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There have been a few upgrades added today, as the news block already gave away. ;)



News Block:
This news block will be used for site announcements which doesn't belong in one of the forums. My goal is to keep it up for a week or so and then it'll disappear until there is news again.

Myspace profile button:
Given that a lot of members are having a myspace page I though that it would be nice to add this option. Note that you only need to fill in your Myspace User Name and not the complete URL.

Online/Offline indication:
Underneath the avatar, the userprofile and memberlist is an indication of who is online and who isn't.

Wiki BBCode:
This BBCode will come in handy as Moebius suggested the other week. By highlighting a common BoC term and clicking the "wiki" button (or by manually adding the [wiki][/wiki] BBcode), you will be able to easily and directly reference Fredd-E's excellent BoC wikipedia in your posts.


Please use this topic to discuss the use of it and report any possible bugs.


None of this would've been possible without the help of EnsconcE (for programming and such), thedisavowed and Fredd-E.
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Amazing what his forum has become in the last couple of weeks :wink:
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Post by Cupz »

Not to be a total prick...but...

...the colours of the dots don't fit the overal feel of the forum :oops: Could you make it more...blurry or something? Or is that a shitload of work? :oops:
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Not a shitload at all.. let me try something right now.


What about it?
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Much better! :D
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Totally rockin work Aesthetics.. 8)
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Post by Cupz »

One more thing.

The wiki feature is great...but is there a way to remove the capital-letter/underscore sensitivity?
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Yeah there is, i think. But it cannot be done by the wiki addon itself. Because when i do this [wiki]boards of canada[/wiki], the url in the address bar looks like this: http://fredd-e.narfum.org/wiki/Boards_of_canada. This happens after you are redirected:
[wiki]boards of canada[/wiki] (watch the url).

I think the wiki should not distinct capitals or change letters into capitals, for the sake of ease of use.


The good wiki is this one: [wiki]Boards of Canada[/wiki]
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hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures? :wink:


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Cupz wrote:hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures? :wink:
Unfortunately not. The wiki articles are always case sensitive.. besides you don't have to type the underscores BUT you have to use the correct capitalization in your words else the wiki code links to another article.
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The offline dots still look out of place to me..
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Techboy wrote:The offline dots still look out of place to me..

It's optical illusion... still trying some other stuff though.
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thanks man this site is just getting better and better
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Post by Moebius »

Fredd-E wrote:
Cupz wrote:hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures? :wink:
Unfortunately not. The wiki articles are always case sensitive.. besides you don't have to type the underscores BUT you have to use the correct capitalization in your words else the wiki code links to another article.


One thing you can do is add redirects on the wiki for common alternative/mispellings. Obviously it would be a pain to add a redirect foR eVeRy possIBle CapiTiliZation but the commons ones, like "[wiki]Boards Of Canada[/wiki]", "[wiki]boards of canada[/wiki]", "[wiki]BoC[/wiki]" etc. should be added for most articles.

(A redirect article simply contains the special text "#REDIRECT[[pagename]]", where "pagename" is the article to redirect to. More info on redirects at Help:Redirection)
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A much more Twoism-friendly on-/offline indicator has just been installed.
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Moebius wrote:
Fredd-E wrote:
Cupz wrote:hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures? :wink:
Unfortunately not. The wiki articles are always case sensitive.. besides you don't have to type the underscores BUT you have to use the correct capitalization in your words else the wiki code links to another article.


One thing you can do is add redirects on the wiki for common alternative/mispellings. Obviously it would be a pain to add a redirect foR eVeRy possIBle CapiTiliZation but the commons ones, like "[wiki]Boards Of Canada[/wiki]", "[wiki]boards of canada[/wiki]", "[wiki]BoC[/wiki]" etc. should be added for most articles.

(A redirect article simply contains the special text "#REDIRECT[[pagename]]", where "pagename" is the article to redirect to. More info on redirects at Help:Redirection)


The [wiki] bbcode mod can be adjusted so that every first letter of every word within the bbcode, can be capitalized. If the wiki itself got all articles like this, the problem is solved for 100% of the cases. This is because an input can be changed to lowercase and then to first letter uppercase. In this way the wiki always works, but it may not be beautiful to everyone: Boards Of Canada.

Edit:
It can also be done differently, all words lowercase.
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Aesthetics wrote:A much more Twoism-friendly on-/offline indicator has just been installed.


cool, i didn't wanna be reminded how colorblind i am :lol:
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Aesthetics wrote:A much more Twoism-friendly on-/offline indicator has just been installed.
oh NOW its awesome.
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Aesthetics wrote:A much more Twoism-friendly on-/offline indicator has just been installed.

haha, this is great.
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Post by Moebius »

EnsconcE wrote:
Moebius wrote:
Fredd-E wrote:
Cupz wrote:hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures? :wink:
Unfortunately not. The wiki articles are always case sensitive.. besides you don't have to type the underscores BUT you have to use the correct capitalization in your words else the wiki code links to another article.


One thing you can do is add redirects on the wiki for common alternative/mispellings. Obviously it would be a pain to add a redirect foR eVeRy possIBle CapiTiliZation but the commons ones, like "[wiki]Boards Of Canada[/wiki]", "[wiki]boards of canada[/wiki]", "[wiki]BoC[/wiki]" etc. should be added for most articles.

(A redirect article simply contains the special text "#REDIRECT[[pagename]]", where "pagename" is the article to redirect to. More info on redirects at Help:Redirection)


The [wiki] bbcode mod can be adjusted so that every first letter of every word within the bbcode, can be capitalized. If the wiki itself got all articles like this, the problem is solved for 100% of the cases. This is because an input can be changed to lowercase and then to first letter uppercase. In this way the wiki always works, but it may not be beautiful to everyone: Boards Of Canada.

Edit:
It can also be done differently, all words lowercase.


all lowercase would be preferable to all caps. makes it easier for typing in urls manually as well.
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