GeneralAstatalk FAQ and supportThings we would like to see implemented

08 May 2009, 21:30

I made this list about things that definitely should be here. These are the functions that I call essential functions of the old Asta. I'm sure I forgot something, so if anyone wants to add something, feel free to do so :)

1. View posts since last visit
2. View your posts
3. Images next to forums/threads/requests/releases (new posts, locked, etc.)
4. Board statistics (number of registered users, who is online, etc.)
5. Signature under a post/comment (can be chosen to show or not show) you have your SIG shown in profile. sigs prevent from reading threads and are a good instrument for spammers if it is shown in every post. your personal profile is the best place to present your SIG
6. Code tag and selection of smilies astacut implemented. smiles implemented
7. Quote button next to a users post
8. Edit button
9. Report post button it is this mark : !
10. Thanks button you have +/- that allows you to express yourself much wider than a usual thank. thank = "+"
11. Quicker access for sending a PM it is the mark just right side of the users name
12. Post count and thanks count these are your Karmas, read FAQ how it is calculated. it is more complicated than a usual post counter and tells much more about yor behaviour on the forum
13. Show 1, 2, 3 on the bottom of a thread/request/release if more than 1 page (when viewing the forum sections, not the thread/request/release itself).
14. Thread/Release/Request that receives a new reply moves to the top
15. Always accessible Home button It is Board link
16. Selection of Auto-Login
17. Possibility to see who made the last post in a thread/release/request
18. Sentbox and Savebox PM folders
19. Selection of font sizes and colors in the Reply box
20. Preview button
21. Link on the main menu to User CP - you can click on your avatar on top-right corner to enter UserCP
22. When clicking on a + / - the page should automatically refresh // Not necessary
23. When I already gave a + / - they should disappear from that Thread/Request/Release/Comment that will overload the server. very difficult feature technically. as soon as we tune the project and it becomes very fast you will not find it a problem
24. Astapower and Karma should be seen better (e.g next to user name)
- added -
25. Possibility to edit topic's title
26. Add the "hidden block" to the post, so we can post mirrors Astacut operator forver :e
27. Search results should be listed according to subforum or category (e.g books, music, videos)
28. Show more threads/releases/requests on one page (vertically - so that we can scroll down to see more) set to 20
29. PNG,GIF support for profile images we use automatic resize system that allows you not to care about upload image sizes so it doesn`t accept gifs and png, sorry
30. It should be easier to distinguish between Astapower and Karma icons
31. Show who created a release/request/thread under the topic name
32. Removal of the GFX Request section - not needed as we have the Request bits within the main sections
33. Delete Post button
34. Fixing of the "Upload your photo"(/avatar) feature // Probably a user's issue
35. Instead of having spaces in the URL (which appear as %20) use dashes, underscore or use topic numbers like on the old forum. done. spaces are replaced automatically to underscores
36. + / - should be bigger (Or make them clickable buttons)
37. Clickable navigation path should be given on top to return back to where you want to be
38. Member status bar under a member's name
39. Star Counter you got karma - stars are not planned at the moment, it is a feature of phpBB
40. Organize the Text section by book categories (Fiction, Non Fiction, Other Text) no need for a PDF section.
41. Have a password recovery option for those who have forgotten the e-mail they registered with.
42. Possibility to edit signature done
43. See who gave you a + / - no need at all. it may prevent some members to express a fair opinion. and the second - will load server too much to store and to show it
44. An Introduction Forum in the General (NOT General Talks) section
45. Change the "Anime/Hentai" section to just "Anime" changed
46. Some way of showing that there is a new post in your Team sections. E.g, show a little icon next to the "teams" button if there is a new post in a thr__TEXT IS TOO BIG. IT WAS TRUNCATED TO 5000 SYMBOLS

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master_lame_master
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master_lame_master 12 Jun 2009, 09:23 #
hi guys...
i've found one new fature
1. View posts since last visit http://astatalk.com/added/
it's still not linked here but.. i guess it works..
ShEnStA
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ShEnStA 13 Jun 2009, 04:08 #
Hi guys not sure if it has been mentioned but a real time saver would be a # button included when making a release in between the ! and edit button's would do ...e.g

I made a release to fulfill a request if i had the # button there i would press it and link with request faster and more practical I think rather than copying and pasting from the address bar.

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thanks shensta
tobyb121
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tobyb121 13 Jun 2009, 09:39 #
At the moment new lines are replaced by br/> tags, however could they insted be replaced with p> tags, as they are better for spacing, or atleast could there be support for using paragraph tags in comments.
Also could the code> tag be allowed
Thanks tobyb
ShEnStA
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ShEnStA 13 Jun 2009, 10:33 #
Also if not mentioned already....

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sorry but no one replied to my suggestion so i thought i'de put it in here
ShEnStA
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ShEnStA 13 Jun 2009, 11:02 #
When entering a sub forum/section can we have more than 30 topics shown instead of offering pages please...not sure of the figure say about 50-100 it seems more efficient to go down the page instead of clicking pages across.

please consider

shensta


** sorry forgot to mention only sections where they have release's and not thread only sections like this one
caetra
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caetra 13 Jun 2009, 12:39 #
tobyb121 said:At the moment new lines are replaced by br/> tags, however could they insted be replaced with p> tags, as they are better for spacing, or atleast could there be support for using paragraph tags in comments.
Also could the code> tag be allowed
Thanks tobyb


I agree on both counts.
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 13 Jun 2009, 13:40 #
@ShEnStA
replied about report

ShEnStA said:When entering a sub forum/section can we have more than 30 topics shown instead of offering pages please...not sure of the figure say about 50-100 it seems more efficient to go down the page instead of clicking pages across.


If you all support I will set. It`s easy.
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 13 Jun 2009, 13:41 #
Hi guys not sure if it has been mentioned but a real time saver would be a # button included when making a release in between the ! and edit button's would do ...e.g
I made a release to fulfill a request if i had the # button there i would press it and link with request faster and more practical I think rather than copying and pasting from the address bar.

mentioned, will be done for sure.
But later.
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 13 Jun 2009, 13:44 #
tobyb121 said:
Also could the code> tag be allowed
Thanks tobyb

you are not the first who asking it ;)
will have to do ;)))
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 13 Jun 2009, 13:48 #
tobyb121 said:At the moment new lines are replaced by br/> tags, however could they insted be replaced with p> tags, as they are better for spacing, or atleast could there be support for using paragraph tags in comments.


why is it so essential for you?? ) just curious
as you know p tag is a container tag and has to be open...so a little bit more complecated to parse and check. why change?
tobyb121
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tobyb121 13 Jun 2009, 23:48 #
GraveDigger said:why is it so essential for you??

Just thought I would give you something to keep you busy :)
I appreciate the scripting implications of having to parse the text in this was, so maybe the p> tag would not act as a replacement fot the br> tag, but it is much better for making your text look nicer and for those who write in html alot it would be nice to be able to use them, I was really suggesting that we should be able to use all of the html tags really, is there any particular reason that they get stripped? Maybe there could be an advanced posting mode, where you can write full html. thanks tobyb
caetra
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caetra 14 Jun 2009, 00:52 #
There are many HTML tags that are useful when making posts like tobyb says. And there are ones that should never be allowed.

Blacklisting html tags will never work as has been proven. However that doesn't mean that the white list has to be small, many if not most tags should be allowed.

Here's a list of the tags I think should be allowed:

a
abbr
acronym
address
b
big
blockquote
br
cite
code
del
dfn
dl
em
h1 - h6
hr
i
img
ins
kbd
li
ol
p
pre
q
samp
small
strong
sub
sup
table
td
tr
tt
ul
var

Script, style, form and form elements, tags found in the head, etc should not be allowed. Attributes should be restricted by a whitelist, the same as tags.

Tags like del and ins may seem useless to some people but I find they can be really useful if they are used properly and the stylesheet differentiates them from s and u. abbr and acronym tags are also useful on occasion. var tag? less useful, but it poses no XSS threat and there may be occasion to use it.

Lists and tables are useful for the obvius reasons.

span and div tags are only useful if you allow people to use the class attribute on them. Which becomes slightly dangerus if your selecting elements by their class with javascript and not excluding elements in user posts. Hence, they are not on the list.
ShEnStA
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ShEnStA 14 Jun 2009, 04:02 #
GraveDigger said:@ShEnStA
replied about report

ShEnStA said:When entering a sub forum/section can we have more than 30 topics shown instead of offering pages please...not sure of the figure say about 50-100 it seems more efficient to go down the page instead of clicking pages across.


If you all support I will set. It`s easy.


Thanks for considering :b
tobyb121
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tobyb121 15 Jun 2009, 06:38 #
ShEnStA said:When entering a sub forum/section can we have more than 30 topics shown instead of offering pages please...not sure of the figure say about 50-100 it seems more efficient to go down the page instead of clicking pages across.

I'm not sure if I agree with this, I think the 30 that are shown is a good length, however alot of sites use a little dropdown box that allows you to select the number that you want displayed on a page.

Also can the Scripts and Scripting tag be changed to Web Scripts and Scripting, there have been a few requests in there from people who think it refers to making keygens and cracks. thanks tobyb
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 17 Jun 2009, 13:03 #
< and > symbols are ok now to use
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 17 Jun 2009, 13:24 #
@toby
tag renamed
bodmas
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bodmas 23 Jun 2009, 10:38 #
I think the bigger images should automatically be reduced/resized to fit the post area. at present if any image in bigger size is posted then it remains as it is and it increase the board page hence, does not allow us to see the full page unless we scroll it left and right(horizontally). it is irritating to view this type of page.
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 23 Jun 2009, 10:42 #
yes, noticed it too, Bodmas
we could allow width and height attributes for img tag
or I have to looks into html coding to restrict it
tobyb121
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tobyb121 23 Jun 2009, 17:02 #
GraveDigger said:yes, noticed it too, Bodmas
we could allow width and height attributes for img tag
or I have to looks into html coding to restrict it

You can probably use CSS, max-width, max-height, however apart from resizing with php, there is no way to stop the user downloading the whole image.

Also is there a inbox limit? if so could it be siplayed somehow. thanks tobyb

EDIT: just tested this:
img{
max-width:300px;
max-height:200px;
}
Tested on IE8, FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari, and all worked
(if anyone's interested all but firefox managed to resample the png image I was testing with properly, opera and chrome were very quick, safari seemed a touch blurry, and ie8 was fast and worked well, but the image had a big black line through the middle of it at first and required refreshing)
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 24 Jun 2009, 12:35 #
thanks Toby
chupakabra
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chupakabra 24 Jun 2009, 14:59 #
@tobyb121
deployed
tnx
bodmas
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bodmas 24 Jun 2009, 21:14 #
When we post the long url of the site link in astacut then it also increases the horizontal length. This should be also fixed. an example is given under:

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or,

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Download here directly at 100Mbit

GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 25 Jun 2009, 08:53 #
@toby, have you got a quick solution ? )
tobyb121
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tobyb121 25 Jun 2009, 09:03 #
:) I don't knwo how this would be done in php, as it's effectivly all one word, so it wouldn't break it properly, but there is one-liner for php :D
wordwrap($text, 65, "",true);
tobyb121
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tobyb121 26 Jun 2009, 13:11 #
Could you add cursor:default to style.css, I often find I lose my cusor when I move over text or area where it turns into the 'I' cursor this seems to be more of a problem for IE than the others, not sure why.
tobyb

EDIT note there should be a < br /> quoted in the post above
bodmas
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bodmas 26 Jun 2009, 17:37 #
I think instead of showing "online" word under the user name there should be some code so that online members' user name should be illuminated with green color/light. by this method we can identify the online members at each page where ever user's name is displayed. but it is only my thought, not sure if others would agree upon this.
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 29 Jun 2009, 12:03 #
the problem is that showing on every page user`s status is an additional db pain ;)
so we try not tu use it everywhere on all pages not to load the base hard.
But as long as we optimise the db we will be able to add statuses on other pages, be sure.
GraveDigger
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GraveDigger 29 Jun 2009, 12:04 #
@toby
that you for wordwrap advice, we still didn`t start using it because dediced that it is to much additional CPU processing to process all output data fo wrapping, so we are looking at the moment JavaScript solution to make viewlook of long links better.
tobyb121
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tobyb121 29 Jun 2009, 15:07 #
how about CSS?
word-wrap:break-word;
works on IE, chrome and safari, unsupported by FF and Opera
chupakabra
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chupakabra 30 Jun 2009, 12:06 #
javascript word breaker deployed
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