read yet and inevitably some threads fall through the cracks.
This forum has 9 registered users, 337 topics and 4627 posts.
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Rows: 156577
Size: 177.97 MB
But it's the files that does the size of it, the "attach_data.MYD" file is 171 MB
Yeah, at most, I'd say you've about 60000 rows and 7 MB of non-attachments
Feel free to play around in the test forum. Especially concerning the new quote syntax.
Yeah, one thing I don't like about the new quote syntax: Before, you could move the quote all to one line, now you can't. Could you adjust this in a stylesheet or template? Like making quotes start right after the semi-colon (and a space), or move the quote author info to the bottom-right of the box (with CSS perhaps?). Besides that, it makes quoting multiple people a lot more intuitive.
Wee.
'''"""\"\' Random[ wrote:Test
]Testing
Fun!
Nested2 wrote:Nested3 wrote:Does it work? Yes!
New lines ...
Aww, it can't do four nested quotes. Then again, it couldn't before either. (I assume this is a feature.)
Hmm ... how would I quote someone with a ] in their name? Or if I wanted to use a ] character?
"]Does it work?
Ah perfect. Double quotes work to get [] characters. Interesting, it doesn't end with a double quote character, but seems to end after a "] sequence. Then again, random fiddling gave me the error: "The BBCode syntax in the message is incorrect. Missing one or more end tags for [quote.]" when I did this:
Edit: Damn, even trying to show what I did, gives me "The BBCode syntax in the message is incorrect. Missing start tag for [/code.]"
What I did was ... oh never mind, I just sent you an email...
... until tomorrow.
At this rate, it would be like winning the lotto if it was released tomorrow =p
Then again, maybe not. I'd give 7-to-1 odds he doesn't finish it tomorrow, just to do one last test or maybe a week-long spell check
Edit: Ooooh. I just noticed the version number for the forums now, it's Version: 1.1 ... talk about getting my hopes up!
Kennel wrote:
I'd wait a day or two though. PunBB 1.1 is practically finished.
Yes. I noticed ...
I just bought a book on debugging (I'm doing programming of my own on the side) so I certainly know how tough it is to release a high quality piece of software.
Now, the $64,000 question: Will you give in to the pressure and work on it on New Years' Eve to make the "day or two" deadline?
Also, PunBB could use some themed-smilies, eg. blue smilies for the blue-hued themes. Hmm. That would be a quick mod, I'd say. But again, I'll wait 'till 1.1 first 
(Oh the suspense, I've been checking back for weeks now ... )
Yes, the suspense is agonizing!
Kennel wrote:
Cool! If you want to, you could make mods out of some of these changes. I know buttons for bbcode when posting (like in many other forum software) is a frequently requested feature.
Yeah, I just saw the SDK. Maybe I will It's just that it's all intertwined with the rest of my site's design at the moment. So it might take me awhile to sort it all out and make a slightly stripped down mod-version ...
Seems to be down now (at time of this posting). Below is the response my Microsoft ISA server gave me. Maybe my server cached the DNS (if it changed) or something ...
10060 - Connection timeout
Internet Security and Acceleration ServerTechnical Information (for support personnel)
* Background:
When the server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, contacted the upstream content server, it did not receive a timely response.
Oh and btw, Kennel, I just love PunBB. It's great for modding to fit any website, since the code is relatively clean and easy to understand, with just the essential features. (I like adding my own Javascript extras, like buttons with dropdowns for writing posts, but it's great to have a clean slate to start with)
Try downloading and installing Winsock 2: (This may only apply to Windows 95)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/down … efault.asp
Otherwise I'd also recommend reinstalling TCP/IP and Dial-Up Networking, so since you don't have the original OEM disk or anything, you're kinda screwed. Maybe you could try this.
Though there's a quick solution to all your Win98 troubles ...
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