Summer of 2011 z2 improvement thread

Post your suggestions for the site here so we can get on with ignoring them. Democracy in action!

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Re: Summer of 2011 z2 improvement thread

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Here's a bunch of styles (though a lot of them aren't that good): http://www.phpbb.com/styles/demo/3.0/

prosilver seems more polished to me than subsilver2, but the prosilver color scheme looks slightly colder than what we had before.

Maybe it's a subconscious reaction to change? Disregarding styles, the phpBB interface itself was overhauled, and that alone is going to cause some something's-wrong-here feelings. If that's the case, the fora might look different in a week or two.

I'll add the favicon.
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Looking at these randomly I quite like Milky Way. Artodia: Elegance is good too.
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I like serenity cyan. artodia:elegance looks good but the text in the bars is hard to read.

and I like cooperative, but not the color.
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I don't care too much about styles, but I'd really like the little icon thingy that indicates whether or not a post is new to be on the left-hand side of the post title (since English reads left-to-right, and also LAZY).


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i know it's no longer summer (at least in the northern hemisphere), but i would like to bring attention to the influx of spambots and spambot edits on the wiki.

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Thanks. I will attend to this issue soon!

It looks like MediaWiki 1.18 comes with a CAPTCHA plugin. I'll upgrade tonight if I have time.
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Any chance of adding new word filters to change zzt.org and zzt.org to zzt.org? I ask mostly for the sake of automatically fixing broken links to other parts of the site. I don't know if it's possible to filter text in bbcode, but it might be worth it.

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I've done it and now your post makes no sense!
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commodore es #1 :blazkowicz: :keen:
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DAMN! It doesn't fix bbcode. If only it were that easy!
Here is a random post I found that has links to the old belsambar.net (for testing purposes): viewtopic.php?p=62355#p62355
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Hmm... you are right, it does fix URLs not within bbcode though:

http://zzt.org/fora/viewt ... f=6&t=3321

zzt @ underdogs

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http://zzt.org/fora/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3321
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I had an idea the other morning: I could write a script that would replace belsambar links in old posts. It would just be a matter of iterating through all posts in a given time range, doing a regex search-and-replace, and updating the database with the updated posts.



I wonder how many posts there are that contain broken links. If it's low, it might be possible to do a manual audit of them, to make sure that we aren't making any posts confusing.

What about leaving a note that a link has been modified? Part of this is me just being afraid of editing history, but I also don't want to trip up future historians. This may not be necessary in a lot of places.

What about stuff that doesn't exist on zzt.org? For example, Cookie Cutter Games used to be at:

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http://zzt.org/ccg/
but it seems wrong to rewrite it to:

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http://zzt.org/ccg
because the web page no longer exists -- both links are incorrect.



If there's interest in this, I will take a stab at writing it.
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Re: Summer of 2011 z2 improvement thread

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DO IT, but make sure you don't forget the-underdogs.org!
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If they're broken links to begin with, there's no real loss is there?
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