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flag is back
Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Apr 6th, 2012, 12:27 pm A year passes without flag and ye hardly know it. In other news, the sun is on track in it's orbit around the Milky Way. (0) Subsequent Utterances

Cracking Good Captcha Included
Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Jan 13th, 2010, 5:49 am Right, just recently introduced Derky's nifty sortables captcha plugin for this bulletin board. Seems to have been pretty effective against spam which remains a huge problem on these forums otherwise. (0) Subsequent Utterances

Forum Upgrade Completed

Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Dec 14th, 2009, 1:36 pm

Successfully upgraded from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. This introduced new code that local hacks had to work with. The access controls for registering and anonymous posts have been re-introduced to minimize spambot activity. Re-skinned the forum to a more aesthetically brilliant design. The issue with "view active topics" was a problem for the developers in the 3.0.5 release, so everything was disabled in 3.0.6 and had to be reactivated. See the discussion here.

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Repaired Link BBCode
Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Sep 28th, 2009, 1:02 pm Changed simpletext to text for the text portion of the link pair. The url is defined as: http(s)://somedomain.sometld/somefile-or-other-resource Also, a new tag for google videos added. (0) Subsequent Utterances

The "What's New" Page Link Added to Forum Header
Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Aug 31st, 2009, 8:26 pm It's between FAQ and Search. Takes you to olde style forum theme showing a list of the latest posts, with author and date information. (0) Subsequent Utterances

Theme change
Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Jan 26th, 2009, 11:47 am Decided to use a prefab theme with some modifications so as to reintroduce the black and red elements without being too obnoxious. One of the hacks plays with the title attribute to the site name which appears at the top. I hope it doesn't break the forum. (0) Subsequent Utterances

Basic RSS
Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Jan 8th, 2009, 2:31 am Installed a much better news feed mod developed by Mark Hamill. Same button to push. It takes you to a form you can custom configure for just the sort of forum feed you're willing to tolerate. (1) Subsequent Utterance

Restored short url feature with slight modification

Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Nov 26th, 2008, 10:47 am

The make clickable function has been altered so that, in the handling of extensive urls, the domain bit is included in the shortened version, rather than arbitrarily lopped off.

This is for those who can't be bothered to set a proper link in their posts, prefering instead to slop the url into their posts in it's most gruesome raw form.

The previous mod just inserted the word 'link' into the post. It was an economical workaround but not very descriptive. Of course, the most descriptive is a properly formed link.

In any event, here are a couple of examples where urls exceed a set length:

http://www.eschatonblog.com/ ... 5533905329

http://www.truthout.org/ ... trust-fund

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Pierre is back
Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Sep 29th, 2008, 12:40 am A phpBB3 3.02 style called plainjane is the basis of the current look. Will see how it goes. (0) Subsequent Utterances

New ways of linking to w3

Author: Canteloupe :: Posted: Aug 31st, 2008, 10:16 pm

Modified the magic url behavior (includes/functions_content.php) so that the word 'link' replaces the url as link name, eliminating the possibility of a long link being posted. For some reason, the short url script among the functions in the above file seems to not come into play at any point even when the limit on the number of characters is breached.

Also added a Link button to the post editor so that one can convert a url and associated text into a link with the click of the button. How to use: paste the url followed by a comma and the text to be a part of the link. Highlight these items and click the 'Link' button.

Code: Select all: Example: [link]http://www.google.com/, Google[/link]

Google

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