Maintenance 04/08/2013

Fengol

Now you can tell us more about yourself!

If you go to your profile (by clicking on your name in the top menu) you'll find an option called Edit My Profile on the left-hand side of options under your picture (if you have one). Clicking on it will bring up a popup where you can capture your Website, Twitter, Facebook & Google+ details as well as give a biography of yourself.

If you visit anyone's profile you can see an About button between Discussions, Comments & Hearted; which display their data.

The profile data will still be updated allowing you to add some projects that you are proud of, with images and links so watch this space.

Tuism

Cool! :D

Just tried this, the twitter field woldn't validate, I tried many different combinations, even copy pasted the example and added to it... Didn't work. http://twitter.com/#!/tuism <-- doesn't work.

(Why does it want #! anyway? I tried it with and without)

WelshPixie

Looks like Twitter and G+ just need the username and profile number respectively.

Tuism

Ah! good one, of course it's the simplest answer that I didn't try :)

WelshPixie

Sod's law, eh. :D

Gazza_N

Neato! While writing dumb crap about yourself is always fun, I'm really looking forward to the portfolio function. ^_^

Fengol

I've fixed up the hint/format suggestions. This module was really badly coded so I'm having to rewrite a lot of the views and input functions.

creative630

Thanks @aodendaal! Its very useful so far.

Fengol

Are there any other fields (besides one to show off projects) that you want me to add?

Gibbo

Great stuff :)

creative630

@aodendaal Could we please get a soundcloud field?

Fengol

@creatove630 done! And I've updated your profile to test it

creative630

Awesome!! Thanks :D

Nitrogen

@aodendaal

There are a couple of niggles I have with the forums as they stand. I'll list them out here and see if there's a general agreement from the rest of the locals:

1. Thread authors not displayed. Once someone replies to a thread, I can no longer see who the original author was. When I scan through the list of threads to read, I use the title and the author to see if it's something interesting I want to read. If the title is obscure, but it's by someone I know that does interesting stuff, I want to know about it!

2. Stingy time formatting. All the replies above in this topic are marked "August 5" or "August 4". If you dont happen to catch the replies on the same day that they were posted, you cant ever see at what time they were written? The usefulness of knowing the times of posts is debatable, but where it's very important is in private messages. I had managed to miss a private message from July, and I wanted to know how long ago I've kept the person waiting for a reply, but there wasnt even a day displayed, just "July 2013".

3. Lack of reply button. This one is really silly - the act of replying to someone is probably the single most performed action on this site, but yet, if you want to reply to something someone's said a couple messages back, you have to scroll back up, select the text, copy it, scroll back down, create a quote and paste it back into your message. And dont get me started with mentions, where I have to copy and paste dislekcia's name all the time because the spelling confuses the crap out of my brain :D

I have a few other minor issues with the styling (left aligned site GRRR), but those are my major gripes that would be so good to have fixed. Thoughts?

Fengol

I can definitely look at these issues for you. I can't promise a deadline but 2 of the issues are just styling which should be easy enough to fix and the Reply button shouldn't be a problem.

Nitrogen

@aodendaal - Sweet! No deadline required, just the fact that a fix is forthcoming is awesome.

Nitrogen

While we're on the topic, was there a specific reason for hiding a user's notifications in their control panel with

li.Activity 
{
    display: none;
}

?

Fengol

There might be, I don't know though.

At the moment my priority is the spam, then looking at your style issues and finally searching.

Nitrogen

Okay yeah, the spam definitely takes priority!

hermantulleken

When you get back from spam crusade...

I have a problem updating sound cloud. Not sure if I have the right ID (profile name is herman.tulleken, URL has herman-tulleken; I tried both, plus the full URL).

(And about the notifications; it has always perplexed me that the count shows 1 (or whatever) but other than that I don't see anything; if I click on tab the count drops, and still nothing...)

Tuism

Yeah that notification thing next to your nickname is strange. It goes up when you get inboxed, then when you go to the inbox and read the message, the inbox [1] goes away, but the notification remains. Can only get rid of it if you go to your nickname, which does nothing. Mild annoyance.

Good luck with the anti-spam!

shelton

This is awesome

Tuism

Strange things like this have been happening often, when the page idles it typically ends up like this, with a variety of erroneous looking content that can fill that panel.

Not sure what's going on?

Fengol

I should have left it until this evening and done a better check, but I found Vine support for the Vanilla forums and I was so eager to implement it. I've reverted all the changes as they're broken and normal operation should continue.

Tuism

Not sure if this helps, just documenting it. This one I've seen quite a few times before now too:

D3zmodos

Ye I've always also been getting that "Service Temporarily Unavailable" window when idling for a while...

raxter

Is it possibly something going wrong with some form of dynamic updating method? There doesn't seem to be a consistent time period for when that error occurs... then again, I haven't actually timed it