GWJ bugs, feature requests, and updates

Archangel wrote:

Does Drupal have a "find all posts by user" feature, and if so, do we have it? I know there's the "Track" tab in the user page, but that just lists the threads in which the user has posted. I looked everywhere, and I'm not sure such a thing exists/is possible in Drupal.

I'm not familiar with what drupal can and can't do out of the box, but in lieu of a proper "find all posts where uid = X" feature, I've had acceptable results by just pasting a username into the general search box. Ordering the results by post date is sorely missed, though.

Hey, if you ever get around to it, it'd be nice to have [notag][small][/small][/notag] BBCode tags, presumably just translated straight to HTML. Barring that, adding <small> to the HTML whitelist would do the same thing.

I just did a footnote to a post, and wanted to, well, make it look like a footnote. I've done that in the past with the size code, but that's an absolute number, instead of relative, so I assume it won't parse properly in every circumstance. And I just didn't feel like fussing with it, so I did it regular size, and thought I'd leave this feature request instead.

Having [notag][small][/notag] codes would A) make that easy, and B) let the browsers, on all those different possible platforms, worry about the actual formatting and/or meaning of "small". 'size=10' might come out pretty tiny on a 30" screen, but I suspect would seem much larger on a telephone.

Pretty minor, overall, but I'd find it handy.

So I tried checking out the nextbox rumor thread and chrome gave me this:

Danger: Malware Ahead!
Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on www.gamerswithjobs.com.

Content from www.fohguild.org, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.

Twice. Then, once the new posts bit was cleared, it went in. I clicked on the previous page button one by one and page 19 is giving me the same message, even when I click the link I just made.

mrtomaytohead wrote:

So I tried checking out the nextbox rumor thread and chrome gave me this:

Danger: Malware Ahead!
Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on www.gamerswithjobs.com.

Content from www.fohguild.org, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.

Twice. Then, once the new posts bit was cleared, it went in. I clicked on the previous page button one by one and page 19 is giving me the same message, even when I click the link I just made.

More than likely someone hotlinked an image from a site that's been reported for sketchy ads.

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:
mrtomaytohead wrote:

So I tried checking out the nextbox rumor thread and chrome gave me this:

Danger: Malware Ahead!
Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on www.gamerswithjobs.com.

Content from www.fohguild.org, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.

Twice. Then, once the new posts bit was cleared, it went in. I clicked on the previous page button one by one and page 19 is giving me the same message, even when I click the link I just made.

More than likely someone hotlinked an image from a site that's been reported for sketchy ads.

Aaron D's "Nerds" image is hosted at fohguild.org.

The "Favorite Topics" new message indicator in the upper left is off by 1 for me. It says 3, but when I click the link I have 4 favorite threads with new posts.

shoptroll wrote:

The "Favorite Topics" new message indicator in the upper left is off by 1 for me. It says 3, but when I click the link I have 4 favorite threads with new posts.

The favorite topics number only increments if there are new posts. If someone edits an old post, the number doesn't go up.

Is it possible to search the forum from the mobile site? I can't figure it out on my phone.

Since the site search is outsourced to google anyway, you would be just as well off by going to Google and using something like

"site:gamerswithjobs.com my favorite game"

More of a question than a feature request/bug/update—

Is there a way to set a partial or a whole thread as unread? I just read 37 out of the 89-or-so pages of the Fallout: New Vegas - Fall 2010 thread and accidentally clicked mark thread as read. I thought by going back to the last message I read and clicking 'set as last read' would reset my unreads to that particular message, but it didn't.

Any help will help! Thanks!

brouhaha wrote:

More of a question than a feature request/bug/update—

Is there a way to set a partial or a whole thread as unread? I just read 37 out of the 89-or-so pages of the Fallout: New Vegas - Fall 2010 thread and accidentally clicked mark thread as read. I thought by going back to the last message I read and clicking 'set as last read' would reset my unreads to that particular message, but it didn't.

"Set as last read" only seems to go back as far as messages that were created after "set as last read" was implemented. Unfortunately, that's the only way to do it.

How long does it take for your avatar changed once it's been submitted. I thought it was instantaneous but mine isn't changing, and it does meet the size requirements.

Edit: Takes about 30 minutes.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

How long does it take for your avatar changed once it's been submitted. I thought it was instantaneous but mine isn't changing, and it does meet the size requirements.

Edit: Takes about 30 minutes.

Almost instantaneously. Just hit Ctrl+F5 to bypass your local cache and refresh the page.

Ok, so I've figured out the reason for the "Access Denied when unfavoriting a thread" bug I mentioned a while back.

If I access the OP of the thread by clicking on the "1" in the page count, and unsubscribing from there, it will take me to a URL like this:
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...
If I try to unsubscribe from THAT page, it will give me an "access denied" or "page not found" error.

However, If I access the OP of the thread by clicking on "first page", it takes me to a URL like this:
http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1...
Which I can then unsubscribe to.

So the unsubscribe feature doesn't like the ?page=0

Just letting you guys know in case anyone else has this issue.

When I click on 1 in the page count I don't get the page=0 parameter. Weird.

So, let's assume I was interested in burning some free time hacking on a Drupal site rather than playing League this weekend. Is there a way I could get set up with that, no matter how unlikely such a scenario might sound?

P.S. How's the migration from 5 to 7 coming along?

psoplayer wrote:

So, let's assume I was interested in burning some free time hacking on a Drupal site rather than playing League this weekend. Is there a way I could get set up with that, no matter how unlikely such a scenario might sound?

P.S. How's the migration from 5 to 7 coming along?

Send a PM to doogiemac for access to the github repo. Once you have access, I rewrote the instructions in the README to show you how to set up the site with Acquia Dev Desktop, if you're using Windows. If you're on Linux/OSX, I assume it's just a basic LAMP stack, but I haven't tried setting that up yet.

Also, at the time, I was using msysgit for Windows, but now I prefer Github for Windows. Either way, you'll need a Git client.

Awesome, shouldn't be a problem then. PM is off.

I've tried Github's desktop app but I still prefer doing things by hand in bash. I'll update the readme as needed once I get it running on my Ubuntu VM.

psoplayer wrote:

Awesome, shouldn't be a problem then. PM is off.

I've tried Github's desktop app but I still prefer doing things by hand in bash. I'll update the readme as needed once I get it running on my Ubuntu VM.

Yeah, I'm pure command line, and Github for Windows adds a bunch of stuff to Powershell.

This may have already been mentioned (skimmer), but I would find it incredibly useful to have a mirror of the account/inbox/favourites bar at the bottom of the page as well as the top, some threads with a lot of images take a whole load of swiping to get back to my favourites list!

Thanks!

In iOS I can just tap on the info bar at the top of the screen to scroll all the way to the top. Surely there is some equivalent on Android and WP? (Even the Vita browser has a built-in button to scroll to the top.)

Well, whaddya know.. That worked marvellously! Thanks for the simple tip.

I don't want to commit doogiemac to anything, but my understanding of the current state of things is that the content is going to be moved to Drupal 7 and then features (not Drupal ones) will be re-created. I don't know anything about Drupal 5, but I don't know how much feature development is going to happen / is worth it for the current site before the switch.

I think a bunch of work will need to be done on the D7 site. Right now some of the content types are set up on the D7 site, so it may be possible to start testing modules / hooking the pieces together.

If you are interested in the project, you should check with doogiemac and get access to the github project. There is a little momentum building right now.

Yeah, definitely interested in lending a hand. I sent him a message, but I get the feeling that he's not around all that much.

What is your experience or interest with Drupal or front end or back end or design?

Right now Doogiemac is working on the migration (data) bit as well as some feature creation. I'm working through a theme / front end piece that may or may not end up being used. I don't think there is much else going on. At some point there will be a need for testing which could be done by anyone (or more automated if someone has strengths there).

If you have Drupal experience, investigating existing modules to develop features would probably be useful and eventually building modules. If you aren't interested in Drupal there are still the other pieces. We can help you set up the site from which point you could do front end / other stuff.

In terms of hosting / server configuration, I think doogiemac has a plan, but it may be useful to have someone skilled in configuring caching (specifically varnish) to help as well.

If he doesn't hit you back, send me a PM and I'll message him on github or otherwise.

To give you an idea of my background, I do a bit of everything. My programming skills are in PHP and JS and I run a large Drupal site as a day job. We end up doing all the dev work / configuration and I have an interest in using a bunch of cutting edge front end techniques we just can't do for my day job. It's always nice to collaborate / get feedback on the design stuff (which is happening on github).

I don't want to offer anything specific since I don't know what doogiemac's exact plans are.

I'm a "bit of everything" web developer as well. I have experience with Rails and CakePHP, having spent a couple of years working with each of them. A big part of my motivation in helping is just getting exposure to Drupal while accomplishing something fairly immediately productive, and to that end I'm happy to dive in and start hacking on a module.

On the other hand, I can put my front end experience to use without any learning curve, and the JS/CSS has always been my favorite part of web dev. I don't have much experience with large scale server ops, so I can't provide much expertise outside of simply throwing it at an EC2 instance and hoping for the best.

Are you guys even concerned with making any changes to the current site, or are you 100% focused on the new codebase now?

I've read your response, but it's late. If you want to try out Drupal give it a dl. I'll try to think of something soon and message doogiemac. Feel free to PM me if you want help setting drupal up. Drupal has its own way of doing things so it's difficult to just jump in.

Hey guys, sorry for the slow response. psoplayer, I've added you to the Github project. Check out the issue queue there for things we're working on and feel free to suggested anything else. Except for light maintenance work, we're in what I'd consider a feature freeze for the Drupal 5 site at this point.

For some reason, I see the thread "The Classic Video Game Players Thread" twice in the list of My favorite topics.

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Hobbes2099 wrote:

For some reason, I see the thread "The Classic Video Game Players Thread" twice in the list of My favorite topics.

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/ouR7hyI.png)

I had the same problem. Fixed here