GWJ bugs, feature requests, and updates

Something oddly Zen about Aaron D's post that quotes Stengah's post about a missing center tag, itself missing a closing quote tag thus triggering the infamous "text goes to the left margin" bug.

Missing (or too many) end tags (quote, spoiler) really do need to be fixed.

Some way to have a shared list in a thread. A good use case for this can be seen on the "Vindictus Beta" forum where people who have beta keys are having trouble figuring out who to send them to. Currently people who want a key are posting the request. Of course it is impossible to see at any point in time who still needs a key. A shared list at the start of the thread would fix this problem. Depending on how "Grant others permission to edit a post" is implemented, it may solve this problem...

kernelVenus wrote:

Some way to have a shared list in a thread. A good use case for this can be seen on the "Vindictus Beta" forum where people who have beta keys are having trouble figuring out who to send them to. Currently people who want a key are posting the request. Of course it is impossible to see at any point in time who still needs a key. A shared list at the start of the thread would fix this problem. Depending on how "Grant others permission to edit a post" is implemented, it may solve this problem...

There's a way to 'share' the original post of a thread. I don't know how to do it but you can see it in evidence here.

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The 'add child page' option seems to be the way to do it but.... blow me if it's not totally confusing as to where the thing will end up. I'd just be too scared of adding unwanted crap on the site by accident!

Not sure if this has been previously requested, but could we get a "Show Spoiler" button that changes the text color in the spoiler to black? I ask specifically for iOS devices, as highlighting the spoiler in iOS does not change the color. Quoting works for small spoilers, but anything larger that the text box (which cannot be resized in iOS) cannot be read that way, plus quoting is a major pain if a thread has multiple spoilers.

Thanks!

Serengeti wrote:

Not sure if this has been previously requested, but could we get a "Show Spoiler" button that changes the text color in the spoiler to black? I ask specifically for iOS devices, as highlighting the spoiler in iOS does not change the color. Quoting works for small spoilers, but anything larger that the text box (which cannot be resized in iOS) cannot be read that way, plus quoting is a major pain if a thread has multiple spoilers.

Thanks!

We could add the following to the CSS file to make it so that on hover, the spoiler is readable,

.bb-spoiler .bb-quote-body:hover{ color:black; } and remove "!important" from the .bb-spoiler .bb-quote-body "color" style.

I tested it in FF and it seems to work well, not sure if that works on iOS devices.

Any chance for https?

PandaEskimo wrote:
Serengeti wrote:

Not sure if this has been previously requested, but could we get a "Show Spoiler" button that changes the text color in the spoiler to black? I ask specifically for iOS devices, as highlighting the spoiler in iOS does not change the color. Quoting works for small spoilers, but anything larger that the text box (which cannot be resized in iOS) cannot be read that way, plus quoting is a major pain if a thread has multiple spoilers.

Thanks!

We could add the following to the CSS file to make it so that on hover, the spoiler is readable,

.bb-spoiler .bb-quote-body:hover{ color:black; } and remove "!important" from the .bb-spoiler .bb-quote-body "color" style.

I tested it in FF and it seems to work well, not sure if that works on iOS devices.

Yeah, that wouldn't work. The point is that there IS no pointing device in an iOS / Android device. There's no mouse pointer to use to hover over the text. An on / off toggle would be ideal.

SSL support would be a very, very good thing. But it'll add very noticeable load to your VPS host.

NSMike wrote:

Yeah, that wouldn't work. The point is that there IS no pointing device in an iOS / Android device. There's no mouse pointer to use to hover over the text. An on / off toggle would be ideal.

I guess it's a slightly more complex javascript solution then.

PandaEskimo wrote:
NSMike wrote:

Yeah, that wouldn't work. The point is that there IS no pointing device in an iOS / Android device. There's no mouse pointer to use to hover over the text. An on / off toggle would be ideal.

I guess it's a slightly more complex javascript solution then.

I say give that iOS app an overhaul and code a forum reader into it

New server seems nice and fast.

Note: if you're getting skinny text-entry boxes, it's likely because you're running something like Noscript and haven't given the IP address permission to run. It looks like the post entry box starts out narrow, and gets resized to fit the width of the page with Javascript.

The site name is resolving correctly for me now.

Edwin wrote:

Any chance for https?

Malor wrote:

SSL support would be a very, very good thing. But it'll add very noticeable load to your VPS host.

Is there a specific reason you'd like this to be served over an encrypted connection? There's not really any sensitive data stored on the servers, as far as I know, and the chance of a man-in-the-middle going to the trouble of intercepting the comms on a gaming forum (as opposed to say a online store) are pretty minimal. I can't see any justification for them myself...

FatConan wrote:
Edwin wrote:

Any chance for https?

Malor wrote:

SSL support would be a very, very good thing. But it'll add very noticeable load to your VPS host.

Is there a specific reason you'd like this to be served over an encrypted connection? There's not really any sensitive data stored on the servers, as far as I know, and the chance of a man-in-the-middle going to the trouble of intercepting the comms on a gaming forum (as opposed to say a online store) are pretty minimal. I can't see any justification for them myself...

Brb, adding GWJ to Firesheep.

nossid wrote:

Brb, adding GWJ to Firesheep.

Don't get me wrong, I realise that you *can* exploit the site if you so desired (under the right circumstances) and I realise that encrypting the comms would help prevent this. However, if I do hijack someone's account (for example) what does it get me? I can see their Steam account names, mess up their profile, spam the boards and private message under the victim's name. This might be a pain, but is it sufficiently problematic that it warrants the additional loads/costs?

FatConan wrote:
nossid wrote:

Brb, adding GWJ to Firesheep.

Don't get me wrong, I realise that you *can* exploit the site if you so desired (under the right circumstances) and I realise that encrypting the comms would help prevent this. However, if I do hijack someone's account (for example) what does it get me? I can see their Steam account names, mess up their profile, spam the boards and private message under the victim's name. This might be a pain, but is it sufficiently problematic that it warrants the additional loads/costs?

Some people may use the same username / password or password for their email or other account. Getting into the Steam account lets you wreck all sorts of havoc with the credit card access etc.

I don't use the same password, which is what people should do, but I can understand a lot of people don't want to remember a thousand passwords.

PandaEskimo wrote:

Some people may use the same username / password or password for their email or other account. Getting into the Steam account lets you wreck all sorts of havoc with the credit card access etc.

I don't use the same password, which is what people should do, but I can understand a lot of people don't want to remember a thousand passwords.

If that's the case I wonder if there's a nice way of encrypting the password client side and sending the encrypted value to the server. That would still make sessions hijackable, but it would hide the password value from a man in the middle. It might make the login more convoluted, we might have to have a shared value that the server and client use as a salt to a hash or something. I haven't thought this through, but I wonder if there's a solution like this that would allow for reasonable security of passwords without the need for SSL.

Hmmm, brain is too tired to think at the moment, I'll need to sleep on it.

Whoa, site looks weird.

No sidebar and the text is tiny Times New Roman. (I think)

Who's fiddling around?

*edit*

Oh right, I fail at being observant. Top bar gone too.

Yeah I was checking this thread for bugs... but then I saw the front page story.

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Stele wrote:

Yeah I was checking this thread for bugs... but then I saw the front page story. :D

Which one? Right now the site looks like hell, IMO, so if there's an explanation I'd like to read it.

The top 2 front page stories are from 1998, so I don't know if Stele was just trying to be funny or what. The stories after those are from 2010, but I didn't see any that would explain this.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

The top 2 front page stories are from 1998, so I don't know if Stele was just trying to be funny or what. The stories after those are from 2010, but I didn't see any that would explain this.

This must be the design from '98, so a little retro love it seems. However it seems like a lot to redesign the site to look like it did in '98, and for everyone to just hate '98 website design.

I just thought we were going all Engadget with the serif font change.

Shoal07 wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

The top 2 front page stories are from 1998, so I don't know if Stele was just trying to be funny or what. The stories after those are from 2010, but I didn't see any that would explain this.

This must be the design from '98, so a little retro love it seems. However it seems like a lot to redesign the site to look like it did in '98, and for everyone to just hate '98 website design.

Well if nothing else I prefer not seeing the recent article bar across the top of the front page. I never liked it.

Shoal07 wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

The top 2 front page stories are from 1998, so I don't know if Stele was just trying to be funny or what. The stories after those are from 2010, but I didn't see any that would explain this.

This must be the design from '98, so a little retro love it seems. However it seems like a lot to redesign the site to look like it did in '98, and for everyone to just hate '98 website design.

Or because the thread is showing our posts as being in 1998, and I still don't have my golden handcuffs, Sands, despite clearly having been a member for nearly 12 years.

So since someone pointed out that the site has only been around since 2003, these 1998 articles do seem like a stunt.

Overall, I like this site design better, with the sole exception of Times New Roman. If we could have our old font back, I'd prefer this setup to the hyper-busy one from a week ago.

Was the avatar file size reduced? I went to change mine and deleted my old one which was definitely more than 30k ahhhhhhhh