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Twoism.org upgrades!
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:12 pm
by Aesthetics
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.
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:05 pm
by Cupz
Amazing what his forum has become in the last couple of weeks

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:13 pm
by Cupz
Not to be a total prick...but...
...the colours of the dots don't fit the overal feel of the forum

Could you make it more...blurry or something? Or is that a shitload of work?

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:24 pm
by Aesthetics
Not a shitload at all.. let me try something right now.
What about it?
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:45 pm
by Cupz
Much better!

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 4:13 pm
by harpoon dodger
Totally rockin work Aesthetics..

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:53 pm
by Cupz
One more thing.
The wiki feature is great...but is there a way to remove the capital-letter/underscore sensitivity?
I needed to triple check what was wrong...
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:42 pm
by EnsconcE
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]
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:06 pm
by Cupz
hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures?
: Pick up lamp
You picked up the brass lantern.

Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:39 pm
by Fredd-E
Cupz wrote:hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures?
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.
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:06 pm
by Techboy
The offline dots still look out of place to me..
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:18 pm
by Aesthetics
Techboy wrote:The offline dots still look out of place to me..
It's optical illusion... still trying some other stuff though.
Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:33 pm
by Vordhosbn
thanks man this site is just getting better and better
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:04 am
by Moebius
Fredd-E wrote:Cupz wrote:hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures?
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)
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:19 am
by Aesthetics
A much more Twoism-friendly on-/offline indicator has just been installed.
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:13 pm
by EnsconcE
Moebius wrote:Fredd-E wrote:Cupz wrote:hmm... can't you redirect different way's of spelling it? Like vintage text-adventures?
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:29 pm
by nlogax
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

Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:39 pm
by Techboy
Aesthetics wrote:A much more Twoism-friendly on-/offline indicator has just been installed.
oh NOW its awesome.
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:50 pm
by isawdrones
Aesthetics wrote:A much more Twoism-friendly on-/offline indicator has just been installed.
haha, this is great.
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:59 am
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?
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.