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Brad January 30, 2003 8:46 AM	The eerily not much different forums are now online. Please let me know if anything is broken in them or in the rest of the site. I'll list some of the changes in a couple of minutes.
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Brad
January 30, 2003 8:58 AM

The main differences, once again, are under the hood. Here are some of the more interesting changes and additions:

- You can now only display a maximum of 5 comics per post. This is to cut down on the amount of bandwidth and server load in some of the huge-ass pages of comics kicking around. I may lower or raise this limit in the future. Any comics you post after the fifth one should be visible as links.

- Last poster field for threads. This has been a requested feature for a while and I kind of like it.

- Various cosmetic improvements. I think I fixed the double space issue with quote tags, which I'm pretty happy about.

- Sped up the forum index page considerably.

- Using CSS now all over the place.

- Centralized banning and hooray for that.

Also, probably lots more bugs. Please let me know if you find any.

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skagg January 30, 2003 9:41 AM	ive noticed that the forums dont automatically open links in a new window thats a bad thing
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Brad January 30, 2003 10:10 AM	Yeah, that was one of the things I got rid of because so many people use popup blockers now anyways. If you're using IE you can hold down shift and click on the link to open it in a new window.
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evil_d January 30, 2003 10:12 AM	quote: ive noticed that the forums dont automatically open links in a new window thats a bad thing No it's not. I've always wished it wouldn't do that. Thanks, Brad. quote: I think I fixed the double space issue with quote tags, which I'm pretty happy about. What was the problem, exactly? If it's what I'm thinking of, it looks like it's partly fixed.
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BDD January 30, 2003 10:42 AM	Lookin' good.
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KajunFirefly January 30, 2003 10:48 AM	User titles have gone, and in the "Jump to" thing the "--------------" things link to blank forums, not sure what they should link to, if anything.
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KajunFirefly January 30, 2003 10:50 AM	It looks good though, I didn't mean to sound like a whiney ass.
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KajunFirefly January 30, 2003 10:56 AM	Also, there's something horribly horribly wrong with JrnymnNate's post at the bottom of this thread, I mean, apart from the photo.
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BigEvilDan January 30, 2003 12:21 PM	Also, the "Last Poster" links beside threads don't work if the last poster in that thread has a space in their nick.
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Brad January 30, 2003 12:31 PM	quote: What was the problem, exactly? If it's what I'm thinking of, it looks like it's partly fixed. I'm having a hard time explaining it. Basically there were often big gaps under the quote. I think there are still issues in certain circumstances but they should be easy enough to fix as I spot them. The post display script now strips extra carriage returns, as god intended.
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Devin January 30, 2003 12:41 PM	Wait a minute... are you saying that I can't skip more than one line now? ... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.S. - When I previewed this, I got a whole bunch of "Parse error: parse error, unexpected ']' in /home/strip/stripcreator.com/forums/includes/messagebox.php on line 155"s instead of other people's posts. The problem went away on the third try.
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Brad January 30, 2003 12:50 PM	Yeah, that was me "fixing" things.
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evil_d
January 30, 2003 1:21 PM

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What was the problem, exactly? If it's what I'm thinking of, it looks like it's partly fixed.
I'm having a hard time explaining it. Basically there were often big gaps under the quote. I think there are still issues in certain circumstances but they should be easy enough to fix as I spot them. The post display script now strips extra carriage returns, as god intended.

Yeah. That was a good idea. The only thing is, if you hit enter twice after the quote, just like you normally would between paragraphs (and like I'm doing in this post), you still get an extra newline. Not that I have a problem with working around that like I've been doing.

But extra newlines between normal paragraphs are collapsed, it seems.

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crabby January 30, 2003 1:36 PM	I notice Kajun's still here. That concerns me.
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KajunFirefly January 30, 2003 1:42 PM	Oh sure, go ahead and fix all the problems Brad, make me look like a big fat liar. I hate you, I hate you so much!!!!!!11111 You suck too, Crabby.
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crabby January 30, 2003 1:53 PM	I notice I'm still not listed as a donor either. That also concerns me.
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Bazilla January 30, 2003 2:12 PM	dcomposed's mouth is further away from my penis.
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crabby January 30, 2003 2:13 PM	Bazilla is also still here. This concerns me.
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JrnymnNate January 30, 2003 4:43 PM	They look 13373r now. Or at least more like a normal forum.
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punkrockskaboy January 30, 2003 5:05 PM	quote: They look 13373r now. \|)0r\|<
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andydougan January 31, 2003 6:52 AM	H4w.
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crabby January 31, 2003 12:58 PM	I notice the Brad Sucks forum is gone. Not sure when that happened but it couldn't have been soon enough.
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Brad January 31, 2003 1:17 PM	quote: I notice the Brad Sucks forum is gone. Not sure when that happened but it couldn't have been soon enough. I put up a dedicated Brad Sucks forum thing over at www.bradsucks.net/forums I'm not sure if I'll keep it that way or not, but having two forums seemed greedy somehow.
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fuzzyman
January 31, 2003 8:15 PM

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You can now only display a maximum of 5 comics per post. This is to cut down on the amount of bandwidth and server load in some of the huge-ass pages of comics kicking around. I may lower or raise this limit in the future. Any comics you post after the fifth one should be visible as links.

Is there any way to can make this happen for new threads but not old ones? It's totally killing the readability of series I'd posted in the past. I'd sometimes post 8 epidose at a time.

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ArtemisStrong
February 1, 2003 1:36 AM

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You can now only display a maximum of 5 comics per post. This is to cut down on the amount of bandwidth and server load in some of the huge-ass pages of comics kicking around. I may lower or raise this limit in the future. Any comics you post after the fifth one should be visible as links.
Is there any way to can make this happen for new threads but not old ones? It's totally killing the readability of series I'd posted in the past. I'd sometimes post 8 epidose at a time.

I guess you're screwed.

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KajunFirefly February 1, 2003 11:48 AM	Yeah, I was kind of bummed by that too, I usually posted 8 comics at a time for my series.
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NeoVid February 1, 2003 4:27 PM	And the comics limit reminded me: what happened to that animated feature ObiJo (I think) made on Stuff People Make a while back?
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andydougan February 2, 2003 8:06 AM	I think it got deleted to halt its rampant bandwidth consumption.
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Drexle February 2, 2003 7:18 PM	quote: And the comics limit reminded me: what happened to that animated feature ObiJo (I think) made on Stuff People Make a while back? It got toasted. I don't remember if the comics were all deleted, but I know that if nothing else, the message was edited to remove all the comics in it very shortly after it was posted.
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evil_d February 2, 2003 7:23 PM	Here's the thread. It looks like the archived page did indeed get deleted. The base comics are still there.
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Brad
February 3, 2003 8:51 AM

I'll check out how difficult it would be to deal with allowing more comics for old posts soon.

ObiJo's animated comic got removed because it was killing the server both in load and bandwidth.

There seems to be a lot of double posting lately and I totally don't understand why. So I just put in a little bit of blocking. When you post now it checks to make sure your last post was saved more than five seconds ago. If it's less, your message will not be saved. I'm hoping this helps.

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Brad February 3, 2003 9:29 AM	Old posts will now display the first eight comics. Hope that's enough. I can raise it if need be.
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Devin February 3, 2003 9:42 AM	quote: There seems to be a lot of double posting lately and I totally don't understand why. People drinking too much coffee in the morning...
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dcomposed February 3, 2003 2:34 PM	I drink too much coffee all day damnit.
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Devin February 3, 2003 3:04 PM	Oh my god! Dcom's not posting double anymore!
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Devin February 3, 2003 3:06 PM	Oops, that's right. The double-post prevention. Sorry, I'm easily overexcitable.
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dcomposed February 3, 2003 5:35 PM	It worked! Thanks Brad, if I didn't know better I'd say you didn't suck.
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fuzzyman February 9, 2003 9:06 PM	quote: Old posts will now display the first eight comics. Hope that's enough. I can raise it if need be. Woot! Thank you!
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