Ashley's Forum Posts

  • Thanks for the picture R0J0, that sums it up nicely. For the record, it used to be that it wouldn't be pickable until the next tick - a fix a few versions ago made it the next top level event, but due to the design of the engine, it's very tricky to make it available in subevents (where Destroy is in your diagram).

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  • How about Chapter 31: Simulation of the conscious human mind - in just 20 events?

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  • There are no failed signups piling up either - guess the new captcha is working nicely

  • Woah...

    Well, it's cool you're a fan of Linux and Mac (but I'm not sure I can tell what you think of Mac), but you should try to see things from our point of view. We can hit 90%+ of the market by targeting Windows, for about one third of the effort of targeting Windows, Linux and Mac. That tradeoff is particularly good when, like me, you're doing a full-time university course, and code in my spare time round the edges.

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  • And this still hasn't fixed the pagination problem... whenever I search for something, I can't see more than the first page of search results

    Hmm, not sure about why that would happen, but you might be hitting the search flood limit, which was 15 seconds. I've reduced it to 5 seconds for registered users, so if you wait a moment, then try again, it ought to work. Kinda dumb if it counts separate pages as individual searches though.

    The only negative to this upgrade at the moment is that the breadcrumbs seem to have been changed.

    I noticed that too, but I've learnt the hard way that in order to preserve sanity, if phpBB does something a bit weird that isn't essential, just shrug and move on. I think we'll get used to it, there are still links to the main forum index. Also, I do like Quick Reply

  • Don't try to change the system volume setting! This is incredibly annoying for users. Users on headphones could suddenly get an ear-ringing blast if you automatically set the volume up high. Find some other way of fixing it, you don't want to set the Windows volume!

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  • Lo and behold, we're now on phpbb 3.0.8.

    Some positive changes that seem to have been thrown in:

    • 'View your posts' in the nav bar allows you to view a list of threads you've posted in, which is a nice quick way to catch up on threads you're involved in (they highlight when new replies are made).
    • There's a 'quick reply' option at the end of most threads now, so you don't have to browse to a separate page to reply.
    • There are RSS feeds for the board, forums, and threads, which if your browser supports it, will show a feed icon and allow you to subscribe.
    • We were being overrun by spambots, and the hard work of the mods has saved most of you from seeing them (thanks guys). I've switched the signup captcha to PeopleSign which is an image matching captcha instead of "read the really garbled text" - hopefully this will defeat the march of the spambots.

    If there are any problems, or, hell, any cool new features I've missed, be sure to let me know.

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  • OK, you should be editor now.