• CP Addon - links directly to file
• Modification Wordlets
• Smilie Mod
• Calendar
• Shoutbox
• Quick Reply - is obsolete with 6.7
• Games
• ELY_M's Upload - not fully functional
• Album
• Thumb Hack
• Advanced Text

• Shoutbox
• Modification Wordlets
• Quick Quote
• Smilie Mod
• Album
• Calendar - needs dates ported
• Even Advanced-er Text + some customization - still needs some work.
• Disable Recent Visitor Hiding
• Games 2.5.1 - Integrated
• Mod CP Addon
• News Fader
• UBB.Classic Thinking Clock
• Fsum Status
• You Last Visited Wording
• Logged And Resolved IP Addresses
• Recent Visitor Extensions
• DHTML Posting Icons
• Strike System
• Recycle Bin
• UBB.Uploader
• Subscribe To Topic
• Posts Don't Count
• Checkbox
• Spoiler
• Hypercells
• CP for Admins only
• Unlimited Public Display Names
• Edit User Name In CP
• User Specific Signature Disabling

• PM Folders 2.0 - Organizes PM's into Folders/Custom Folders.
• UBB.Announcements - Allows you to add announcements, which are similar to sticky threads, but appear in all forums.
• Polls... The Way They Were Meant To Be - Makes polls appear in your topic, not in a popup.
• Chat Mod - Lets you chat with jIRC. It has full CP support, it's 100% wordletized, it automatically gets the nick of the user/GuestXXXXX (5 random digits) if it's a guest, replaces smilies with real smilies, and shows how many people are currently chatting, but would like a free version.

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
The HTML hack was removed because it caused some issues. No traces of it exist in the cgi files anymore.

So, these other hack 'wants'. Are they ones you've worked with or just want to try? I've looked over the News Fader before but didn't know if it was appropriate for our site.

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quote:

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Originally posted by STU:
Custom Username Font & Glow sounds cool!

(Though somewhat frivolous...)

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Tried it. It's not a possiblility for right now. It'll take too much work to get it compatible with our board. It requires things that we are using for other items.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
Were you testing the "username font & glow" with Icefire? It seemed so about four hours ago.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Sort of.

There was some residual effects of my trying to add the hack. I noticed several names "glowing" before I finally cleared the cache.

But no, I didn't touch any individual's profile. It just seemed to affect some people in some threads.

[ January 21, 2004, 04:01 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
In order to ease the pain of losing my stats hack, I've added the following hacks:

Font Type
Underline
Different Size
Color
Centered

[ January 21, 2004, 05:05 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
In order to ease the pain of losing my stats hack, I've added the folowing hacks: ...
Centered

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:

quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
In order to ease the pain of losing my stats hack, I've added the folowing hacks: ...
Centered

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What, no righty Nighty?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
In order to ease the pain of losing my stats hack, I've added the following hacks:

Font Type
Underline
Different Size
Color
Centered

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Testing...
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
Cool!!!

BIG HUG to Nighty!

[ January 21, 2004, 05:35 AM: Message edited by: STU ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Thanks!

But that hurts my eyes.
 

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Posted by STU on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
Thanks!

But that hurts my eyes.

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We always hurt the ones we ...

By the way, any chance we could have a hack that makes Shout Box shouts count as posts? Oh, all right... that was just wishful thinking...

[ January 21, 2004, 06:05 AM: Message edited by: STU ]
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
Thanks!

But that hurts my eyes.

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Well, its your own fault for using this colour scheme
 

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Posted by Povvin the Martian on :
 
Stoopid Catt hacked a hairball on Stu's bed... His Tribbles have adopted it, though.
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Y'Know
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Hey, no posting while I'm trying to achieve a specific colour effect. That text's invisible now
 

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Posted by Stoopid Cat on :
 
**Purr**
 

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Posted by Pagan Lass on :
 
testing
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

Right Aligned

Red TextBig TextUnderlined Text (makes all images 200x***)Centered TextComic Sans Ms Font Face

^
above

code:

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[right]Right Aligned[/right]
[color=red]Red Text[/COLOR]
[size=7]Big Text[/size]
[u]Underlined Text[/u] 
[THUMB]http://www.legionworld.net/ubb/smile.gif[/THUMB] (makes all images 200x***)
[center]Centered Text[/center]
[font=Comic Sans Ms]Comic Sans Ms Font Face[/font] 

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[ February 12, 2004, 02:56 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 


Whoa!
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Re: The flag thing

Any chance of getting a Saltire (Scottish flag). I really don't want to end up with a Union flag.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Sure. I'll add it in a few...

[EDIT: Did it. ]

[ February 16, 2004, 03:31 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
No more "Hide from Recent Visitors," eh?
 

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Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
How about state flags?
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by STU:
No more "Hide from Recent Visitors," eh?

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Nope. Be seen, be proud.

quote:

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Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
How about state flags?

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I'll need to make them. I'll try to get to them this week.
 

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Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
That's okay. Whenever you get to 'em is fine.
 

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Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
 
Oh, but I guess I could mention that Virginia is the one I really want...
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Hey - LL. Since when are you in the UK?
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
How about a Legion flag -- maybe just the L* logo on a blue background?
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:
Hey - LL. Since when are you in the UK?

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It's an election year. I'd rather people not know I was from the U.S. right now.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by STU:
How about a Legion flag -- maybe just the L* logo on a blue background?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
That kind of defeats the point.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:

quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:
Hey - LL. Since when are you in the UK?

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It's an election year. I'd rather people not know I was from the U.S. right now.

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LOL (although the Utah kinda defeats the point )

Hey - where ARE the flags anyway? They're not showing up here & now.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
I was just going to ask that same question. I just logged into the FTP and the folder is gone. Is Gary still hanging around? I just finished up the U.S. State flags too.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Hmm. Not only is the flag directory gone but the ability to choose a flag in the profile has been removed too. I wonder if Gary is working on the hack. Strange that it would just disappear.
 

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Posted by Bedlam Lad on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:

quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:
Hey - LL. Since when are you in the UK?

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It's an election year. I'd rather people not know I was from the U.S. right now.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
Hmm. Not only is the flag directory gone but the ability to choose a flag in the profile has been removed too. I wonder if Gary is working on the hack. Strange that it would just disappear.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Bedlam Lad:

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:

quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:
Hey - LL. Since when are you in the UK?

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It's an election year. I'd rather people not know I was from the U.S. right now.

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Word of Warning about the Union Jack from a real Brit. Wave my nations flag in my nation, and everyone will think that you belong to the BNP (British National Party) and will take you to be a drunken rasist skinhead.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Bedlam Lad:
Which is the why I envy American patriots. They can wave a flag and no one will think you're a nazi. The BNP gets right up my nose.

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Reminds me of a story a pal told me - SAS troops and Delta Force (US equiv.) troops were on a training mission together. One night the SAS troops got drunk and burned an American flag, which P.O.ed the Yanks, so the following night they burned a Union flag to try and piss the SASers off. The SAS troops proceeded to join in by burning a Union flag too [Apparently at least four-fifths of them were Scottish, for the record]

I have no idea whether any of this is true, but I find it amusing enough that it's worth repeating

[ February 17, 2004, 09:38 AM: Message edited by: Sanity or Madness? ]
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
I want a British flag! I'm an anglophile, and proud of it!
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Wow, I thought this was a thread about Chuck Austen!
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
Or about my recurring cough!
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
I didn't know you had a cough still Stu. Sorry to hear about that. But when I look at your Avatar and think of you coughing I get an image of Kramer listening to Rusty the dog who had a cough that sounds like a human one. Guess I watch too much Seinfeld.
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
That's OK... I'm getting used to it.

BTW, have you seen the commercial with the smoking dog? It's kinda surreal...

[ February 17, 2004, 08:24 PM: Message edited by: STU ]
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
I haven't seen the smoking dog but I have seen the collie that scares the cougar with his Matrix moves.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
bold
italics
underline
center

right

link
legionadmin@legionworld.net

code:

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code

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quote:

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Quote

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• list item 1
• list item 2

marquee
strike
Font
size
TextPink
blink

Damn. Blink only works in Netscape. I'll have to work on that.

Don't mind me, I'm just playing.

[ February 19, 2004, 06:28 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
Is strike a word with a line through it? I want that too!

What's marquee?
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Ta Dah! I made my first original modification! (Of course I used the Advanced Text as a guide.)

If I don't figure out how to get blinking to work in I.E., I'll change that button to something else.
 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 
What does Marquee do?
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Varalent:
What does Marquee do?

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I don't know.
 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 
Let's find out then, shall we?
 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 
Do you notice anything special about the post above? I don't I tried "Marquee" and that's what I got.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
You don't see it moving from left to right, back and forth?
 

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Posted by minesurfer on :
 
Just a couple things...

1. So "hacks" are a good thing now?

2. And the dog from Seinfeld was Smuckers (sorry Scott, but my wife loves that dog/episode), Rusty was the horse that Kramer fed chili or beans.
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
BAD marquees. BAD!
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by minesurfer:
Just a couple things...

1. So "hacks" are a good thing now?

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quote:

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Originally posted by minesurfer:

2. And the dog from Seinfeld was Smuckers (sorry Scott, but my wife loves that dog/episode), Rusty was the horse that Kramer fed chili or beans.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:
BAD marquees. BAD!

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
You don't see it moving from left to right, back and forth?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Varalent:
Nope

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
You don't see it moving from left to right, back and forth?

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Nope. Looks just like any old word just sitting there. I'm using Netscape so perhaps it only works with IE?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:

quote:

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Originally posted by Varalent:
Nope

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
You don't see it moving from left to right, back and forth?

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Nope. Looks just like any old word just sitting there. I'm using Netscape so perhaps it only works with IE?

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No, it should be working in Netscape too. Gary tested them with both. That's why he didn't install the Flash hack since it didn't work with IE, only Netscape. Maybe its the version you are using. I'm sure Gary tested with the latest one but don't know for sure. What version are you using and we'll ask Gary when he come back on-line.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:

quote:

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Originally posted by Varalent:
Nope

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
You don't see it moving from left to right, back and forth?

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Nope. Looks just like any old word just sitting there. I'm using Netscape so perhaps it only works with IE?

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No, it should be working in Netscape too. Gary tested them with both. That's why he didn't install the Flash hack since it didn't work with IE, only Netscape. Maybe its the version you are using. I'm sure Gary tested with the latest one but don't know for sure. What version are you using and we'll ask Gary when he come back on-line.

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No BLINKing in IE though (thank God...)

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Don't thank your deity just yet SoM. Gary is still working on it and plans to install it if he can make it work in both Netscape and IE.
 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 
Netscape 6.2 at work (where I am now) 7.something at home.
 

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Posted by Pov on :
 





[ February 20, 2004, 06:35 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Varalent:
Netscape 6.2 at work (where I am now) 7.something at home.

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Try at home when you can and see if it works there. If not then we've got something to worry Gary about.
 

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Posted by minesurfer on :
 


Just had to test these new "hacks" out for myself.
 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:

quote:

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Originally posted by Varalent:
Netscape 6.2 at work (where I am now) 7.something at home.

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Try at home when you can and see if it works there. If not then we've got something to worry Gary about.

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Ahhhaaa! Now I see what all the excitment is about. Seems to work fine with Netscape 7.0.

Cool! Now I can play!!
 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 
Bummer! This should move & blink and should be yellow too! Gary! No fair! Mines is bwoke!!!!

NB: The above was supposed to be yellow; be blinking; and be slidding back and forth. Upon trying it I got nothing other than what appeared to be the trailing exclamation point almost completely hidden to the far left. When that didn't work I removed the blink command and and continued to get the same thing. Finally I removed the color command and managed to get marquee to work.

[ February 19, 2004, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Varalent ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Bummer! This should move & blink and should be yellow too! Gary! No fair! Mines is bwoke!!!!


You guys are trying too hard! It's simple, it's easy! It's basic HTML made into UBB Code!
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
And, SoM, just for you I'm going to figure out how to get blinking to work in I.E.!

I know the HTML code to do it, I just need to figure out how to get the board to recognize it.

And Minesurfer, Hacks in this case = Modifications to the board that add more features.

Tutorial will follow...
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 


[ February 19, 2004, 03:16 PM: Message edited by: Cobalt Kid ]
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Well, I kind of figured it out ! I'm getting there!
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
You just needed to lose the IMG tags. They aren't needed for Smilies.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

code:

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[B]bold[/B]
[I]italics[/I]
[U]underline[/U]
[CENTER]center[/CENTER]
[RIGHT]right[/RIGHT]
[IMG]http://www.legionworld.net/ubb/birthday.gif[/IMG]
[THUMB]http://www.legionworld.net/ubb/birthday.gif[/THUMB]
[QUOTE]
Quote
[/QUOTE][list]
[*]list item 1
[*]list item 2
[/LIST]
[MARQUEE]marquee[/MARQUEE]
[STRIKE]strike[/STRIKE]
[FONT=Impact]Font[/FONT]
[SIZE=6]size[/SIZE]  
[COLOR=Pink]TextPink[/COLOR]
[BLINK]blink[/BLINK] 

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The above (without the code tag) will then appear as this:

bold
italics
underline
center

right

quote:

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Quote

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• list item 1
• list item 2

marquee
strike
Font
size
TextPink
blink

Don't over think it.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Oh! And if you use more than one at a time. Close them from last to first:

code:

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[B]
[I]
[U]
[MARQUEE]
[STRIKE]
[SIZE=4]
[FONT=IMPACT]
[COLOR=RED]
[BLINK]
bold, italics, underline, marquee, strike, size, font, color, & blink
[/BLINK]
[/COLOR]
[/FONT]
[/SIZE]
[/STRIKE]
[/MARQUEE]
[/U]
[/I]
[/B]

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bold, italics, underline, marquee, strike, size, font, color, & blink

Ugh! That's not very pretty.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
I forgot to add that the HTML used for these features is in some cases browser specific. There's some ways around it, like using a whole bunch of cross-browser code rather than the simple HTML tags, but I'm not sure yet how to get that to translate into UBB.

[ February 20, 2004, 04:30 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
<font size="4]bold, italics, underline, marquee, strike, size, font, color, & blink[/size]

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How annoying. This comes across as a blinking red ! in Netscape.
 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 
That's what was happening to me when I combined color, blinking and marquee.
 

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Posted by STU on :
 
Ugh! All this moving... around... is starting to make me feel... *urp*


[ February 19, 2004, 07:41 PM: Message edited by: STU ]
 

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Posted by Pov on :
 
It makes ME feel like
DANCING!


 

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Posted by Varalent on :
 

 

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Posted by STU on :
 
Blink 182

Blink doesn't work for me...

[ February 20, 2004, 08:48 PM: Message edited by: STU ]
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Gary is still working on it. Right now it only works for Netscape.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Blink is an HTML code that Netscape uses to make text flash. Internet Explorer does not have a code like that or recognize the blink code. In order to make it work for Internet Explorer, I have to trick it using complex commands. Although I know the HTML language that can do it, I'm not sure how to get the board to recognize it as UBB Code, ala [BLINK], etc.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
In the same way, I thought that "marquee" was an IE function that does not exist in Netscape/Mozilla. Yet that seems to display perfectly in my Netscape 7.02. Was that a similar bit of finagling?
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Greybird:
In the same way, I thought that "marquee" was an IE function that does not exist in Netscape/Mozilla. Yet that seems to display perfectly in my Netscape 7.02. Was that a similar bit of finagling?

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code:

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<style>
<!--
blink 
-->
</style>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--

function doBlink() 
{var blink = document.all.tags("BLINK")
for (var i=0; i<blink.length; i++)
blink[i].style.visibility = blink[i].style.visibility == "" ? "hidden" : ""}

function startBlink() 
{if (document.all)
setInterval("doBlink()",1000)}

window.onload = startBlink;

//-->
</script>

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quote:

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:

code:

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<style>
<!--
blink 
-->
</style>

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--

function doBlink() 
{var blink = document.all.tags("BLINK")
for (var i=0; i<blink.length; i++)
blink[i].style.visibility = blink[i].style.visibility == "" ? "hidden" : ""}

function startBlink() 
{if (document.all)
setInterval("doBlink()",1000)}

window.onload = startBlink;

//-->
</script>

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My brain hurts.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Sorry Stu. So does mine but I have to work with it every day. If you want your head to explode, you should see what I'm working on using my laptop from work I brought home for the weekend.

[ February 21, 2004, 03:48 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
To keep track of all the cool stuff I want to add.


 

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Posted by Sonnie Bloke on :
 
Hack attempt logged or corrupt/altered member file found with extra fields. ('00000005')

» Please use your browser's back button to return.

This has popped up a few timeswhen I try to look at certain threads - am I now corrupt? Sounds like fun...

I'm sure it's nothing major so am not too fussed but thought you may like to know....
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
See here, Sonnie.
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
The clocks on the front page are fine (although I bet they're going to cause even more confusion with timed polls in the Vote-O-Matic)

But that damn fader causes a red mist to pass before my eyes...
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:
The clocks on the front page are fine (although I bet they're going to cause even more confusion with timed polls in the Vote-O-Matic)

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quote:

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Clock Hack:
Your Time: 02:30:04 AM. Board's Time: 06:30:04 PM

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quote:

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Voting stops at 28 April, 2004 07:59 AM board time.

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...is "Your Time" on the Clock Hack!

[Test it out - play about with your time-offset in your profile. It changes with the offset you have]

And this has come up before, it's not as if it's a purely theoretical thing.

[God, I'm starting to sound like Grey. Please, someone, shoot me in the head...]

[Not literally, BTW]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Now I'm confused. In all honesty since "Board Time" and my time are the same, the clock says "Current Time: Blah, Blah, Blah" for me.

But, the message that you posted is at 6:33 PM and the board time you quote is 6:30 PM. Isn't that right?

[ April 23, 2004, 05:49 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
Now I'm confused. In all honesty since "Board Time" and my time are the same, the clock says "Current Time: Blah, Blah, Blah" for me.

But, the message that you posted is at 6:33 PM and the board time you quote is 6:30 PM. Isn't that right?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
So, what you're saying is the poll is wrong. It's not displaying board time, it's displaying your offset time that the poll closes.

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Yes.

I'm just saying this has caused confusion before, and with an actual "board time" clock elsewhere, I doubt people'd be less confused. The ideal solution would be to fix the poll term, but last time I asked you said you couldn't do that, or somesuch.

[ April 23, 2004, 06:37 AM: Message edited by: Sanity or Madness? ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Well, now that I know more of the programing side of things, I'll see what I can do.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Done.

[ April 23, 2004, 06:43 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
That's better - you couldn't have done that before?
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
What, and miss out on all of your haranguing?
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Okay, at risk of sounding "haranguing" - can you please put the recent posters bit back where it was?

Pretty please?
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
No. But thanks for asking.

[ April 28, 2004, 05:36 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Thanks
 

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Posted by Spellbinder on :
 
Can you find a hack so that when you enter a forum, a voice will come over the speakers saying "Welcome to (whatever the name of the forum might be)". I think that offers a friendly, warm, Wal-Marty feel to the boards. Whistling smilie faces are, of course, optional
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Spellbinder:
Can you find a hack so that when you enter a forum, a voice will come over the speakers saying "Welcome to (whatever the name of the forum might be)". I think that offers a friendly, warm, Wal-Marty feel to the boards. Whistling smilie faces are, of course, optional

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I'll look into it.
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
What I see @ the top of the LW home page (response to shoutbox bit):


 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Gary - it's my custom title for sure. If I change that to simply "test," both avatar and status turn up.

I wonder - could it be something to do with the fact that the UBB never sticks and I have to re-enter my title every time I edit the profile because the font size info turns into HTML?
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

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Originally posted by Sanity or Madness?:
I wonder - could it be something to do with the fact that the UBB never sticks and I have to re-enter my title every time I edit the profile because the font size info turns into HTML?

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Originally posted by Greybird:
I thought the fader may be one of those Netscape's-unique-HTML-quirks issues, but Gary said in tonight's Shoutbox that he could see it with v7.1.

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Nope. You're right. Since I only logged on enough to check real quick, I didn't noticed that it wasn't fading just showing the words. This fader.js is supposed to work on all the major browsers. Obviously v7.1 has made some changes since then.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
[Sanity or Madness?]
{[...] And this has come up before, it's not as if it's a purely theoretical thing. (God, I'm starting to sound like Grey. Please, someone, shoot me in the head ...) (Not literally, BTW)}

I resemble that remark! ;)

I'm really that much of a grouse? You're catching up and surpassing me these days, amigo ... 'tis the nature of bug reports, though. Don't shoot the messenger, even when it's via AOL Instant Messenger {g}
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Test for the posting icon on the quick reply.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
The front-page Current Time display seems to be 12 hours off, as it's now displaying 12:18:00 AM (PDT), where it should be 12:18 PM. Time stamps are otherwise correct for the forums, posted messages, and edited messages.

(By the way, I've posted a few notes here in SPHQ about such bugs and board hacks so that they'll have a record, and not to "shout" about them twice to get them noticed. Gary notices things quickly. What's posted in the front-page Shoutbox, though, evaporates pretty quickly with new shouts being added ... unless the shouts are archived?)

[ April 29, 2004, 12:36 PM: Message edited by: Greybird ]
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
Oh, now THAT is strange ... it's 1:10 PM (PDT), and the Current Time display now says, you guessed it, 1:10 PM, as it ought to.

Whatever script creates this time display is parsing the hour after noon as being "AM"! (And, presumably, the hour after midnight as being "PM".) Yoicks!

Methinks somebody "sold" Gary a lemon of a Current Time script *sigh*
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Gary just curious if this was a hack you installed or if it was part of the upgrade. But since when don't we have to use the [url] code to post an url?
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Scott - that's been there from the start. Heck it was around on the oldDCMB's version of UBB, and that was v5.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
That's interesting because even back on the old DCMB if I posted a relative url I had to put the code in otherwise it was just text instead of an active link.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Here's another question. In the new Shanghalla why does my edit in the Waid/Kitson thread come up as edited by Annoying Lad? Especially when I was the one to edit it.

And I have to ask is having a repository for all edits made really worth while, especially since it will cause an extra load on the server? I edit my posts frequently and hate to think of how much more space that will take up.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
I'm gathering the impression that some of us are reporting more bugs than Gary or Scott would prefer to hear about -- or, perhaps, even have the time to talk about or deal with. Which last I could certainly understand. Still, I know I don't want to offend either of them.

Should I not have said anything about the main-page "Current Time" clock not working properly? (Once gain, the hour periods starting at midnight, as "00:01 AM", and noon, as "12:01 AM", are not really displaying accurately.)

I ask this because nobody, in the SP HQ thread or in the Shoutbox, has said anything at all in response about it for four days. So I have to wonder if I, and others, are reporting too much. Scott did call it "haranguing."

Nothing personal, but I don't want to be wasting either your time or mine, or cluttering this forum or the Shoutbox. If you would rather not have reports from us about such things, I, for one, will stop posting them. Please tell us on the board if we should stop doing so.
 

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Posted by Spellbinder on :
 
Perhaps you should report them only in this forum. It seems redundant to post something in the shoutbox, and then turn around and repost the exact same thing in here.

As for not hearing and responses, perhaps patience is the key. It was a weekend, and I know that Gary and Scott have been busy with both work and personal stuff.

No reply doesn't mean that the problem isn't on the list of things to check on. You can be sure that the founders are checking this forum for problems, and will address them as soon as possible. Some things take longer than others, however.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
I guess my use of after saying haranguing wasn't enough. I was just trying to have a bit of fun with a topic that can become too serious and teasing SoM about his persistence in posting.

I cannot speak for Gary but I do like to see the notices of bugs and problems even if it is not something I can help out with. With the hack for the clock I'd have to let Gary say if its a problem or the code. Heck I'd be happy to look over the code but I know Gary has been busy (as have I).

Actually, I've just attributed the mix up of AM and PM to the programmer probably being from Utah. I'm constantly trying to convince the people I work with, that were brought up around here, that Noon is PM not AM. Yet we continue to see e-mails and official announcements with 12:00 AM Noon being used. I don't know what it is with the education system around here but I'm sure glad I didn't have to go through it nor do I have to put any children through it.
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 

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Originally posted by Lightning Lad:
Here's another question. In the new Shanghalla why does my edit in the Waid/Kitson thread come up as edited by Annoying Lad? Especially when I was the one to edit it.

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Two possibilities leap to mind:

1) Someone's trying to tell you something

2) The topic was started by Annoying Lad, hence all the edits are "posted" by AL. The thing still says "This post was edited by: Lightning Lad " at the top anyway. This would be consistent with what's happening in all the other topics.

I'd say the fact that Shangella topics turn up in the Last Posts counts as a bug tho.

[ May 03, 2004, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: Sanity or Madness? ]
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Apparantly the "Last Post" column on the main page of Shanghalla really doesn't work either since it just mirrors the thread starter instead of the actual last poster.

And I had thought that someone was trying to tell me I was Annoying but figured I hadn't been post-whoring enough lately that anyone would think that.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
I'm sorry about my apparently missing Scott's smilie. It seems he meant his comment to SoM to be facetious or, as he said, "teasing."

I admit to being mystified at times by what some of the smilies are supposed to signify. No tip-tags appear in my browser with a hovering cursor for any of the smilies or icons (except Tyroc, strangely), if that's helping to explain them.

That's why I've turned off the graemlins in my own posts. Using ASCII may not be as exciting, but it's almost always clear these days as to what semicolon-dash-rightparen means.

As for using the Shoutbox as well as this thread, the box seemed to be what was generally preferred last week in diagnosing problems in something closer to real time -- such as the apostrophes in personal titles futzing up the Your Info display. Posting the details here, as well, backs it up and makes a record that won't scroll off, as the Shoutbox does.

I know most have busy weekends, it's just that nobody seemed to notice the bug reports. I'm usually more patient than this, true enough, and I apologize if the premature hot weather has gotten to me, as I fear it has.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
[Spellbinder]
{[...] No reply doesn't mean that the problem isn't on the list of things to check on. You can be sure that the founders are checking this forum for problems, and will address them as soon as possible. Some things take longer than others, however. }

I think all of these items were fairly obvious already. We really don't need such condescending comments. Despite how I was often described by some parties back on the LMBP Group, I'm not completely clueless about such matters of human relations.

(Yes, I know that's sounding catty and is, probably, heat-spurred. I was, however, bringing up specific points, including a reaction to an earlier appraisal of such reports -- however much I was misinterpreting Scott.)
 

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Posted by Spellbinder on :
 
Grey, if I decide to be condescending, I'll be certain to make it blatantly obvious. I was simply trying to offer feedback. Obviously I'm not on your list of founders worth listening to. I'll try not to make that mistake again.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

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Originally posted by Greybird:
I know most have busy weekends, it's just that nobody seemed to notice the bug reports. I'm usually more patient than this, true enough, and I apologize if the premature hot weather has gotten to me, as I fear it has.

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I read everything in this forum and in the shoutbox. And yes, it's been a busy weekend. I've looked over the clock and haven't been able to figure it out on my own, so I've sought out help.

Even if I don't respond, assume I know about it and will deal with it when I can.

Some of the other items, like the edits showing in last post for a day was on purpose to "see" how it worked. It's hard to get a "feel" for things when you don't have access to a test board.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
And just to make things more clearer -

Yes, please let me know if something isn't working properly or looks odd. I would like to know these things to see if I can fix them.

However, with that said. Remember this is a hobby and not my paying gig. Patience is the key. Knowing about a problem and knowing how to fix it are two different things. It's taking me this long to feel comfortable enough to add the features that I've added to date. Bear with me please.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
All of Gary's and Scott's efforts to remedy software and server problems, and their attention to the murky details, remain truly appreciated. I tender my regrets once again for this largely heat-induced impatience.

As for 'Cru, I wrongly overlooked a clearly positive motive, whatever I disliked in style of expression, and thus also regret my itchy trigger finger of 'tude. (Ten of them, as I touch-type.)
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Also, I just want to add re:Shanghalla, that should a user accidently delete or edit out something by accident or should an Advisor edit/delete a member's post in error (such as meaning to reply rather than edit), please let me know immediately and I'll try to salvage the post.

It's what I intend to use the Recycle Bin feature for in the future. It's not meant to be nosey or pick on those of us who can't spell anything right the first time. (Like me.)
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Remember Gary, people who always spell right are big dorks and nerds! Those are the kind of people who should be made fun of and picked on by those of us who are too cool for spellcheck!
 

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Posted by Pov on :
 
I wonder if Gary can program the spellcheck to be mandatory for SOME posters...
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
Eye due knot belief inn spell cheque pro grams. Won Cannes two easily bye pass their Benny fish awl ell Lee mints with inn tier lee legume it ant words. Ore with alter native spell links or super fluids space Hess.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
The above passed the spell check, by the way, except for "cheque," which shows that the programmers are CANADIANPHOBIC! How dare they! Fat Cramer and Arachne, go lynch 'em.

Programs are fine, but a cerebral cortex trained from reading voraciously at an early age -- as is true of the best spellers -- now, that's better.
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 

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Originally posted by Greybird:
The above passed the spell check, by the way, except for "cheque," which shows that the programmers are CANADIANPHOBIC! How dare they! Fat Cramer and Arachne, go lynch 'em.

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And UK-phobic! As well as "cheque," which is the spelling in the UK too, colour, valour, metre, defence, etc.
 

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Posted by Sanity or Madness? on :
 
Suggestion/request:

Any way you could set things up so that if you're not logged in when you try to post, you can just type your username/password in on the posting screen, and log in at the same time you make a post, rather than having to go via a seperate login screen?

It's not a big deal, just that I know a guy who's having trouble getting his logins to stick long enough to post.
 

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Posted by UTS on :
 
Minor request re: avatars -- can you put a "back/last page" link on the first page, that takes you to the last page? (Did that make sense?)
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Have read requests - will look into them.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 




[ May 25, 2004, 04:40 PM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Here's a question, although I don't know if is the thread to ask it in :

How do you make a link to a specific post. A specific page is easy, just copy the page link, but can it be done for a specific post? Just curious.
 

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Posted by Spellbinder on :
 
Cobie, see the little Legion flag at the top of your post, next to "posted May 28, 2004..."? Right-click on that, and choose "copy shortcut."

Then, when you compose the post that you want to include the link in, use the full reply form and paste what you just copied into the new post using the URL button in the Instant UBB Code section below the post box.
 

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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 
Thanks Cru! I've been wondering how to that for awhile! I never realized that those flags were links before...
 

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Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
 
Gary, on the spell check hack, when did it start having banner ads? That might be a problem if someone from DC were to see it. I know it isn't ours and we don't earn anything from it but their lawyers won't care.
 

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Posted by Nightchangeling on :
 
I didn't add it. It must be from the service that the hack uses. Do I need to remove Spell Check?
 

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Posted by Deathstroke Lad on :
 
I figured it had been added by the spell check host. I'm not sure. Grey could answer better than I could on the legalize of it. It appears the banners I've seen are for non-profit companies but DC might not care.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
It's not so much a matter of legality, as one of what would tempt DC's lawyers to cause grief for a site like LW.net. We rely on extensive "fair use" of DC material and trademarks, and on their being lenient about fan art and fan fiction.

In the past, any banner advertising has been a red flag in front of those charging bulls -- when they look at a site at all, that is. Whole individual-fan sites have been taken down because of it. Non-profit or for-profit, doesn't matter -- it's third-party ads that get their goat.

The spell check is well-buried, but if it won't run without pulling up banner ads, I'd suggest that you remove or replace it.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
I've noticed the only time it'll pull up the banner ad is if you are actually spell-checking. If you hit it with having anything to check then no banner shows.

As much as I'd hate to get rid of Gary's hard work I'd agree with Steve. Get rid of it. With the reboot and all the effort going into it (just the names of Waid/Kitson alone) we don't want to give DC any reason to issue us a cease and desist.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Damn! I use it a lot! I won't be able to touch it until next week though.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Okay. We've upgraded to 6.7.2. I've also removed Spell Check. Please let me know if you experience any problems. Thanks.

[ October 12, 2004, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Loser Lad on :
 
Dang. I'll miss the spell check. I used it all the time. I understand why it had to be removed, but losing it still sucks...
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Sorry Lou and Gary. I wouldn't have even brought it up but banner ads, especially on sites like ours, just are too scary to chance. I'd rather copy and paste my posts into Word or something else and do a spellcheck than risk a chance of losing the site.

Everything seems to be going great guns so far Gary. Anything new we should be watching for with 6.7.2?

[ October 12, 2004, 07:56 AM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

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- The Accelerator should now run properly under PHP 5.
- Added some checks to stop the error resulting from topic move notification emails from being sent to unregistered / deleted users.
- Recent Visitors should now more accurately count visits to private forums from users in certain configurations.
- The mass mail tool should now always respect the user's opt-in/opt-out preference.
- The private message notification icon should now appear if you have registration suspended.
- Added the PM notification icon to the Today's Active Topics page when it is NOT requested from the Accelerator.
- The suggested time offset on the registration page is now calculated correctly.
- Avatars are now saved properly during initial registration. You may need to update your Avatar Settings to correct this problem fully.
- A portion of Javascript code on the FAQ page now no longer prints at the top of the HTML output.
- The initial setup routine now properly uses the Variables Path for certain checks.
- Fixed an Accelerator check that could result in a 404 error when running in spider friendly mode and compatibility mode

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Posted by Loser Lad on :
 
No worries Scott. I totally understand why it had to go. No need to give DC's lawyers anything to gnash their teeth over. You're right, of course. It's better to spell check a post in Word or some other program (Google makes a fairly good spell checker for individual words and short phrases) than risk losing the board entirely because of the banner ads.

And Gary, so far everything seems to be running properly for me too.
 

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Posted by Reboot on :
 
Well, I never used the Spell check, since (even discounting character names), it was allergic to colour.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Like any decent spell check should be.
 

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Posted by Greybird on :
 
The main page still displays the generic Sun Boy icon at the top, instead of my own avatar. (I changed it and changed it back, then logged out and back in, no difference.) Did you mention that the next software upgrade was expected to correct that database glitch? It doesn't seem to have done so.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
That was back when I thought it was our software that was the problem or that I would able to solve the problem on my end.

Recent information by PowWeb has given me a greater understanding of what the problem is.

Our website is being spread across several servers. PowWeb did this to us back in late July the week before Comic-Con. Some of the files in the Member's folder above the root have been permanately effected by this change. Those of us who attempted to log on those fateful evenings.

And right now most of our problems can be linked to this. In fact, the recent slowdowns and missing pages are due to the fact that they are either still working on spreading us or adding other sites to our virtual servers or something.

Anyway, I was hoping an upgrade would knock some sense into the avatar issue, but it did not.
 

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Posted by Reboot on :
 

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Originally posted by Nightcrawler:
Some of the files in the Member's folder above the root have been permanately effected by this change. Those of us who attempted to log on those fateful evenings.

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Originally posted by Reboot:
Wait... d'you mean that, even when you finally manage to escape this godforsaken host, all the glitches they've caused might still be around?

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Based on the fact that they still existed on the temp board I set up on Legionpics.net, yes.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Test

[ August 07, 2005, 02:57 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Okay. From now on use a : instead of a = to change the size of your text.

This way you can edit and quote without it becoming HTML gibberish. However, now anything below "8" is pretty unreadable. The above size was originally 10, now I had to use 50 to get it that size.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
test

[ August 08, 2005, 04:54 PM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
TestClick Here For A SpoilerI will be hidden until clickedTest


TestClick Here To Show Hidden TextHello!Test

[ November 08, 2005, 01:59 AM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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Posted by Reboot on :
 
What is the point of the checkbox? Can you do anything with it, or is it just... there for decoration?
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 

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Originally posted by Reboot:
What is the point of the checkbox? Can you do anything with it, or is it just... there for decoration?

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This is the purpose of the checkbox.

But, if anyone else wants to add it to a post, for any reason they are free to do so.
 

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Posted by DrakeB3004 on :
 
Testthis spoiler box thing is nifty!and the new reply tabs are cool too!Test
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Thanks, Drake. It's still quirker than I like. I'm playing around with it in my spare time to make it better.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Gary, did you turn off the editing notation? I just edited a post and, while it was edited, it doesn't say it was.

Click Here For A SpoilerTesting edit
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
I set it so that you can edit within 2 minutes of your post (spelling errors and the like) and not have it shown as edited.
 

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Posted by Lightning Lad on :
 
Cool. That's what most of my edits wind up being. My fingers can't keep up with my brain most of the time.
 

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Posted by Nightcrawler on :
 
Click Here For A SpoilerTesting...Active Topics?

Hmmm...looks like it works!

[ February 21, 2006, 06:58 PM: Message edited by: Nightcrawler ]
 

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