Known issues/phpBB3 wish list

[Mr. Flay]

Not without completely restructuring PMs, as far as I can tell. You are welcome to search phpbb.com and prove me wrong/find an example, but they're saying it's by design.

[Porochaz]

Urgh, Im guessing youve been asked before. Im suprised it wasnt on the list. Im not sure what Id be looking for and I wouldnt be able to do it until later on in the month...

[Battousai]

What about viewing first post on every page? I know it is low priority, but I'm hoping you could get to it soon. It's pretty helpful, especially when mods include their last post count in the OP.

[ZONEACE]

I know it's been mentioned in the thread, but I don't see it on the opening post so I'll mention it again (and probably get yelled at for missing something about it elsewhere in the thread) but the Jumping to a specific page number in the thread


ETA

Did we lose sexes for a reason?

[Nobody Special]

To the left of the page-number boxes, there is a link that says "Page 13 of 13" -- click that and you get a popup box that allows you to enter a page number to jump to.

# Gender and other custom profile fields - The data's still available, but I didn't finalize what way to present it. Estimated completion: 8/7.

[ZONEACE]

To the left of the page-number boxes, there is a link that says "Page 13 of 13" -- click that and you get a popup box that allows you to enter a page number to jump to.

# Gender and other custom profile fields - The data's still available, but I didn't finalize what way to present it. Estimated completion: 8/7.

ooh Page x of x is clickable. FANCY!

And good, I can't wait to have my (and everyone else's) sex back, it will make catching up on "guys pt 2" slightly less confusing.

[Mr. Flay]

Yeah, the "Page X of X" thing needs to go in our FAQ Real Soon Now.

And good, I can't wait to have my (and everyone else's) sex back, it will make catching up on "guys pt 2" slightly less confusing.

Yeah, obviously the 7th won't happen (blame Diablo II and the Mayans), but it's near the top of my list. I'm working on Preview on Hover right now, it's installed but not working right.

[Mr. Flay]

Preview on Hover is working again - but it may not be where you expect it. Hover the thread title in a forum, and you should get the first ~170 characters. I may get it working as well for last post of a thread, but that's for later. The new version allows us to exclude the content of certain bbcode tags from the preview, so if you can think of others we need to avoid, let me know. I've already ditched quote, spoiler, code, table, and img.

Also fiddled with some icons earlier (mostly fixing a bug with the PM button on Silver, and the Announcement icons in Sepia). If anything's missing/broken, let me know.

[Nobody Special]

did you move the Reply (Submit, whatever) button to the far right? If so, can you put it back?

[Mr. Flay]

Yeah, I need to coordinate all of those so they're the same 'way'. Can you help by spotting all the places those buttons are found, and what order they're in currently?

Right now I can think of: Quick Reply, Reply Editor, PM Editor, and Signature. What else is there?

[Nobody Special]

These are all the places I found buttons of this type:


Quick reply: Submit, Preview

Reply Editor: Save Draft, Preview, Submit



UCP: Profile:

Edit Profile: Reset, Submit

Edit Signature: Reset, Preview, Submit

Edit Avatar: Reset, Submit

Edit Account Settings: Reset, Submit


UCP: Board Preferences:

Edit Global Settings: Reset, Submit

Edit Posting Defaults: Reset, Submit

Edit Display Options:Reset, Submit


UCP: Private Messages:

Compose Message: Load, Save Draft, Preview, Submit

[Mr. Flay]

Perfect, thanks! posting editor already re-fixed, will get to the rest tonight probably.

[Nobody Special]

I don't even remember doing that.



...I mean, you're welcome!

[Nobody Special]

I suppose it's out of the question to be able to put a PM in more than one folder, right?

[StrangerCoug]

As you can see in my sig, there's a way to set your gender now, albeit you have to go in there and do it manually. But is this a "temporary" fix, as in it's not how you want it done?

[Mr. Flay]

It's "temporary" in that mith should be able to reimport the old settings, but I wanted to get something in there so I could start to test icons.

[Mr. Flay]

I suppose it's out of the question to be able to put a PM in more than one folder, right?

I believe so, though have you tried forwarding one to yourself?

[Nobody Special]

Hadn't thought of forwarding -- thanks!

I do not have the Gender field on my Edit profile screen.

[StrangerCoug]

It's "temporary" in that mith should be able to reimport the old settings, but I wanted to get something in there so I could start to test icons.

Must be why it's mods-only. Nobody Special reports not being able to set it.

I need an alt...

[Mr. Flay]

Heh...I actually thought it would be invisible to everybody but me, since I unchecked the show setting. *shrug*

No harm in letting it be set... will publicly open it now.

[ZONEACE]

HOORAY!! I'm a man again.

[Fenchurch]

I'm also glad I can assert my gender on people. But, I was quite fond of the little icons, any chance those willl be coming back again? I don't know if there was a transgender one on the old boards, but if not it probably wouldn't be hard to create one.

[Mr. Flay]

I wanted to get something in there so I could start to test icons.

And yes, transgender was a (hidden) option before. I'll make it admin-set only again if it becomes a problem, don't be jerks.

[Fenchurch]

Ah sorry, I should've read the thread properly before I started posting in it.

But while I'm here, I have something to add to the wishlist that I don't think has been suggested yet. Would it be possible to update the vote tag so that it displays as something more unique? Like how the quote and code tags create formatting that wouldn't be possible to replicate otherwise.

The current vote is easily replicable:
VOTE: Player

VOTE: Player

Which also means it could be messed with by fake-voters trying to exploit strict rulesets ("Votes must be made in a particular format or they won't be counted"), as discussed in this MD thread. If there was a voting tag that makes it very easy to see if the vote was valid or not, then mods who want to be strict and players in their games wouldn't have to worry about checking for fake votes. And mods who are more relaxed about voting methods can continue as before.

[Mr. Flay]

Thanks for reading the whole page! Not everything here yet, of course... and you've kind of caught one of the "wishlist" items that's still mostly in my head.

Eventually I'd like to have the VOTE: tag format based on your preferences - so if Fenchurch prefers

###vote: Player

, you see my votes that way. I prefer

VOTE: Player

(or something similar), but not everybody does. It'd be a limited subset of formats, but there's a couple different ones people prefer already out there "in the wild". For now, though, a bbcode was easiest to get up and running, and get people used to the idea.

Also, there IS a difference between the two you posted, it's just not obvious. Hover your cursor over the 'right' one...