Modern Vespa

That's probably not going to happen. Those lists are really meant as a Billboard Top 100, if you will. It's not meant to be an exhaustive list. This, however, should be fixable. Thanks for the tip.

(I do hate that popup, since it breaks regularly).

This is now fixed.

Sort of related... when I click a member's profile, it shows their karma (Excellent, etc) but not roundels. Is this intentional? I'd expect the roundels are a key part of a user profile and would show up here.

That's a reasonable request.

This is now live. Roundels are now shown in place of the former karma descriptions.

This is now fixed, or at least alleviated. The URL shown above (in the form post2609911#2609911) still won't get translated to something more useful. However, I've just made extensive changes throughout the site that favors the form topic1234#5678, and this is recognized in BBCode.

And to be crystal clear, this will not affect any already-posted links. I'll need to do another extensive change to achieve that, if I feel motivated.

EDIT: I will now add the address that I was given upon posting this post, which should be translated nicely: [MVFR] POLL: What should Jess fix next? (Post 2653534)

I won't be at all surprised if I've broken 47 different parts of the forum with the above change. It touched nearly everything.

did you break the mine type for webp?

see bracket for Brembo brake mounting on GTS '2023'

I posted that a while ago and they would've been workking then else I would have converted to jpg

I don't think my latest change broke it, but yes -- it would appear to be broken.

Apparently I fixed a bug on October 7th of 2023, where I converted webp images to png but then left the mimetype as image/webp instead of changing it to image/png. All webp images uploaded after that are okay (I think).

Images that were uploaded prior to that were still lingering in the database with the wrong mimetype. I've just run this command on the database: And your specimen post now displays the images correctly.

Thanks

Just did the same operation for image/heic uploads, which were similarly broken.

I circled back and did a test upload of a large-ish HEIC file (about 5mb). No problem.

Not sure what happened with your attempt on Nov 4.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Jess,

When I log into ModernVespa, it wants me to verify my email address. I click that it is accurate - then it says an email will be sent to me with a link to re-verify my email address.

Problem: the email never arrives. I also think I am not getting the usual emails from a thread I commented on.

Bob Copeland

Is it possible that emails from modernvespa.com are ending up in your spam folder? Or auto-filed somewhere? I'm not familiar with the interface of your specific email host, so I can't give any specific pointers, but this usually comes down to misidentified spam.

For what it's worth, I just reset my own email verification flag and went through the email verification process to make sure that emails are getting sent properly.

Thanks Jess, I'll check. I did go through and make sure I didn't accidently block the emails.

Bob Copeland

Not a fix request, but I always had two questions:

Bottom of the page says

[ Time: 0.0329s ][ Queries: 12 (0.0116s) ][ Debug on ][ 299 ][ Thing Two ]

I just always wondered what is Thing Two, and does anyone know if Thing One is okay?

Reasonable questions! This line is run stats -- how long it took to render the page (33 milliseconds in this case) and how many database queries it took.

Debug on means that we are perpetually running in debug mode (for better diagnostic messages when something goes wrong).

The number 299 is the version of the collection of static resources that reside on a different server -- things like button icons, emoticons, the logo at the top of the page, and most importantly the CSS ("style sheet") that tells your browser how to display the HTML that the server sends. As you can see, these resources do change (I'm on the 299th iteration) but they change relatively infrequently.

And finally, Thing Two is the name of the server within my fleet of servers. There is a Thing Zero (which is always my test server) and I alternate the main production server between Thing One and Thing Two. You'll occasionally see it change, but not very often. Usually when I need to make substantial changes to the server OS. When I do change them, I change them on the fly with no down-time. One comes up, I switch the IP address to point to the new server, and then I can shut down the previous one.

I find that naming the server keeps me from making dumb mistakes, like applying an OS change to the wrong server. When I log in to the server via the terminal, I reinforce that naming by displaying a splash screen and customizing the command prompt, as seen in the images below.

I've added a marker between posts to delineate between read and unread posts, in addition to the existing visual cues.

But really, you should always click the delta to the left of the topic, which will always take you to the first unread post.

I've also added a delimiter in Notifications that indicates when you last visited (i.e. your previous session).

^^^^ That *is* useful.

Noticed that ^ Nice. I figured Thing One/Two was a server name thing. Just glad Thing One is okay

I'm putting some things in motion to make this happen. I need to keep the existing notifications working, though, so I've set up a parallel table in the database to accumulate more detailed notification data for the new notification schema.

I can't do much with it until I accumulate some more data, maybe in a couple of days. Then I can begin working on an all-new page that will display the notifications.

Exactly what I asked, thank you jess, you made my day!!

In response to this request, I have made a change to a different part of the forum and in a way that you didn't ask for. But them's the breaks.

I've just completely re-written the pagination code for topics (not for lists of topics, but the topics themselves). The ellipsis is now clickable, and will take you to a point halfway between the pages shown on either side of the ellipsis.

This is my compromise instead of manually entering a page number, which would be a very Windows-like interface that makes me want to barf .

A good place to see this code in action is in the [NSR] What's cheering you up today? thread, which is sufficiently long to give you all three variations of pagination, depending on which page you are currently on. Move around within the topic and you'll see how the layout adapts. The design goal here is to generally provide more pages around the current page that you're on, at the expense of the pages on the other end of the range.

Hopefully I've handled all the cases and gotten all the details right. It was a gnarly bit of code.

I'll have to address the lists of topics in a future effort -- the two types of pagination are (annoyingly) not in the same bits of code, and so I'll have to re-write the other one as well. Or figure out how to do both with only one code module.

Not really a fix but it'd be cool if I could @ tag someone in a post to draw their attention to it.

Ex: I just posted a Bob Copeland picture in a thread Bob Copeland isn't in, would be cool to tag Bob Copeland and he gets a little notification, or if I learned a trick and want to give credit while helping someone else, like "Had the same problem, jimc said to blah blah blah, I tried it and it worked for me!" etc.

Also, did I ask this before? I feel like I might have, but I searched and couldn't find it. Maybe I'm having dreams about MV or something :\

Thanks for the unread posts update. It looks good.

I have another suggestion for a little bit of BBCode forum fine tuning. (Please ignore the extra spaces I put in the BBCode examples below to try to get visual indication of the suggestion.)

When I'm in "Post a reply" screen there is a Link link button, or URL above.
When I select a word like "modernvespa", and click URL above, it puts [ url][/url ] around it. Like this in the editor [ url]modernvespa[/url ]. Like this when posted [url]modernvespa[/url].

When I select a link like www.modernvespa.com and click URL above it puts the same [ url][/url ] around it. Looking like this in the editor [ url]www.modernvespa.com[/url ] When posted it looks like this [url]www.modernvespa.com[/url]

What I want is for it to be displayed like this. Here is Modernvespa!
Which looks like this in the editor. [ url=www.modernvespa.com/]Here is Modernvespa![/url ]

It's been asked several times. And it's a great idea that I really want to implement. The stumbling block is that usernames can have spaces in them, which makes it more difficult to implement @name style tagging.

Over the years I've added the concept of a short username, which is all lower case and eliminates spaces and weird characters. Everyone has one, and they are guaranteed to be unique. This would be perfect, except that now you need to know someone's short username in order to tag them.

So the ultimate solution would be predictive text completion. When you start typing @ and another character (or two), it would then popup a list of matching names that got smaller as you kept typing.

And that is the difficult part, and the reason it's not already implemented.

I'm genuinely not sure what you're asking here. Are you asking for the forum to synthesize a title ("Here is Modernvespa") from the URL?

While attempting to remedy the pagination for lists of topics, I got hung up on the fact that one of the parameters supplied for each page link is the dreadful "topicdays" parameter, which sort-of-kind-of allows you to limit the topics in a given forum to only those topics which were updated in the last XXX days.

In practice, this feature sucks. And I'm not even entirely sure anyone uses it, because it clearly sucks and anyone who has tried it knows that it sucks.

To start with, if you click on any of a number of links (the forum name, for instance) you will lose the setting. Also, it doesn't actually limit strictly to topics updated in XXX days, but rather limits to the nearest page full of topics that sort-of meets that general description.

Which is just sloppy.

So I changed it. First, passing a parameter on every generated URL (i.e. "/forum/forum2?topicdays=7") is cumbersome within the code (which is why the setting is so easily lost, because not all links respect the parameter).

The solution is that the setting is now stored in each user's per-session cache, meaning that if you make a change to the setting, it will stick -- across all the forums on the site -- until you explicitly undo it or until your session expires (which is after one hour of inactivity). This is quite a bit more robust, and will not be subject to errant links that aren't coded properly.

I've also added a small notice at the top of the page when you are actively limiting the number of topics displayed, so that there is no doubt about why you are only seeing 18 posts in the whole forum. See the image below for an example of that. You can also change the setting from within this notice so as to fine-tune the period of time you want, or you can get rid of the limit entirely by hitting Undo.

Additionally, the topics shown are actually limited to topics updated in the last XXX days (whatever you've set), instead of just coming within one page's worth of topics.

And finally, I've eliminated the Go button from beside the popup menu. It's now sufficient to just make a change to the menu and you will immediately see the results.

Nobody actually asked for this, but it was broken and it was also partially preventing better pagination from happening. I hope it's better now.

HELL TO THE NO. if you want to inform someone of something You think they might like send them a link in a PM.

I personally hate those tagging folks things and don't and won't ever use them for others. they just clog things up IMO.

Used in moderation, they're a useful tool to draw someone's attention to a particular post.

The thing is, at MV we have a thumbs down button that could be applied when someone tags you excessively.

I'm another who dislikes 'tags'.

if there was a profile option to say "don't notify me of tags" then the naysayers might be happy. (default value = umm?)

That'd be fine.

Fair. But would almost certainly have to default to allow.

Only if you knew who was doing the thumbs down.

Yup. Already do that. Inefficient AF. But I get the difficulties in implementing it, Jess. Ty.

FWIW, sending someone a PM is cumbersome. The PM interface on MV is antiquated. The point of mention-style tagging (i.e. jess) is to make it fairly frictionless.

If the heads-up was in the notifications ("Adri has mentioned you in [topic=blah]) then that'd be OK - I guess. I do NOT want it in an email or otherwise in my face.