Feature Announcements

[Kublai Khan]

Welcome to the board and thanks for the help, Connor!

[vonflare]

I think its a KuroiXHF alt

[zakk]

I think its a KuroiXHF alt

who cares as long as dev work is getting done

*prayhands emoji*

[vonflare]

sitechat is down for me, anyone else?

[Kublai Khan]

When site chat is down, I usually figure that Kison et al are working on it.

[vonflare]

ah

[Mr. Flay]

Yeah yeah, you can ignore yourself.

Best update ever

I thought this happened in like...2011?

[Kison]

I think you're thinking about forum ignores. I was referring to ignores in the on-site chat.

[Mr. Flay]

Yeah, I was actually just making a terrible joke about playstyle.

[Kison]

A couple small updates. Some of these have actually been up for a few weeks but are only now being announced. Also,

borkjerfkin

has stepped in to help out and has already begun tackling several tasks, so please welcome him!

• FORUM:
  • Attempting to grant users with certain characters in their username(ex. user
    +__+
    ) to a private topic will now work.
    See here
    for more on the original issue. Please thank
    BORKJERFKIN
    for this fix!
    
  • Anyone with editing access to a private topic will now be able to add topic moderators to the thread. You can do this by editing the first post of the topic; you should see a second form right below where you add regular users to the topic. These topic moderators will have the ability to edit posts and lock & unlock the topic. Please thank
    BORKJERFKIN
    for this feature!
    
  • If your access to a private topic has been revoked, it will no longer appear under Bookmarks or Subscriptions.

I've had a few others reach out offering to help out, so you might be seeing their names pop up here in the future.

[Klingoncelt]

Thanks, Kison and Borkjerfkin!

[Gamma Emerald]

These updates are rather useful

[zoraster]

Anyone with editing access to a private topic will now be able to add topic moderators to the thread. You can do this by editing the first post of the topic; you should see a second form right below where you add regular users to the topic. These topic moderators will have the ability to edit posts and lock & unlock the topic. Please thank BORKJERFKIN for this feature!

Holy cow! does this mean I don't have to go in and do this as long as the original poster is still around to hand it off? Man this will be good.

[mykonian]

aww man, I enjoyed bugging Zoraster for this What can we use now?

[zoraster]

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[worldclock][/worldclock]

Now shows this, which is interactive.

[worldclock][/worldclock]

[Kublai Khan]

Neat.

When will it crash the board?

[animorpherv1]

[countdown]0.00[/countdown] from now.

[animorpherv1]

.... Apparently years does not work on countdown??

[zoraster]

what did you try to do? countdown has a very specific way it needs to be formatted.

[mastina]

Tried typing (countdown)X years(/countdown), most likely.
Which is a fickly thing.
Hours works.
Weeks, I've found not so much.
Months, may or may not work.
(expired on 2017-01-21 21:26:57) <--2 hours.
(expired on 2017-01-23 19:26:57) <--2 days.
[countdown]0.00[/countdown] <--2 weeks.
[countdown]0.00[/countdown] <--2 months.
[countdown]0.00[/countdown] <--2 years.

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[countdown]2 hours[/countdown]
[countdown]2 days[/countdown]
[countdown]2 weeks[/countdown]
[countdown]2 months[/countdown]
[countdown]2 years[/countdown]

[mastina]

^So, hours works; days works; weeks, months, and years do not, for the countdown timer.

Which is why when you do a countdown which is for weeks, months, or years, you need to manually type in the date.

Quite annoying, honestly. I can understand not needing months/years (we don't need those outside of special circumstances), but most mods would GREATLY appreciate it if they could just type "countdown: 1/2/3 weeks" for deadlines, rather than having to manually look up what the date is in 1/2/3 weeks. (I have to whip up a calendar each and every time I set weeks-deadlines, because I can't do the mental math reliably.)

[Cheery Dog]

There are 7 days to a week. It's not hard.

[Davsto]

I imagine "weeks" is just not recognised (and you can just use 7 times the number of days), and "month" and "year" are both changeable so it makes sense not to program them in

[Cheery Dog]

Although it's also the only one that would make sense as working as it's consistent, months change every month and leap years exist.

It's just a case of the values that actually show though, as seconds don't work either.

[Gamma Emerald]

tbh month and year are variable
not having week work is inexcusable though