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General Discussion / Re: Suggested forum modifications

« on: April 25, 2017, 09:34:20 PM »

Mentions send an email, and there should be some way to choose whether to be emailed or not.

I checked the database, and it has column "email_mentions" per member, so let's see if it does what I think it will do.
If I now mention @Plotinus , the mention should be displayed only on forum UI but not emailed,
but mentioning @Mati256 should send the email.
Right?

I've been browsing through the source codes, but can't find anything which would even try to connect that database column with anything in visual UI present to users. Maybe that functionality isn't yet implemented? I mean, mentions aren't a part of SMF core, but an additional module we installed to test.

What do you people think, would mentions be a good feature or not? If not, we can just unistall the module, as an e-mail per mention might become spammy if you are not given an option to toggle off the mails. But, if you think mentions would be a good way to organize and personalize forum discussions, then I will invest some more time in fixing it. (Generally speaking, SMF source codes seem pleasant to read, I'd guess adding a simple checkbox in the account settings wouldn't be a big problem)

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General Discussion / Re: Migration?

« on: April 25, 2017, 08:41:38 AM »

Since the old forums are hosted on a site funded by advertisements, I think they will remain there for archival reasons, so no old contet will be lost in the foreseeable future.

We've been thinking about what would need to be migrated, and how to best handle it. And settled for the most simple solution: A fresh start 

Selected posts, like guides and tutorials, can be manually copypasted to the new forums.

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General Discussion / Re: Suggested forum modifications

« on: April 23, 2017, 04:21:05 PM »

When you sign up for the forum, you don't have to validate your email address to prove that you are the owner of your email address.

I found a setting for that, and changed it to require e-mail verification. I hope someone who registers after this change can confirm this works now.

EDIT:

Marquees are annoying (anything that moves is annoying) and should be removed.

Found that, too. It is now disabled, along with 'flash'.

EDIT2:

Spoiler boxes

Hmmm, so let's see!

Spoiler: show

I installed a mod for it, now I have SP-button in the bb-code toolbar, and here I'm testing if it does what we would like it to do!

EDIT3:

As Sami noted elsewhere, the like feature doesn't work yet.

... aaand that seems to be fixed, too. Feel free to test around, everybody!