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General => DnD Central => Topic started by: Barulheira on 2013-11-20, 15:16:58

Title: Forum clock
Post by: Barulheira on 2013-11-20, 15:16:58
Is it just me, or is the forum clock slightly offset?
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Luxor on 2013-11-20, 15:28:52
Let me see....


edit: Yep the time-stamp is 6 minutes ahead of my real time.
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Frenzie on 2013-11-20, 15:34:34
Unfortunately I can't do anything about that. It's just shared hosting; I'm not the server administrator (http://fransdejonge.com/2011/05/time-synchronization-ntp/).
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Belfrager on 2013-11-20, 15:55:57

Is it just me, or is the forum clock slightly offset?

Nice quoting... different from Opera.

Sorry, I like to test formatting...  :)
And insert hyperlinks... Wikipedia (http://www.Wikipedia.com)

Do we have always to insert the captcha at every post?
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Frenzie on 2013-11-20, 16:47:18
Oh, that's because you're a new user. It's an anti-spam measure. I'll disable that for now but I might have to reinstall the whole forum regardless. Or use another one. For now it's not going very well, that much is obvious.
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: SmileyFaze on 2013-11-21, 07:28:03
Frenzie,

Again, congratulations on a job--though still in progress--a job well done. (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/thumbs/good.gif)

I think that a captcha on sign-on a good security measure, but on each & every post, it becomes a bit excessive. If there is say a 20 minute inactivity from your last post, that would make sense,  but each & every post when there's regular activity since the last captcha would seem a bit of a pain. 

Then again, if it must be that way though I guess one could get used to it just as long as the captcha isn't one of those types that are insensitive to, & alienate those with, slight sight impairments. (https://www.smileyfaze.tk/slides/yes02ix3.gif)
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Frenzie on 2013-11-21, 11:59:58
I'm not a fan of CAPTCHAs, but spam is a serious issue. Unfortunately spambots are better at solving them than humans, making them virtually useless (unless I customized it with a custom blackletter font or something, but some humans might have trouble with that too.)

I believe the option to ask questions is more user-friendly and for now hopefully sufficient against spammers. Specifically questions that can't be easily found with autocomplete on Google. But I'll give it more thought or ask for more input on that matter if I decide this is viable. :)
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: mjmsprt40 on 2013-11-21, 18:24:53
This is something that can't be done now because this is brand new and you haven't appointed moderators yet, but one possibility is to have the first couple of posts go through a moderator before posting. It's a bit of a pain, but-- after the first few posts, a member becomes a known member of the community and his posts don't have to be checked before posting anymore. It inserts a human (the moderator) between the newbie's post and the forum, so a spam post never makes it to the board and the spammer goes elsewhere.
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: jimbro37 on 2013-11-21, 18:57:48
I'll just use my wristwatch. :)
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Colonel Rebel on 2013-11-27, 06:15:53
Well now, I do declare, getting used this new forum, and trying to figure out how SF has already reached 197 posts is quite like the time I drank that Peyote Tea by accident.  :trollface:   :left: :right:
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Frenzie on 2013-11-27, 08:32:28
There's a certain amount of activity over on The Lounge (https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=20.0) that explains it.  ;D
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: SmileyFaze on 2013-11-27, 21:14:22

Well now, I do declare, getting used this new forum, and trying to figure out how SF has already reached 197 posts is quite like the time I drank that Peyote Tea by accident.  :trollface:   :left: :right:


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Was playin' with iMacro fer FireFox....teehee
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Barulheira on 2013-11-28, 09:30:59
Sometimes it happens, and today it happened again: without me changing anything in my account profile, time display is offset by 1 hour - forwards or backwards, randomly. Can anyone else confirm that? Frenzie, do you know what happened?
FYI, there are no summer timezone changes taking place around here these days.
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Frenzie on 2013-11-28, 09:48:48
It's possible that I changed the "central" offset on purpose or accidentally. Unless you truly mean that it's varying by the page load?
Title: Re: Forum clock
Post by: Barulheira on 2013-11-28, 10:01:55
No, it's not by page load.