General Suggestions Thread

[Lacquer]

But uses like the above only contribute to general spamminess, even if used in a productive post.

 

I experienced that first hand over in GLaDY's PR, where I "greentexted" without thinking.

 

Whatever, I'll just let things be.

[Lacquer]

There should be a graph of users online v. time available.

[Chupi]

There should be a graph of users online v. time available.

 

This would be very interesting to see. I just set up a cron job on my Linux box to collect data for it. I'll post a "live" graph in couple days or so once there's enough data to make a meaningful plot.

[Lacquer]

How often does it check? Does it have different graphs for members only and total members+guests?

[Chupi]

How often does it check? Does it have different graphs for members only and total members+guests?

 

It updates every 15 minutes since the list is people active in the past 15 minutes. It records time, total users, members, guests, and the list of users that is displayed to a logged-out user. Right now it's just a data logger implemented as a single line of Bash script:

wget -O- --quiet http://tulpa.info/forums/index.php | grep -m 1 'users active in the past [0-9]\+ minutes' | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed -e 's/\([0-9]\+\) users active in the past 15 minutes (\([0-9]\+\) members, [0-9]\+ of whom \(is\|are\) invisible, and \([0-9]\+\) guests)\.\(.*\)/'"$(echo `date -u +%s`)"'\t\1\t\2\t\4\t\5/' >> tulpa.info_usercount_history.log

 

Graphs will probably include lines for total, members, and guests. The user list itself won't be used, it's more for troubleshooting the script. I haven't written the code to draw the plot yet, but it'll be a simple Gnuplot script that writes a png into my Dropbox public dir, which I'll hotlink here. It will probably update either every 15 minutes also, or hourly.

 

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EDIT: It'll be a wee bit longer, I just lost a couple days of data to a text format parsing bug.

[Guest Anonymous]

Remove "this is not faq man's website". Its outdated.

[GuessWho]

- Spoiler Tags Update Suggestion -

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Change the spoiler tags to put in spoiler buttons instead of just masking the text.

Or implement it as an additional feature.

 

It can be useful in a few situations for hiding a large amount of content.

It basically allows the poster to give the reader the option to choose whether to flood his/her screen with pointless crap.

 

It could also improve page load times if images/videos beneath the spoiler only loads when the button is clicked.

 

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e.g.1. Posting a large image that would stretch the forum layout. (or embedding many images/videos that would make the post very long)

It could be hidden beneath the spoiler tag and only viewed by choice.

 

e.g.2. Posting a wall of text.

One could post the short version above and put the TL;DR stuff beneath the tag for those who are interested.

 

e.g.3 Personally I'd use it in my progress report.

I'd put the entry title for each entry in the original post and the entry itself below a button.

 

e.g.4 The mods could also edit ridiculously long/large posts to hide the content when the page initially loads.

 

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Edit: I made a thread for it with a poll - find it here.

[Lacquer]

- Spoiler Tags Update Suggestion -

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Change the spoiler tags to put in spoiler buttons instead of just masking the text.

Or implement it as an additional feature.

 

It can be useful in a few situations for hiding a large amount of content.

It basically allows the poster to give the reader the option to choose whether to flood his/her screen with pointless crap.

 

It could also improve page load times if images/videos beneath the spoiler only loads when the button is clicked.

 

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e.g.1. Posting a large image that would stretch the forum layout. (or embedding many images/videos that would make the post very long)

It could be hidden beneath the spoiler tag and only viewed by choice.

 

e.g.2. Posting a wall of text.

One could post the short version above and put the TL;DR stuff beneath the tag for those who are interested.

 

e.g.3 Personally I'd use it in my progress report.

I'd put the entry title for each entry in the original post and the entry itself below a button.

 

e.g.4 The mods could also edit ridiculously long/large posts to hide the content when the page initially loads.

 

I would like there to be an option for both spoilers. Spoiler text tags should continue to function as they do now, like on 4chan, but a new and separate tag with a different name should be added. Maybe [hide]?

[Lacquer]

Give users (OP's) the ability to moderate their own threads - at least in the progress reports section.

The mods can save themselves a great deal of time and effort effort by doing this.

 

Oh god no. This is the worst fucking idea I've ever heard. (hyperbole) But seriously, giving OPs mini-mod powers is a bad idea. People should be allowed to post what they want, within reason. Within reason includes "things the OP disagrees with or finds personally offensive". If I think it's relevant to say the holocaust didn't happen in someone's PR, then I should be able to say that. (obviously that's an extreme situation, but it's a valid example)

[Lacquer]

 

It updates every 15 minutes since the list is people active in the past 15 minutes. It records time, total users, members, guests, and the list of users that is displayed to a logged-out user. Right now it's just a data logger implemented as a single line of Bash script:

wget -O- --quiet http://tulpa.info/forums/index.php | grep -m 1 'users active in the past [0-9]\+ minutes' | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' | sed -e 's/\([0-9]\+\) users active in the past 15 minutes (\([0-9]\+\) members, [0-9]\+ of whom \(is\|are\) invisible, and \([0-9]\+\) guests)\.\(.*\)/'"$(echo `date -u +%s`)"'\t\1\t\2\t\4\t\5/' >> tulpa.info_usercount_history.log

 

Graphs will probably include lines for total, members, and guests. The user list itself won't be used, it's more for troubleshooting the script. I haven't written the code to draw the plot yet, but it'll be a simple Gnuplot script that writes a png into my Dropbox public dir, which I'll hotlink here. It will probably update either every 15 minutes also, or hourly.

 

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EDIT: It'll be a wee bit longer, I just lost a couple days of data to a text format parsing bug.

 

Could you also monitor the total number of posts, so it's possible to know peak posting times and actual per-day numbers of posts?