GRcade - The Next Generation

Cuttooth wrote:

Jenuall wrote:Spoiler boxes can be re-hidden if you use the right kind of markup. I think if you start your content with >! then whatever you type next gets put into a little section that you can expand and then close again.

Playing around with this makes me realise that the formatting tags stop at line breaks.

e.g If you have **bold text
on continuous lines** it'll look like bold text
across two lines.

If you have **bold

text across a paragraph it'll just look like this**

Similarly if someone types up a long paragraph or dumps one in and puts spoiler tags around it, I think only everything up to the first line break after the >! gets hidden within a Details box.

Is that the way it's supposed to work?

EDIT - Not actually sure line break is the right term but hopefully you get what I mean.

site23 wrote:I've been kind of involved in this "secretly". It's not really a secret, but what I mean is I'm not spearheading it or officially part of the team; I just help Winckle out here and there.

It's no-one's fault, but I think something that hasn't been communicated well is that the problems we've had the forum recently -- slowing to a crawl, threads and searches not working properly -- are going to get worse and worse until the forum just doesn't really work.

If we keep going as we are, eventually there will be a 'gooseberry fool Tuesday' and the forum just won't come back up. The problem will be too big for Winckle to solve and the website will just disappear.

Migrating a database as old and broken as GRcade's to a new software is a really Herculean effort, which has taken Winckle about a year, and has been done to ensure the forum has a future.

It's not Winckle's or my intent to annoy anyone with the changes, drive anyone away, or come across as 'authoritarian'. Feedback is an important part of this process, and we're both monitoring this thread for feedback and implementing everything we can. The change isn't going to happen tomorrow: we'll make sure we've done as much as possible before hitting the switch. And I'm (gladly) not privy to this bit, but I'm sure nothing will happen without a go-ahead from the mod room, too.

But certain changes might not be possible. It's a different software with a different design philosophy.

Anyway, to address it directly, I'm looking at pages. It's not looking promising, because the extension support isn't there. That means I would have to program a system for us to use from scratch, and commit to maintaining it. The Flarum extension API is not guaranteed to be stable, so it means the forum software couldn't be updated (e.g. with security updates) without me looking at the pagination code I had written too. This is a lot to put on someone who isn't an admin or team member and doesn't really want to commit to being involved with this website. But I am thinking about it and if it seems feasible I will try my best.

Sorry for the long post.

Jenuall wrote:I'm not sure it even is less dramatic - the ship really is sinking and we could very well be strawberry floated if we don't do something sooner rather than later!

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Jenuall wrote:I'm not sure it even is less dramatic - the ship really is sinking and we could very well be strawberry floated if we don't do something sooner rather than later!

I agree with Jen – there's no way this could be considered less dramatic than drowning at sea.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Jenuall wrote:I'm not sure it even is less dramatic - the ship really is sinking and we could very well be strawberry floated if we don't do something sooner rather than later!

I agree with Jen – there's no way this could be considered less dramatic than drowning at sea. Don't you know how long it took me to get the post count to pull this off?!

Winckle wrote:If it helps user post count totals are migrated.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Jenuall wrote:I'm not sure it even is less dramatic - the ship really is sinking and we could very well be strawberry floated if we don't do something sooner rather than later!

I agree with Jen – there's no way this could be considered less dramatic than drowning at sea. Don't you know how long it took me to get the post count to pull this off?!

Herdanos wrote:Is it possible to change the icons that appear next to "Games" (the controller), "Stuff" (the star), etc? And if so can we change them to custom images or do we have to choose from a predetermined list?

Herdanos wrote:

Herdanos wrote:Is it possible to change the icons that appear next to "Games" (the controller), "Stuff" (the star), etc? And if so can we change them to custom images or do we have to choose from a predetermined list?

The reason I asked - I wonder if some of the less enthusiastic responses to the new design are in part motivated because the new homepage looks a bit (absolutely no offence intended here) generic? Whereas with current GR, the generic aspects have become familiar and thus treated fondly, but we also have custom touches in play (the custom logos, affiliate links, etc).

If saving the emoticons wholesale isn't an option we could use some of the current imagery on the homepage rather than the preset icons? See (very rough) example below:

(I used the SONM logo for the Games icon because [IIRC?] there was talk a few years ago about amending the forum logo [in part motivated out of fear we lack the rights to both the Pac-Man and Space Invader elements?] and it had been proposed we incorporate the SONM logo somehow, as a nod to their community being part of ours now - I figured this might achieve that! I also looked at incorporating the Grackler, until I learnt that GNamer is Still A Thing)

Herdanos wrote:I also looked at incorporating the Grackler, until I learnt that GNamer is Still A Thing)

Herdanos wrote:

Herdanos wrote:Is it possible to change the icons that appear next to "Games" (the controller), "Stuff" (the star), etc? And if so can we change them to custom images or do we have to choose from a predetermined list?

The reason I asked - I wonder if some of the less enthusiastic responses to the new design are in part motivated because the new homepage looks a bit (absolutely no offence intended here) generic? Whereas with current GR, the generic aspects have become familiar and thus treated fondly, but we also have custom touches in play (the custom logos, affiliate links, etc).

If saving the emoticons wholesale isn't an option we could use some of the current imagery on the homepage rather than the preset icons? See (very rough) example below:

(I used the SONM logo for the Games icon because [IIRC?] there was talk a few years ago about amending the forum logo [in part motivated out of fear we lack the rights to both the Pac-Man and Space Invader elements?] and it had been proposed we incorporate the SONM logo somehow, as a nod to their community being part of ours now - I figured this might achieve that! I also looked at incorporating the Grackler, until I learnt that GNamer is Still A Thing)