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General Software Discussion / Re: Modern forum software: Discourse

« Last post by wraith808 on June 29, 2017, 12:48 PM »

If Discourse would be applied into Donationcoder.com, would that also not be to gut the whole forum section and surrender it completely to the organization/company behind the Discourse software?

-Shades (June 29, 2017, 12:04 AM)

Discourse is open source, just like SMF.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse

You can grab it from there and install it if you want.  Same thing with most of the modern hosting solutions, i.e. Vanilla for a start.

From https://payments.discourse.org/pricing

Good news! Discourse is, and will always be, 100% free and open source software. You can install it yourself on your own server, or for a flat one-time fee of $99, the community can install Discourse in the cloud for you. Please note that a $10/month hosting fee is still payable to the cloud provider (Digital Ocean), and that this option is completely self-support after the initial install. Click here to purchase a self-supported community install.

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Site/Forum Features / New Forum Feature request

« Last post by wraith808 on June 29, 2017, 09:59 AM »

So, after participating in the thread on new forums, and then seeing a separate conversation starter injected into the thread that was tangentially related, I did think of a Discourse feature that I wondered about the feasibility of - reply as a new topic.  I envision having some kind of form at the bottom of the quick reply box that allowed for you to tick something (make a new thread from reply) and a space for the new topic's subject that would default to something that let you know that this was a reply to that topic ("re: topic name" as a suggestion).  And perhaps a picker for the area, but by default, I think that the location of the original topic would be fine.

Thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on June 29, 2017, 09:54 AM »

-panzer (June 28, 2017, 11:00 AM)

The Long Walk is one of my favorite Steven King books.  I had it in an anthology called The Bachman Books (a lot of his stories written under the Richard Bachman pseudonym), and to tell you what it's about would be to ruin the pathos of dawning horror.  But it is very good and recommended.  Also in that anthology are Roadwork (arguably- at least by me- Falling Down is based on that) and the Running Man (nothing like the tepid Schwartzenegger flick)

-wraith808 (June 28, 2017, 12:30 PM)

Only problem with it is that King had no clue how fast a human can walk. Hundred of miles with speed over 4 miles per hour (6-9) is just not realistic. Not for a bunch of teenagers ... I can do almost 7 km in one hour (average speed of 7,5 km/h on a distance of 500 meters and 8,4 km/h on same distance on uphill road with small elevation) but after several hours I would surely drop below minimum speed ... And they walked that fast while eating, smoking and speaking with each other ... I feel he should do some more research on the matter ... Otherwise it is a good book, a little bit too long, but good ...

-panzer (June 29, 2017, 02:19 AM)

I didn't find it unrealistic.  Especially with the other factors considered that I don't really want to go into for concern at spoiling the novel.  But we can agree to disagree on that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modern forum software: Discourse

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2017, 12:41 PM »

I thought there was not a single human in the universe that thought that the 'old guard forums' were better than Discourse.

-urlwolf (June 28, 2017, 05:48 AM)

For what it's worth, I think I'd prefer Discourse over SMF.

I say think because DC is pretty much the only place on the internet that I regularly participate in the forums, so I have very little, if any, actual experience with Discourse. But it looks nice and useful to me.

-Deozaan (June 28, 2017, 12:15 PM)

It looks cool, and is very tempting.
 
But once you get involved (at least, once I got involved), I realized that change for the sake of change is not necessarily for the best, no matter what kind of cover they put on it.  First of all, its ruby on rails, which is only a consideration for the admin, but from someone that tried to implement it, unless your server already support RoR, you're in for a hard row to hoe.  It has some really compelling features- but I think most of them are build into this iteration of SMF on DC, in some shape.  One of the things that people tout is the inline conversations, but I think with DC's ability to highlight and quote, and no infinite scrolling, it's not really needed.  I do like the look at feel of the front page a bit more, but it gets overwhelming with the infinite scroll.  To me, the delineation between boards and such are a lot more nebulous- it's made a lot more to be a flat forum, which I personally dislike.

The biggest thing to me, is that when you ask people why these new forums are better, it's not about the features, it's the glitz.  Because when you look at it, a forum is meant to be a place to facilitate discussion, and none of those features are standouts that would make them truly a different paradigm.

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2017, 12:30 PM »

-panzer (June 28, 2017, 11:00 AM)

The Long Walk is one of my favorite Steven King books.  I had it in an anthology called The Bachman Books (a lot of his stories written under the Richard Bachman pseudonym), and to tell you what it's about would be to ruin the pathos of dawning horror.  But it is very good and recommended.  Also in that anthology are Roadwork (arguably- at least by me- Falling Down is based on that) and the Running Man (nothing like the tepid Schwartzenegger flick)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modern forum software: Discourse

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2017, 08:20 AM »

That's yet another problem: You can't have a "web app" in your toolbox. If it's gone, it's gone. No shiny USB thumbdrive will catch it for you.

-Tuxman (June 28, 2017, 08:02 AM)

When I said toolbox, I meant the developer's toolbox, i.e. options when deciding what the format of the project will be.  And as far as your actual statement, that's generally true, but not universally correct.  I run a couple of my web apps from a USB drive currently.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modern forum software: Discourse

« Last post by wraith808 on June 28, 2017, 07:53 AM »

web apps kinda made desktop apps redundant in all but a few use cases IMHO.

-urlwolf (June 28, 2017, 05:48 AM)

Unless you prefer efficient code.

-Tuxman (June 28, 2017, 06:08 AM)

There's also paradigms that you can't do in a web app.  Web apps are definitely a good tool to have in the toolbox.  But just like everything else, it's situational.

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Living Room / Re: GoDaddy Blocking Access to Website

« Last post by wraith808 on June 27, 2017, 07:12 PM »

I'd say quit trying to figure it out, and contact them.

-wraith808 (June 27, 2017, 05:04 PM)

That's on tomorrow's to-do list. But it's compounded by the fact I'll be calling on behalf of the client, and will possible need to engineer my way past GD support identity verification ... Assuming they have any.

So I was hoping there was an alternate (configuration based) option that I could get at more easily ... Since I have CP access to the account.

Normally I'm quite good at the SE type stuff, but lately the office environment has turned into a constantly toxic epic shit-storm. So I - like most of the staff - spend most of my days stressed to the max because the owner has turned into the vitriolic red queen from Alice in Wonderland prowling the office looking for something/anything to scream at or about. *Shrug* It's really just too fucking hard to think straight in that type of atmosphere. But I'd like to get this client's project done before I completely shutdown and start focusing on looking for another job.

(Assuming you've seen the commercial) PW: Ihatemyjob1 

-Stoic Joker (June 27, 2017, 05:48 PM)

Sounds pretty bad.  Sorry I couldn't be more help; when I had a similar problem, one time it was the firewall on the server, so they had to correct it, and the other time it was the firewall in the company.  Have you checked that?

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Living Room / Re: GoDaddy Blocking Access to Website

« Last post by wraith808 on June 27, 2017, 05:04 PM »

I'd say quit trying to figure it out, and contact them.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modern forum software: Discourse

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2017, 10:09 AM »

What strikes me about DC is that I go to other SMF forums, and it's night and day as far as the features.

Can you elaborate? I can't tell if you're saying that DC is better or worse 

-mouser (June 26, 2017, 09:51 AM)

I'm saying DC is better.    There are so many customizations that I take for granted - the ability to highlight and quote.  The hyperlink popping up a dialog instead of just putting the tags in.  Same for images.  Non-image attachments.  And those are just the beginning.  You tend to take for granted all of of the custom code that's been put in the platform.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater fails when checking for updates

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2017, 09:00 AM »

You just did what you need for substring match.

"exact (sub)string match."

-sba (June 26, 2017, 08:37 AM)

Put it in quotes.  There is an example next to the search box, i.e.
Orwell "Animal Farm" -movie

Add to that match all, and it would match all of Orwell, the phrase "Animal Farm" but remove movie.  Add that to match any, then if a search term had any of those terms, it would return.  Though truthfully, not sure what -movie would do in that case.

Hope that helps.

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Living Room / Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2017, 08:24 AM »

My first thought jokingly of course...is that it takes them longer to enter spaces verses tabs and if they get paid by the hour...then more time was spent with spaces...

-hamradio (June 25, 2017, 09:58 PM)

You can set tabs to expand to a certain amount of spaces in most IDEs

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater fails when checking for updates

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2017, 08:19 AM »

In the future, when searching, there is a string match on the Advanced search page, and the instructions are iterated there.  As Tomos said, you searched for something that isn't there.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modern forum software: Discourse

« Last post by wraith808 on June 26, 2017, 08:16 AM »

To me, the forum should be based around the content, instead of the features, necessarily.  What strikes me about DC is that I go to other SMF forums, and it's night and day as far as the features.  I also use Discourse, and infinite scroll has become a bane.  I truly don't think that forum software of choice drives people away.  If anything, it is the need for a redesign of the site - it does look a bit dated.  But I don't think that anyone goes "I'm not going to sign up for that site because it uses SMF"

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam Summer Sale 2017 - June 22 through July 5

« Last post by wraith808 on June 25, 2017, 09:27 AM »

I highly recommend the Sniper Elite series, which is now on sale. DC member Skwire and I have played the last few years of it cooperatively and it has been a hoot.

-mouser (June 24, 2017, 09:28 PM)

Man...we've had some times, eh?  LOL.  "Let's go to war..."

Dishonored 2 for $20 is a damn steal, too.  Get that without hesitation.

-skwire (June 24, 2017, 09:36 PM)

The reason I have hesitation on such deals is that I've been burned before by getting the game at a very good deal, but then wanting the DLC (which I do in this case), that DLC not being discounted (which it's not in this case), then the publisher later releasing the Game of the Year version that is less expensive than what I paid in total.  Notice that the season pass is not discounted.  I have enough games to play that I can afford to wait.  Same thing with fallout 4, though admittedly they discounted the season pass too- if you consider that a deal.  Ironically, Fallout 3 was the first one that made me say no more when I did purchase it, and purchased all of the DLC, and found out my purchase was more costly.  Especially towards the end of the life, when they release the DLC non-discounted, but discount the main game.  They've started recently to have the complete your collection offers, which has made me a bit more favorably inclined towards them. 

Add to that the fact that it has Denuvo, and I'm passing for now.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam Summer Sale 2017 - June 22 through July 5

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2017, 10:02 PM »

But anyway, I've been using Steam less and less over the past few years, mostly because of the glut of crap that has gotten on the storefront through Greenlight (which has recently been discontinued), and also because I've begun to appreciate the value in DRM-free games more and more (hooray for GOG!). That said, it might be fun if people use this thread as an opportunity to recommend good games to each other that are worth picking up during the sale.

-Deozaan (June 24, 2017, 08:54 PM)

Doesn't look like so much a discontinuing as a change to vet the offerings better with Steam Direct.

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Living Room / Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

« Last post by wraith808 on June 24, 2017, 04:53 PM »

It is a apparent that this is one of those things, like religion and politics, that people adhere to and have their own opinions on (which is the reason that I've backed off at some of the vehemence), and I don't doubt that this is one of those click-baity titles, and with more indepth good scientific and statistics and better data, wouldn't hold up to the light of investigation and there'd be little to no correlation nor causation.

On that note, I'd recommend an old book to allow one to see the lies we are fed daily under the cover of statistical analysis- I know it has made me look at such things in a different light.

https://en.wikipedia..._Lie_with_Statistics

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General Software Discussion / Re: Daily prompting journal

« Last post by wraith808 on June 23, 2017, 03:04 PM »

You might try The Journal.  It has alarms, so I'm sure you could set it up that way, though I haven't really tried it for that.  I use IFTTT and Pushover to remind me, rather than depending on software on one computer.

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DcUpdater / Re: DcUpdater fails when checking for updates

« Last post by wraith808 on June 23, 2017, 11:00 AM »

Usually, the best thing for this even before searching is to update to the latest version, which would have solved your issue with no problems.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Humble: free key for "Killing Floor" for next day or so

« Last post by wraith808 on June 22, 2017, 02:06 PM »

It's a pretty popular game on Steam; I used to play it, but haven't recently.  It is a pretty good game.  The one caveat is that this is Killing Floor 1, and there is a Killing Floor 2 that many (most?) people have moved on to.  That's on sale also for half off (14.99).

Update: It's a steam key, and must be redeemed by 7/1.  I already have it on steam, so if someone wants the key (an established DCer is the only requirement), just let me know.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on June 21, 2017, 09:42 PM »

https://www.amazon.c...GA-AM/dp/B06XWZWYVP/

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Living Room / Re: Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs

« Last post by wraith808 on June 21, 2017, 07:55 PM »

As Deozaan says, it also means that you (you special snowflake!) is trying to dictate how wide my indents are supposed to be, instead of letting that be up to my editor settings. Editor settings that probably vary depending on whether I'm on a machine with big monitors, or editing in Vim through SSH.

-f0dder (June 21, 2017, 10:06 AM)

Not really.  If that's what the team decides on, then that's what the team does as a rule.  And when others come into the team, they adhere to the standard.  Right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: opening folders in new file manager

« Last post by wraith808 on June 20, 2017, 10:12 AM »

most likely his Windows just upgraded itself to version 1703?

-Curt (June 20, 2017, 08:11 AM)

Nope.  Mine works fine as it used to on 1703.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Summer Sale Begins

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2017, 08:22 PM »

So I assume that meant that you wanted Fantasy General?  I sent the code anyway, though the communication is in no way clear.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on June 19, 2017, 05:13 PM »

I have 192 GB on mine currently.

-wraith808 (June 19, 2017, 04:01 PM)

How big is it?

-Arizona Hot (June 19, 2017, 04:03 PM)

It's a Samsung S8.  Why does that matter?