Modern Vespa

Continuous scrolling between pages please.

You really can't have page numbers and continuous scrolling at the same time. Well, I mean, you could, but it would be weird.

Bingo!

Just wanted to mention that I am considering some alternatives that wouldn't result in forcing you to choose what you want cut off. I'm not sure it will work (and the current arrangement took considerable effort to get right) but I think there might be an alternative.

It's a background thought process, though -- the merchandise issue is taking up most of my free time ATM. Oh, and Portuguese class, too.

I understand priorities.

I only commented because I thought I'd test the new feature, as you had requested, and found that "issue" with it. I think it works great, I just happened to use an image that "broke" it (or more accurately, didn't work as I though it should).

And in doing so revealed a weakness in the implementation. So thanks for that, genuinely.

I think it's because I'm still old-school when it comes to avatar images.

I'm used to having size limits both in pixel dimensions, and file size, that were dial-up friendly. Most of the avatar images I have are sized with reducing bandwidth usage in mind. So they're lower resolution, and smaller size.

Even when I post images here, I try to reduce the size first, even though whatever you have going on in the background takes care of it (I think that's what's happening, iirc).

I'm the same way. But the vast majority of people who use this site are most definitely not, and so I built the new avatar system with that in mind.

With the new system, when you drag an image (anywhere into the window, as it happens) Javascript code takes over and reduces the presented image down to a maximum of 1000x1000. The image isn't even seen by the server at this point.

That image is then presented to the user in a pan-and-zoom editor (again, all original javascript code, not using any library). The goal here is to allow the user to pick the part of the image they actually want to use, with the assumption that their source image isn't necessarily square or reasonably sized or well-framed. This is the assumption that tripped up your image, btw.

Once the user is satisfied with the crop and they hit the submit button, then the image is reduced again (down to 250x250) and uploaded to the server.

So bandwidth is really never an issue, since the only image that goes across the wire is already at the target size. For post attachment image uploads, the server still sees the entirety of the image -- the image is then downsampled on the server. I would like to modernize that process, too, though there are a lot of hurdles to overcome.

Some limit on how many old posts you can edit per day. There probably currently isn't a good reason for editing 50 old posts in one session.

Of course if things keep going the way they are this may change and a "nuke everything from orbit" button might be useful.

To my knowledge, that's only happened a handful of times, usually when someone wants to Salima themselves.

(I am using "Salima" as a verb here).

There need to be a non-public mosh pit of politics, but nah I know I'm not got invited. Suez Canal say the wards

jsut go to the hell scape that is twitter for non scoot stuff

coulkd kill this

which of these meanings? The township?

(highlighting by google not me).

Forum member. Had a penchant for removing their post content and substituting "Post deleted by Salima" in its place.

Which one? All three?

https://modernvespa.com/member/salima_draghetta

Why? Why does there need to be?

The point of banning politics on Modern Vespa is (a) I fucking hate politics, and (b) the only thing I hate more than politics are people who insist on bringing politics into every discussion, and (c) the only thing I hate more than people who bring politics into every discussion are other people's political opinions.

There does not need to be a mosh-pit of politics on Modern Vespa, non-public or otherwise. The fact that you think there is makes me think you're one of the people referenced in (b) above.

So, no. End of discussion. And you are seriously pissing me off.

lazy finger work.

meant the button to post to myself

Meh.

The intent of the page is to be an accurate representation of what your public profile looks like. The moment I start putting code into it that alters the appearance based on who the viewer is, that's the moment that it no longer adheres to the intent.

Jess you need to lighten up, for a few reasons.
Notice that you never said we hate politics.
That doesn't add up to a community.
But I've lost no skin in this. Y'all already destroyed an Italian Scooter industry with mumbo jumbo attempts at repairing simple machines, none of you could read a factory repair manual. Actually blamed the factory for "misprints"
And I warned you years ago this was happening. So thanks for rat farking everyone in the hobby.
Who in there right minds would get seriously pissed over a suggestion?
Get over yourself ok?
Ban me if it makes you feel better. IDC
AI can't even count how many millions of websites there are to join.
Have a nice day, it's Friday maybe have a beer and chillax.

Then I suggest you find one that suits you better and is more receptive to your incoherent nonsense.

I've seen a few members ragequit and delete all their old posts. I agree it's annoying, and interferes with reading historical threads.

Oh, agreed absolutely. And while we generally don't delete accounts (as it leaves holes in the conversation) I am also somewhat reluctant to stop people from Salima'ing themselves.

I could easily make the argument that everything anyone posts here becomes the property of Modern Vespa. But I won't, because I'm not that kind of asshole*.

* Other kinds, yes, perhaps.

Looking for member's posts.
'Members"
"By name'
Type in any name
Then click on their total posts, and get this

Well-spotted. That is a genuine bug. And it's now fixed.

And for finding and reporting this forum bug, I hereby bestow upon you the MV Entomologist award. Wear it with pride.

Ta.

Correct the NSM forum description from "well-lighted" to "well-lit".

Unless there's some story behind it being that way

https://yale.learningu.org/download/51358dbc-0c73-4e33-8cfb-967c55a621f5/

Also, this:

https://www.yelp.com/biz/a-clean-well-lighted-place-for-books-san-francisco

Ah - there is, quite literally, a story behind it!

Thanks for that - a good read 👍🏻

(Moving this to the fix-it thread instead of "What's Pissing You Off", because this is definitely not pissing me off). While I was poking around CloudFront looking for the keep-alive timeout, it occurred to me that there was a better solution for the forward of CloudFront supports request header inspection functions at the edge locations. You write a simple javascript function to do the inspection, modify the headers, or return an entirely different response, and that function gets pushed out to all the worldwide edge locations and executed that much closer to the client. For most requests we handle, there isn't much point in doing it at the edge, especially since it fragments the overall site configuration.

But for redirects, it makes a lot of sense. By doing the redirect at the edge, we skip an entire round trip (in your case) from Melbourne to California, presumably across multiple fiber-optic cables on the Pacific sea floor. And CF Edge requests happen in sub-millisecond timeframes.

I was already using a CF Edge function to de-www-ify incoming requests. I added these to the same function: Here's the tell to see if you're skipping the trip across the Pacific:

Jess - I'm curious - what forum software are you using? Presumably, if it was originally off-the-shelf, it's heavily customized by now!

(I did try looking at the page source, but I didn't see any clues)

The forum software was originally phpBB2, from circa 2002. Ancient and primitive.

I started customizing it almost from the beginning in 2005, and it wasn't long before upgrading to phpBB3 was difficult because of our customizations.

So I've continued to modify the original code, rewriting vast swaths of it. I can reasonably say that it is no longer phpBB2, but is still vaguely a derivative.

I've managed to bring some of the functionality up to modern standards, but there are still some notable bits that are stuck in the past (like this posting form that I am typing in right now, for instance). And the attachment / upload handler (also part of the posting form) is pathetically ancient. Hopefully I'll make some progress on those bits this year.

Does formatting (bbcode) in the new profile edit for scooters/sig edit work? I ask because I noticed znomit's scooter shows the raw bbcode. haven't tested my sig in case it breaks it.

iirc there wasn't previously the buttons to format but you could manually add the bbcode

BBCode yes. HTML no. My signature has BBCode in it, and I've edited it multiple times while developing the new profile code. I'm not sure what's up with znomit's, I will take a look.

nice to know about the sig. but to be clear it's his scooter name that is showing the bbcode for strike-out

Ah. Reading more carefully, I see the problem. BBCode works for the signature only. It does not work for the scooter models field, and AFAIK BBCode has never worked for scooter models.

had the suspicion. so it's that I only jsut noticed his scooter is broke or maybe that he added the strike and didn't care that it didn't work

¯\_(ツ)_/¯