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  • 9 months later...

After finding out today it's a relatively simple thing to do we are now keeping the signal alive.

 

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

-pterry

 

You can install this on Chrome (likely others for Firefox)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clacks-overhead-gnu-terry/lnndfmobdoobjfcalkmfojmanbeoegab?hl=en

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7 hours ago, Mal said:

How can I get my video to be large size?

It's due to it being set to "unlimited" by default, I changed the value mainly because it covers all content which includes embedded images and such. If someone put in a multi-megapixel image it'd take as much space as it could. So while the bigger youtube embeds look a bit nicer, it's an offset of things just being a bit too huge.

I'll slowly add in here some of the new features.

- One being that you can now use @ handles to tag someone in a post. 

- As Mal noted you can jsut paste a URL and it'll auto-embed most media. This unfortunately doesn't include Imgur per-se (if you embed a page link it'll embed that though)

- Technically you can now get email digests. Though that's if this place decides it likes sending out emails (it's a bit hit and miss but my test went fine yesterday and maybe some  of you got emails about the forum upgrade?)

- We no longer GNU Terry Pratchett but I'm gonna fix that

- Tapatalk isn't enabled atm but that's highish on my list

- You can make custom content streams and set them as default (there's a little faded out tick next to the stream title)
- There's a basic Dark Theme if you want to use that.

- Oh in a soonish update (we're on 4.1, 4.2 is coming soon) the "Like" will change much like FB has to "Reactions" which I feel might amuse some of you.

-I've also stuck links on the top bar for the Discord and Patreon too(hint hint)

- I'm gonna get around to sorting the Emoticons out since I can set "Categories".

- The old subtitles thing were put in with a plug-in, and obviously the creator noticed they were popular cos the version 4 plug-in is $7. It's on my list, but lowish down.

- You can set cover photos on your profiles

- You can "Follow" people, means you'll get notifications when they make posts or updates and such.

- Another plug-in that I'm likely to reinstall is the Steam support.

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Unless I completely did not see it for years, this is probably one of my favorite changes.

17 hours ago, deanbmmv said:

This

means no more manually snipping quotes and it makes quoting multiple parts of a post way easier.

I guess the only other quoting thing I don't see is a way to recreate something like this:

On 1/26/2017 at 10:21 PM, Mal said:
  AWACS Mal said:

<< Attention all personnel. >>
<< Please be advised that the theater of operation has expanded outside of Sony's territories into regions code-named X1 and PC. >>

An quote (a quote?) with a custom name and even time stamp if I wanted to. In the above case (where I figured it out with BBcode or something, it was the upper leftmost button that stripped away all the fancy stuff and just worked on text and code) I did it for my amusement but there have been times where I would like to quote real people in say the US Politics thread. Kind of unnecessary if I link the article/source I guess but it's nice.

As an aside... you can resize how images look in posts it seems. Neat.

Edited by Mal
Testing image resize.
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@Cowboy Danger Poet Yes you should have been able to report all the time. I know at least some of you have reported when we've had spammers pop up. Please don't abuse it though.


@Mal Actually looking into it, it seems editing quotes is now harder than it used to be, you certainly used to be able to quote fictional folks with the 'name="abraham lincoln"'. I suspect it has been changed because it could also easily be abused to misattribute quotes (though as you'll note if you're quoting a forum members post it'll still link to their original so hey).

The "Source" is also different here, showing almost raw HTML rather than BBcode of the old place (mainly because this is a new 3rd party editor). IIRC you could also do partial quotes too, though not with the handy pop-up.

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Yes it's slower at loading, mainly a caching thing (basically it's rebuilding pretty much everything as you load pages rather than just going "oh, I already made this front page for MisterJack 2 minutes ago, I'll serve that up to Eleven"). It's a "to do" thing atm. It's not crippling, but yes I'll be aiming to work on it this weekend. I'd a bunch of tweaks on the old version that don't quite carry over to this.

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  • 4 months later...

I can add to the new Reactions functionality btw. To demonstrate this I've added in a reaction that's pretty much for @MetalCaveman (not my aim, was just looking for something I could add). If anyone has any ideas I'm open. Or maybe the current range is fine. I'm tempted to replace the current ones with stylised Mario faces if I could find something that'd fit what's in my head.

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4 hours ago, deanbmmv said:

I can add to the new Reactions functionality btw. To demonstrate this I've added in a reaction that's pretty much for @MetalCaveman (not my aim, was just looking for something I could add). If anyone has any ideas I'm open. Or maybe the current range is fine. I'm tempted to replace the current ones with stylised Mario faces if I could find something that'd fit what's in my head.

 

HELL YEAH :P \m/ \m/

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They aren't really faces, but there are some good ones in here:  http://www.iconarchive.com/show/super-mario-icons-by-ph03nyx.1.html

 

 A few of my favorites:

 

Bullet-Bill-icon.pngGoomba-icon.pngPaper-Mario-icon.pngPaper-Bowser-icon.pngMushroom-1UP-icon.pngStar-icon.pngShell-Green-icon.pngShell-Red-icon.png

 

It also has some pixel-art ones if you'd prefer those.

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