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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Basic Calculator

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 03:02 PM »

I think you need to make the equal button the same size as the others, and since you'll have a blank space, let the user move the buttons around like the 15 puzzle...

-x16wda (September 06, 2015, 02:59 PM)

I almost wanna go for themes, because depending on the field you're in, you want one huge button. In some fields of Accounting, it's Add. I hear rumors in Insurance it's Multiply.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Basic Calculator

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 02:53 PM »

See, it works now.
For no reason.

Maybe because I rebooted for something else.

Condition/Add Phoeni's bug reports with entire dispensers of salt!

It's like "well, he got there, so it can happen, but are the rest of you okay before we throw him rope to pull him out?"

 

Then again I've hand-nuked (badly) about seven virii on this system using 1998 tricks, so gawd only knows how it's even running. (The newest is TaobaoProtect that I think showed up with the Chinese Firefox. I ate all four of the folders it wants to install into and put null dead files with the same names into about three of them.)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 02:44 PM »

it puts a space at the beginning of your message after the quote.

-wraith808 (September 06, 2015, 02:30 PM)

can you elaborate? im not sure what i should be looking for to fix.

-mouser (September 06, 2015, 02:33 PM)

Not sure. No spaces here. But I don't count.

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Living Room / Re: In a world free from ads, one font reigns supreme. COMIC SANS!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 02:41 PM »

I look at it as a direct way to annoy you in order to get you to pay.  At that point, instead of going around, I just don't go.  It might seem extreme, but that's my approach.

-wraith808 (September 05, 2015, 12:13 PM)

Same here. I've got way better things to do with my time than play someone's silly game with intrusive ads. Be nice, or be gone. However I also reserve the right to hack anything pisses me off, especially if they throw an exit loop at me when I try to leave.

-Stoic Joker (September 06, 2015, 02:21 PM)

I reverse the order of these two.

For over-clarity:

"I also reserve the right to hack anything pisses me off"

To me content is content, and the time lost trying to find alternate versions of the story is the key part lost in "don't go there". I'd much rather apply any of my 17 second hacks.

Especially I have an eye for a "key phrase" and if only "one copy" of the news has some key quote, then hack the ads and deal with them to get that key detail.

After all, it's the site managers that put annoying stuff on their sites. But let's just say that for once some writer mugged a Windows Manager in a stairwell and wouldn't let him go until he got a legally usable quote, go for it. Eat six ads to get that.

Win10 is still in such early phases, it's still the giant Hold'em poker game where none of us have any idea what's going on. We're BARELY getting through tactical install issues. We have NO idea what "the last Windows version ever because it's now all cloudy-y/Saas-y" ....means!

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Living Room / Re: Take the xkcd weird correlation survey

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 02:30 PM »

"
The xkcd survey
This is an anonymous survey. After it's done, a database of everyone's responses will be posted.

There's no specific reason for any of the questions. The goal is to create an interesting and unusual data set for people to play with. (This is obviously not going to be a real random sample of people, but in the interest of getting cooler data, if you're sharing this with friends, try sending it to some people who wouldn't normally see this kind of thing!)

WARNING: This survey is anonymous, but your answers WILL BE MADE PUBLIC. Depending what you write, it's possible that someone may be able to identify you by looking at your responses. None of these questions should ask about anything too private, but don't write anything that you don't want people to see. If you're not comfortable answering a question, just skip it.

"

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Basic Calculator

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 02:19 PM »

You might want to add a hex/dec/oct conversion option to attract the tech-savvy crowd here, but it looks refreshingly different in the awfully white Win10 world

-Ath (September 06, 2015, 04:38 AM)

Thanks, I was going for something style wise that was just a tad Steampunk. The problem with conversions, is that if I add one that may be handy it opens the door to more and more and more. And I really just wanted to keep this as simple as possible. This is why there isn't a square root button...because I've never in my life found a need for getting the square root of anything...so it was dropped in favor of other things I have found need for (frequently) in the past.

It is however an adventure in creating something finger friendly, which is why it's spread out farther than any of the other programs I've done in the past.

- Add a bit of a UI wrapper around the edges, maybe a quarter inch, with rounded corners, so that it doesn't quite feel like it "drops off a cliff" at the edges.

-TaoPhoenix (September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM)

I see what you're driving at, but I have no idea how to do that. I can try...but no promises.

- Add theming, give users a choice of some five colors for the middle instead of Maroon-something you have now.

-TaoPhoenix (September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM)

Maroon?? Zoiks! ...It's supposed to be a brownish wood tone. I wonder what the rest of the world sees it as..

- It doesn't seem to be number pad aware yet. That's huge - Except my phone the only time I'd use a calc prog is with the number pad.

-TaoPhoenix (September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM)

Same here, and the number pad should work (it does here). Is there no response from anything, or is it just certain keys that don't seem to behave?

-Stoic Joker (September 06, 2015, 08:11 AM)

Sorry, it's def on the "ish" side of "brownish", I smashed out my comment and wasn't really thinking "how can I give useful feedback to this dev?" : )

But it is mutiplexed color theme, and that's what threw me off - it's an "ish" of "something".

Enough of that.

I get zero number pad events of any kind. I have no idea what that means. I'm starting to get used to weird bugs where it goes:
A. Give Skwire increased pulse rate because something that should work on my comp doesn't
B. Spread to other victims than Skwire - could be S-Joker here.
C. Ruin everyone's lives on general board posts when for ex I can't see any topic notification icons or changes of any kind (prob because of an obscure interaction of like 5 subtle things I did four years ago.)
D. Insert Madness into people's test results until they announce "anyone but Phoeni and his haunted system that runs anything except our stuff!"
E. General madness ensues and the President has to intervene.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 02:08 PM »

Having said that, we do now have some spare room for new buttons, and I am happy to add more bbc code buttons that people think might be important.

-mouser (September 06, 2015, 11:25 AM)

I'l go all sideways and say "watch out for the FireFox-Chome wars".

I have *zero* interest in whether it's a Mozilla Gecko or Google Blink engine. I am a Software UI guy. Give me the existing program and I can probably find a few new things to do with it.

But I *abhor* this whole "reduce noise" approach that then leads you to a single gear icon and ... oh look! they removed 77% of the features along the way! But look! It's a Gear Icon! It's so simple! Who can argue simple?!

Uh ...

So y'all in the chat room have seen my haphazard experiments with FF clones. And believe me, that big new announcement "all add-ons will drop Mozilla API and have to be (our competitor) compatible in X time frame" ... is DEF a big game of poker!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What online services do you pay for?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 01:59 PM »

I keep debating about adding Mind Mapping software to my mix, but it keeps resolving into making "junk nodes" in my tree notes program followed by "file this legit when you have both the time and energy".

Surprisingly few enough things have *multi* sources of inspiration that can't be handled by a fast and dirty "see also" tag.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mind mapping software

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 01:55 PM »

Thread necro powers, activate, form of...Graduate Thesis Student!

Vurbal,

I am interested to see how your quest to organize your thoughts has turned out as it seems you and I share a similar mind. I was wondering what you found and what you see as the strengths in such a product. I am not officially underway on my thesis in my Master of Science in Information Assurance course, with the ultimate goal being a Doctorate of Science in Information Systems to follow. As such, I am looking for a way to keep all of these random ideas and thoughts that populate in the tangled mess I call my brain somewhat organized. Have you had any luck?

-Josh (September 03, 2015, 09:54 PM)

Hi Josh.

I am turning more and more to the Tre-DB type programs to corrall my stuff. (Tree-DB itself as the main brand hada a fatal data destructive flaw, and I was VERY lucky to find a damn-near-clone done better at MyInfo. Paid user, no conflicts of interest, etc.)

Thoughts don't have *too* many overlapping source thoughts, so at worst you just note it as "copied twice" and on you go.

The "devastating killer app feature 1" is these / this program can "roll up" and "roll down" so you can click little icons to see or ignore "last month's news" etc.

So the last trick is, you make a few nodes *specifically* designed for "junk" and those begin to replace the stickies on your desk that work great up till about 18 until they explode into uselessness.

It's a habit thing - you have to gut-grok it's "just as fast" (and net faster!) to smash them into special nodes of "random notes" as it is stickies. I do keep a few left, some about case worker on Vacay, that will never mean anything again in two weeks, but it is an attitude change, and it *does* take getting used to.

Then the whole point is, the 3 of the 10 notes you took that are "worth something", you can shuffle and file them to your heart's content. And you have fourteen less pieces of paper on your desk!



See my GTD notes for more.

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General Software Discussion / Re: urgent free AVG expired request!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 06:22 AM »

Oh, goodness, it's been a few years since I have had AVG installed on a computer, but I'm not sure if those popups are really from AVG. The window title is odd, the Activate Now link is word wrapped, that button at the bottom says "Extend Your"... I think it is popup crapware trying to trick you into clicking things.

FWIW I redid all my A/V after all the myriad of Windows 10 upgrades at my house. I ended up putting Avast back onto my PC, but everyone else gets Bitdefender Free. It has basically no controls, but they shouldn't be doing anything that would require controls. Ymmv.

-x16wda (September 05, 2015, 09:58 PM)

Note to self, I have to whine at my bank for sending me "legit" customer survey and other messages that look like junk. (The main way I know is the rollover links actually go to my bank address.) Same thing here, for example I have never in my life gotten an AVG message ... because I don't have AVG.

Now, if Malware is getting so good it scans to see if you have AVG *then* sends you a custom malware message ... yikes!

But unfortunately a more likely problem scenario is that the dept that "teaches you about anti-phishing" somehow lets slip a few disastrous looking messages!

So yeah, contact them, and maybe even try to get a manager and try to "get it in their feedback" to "report at a meeting" (the phrasing I tend to use).

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Basic Calculator

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 06, 2015, 06:18 AM »

New computer, new OS, and a new IDE (Visual Studio 2013) ... And no idea what to do with'em. So I thought I'd toss together a small idiot project while I was getting used to the new trinity (eek!).

And while looking for ideas it occurred that the new calculator that comes with Windows 10 is just about the fugliest piece of software I've ever seen. The Metro flat UI is just flat-out cringe worthy, to the point that I don't even care what sort of fun/handy stuff it can do ... I just can't stand to look at ghastly the thing.

So I put together a very basic -(and probably equally hideous when I sober up)- calculator using C#/NET4, and every silly assed UI option I could find in VS13.
...

-Stoic Joker (September 05, 2015, 11:27 PM)

Since I have no frame of reference, being on a creaking XP box, I dunno the original source of pain, but it wouldn't surprise me that they're starting to get lazy on the little things!

I'd say do a few more things and then it's ... New Content ... for DC 2.0!
- Add a bit of a UI wrapper around the edges, maybe a quarter inch, with rounded corners, so that it doesn't quite feel like it "drops off a cliff" at the edges.
- Add theming, give users a choice of some five colors for the middle instead of Maroon-something you have now.
- It doesn't seem to be number pad aware yet. That's huge - Except my phone the only time I'd use a calc prog is with the number pad.

And then off it goes! Stoic Joker Approved! Implicit MS Bashing!

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Living Room / Re: How do you resist buying ever more powerful PCs?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 05, 2015, 09:11 PM »

I don't do any high-end video-gaming, so I really don't need a potent graphics card or fastest CPU available.

... both running Windows 10. No need to change, based upon my needs.

-kyrathaba (September 05, 2015, 02:13 PM)

I am fortunate enough to have a "coupon" for a new computer for my recent Birthday! (Wheezing "I'm an ooold birdy. I had Denver the last Dinosaur's Father for a pet!")

But based on some of you gang's comments, I first said, "well, so I lost my D Drive, but before we go all gung ho, I'd first like to take it to a good comp guy (better than Staples or Best Buy) to see if it's just a loose cable, and then next, just do some hardware tests, because if the main line motherboards and stuff are fine, I'm dying to try out dual booting into Win 10 which is what I designed this machine for - the future. And then even if not, salvage the existing C drive and make it the new backup data drive to save work cross copying everything everywhere on a new machine.)

(And it makes me want THREE HD's in a new system if possible / sensible, with some kind of better mirror system going! The system I had *almost worked* except I got sloppy!)

I also remarked that in my long term plan designed a decade ago, it is now known as Win 10, and we're just too new on the cusp to know where any of it shakes out, and if there's any gremlins lurking that will show up quasi soon that are game changers.

The only performance problems I have tend to be browsers getting sloppy and chewing up cpu and/or memory, and some HD type failures and struggles that I just want a competent check-out on. (Well, a slowly creaking OS, I guess.) But User side, I mean, it's not like the old days you just wailed at the aging state of the tech at the time - I still essentially have nearly all I need on this system I built with a buddy a decade ago.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What online services do you pay for?

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 05, 2015, 09:02 PM »

Chessbase's Playchess.

I'm a solid player, enough to make park players at least use both eyes open, but no prodigy. So I never felt it was fair to stick my parents with $40/hr lessons because that becomes $40K scary quick! (40K belongs in Warhammer, not in amounts parents should have to pay!)

So I learned from books. And Books are Good.

But finally enough years have gone by, there are a few gaps in the aging material. Some texts hold up better than others.

But in the last couple of years, a few of the services (ICC aka Internet Chess Club does too, I just landed on PlayChess because the ChessBase ecosystem is just more mainstream), contract with lower tier grandmasters who provide free commentary for yearly-paid members. And ... *You get to write in your questions* ... so it's like a group lesson for *four hours* for free. And you can get some forty of them per year! (Daily, on the big events, that tend to go some eight rounds in total one per day.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla to replace add-ons with Chrome compatible extensions

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 05, 2015, 12:42 PM »

And yes, with the spinoffs of FF, the Add-On API's and so on have been there forever. Will developers have to now produce *two* versions of each add-ons, with different backbones? Some of the small hobbyist add-on devs simply will collapse and retire their add-on!

-TaoPhoenix (September 05, 2015, 12:22 PM)

Why would they have to create two versions?  This seems like it would just need one.

For some time we’ve heard from add-on developers that our APIs could be better documented and easier to use. In addition, we’ve noticed that many Firefox add-on developers also maintain a Chrome, Safari, or Opera extension with similar functionality. We would like add-on development to be more like Web development: the same code should run in multiple browsers according to behavior set by standards, with comprehensive documentation available from multiple vendors.

That doesn't say what you're inferring.

-wraith808 (September 05, 2015, 12:36 PM)

Well, this is why I'm thrashing a little. So I'm guessing "Firefox Main Branch" will use the new API. What about Pale Moon? And what about Comodo IceDragon that's forked off FF 38.x?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla to replace add-ons with Chrome compatible extensions

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 05, 2015, 12:22 PM »

From a different perspective, I actually like the news.  What kept me in one browser or another was really the availability of add-ons.  Some are on Chrome, so that even though i want to move- to try Pale Moon or something else- I find that I can't.  I need this one for work, or that one for home.  And even if there is a similar one on another platform, getting used to the changes and differences is a point of resistance in change.  Using something different is enough of a point of resistance.  We don't need more, IMO.

The reason I'm still on iOS?  The apps.  That's the lock in.  And that's the same for any platform.  The accessories are what keep you there in general, even as frustration mounts.  Removing that seems like it would be a good thing, which is why I'm really surprised at the negativity towards it.  And I haven't seen any argument that trumps that, which makes me think that with the uniform negativity towards it... I'm missing something.

Can anyone clue me in?

-wraith808 (September 05, 2015, 12:00 PM)

The best way I can describe it, is about "mood of the times". This announcement to me feels symbolically like the middle of a Hold'Em poker game where they "show a card", they're holding two secret ones, and there's still an unknown card or two left on the deck to turn over.

So, "all add-ons being forced into Chrome Compatible Extensions"?! That's just massively complex of a market positioning to take in from one well-polished announcement. So this is *totally* a thread to watch all "time capsule" style and see when another card shows up from the top of the deck.

And yes, with the spinoffs of FF, the Add-On API's and so on have been there forever. Will developers have to now produce *two* versions of each add-ons, with different backbones? Some of the small hobbyist add-on devs simply will collapse and retire their add-on!

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Living Room / Re: In a world free from ads, one font reigns supreme. COMIC SANS!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 05, 2015, 08:03 AM »

There are other, more constructive ways to do it.  Like mouser said, it's not a choice between comics sans or some other stupid trick and ads.  There are creative ways to monetize your site and not use ads.  The comic sans bit?  I just won't go to the site. 

-wraith808 (September 04, 2015, 08:06 AM)

To me that's throwing out babies with bathwater.

Depending heavily on which version of FireFox is involved (because they have mucked around with the settings about the last five versions!), at least with my Comodo IceDragon version of the settings, what about
Tools/Options/Content/Advanced font section/
And then uncheck "allow pages to choose their own fonts instead of my defaults above"?

If you can fix it with as little effort as possible, then make some site's "silliness" (in whatever random form), then you just go back to your stuff and let it go out of sight out of mind.

And even besides malware, the "either-or" said *ads*, and I want those to include the site's own increasingly obnoxious focus-stealing pop-ups!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Test cell value for BLANK in Excel and take action (or not) based on it

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 05, 2015, 07:54 AM »

there are probably dozens of ways to do this, but without knowing more about your particular case you can try this (obviously this is for cell Cx)
=if(aX = "","",XXXX)
______________________

-Target (September 03, 2015, 12:35 AM)

Yes, but bear in mind that:

• "" = NULL (which is neither a text character nor a numeric value.
• " " = SPACE (which is a text character).
• 0 = a numeric value of zero.

You could also consider using this (from Excel Help): the ISBLANK function - Returns TRUE if the value is blank.

-IainB (September 05, 2015, 06:57 AM)

Actually Iain you could be on to a nice little tip for him because Nulls and ISBLANK could fail out if he somehow hit space and it got in there. So he could write it as a compound effect to check for two or three of those cases.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 05, 2015, 07:44 AM »

KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS

https://www.youtube..../watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk

-AbteriX (September 03, 2015, 01:44 PM)

that was good fun - I'll add it here:
...

-tomos (September 03, 2015, 02:37 PM)

(Young black girl, in dramatic tones)
(Meaning, what we have now)
"Apps, Games, Websites! THIS ... has ... NOTHING!!"

(Another girl, about an early shoot'em-up)
"At least it's better than Flappy Bird!"

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General Software Discussion / Coding Snacks and Coding Lunches (or more!)

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 03, 2015, 02:19 PM »

So while we're all going "let's revamp things", one area I see as a big ... area ... is to separate what is a fast  & dirty "snack" vs various kinds of really hard things the user had no idea of.

I have to take an example, so let's borrow from this one:
(In the good of DC!)

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=41478.0

"I would like to find or request a program that will display a name in the context menu. It doesn't have to do anything other then say, Yes include this in the context menu and provide a name. I need a pair for the ALL Files (*) key, a pair for the Folder key, a pair for the Directory key, and perhaps just one for the All File and Folder Objects key as I only need to see the start of these menu items. It is all the same program but each one is compiled with a different menu name"

Summary is, it's "harder than it looks" and ((Oh how my that's bitten me!)).

I'm totally out of my depth but for ex that stopped being a Snack at some point.

I think we should work on that, because at reduced DC rates, there are profound things that can happen once the *user* shows he/she is committed a bit, because to me that's the signal bit lacking, not raw price but as noted earlier, spam "can you do X" and never appearing again.

Somewhere in there, I'd give a few of you $10 to do a few things but it works (unassumedly but let's tighten it a bit) I'm a DC Top 17 regular.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Privacy Concerns

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 03, 2015, 12:37 PM »

Zoiks! Their advice to disable (completely) IPv6 definitely sounds wise to heed - I've been doing that for a while because of it's lack of NAT.

-Stoic Joker (September 03, 2015, 06:50 AM)

I think this is close to a new thread!

Can y'all explain what any of "this" (in what level of Douglas Hofstadter context) this means!?

Other parts of "the tech world" are screaming about the end of address for IPv4, so to *disable* IPv6 ... is ... an explosion in a sphaghetti factory as the saying goes!

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 03, 2015, 12:29 PM »

Not sure if it has been reported, but I seem to be missing the indication on icons next to posts that shows I participated in them.

-Jibz (September 02, 2015, 12:55 AM)

i think i removed these in my effort to streamline and reduce noise..  any thoughts on a good way to bring them back -- assuming folks find them important (i didn't).

i should say there is a nice new page under the Go To menu for showing topics you started or topics you participated in, which i do think is useful.

-mouser (September 02, 2015, 09:04 AM)

I'll try this perspective.

There's a "quick post" - someone bangs off an easy note.
But if they hit "Preview" (or hits Post and Modify! I'm *terrible* for that!!*) , it brings up bigger ranges of things ... so go full suite. No shortcuts. Images are kinda a thing here. I for one am so not a fan of Google's "let's strip out a third of your options and make the rest into a gear icon".

So if we get as far as "Preview" or "Post/Modify", then give us a full powered image insertion engine with everything anyone could want in three ways. It's a Penny Wise - Pound Foolish problem. You spent YEARS planning out how to deal with tour growing maze code. So don't go all "slim streamlined because Google made no one want a waist size bigger than 28" approach.

We're DC. You're Mouser, the Minor Deity. You just got the biggest fundraiser in DC history. (Or close). So let's not get too fancy with "you should know how to do X". That's what sinks a lot of small projects. DC is just about to get a notch bigger somehow. So put it in. I posted an example earlier. I couldn't duplicate the ease of the old system with less than 10 min of hard sharp work with keywords.

We like Images (in our own form of moderation). Arizona Hot posts very little else. I've thundered across the web that our Basement is like very little anywhere else on the web and fixes like 30 mod problems. So let's do another one. Put in a full scale Image insertion engine. I was happy with the drop down. But you noticed I had to change my sig and even then it didn't work right.

((Post and Mod. See? I just did it. Because I have been burned WAY too many times working on a post and diff servers have diff time out periods and then your browser crashes and loses it all! Better post part of a comment and tweak it, than wreck your time!)

This Paren is for xkcd fans
)

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 03, 2015, 12:20 PM »

^ Ah okay - you had moved the info-center - I thought you were talking about the default setting.

I still wonder if the info-center / active-thread should be on top in the default setting (I guess it would have to be separated from the other info, but dont know really - must try it at the top myself, see how I like it).

-tomos (September 03, 2015, 07:34 AM)

Try it Tom, because at whatever level of fanciness you work on, "nothing else matters". The scripts behind it are Turbo Fast at collecting posts, and if you look at time stamps (in the same area) you know that if you check it 4x a day you're mostly caught up. At worst, if you *know* there's a thread missing like my Ludum Dare adventures, you turn to one of the bigger pages and find it. But it really is damn close to a Golden Mean to keep reg DC folks updated.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder Major Upgrades - Progress Report Thread

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 03, 2015, 12:16 PM »

Ok, was searching this thread because I wanted to make a suggestion: how about we come up with some original content to celebrate the switch to a proper cms. Was thinking about stuff like reviews, short stories, new SW, member discounts, whatever.

-phitsc (September 02, 2015, 04:06 PM)

Do you mean this suggestion Phil?  We are working like mad on the CMS at the moment and I fear mousers brain is close to exploding with everything that needs doing so he may have simply overlooked it

-Stephen66515 (September 03, 2015, 10:27 AM)

Yep, that's the one

Thought it would be a shame to have an all shiny and new CMS but only old stuff to put into it 

-phitsc (September 03, 2015, 10:28 AM)

Awww.

Naw Phitsc, you put the "shell" / "framework" / "containers" in first, then you fill it with stuff. Then it goes like:
A. Get the stuff you already had, to be sure it doesn't botch-roll-20!
B. Get medium level behind scenes stuff done that no one understands but hates when it breaks
then FINALLY
C. Yay! Add New Shiny Stuff for Magpies!

 

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Living Room / Re: In a world free from ads, one font reigns supreme. COMIC SANS!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 03, 2015, 06:36 AM »

There's nothing wrong with Comic Sans except the fact that everybody liked it so it got used everywhere.

It's like ending your sentence with a preposition. There's really nothing wrong with it from a grammatical point of view. But grade school teachers forbade it to keep it from being overdone by young students and eventually entire generations grew up thinking it was always bad all the time.

-Deozaan (September 03, 2015, 01:14 AM)

Well, Comic Sans has been the subject of ... rants... before. Last I recall some articles, it was a combo of it being in one of the Microsoft releases way back, and then a couple of quirks of history picked it up and off it went.

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Official Announcements / Re: Forum Upgraded August 30, 2015 - Report issues here

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 03, 2015, 06:32 AM »

Yes Dr. Andus,

Ps, with the info board up top right next to "Forum Home", it's def saving me a lot of scrolling!

-TaoPhoenix (September 02, 2015, 09:07 PM)

what do you mean by 'info board'? --
I presume it's not what mouser calls the 'info-center' -- the active threads etc, but cant figure out what it might be...

EDIT// I presume you mean the boards - were they much further down in the past?

-tomos (September 03, 2015, 01:07 AM)

Maybe he meant the "Info Center":

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This is a great feature, maybe it should be explained someplace prominent, so less frequent or new members also realise that it is possible to move the Info Center to the top by going to: Profile > Forum Profile > and adding "-topinfocenter" in the Custom options box:

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-dr_andus (September 03, 2015, 05:24 AM)

Yes, you nailed it Dr Andus, that's exactly what I meant - I missed the right word for it. (But I really thought it had a different name in the old version!)

And yes, it's not at all obvious to newcomers that a custom line in their profile can move it!