Site Discussion Thread

[Julia Pseudo]

Why not add a thanks system? I know a few forums that have an option to 'thank' a user if their post was useful/helpful/good. a positive reaction to a post basically, and a number showing on the user's bio. it's essentially the rep system but you can't downrep a user. may be a neat little feature to the site.

This has been considered as a replacement for the reputation mod basically ever since it was removed, but there doesn't seem to be such a mod available for the current version of phpBB.

[aero]

Idk if any of the staff have been given site access, so this is more towards Joey:

A lot of people are irritated with signature sizes. People have a bunch of spoilers, images, and junk nobody wants to see in them. I made this script that adds scrollbars to signatures larger than 200px, and the only change to the CSS code is altering one setting and adding one line. People don't want to rely on a script so I'm just going to throw this suggestion out there. In the content.css search for .signature and change overflow: hidden; to overflow: auto; and add max-height: 200px;. Should look like this when you're done:

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/* Post signature */
.signature {
	margin-top: 1.5em;
	padding-top: 0.2em;
	font-size: 1.1em;
	border-top: 1px solid transparent;
	clear: left;
	line-height: 140%;
	overflow: auto;
   max-height: 200px;
	width: 100%;
}

[kr4k1n]

^ This should be an option in the UCP

[aero]

^ This should be an option in the UCP

I think that would require an extension or something. It would be a good idea though to let people choose between leaving signatures as-is, scrollbars with adjustable sizes, or hidden entirely. Having it set globally for the forum isn't really that bad though because it puts the long sig issue to rest finally and the admins won't need to monitor it anymore.

[Knux]

I propose an idea that may be of interest to the community, and Joey in particular.

As you guys know, this community's history from 2009-13 is really poorly documented to the point where people struggle to remember accurate events. I suggest that we form a private sub-forum for smbx 'historians' who can discuss amongst themselves the actual timeline of events in this community and then publish a thread or a YouTube documentary series. In fact, I suggest YT documentary series!! showcasing the most accurate portrayal of SMBX. I volunteer to direct this video, and of course being involved with the community so much in the past I know a lot of info. But even I'm not sure of EVERYTHING

EDIT: it's 2;32AM in the UK and i have figured out in my head that I will start doing a youtube series of the SMBX history. starting with the year 2009. i will post a thread tomorrow or soon-ish with more information.

[aero]

Most artifacts from the past are lost forever (Redigit's SMBX let's play, TrinityFlash, your forum, Trek forum) and all of the secret fossils (SML, Sora, IronDust) are all too damaged and spread out to recover.

[Knux]

Most artifacts from the past are lost forever (Redigit's SMBX let's play, TrinityFlash, your forum, Trek forum) and all of the secret fossils (SML, Sora, IronDust) are all too damaged and spread out to recover.

Yes, which really sucks in all honesty. some sites do have web-archives, an i have old convo logs lying around. I also remember the rough timeline of most significant events, and I'm sure other people will remember/contribute too. it will be a very challenging and frustrating project but it is the closest we can get to an understanding of the past.

[Mable]

Are there plans to maybe remove RVLution at the bottom of the site? It doesn't seem to be coming back anytime as it has the same message for 1-2 years by now, from which i predict that the guys who handled the forum just let it die. Unless someone knows something different about it or not. But i would just suggest to remove it since.. well it basically has no purpose being there if it doesn't lead to anything.

[TDK]

What is midnight reality?

[Snessy the duck]

I'm gonna restate this since it seems to have been ignored and I want peoples opinion on it:

Why exactly do we need the "Specify why you reported this post" page? I'm pretty sure the mods can easily see if something's wrong with a post, so I don't really see why it's there. At least make the "Doesn't follow common posting habits" option the default one, since it used much more frequently to my knowledge.

[Radiance]

What is midnight reality?

It's the parent site of SMBX.org and Stardust Fields.

Basically my personal site, and the default address of this server. I'll probably figure out a way to make the link to it less...apparent. What do you guys think of the affiliate buttons?

[aero]

I'm gonna restate this since it seems to have been ignored and I want peoples opinion on it:

Why exactly do we need the "Specify why you reported this post" page? I'm pretty sure the mods can easily see if something's wrong with a post, so I don't really see why it's there. At least make the "Doesn't follow common posting habits" option the default one, since it used much more frequently to my knowledge.

Then don't type anything.

[Quill]

Most artifacts from the past are lost forever (Redigit's SMBX let's play, TrinityFlash, your forum, Trek forum) and all of the secret fossils (SML, Sora, IronDust) are all too damaged and spread out to recover.

I think the only old Redigit SMBX video we have is the 1.3 trailer, which somebody randomly reuploaded.

It's a shame we don't have an archive of Knux's forum either (at least as far as I am aware).

[aero]

Most artifacts from the past are lost forever (Redigit's SMBX let's play, TrinityFlash, your forum, Trek forum) and all of the secret fossils (SML, Sora, IronDust) are all too damaged and spread out to recover.

I think the only old Redigit SMBX video we have is the 1.3 trailer, which somebody randomly reuploaded.

It's a shame we don't have an archive of Knux's forum either (at least as far as I am aware).

https://web.archive.org/web/20101001000 ... ophpbb.com Damaged pages beyond repair, gone forever.

[Snessy the duck]

I'm gonna restate this since it seems to have been ignored and I want peoples opinion on it:

Why exactly do we need the "Specify why you reported this post" page? I'm pretty sure the mods can easily see if something's wrong with a post, so I don't really see why it's there. At least make the "Doesn't follow common posting habits" option the default one, since it used much more frequently to my knowledge.

Then don't type anything.

What I mean is that it's kinda annoying having to go to it and change the option before reporting it (At least to me), and I don't really see why it's there.

[Radiance]

Why won't you let the mods guess what you are reporting
My default option is form of harassment. Even in my PC. I'm confused.

[Snessy the duck]

My default option is form of harassment. Maybe it works differently to different people.

My default one is also form of harassment, but I encounter more posts that don't follow common posting habits than harassments, so it's kinda annoying to report because you have to change the option every time you want to report it.

[Radiance]

Specify why you reported this post

I thought that this is your default option.

I think harassment is the selected default option because harassment is heavier than not following common habits.

And changing options is not that too hard to do.

[Snessy the duck]

And changing options is not that too hard to do.

Yeah, but it's kinda annoying to me.

[Cedur]

"Harassment" is the default option for everyone here, while on many other phpBB boards you have "misc" as your default option.

It's not that big of a deal but if it was tweaked that would be awesome