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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
The large blog hanged for several seconds on my PC on every load and press of the "load more" button, and is a pain to scroll. And scrolling I must because of the sparse layout of the posts.
You can read my comments on why Disqus is an unusable POS here:
http://blogs.opera.com/news/2013/10/welcome-to-the-new-home-of-the-opera-news-blog/#comment-1104659747
http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/2013/10/welcome-to-the-new-home-of-desktop-blog/#comment-1105611523
I'll have to rescue them from Disqus and mirror them e.g. here because… well, as I said, it's an unusable POS.
Btw, threaded comments is a standard Wordpress feature.
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Does migration to Disqus also mean that the new forums are physically stored on their network?
The horror! The horror!
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DnD Central / Re: This is a testing forum
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DnD Central / Re: This is a testing forum
You should use Opera's plugin on demand functionality.
I'm with Frenzie against video from that particular site. Threads with these embedded flash windows are unbrowsable memory hogs. Even when I'm interested in one post, I am forced to load most of the embedded players.
Besides not filling up the forum pages, this little test above taught me some other things: I can c/p regular links (or add an item to my right-click menu or some such) to open them in a proper video player, or to process them with a script. VLC comes with YouTube URL support baked in. Plus if you load it in a text-based browser you only get an iframe. This means a proper video bbcode should stick the URL underneath the video. In summary, it looks like I'd have to write it myself to get it right, but like I said before it's not a problem I'm especially interested in solving.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
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DnD Central / Re: This is a testing forum
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The Lounge / Re: MyOpera stock smileys and Tamil's smileys
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DnD Central / Re: This is a testing forum
I took a quick look around and I suppose this premade addon might do:
YouTube bbcode:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDtwcFXcI[/youtube]
Just a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDtwcFXcI
Wrapped in url bbcode to prevent embedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDtwcFXcI
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YouTube bbcode:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDtwcFXcI[/youtube]
Just a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDtwcFXcI
Wrapped in url bbcode to prevent embedding:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eIDtwcFXcI[/url]
I'm not a big fan of the automatic link functionality though, plus I think a video bbcode with YouTube support would be better (i.e. more universal/extendable). I'll leave this one up for a bit to see how it works out.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
It's what Simple Machines expects. It may not be what you or I expect… but I guess it'd be easy enough to change.
I noticed that, if I change the subject line of my post, that subject is displayed at the forum's "last post" area suggesting that it is the thread's title, which it is not. Does it work as expected?
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DnD Central / Re: This is a testing forum
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Forum Administration / Re: Moderation
I'll have a go at it if you like Frenzie; it will take a couple of weeks or so since I'm going to Nl this week. I may need to contact Opera if I'm to plagiarise their rules.
That would be great.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
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Forum Administration / Re: Questions to the Administrator
I could probably throw together a serviceable (but not exactly good) Quick Quote UserJS as early as this week if you like, but getting it as default functionality will have to wait.
@string I'm not sure. Perhaps I can leave this problem to Macallan.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
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Forum Administration / Re: Attracting new members
So if you have a thread you'd really, really like to transfer, all you need to get started is available at these two links:
https://github.com/Frenzie/myopera-backup
http://download.simplemachines.org (there should be some kind of install.sql file in the archive, but their site is down for maintenance atm so I can't check)
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
My last OPERA experience was v10.63.....I decided to switch to FireFox because I didn't like using menus...I wanted to use buttons...Custom Buttons is a breeze with FireFox (for what I want anyway), & I found customization much more user friendly in FireFox. Extensions were a dime a dozen,,,,Greasemonkey for userscripts gave me even more flexibility, & between the two I was able to find just about everything I could possibly ever want.
Could you tell me more about that? I couldn't figure it out compared to Opera. I'm not interested in messing with XUL, although I might do it as a last resort.
But I've got my Opera customized in just about each and every aspect. How I can attach the same macro to a menu, button, mouse gesture, stack a whole bunch together… I don't think any other browser has that.
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DnD Central / Re: Welcome to SMF!
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The Lounge / Re: MyOpera stock smileys and Tamil's smileys
tried to hide it behind tinyurl
On that note, this isn't Twitter! There's a limit of many thousands of characters (determined by me; I'll have to give it some thought eventually), but in practice that still means URLs can be as long as you want.
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Forum Administration / Re: Attracting new members
I dabble in making icons myself occasionally, but right now I have neither the time nor the inclination.
If you dabbled, then assumedly you have something ready too. For this particular forum, even an unfinished but presentable work would suffice.
I'm not sure that follows; I don't believe I have making icons as a hobby just because I make one every three years or so.
One question for Frenzie though. While we want new members, is there any problem from your viewpoint in having the number grow quickly (we have until March) during this teething time?Not at all. If it turned out it were too much traffic or some such, surely the sooner we know the better.
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Forum Administration / Re: Questions to the Administrator
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
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Forum Administration / Re: Questions to the Administrator
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
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Forum Administration / Moderation
- An international aspect with regard to timezones. This probably means at least a couple of people from Europe or Africa and a couple from the Americas. I know there might be some people from around UTC+6 through UTC+11, but that might be harder to achieve. Note that I mean this primarily as a practical matter with regard to potential moderator response times, not as an attempt at cultural diversity.
- Diversity of beliefs. This is not an atheist forum. I'm not sure whether this will have to be defined more precisely, but it means e.g. Belfrager could a candidate if he were interested.
PS This is more for myself but it might be of interest:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=14979862
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I wouldn't bother too much with the captchas, but what any forum needs is quick ways to mass delete messages. Post limits and join limits are good as well.
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Browsers & Technology / Re: Keeping an eye on Opera
Anyway like 'Macallan' I switched my e-mail client long ago and never bothered with M2 again. I know some people here really like M2, well good luck to them and don't be too surprised if M2 just vanish someday!I only use M2 for newsfeeds these days; I don't think I've used it for mail since '08-ish. Like I said, there was virtually no visible development there since Opera 7, while Thunderbird kept improving in the meantime. I currently use Icedove (=Thunderbird).