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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2015, 02:39 PM »

To clarify -- I cannot afford (mentally or monetarily) to take on work at those kinds of rates
The idea I was proposing was like a raffle, so that if many people donate, only one would win a prize of having their custom app created.
But i think the main problem with this is pretty real -- that  very few people would care about or have need for this "prize".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Introducing a New Project: Forever Flash Games

« Last post by mouser on April 01, 2015, 12:35 AM »

https://www.donation...Mouser/foreverflash/

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Living Room / Re: TV shows thread

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 06:54 PM »

Personally I love the Walking Dead comic, and think the tv show is absolute unwatchable crap.  Just terrible acting, directing, writing, the whole 9 yards, terrible.
It's hard for me to put my finger on the core of why it falls so flat for me, but i think the inability to resist trying to come up with grosser and grosser scenes of gore and faces getting smashed reveals what the producers/writers/directors think makes a good show. All of the emotions just feel unearned and fake to me..

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

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 06:33 PM »

Yeah but I was always afraid people were going to get angry at me for that one!

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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 05:37 PM »

Great to hear from you Rhiannon, and great to hear your still doing good work over at Gizmo's site (said it before, i'll say it again, one of the best sites out there).
I'm sorry to hear about the family members, that sounds awful..

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

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 02:37 PM »

For Apri Fool's Day, don't forget my fun prank app, Dr. Windows:

https://www.donation...DrWindows/index.html

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Any Android coders here? Looking for a mobile DC forum reader!

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 01:47 PM »

Nice find, wraith. 

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Living Room / Memoir of a Part-time Knight - comic about girls and gaming

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 01:24 PM »

Sweet one-off biographical comic about a 12yr old girl who finds her escape in video games.
It's part of a collection of such comics in an anthology that was successfully kickstarted.

• http://boingboing.ne...night-chainmail.html - the comic
• http://boingboing.ne...l-bikini-comics.html - the anthology collection

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 12:59 PM »

Gizmo happened.  Amazing site with some amazing people on it.


We are passed the half way point! We might actually make it before the end of April! Go go thermometer cody!

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Any Android coders here? Looking for a mobile DC forum reader!

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 12:45 PM »

How about any good rss reader to access the forum through the rss feeds (https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=496.0).

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Find And Run Robot / Re: HELP: character turns into ????

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 12:36 PM »

I move your post here since it is about Find and Run Robot.

Although FARR does not support unicode, I believe it might still let you search in your case.. Can you try going to the options and the "Font Overrides" tab, and try choosing a custom font for "Set EditBox Font" that shows your character set?

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: HELP: character turns into ????

« Last post by mouser on March 31, 2015, 12:35 PM »

This topic has been moved to Find And Run Robot.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=40554.0

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2015, 11:34 PM »

8 segments and we just passed $4,000 mark with 216 donations 

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2015, 10:47 PM »

A huge thanks to ghacks for writing up the fundraiser: here.
And to Gizmo's (TechSupportAlert) for writing up the fundraiser: here.

We are honored to have the support and encouragement of these two wonderful software sites.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Solved: Why won't my laptop run Firefox?

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2015, 07:05 PM »

Glad to hear you got it worked out -- maybe this will help someone else down the line 

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by mouser on March 30, 2015, 06:04 PM »

I was trying to think of some ways we might get some attention for the fundraiser..

What about having a random drawing for any donor/supportingmember to win some something special like a SMALL custom app designed to their specifications -- up to say 20-40 hours of dev time?  I'd be volunteering to do the coding.. Could be an Android app, Desktop App, Web App..  So folks would enter by submitting their idea -- and only those I thought I could do within 40 hours would qualify -- which will eliminate a fair amount of entries I'm sure.

Not sure it's worth the effort if most people don't have a (qualifying) idea they want coded.. In other words most potential donors may not be attracted to the idea, so maybe it's a stupid idea.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2015, 08:06 PM »

That "thread aggregator" is one of the most powerful features of the opening forum page for me! First thing I do is *scroll down* to see what the threads are! Then I right-click a few of them to get ready for some reading.

You might also enjoy the list of recent topics and recent posts, both linked from the top of the forum pages.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2015, 07:46 PM »

Ok fair enough --
but do note that the buttons currently do show on every page on the site (including non-forum pages); they are at bottom of sidebar on other pages.  The Like button does link to the main donationcoder facebook page that you and stephen have wonderfully created for us.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2015, 03:28 PM »

these buttons (including Reply) are faded out until/unless you mouse over the post, in other words the focus is on *reading* rather than interacting/replying, unless you want to.

nice.

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Living Room / Re: The 2015 10th Anniversary DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Cheer for Victory Thread!

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2015, 03:16 PM »

Thanks guys and gals!!

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 29, 2015, 02:50 PM »

Stephen and I talk and joke on the donationcoder irc chat group all the time and he is always encouraging me to improve the site and he is always a very positive, enthusiastic, energetic voice.  So if anyone took his post as anything but some fun ribbing -- know that it was received with good cheer.  And stephen, don't stop trying to get me to improve the place. 

App your design looks pretty good -- and your suggestion about putting it off until we do some other changes is a good one -- especially since I think the move to a cms is in order and that would be a good time to do it.  Right now i'm comfortable with where they are.

Those who are pointing out that the buttons should be converted to purely local js, you are right.  Currently they all use the canonical scripts from facebook, twitter, google+, reddit.  I will try to change them all to be simple local images where the js is purely local and just opens up a window when clicked to access the remote site.  That will be the lightest weight solution with no ability of facebook/tritter/gcrap to do any tracking stuff.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2015, 10:09 PM »

i've put the social sharing buttons all on one row now.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2015, 08:54 PM »

how's the new version -- small static buttons on bottom of forum page (sidebar of site pages).

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2015, 08:05 PM »

I've heard enough, it's gone.

I'll try to find some static small unobtrusive buttons that are barely noticable.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: I have put a "share with facebook" type thing on the pages (temporarily?)..

« Last post by mouser on March 28, 2015, 07:03 PM »

i'm with giampy.