Poll: We need more polls, right?
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Continuing the discussion from So is the migration thing still happening?:
@Keith said:
Are we going to end up with over 9000 unread topics when this import happens?
We should have a
betting poolpoll for that.So how many unread topics are there going to be?
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- an integer with two digits
- an integer with three digits
- an integer with four digits
- an integer with five digits
- an integer with six digits
- an integer with eight digits
- an integer with seven digits
- an integer with nine digits
- an integer with ten digits
- an integer with eleven digits
- wait, were there even that many topics on the old forum?
- FILE_NOT_FOUND
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I need an option with "four or more digits".
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It's over 9000! Twice!
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Well, assuming that all relevant dates are ported over as well, it would depend on the following user preference:
So, I need an option for "Somewhere between 0 and an integer with 5 digits."
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Mine's set to "you haven't viewed them yet", so I may be in trouble.
On a related note, is @PaulaBean going to melt the server again after import?
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On a related note, is @PaulaBean going to melt the server again after import?
Sounds like we need another poll.
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It seems like if you had email notifications for a thread turned on, you should be marked as tracking those and having read all of the current posts.
I guess I'd be happy to have the rest be set to not tracking but also not "new." I don't know how that's all tracked or if it's reasonable.
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I'd be quite happy if everything older than some arbitrary threshold were automatically marked read, for pretty much any reasonable value of the threshold; either I've read it or it's so old I don't care.
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I was going through and reading the old topics on the old forum. I don't want to lose my place.
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And when you're going through 105 pages of topics, in reverse order... you really don't want to lose your place.
Filed under: shit, I said the P word
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Community Server made me lose my place quite a lot because "you have clicked on a link that went to any post in this topic" was equivalent to "you have viewed every post in this topic".
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Yeah, that's kind of WTF. At least other forum systems have the courtesy to only treat it as read up to the page that you are currently on.
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I've only ever seen that on SMF.
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I thought that was kind of standard actually...
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Don't you think that screenshot might, dunno, influence the voting behaviour a bit?
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Don't you think that screenshot might, dunno, influence the voting behaviour a bit?
Not really when there's a FILE_NOT_FOUND option.
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Not really when there's a FILE_NOT_FOUND option.
I agree. If only for the forum community of TDWTF, but I agree.
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All of my above.
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Nope, PHPBB does that too.
It also clears all of the unread indicators when I leave the site, even if I didn't actually read those topics...
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Wait, phpBB is considered a benchmark now?
How about XenForo?
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Wait, phpBB is considered a benchmark now?
How about XenForo?
If a site trying to sell you forum software refuses to show you a demo before you give them your email, something's fishy.
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If a site trying to sell you forum software refuses to show you a demo before you give them your email, something's fishy.
The XenForo forums run on XenForo! And you can browse as a guest without giving them your email.
I have a XenForo license, it's pretty decent software and worth the money for a professional forum. I'm also getting used to Simple Machines Forum for a little gaming community, also decent software and free but I'm so used to vBulletin that SMF's bbcode dialect is a bit strange at first.
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The demo is only if you want to play with things behind the scenes. The actual software is running quite happily on their website.
InvisionPower operate the same way, btw.
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SMF's bbcode syntax is a little unusual but expressive enough. I personally find myself preferring it to vBulletin's, but most of the time that's not really an issue either way.
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The demo is only if you want to play with things behind the scenes. The actual software is running quite happily on their website.
InvisionPower operate the same way, btw.
Got it, my bad. Still looks like PhpBB and Windows Vista's rape child.