13 January 2008

Changes to RiotACT?

| Jazz
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Over the coming weeks you may notice a few changes to The-Riotact.com. At first these shouldn’t make too much difference to the way you use this site. In fact, shouldn’t make any difference to most of you at all. What you may notice is subtle changes, like the reorganisation of categories which we started work on last night.

Ultimately this is all for a purpose, and like any successful club, or singer its important to occasionally reinvent yourself to remain fresh and interesting. In this instance the changes you may notice are to prepare our database for the release a whole new site in a few weeks time. Its a little behind schedule but it had to have all the stuff that we wanted to include, look and function the way we were hoping, and get a modicum of testing so that you buggers don’t break it within the first hour of its release.

stay tuned.

UPDATE – There will be more RiotACT hacking underway this evening. I’ll attempt to keep any disruptions to a minimum – apologies in advance for any of the small hiccups the site will inevitably experience this evening.
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Kramer (Site Admin)

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Is there a way to opt out of receiving the notification emails?

In between the word ‘an’ and the ‘.’ should have been &gtimg src = "Location of Image Hosted Elsewhere"&lt

Adding support for OpenID would be nice.

There seems to be a bug when using code that means it might be there when you type it, and the first time you save it, but then every so often it just overwrites it with an .

No idea how to fix that one. 😐

Holden Caulfield9:12 am 22 Jan 08

Can we please make it that when a pasted link is clicked on that the link is opened in a new window?

You can only see other articles’ headlines and author, not the actual text.
But you can still tweak your own posts in Pending Review.

Jazz: you can only see the title and author, the actual article text isn’t leaked.

can you? damn holes in wordpress again.

the whole idea of the pending review mael is that you get your post right before you click that one. if you’re still working on it you should be saving as a draft.

can you see my pending review post there – I can see something else that I didn’t post as well as mine…

If you want to track down your comment go to “Manage” and use the filter “Pending Review”.
You can still edit your own posts there.

What’s going on with the ‘submit for review’ button ?

Seems to be more like ‘delete forever but not called that so as to confuse people’

make that ‘swimsuit model vicki dunne’.

yeah, also an edit post button.

can you change the front page so ir doesnt say ‘swimsuit mode vivki dunne’.

i get chills each time i see it.

not the good ones either.

on another thread i just added about fifteen hard returns but the post ends up looking like there is only two or three… can we fix this too?

Nevermind, worked it out.
I is teh smert.

Idea for submitted posts: the ability to withdraw them back from the “Submitted for Review” queue, in case you forget critical things, like links to the news article.

Anyone else having problems seeing the ad and clicking on the link to our wonderful data centre & IS provider Velocity?

Now that I’m back again, between about 1015 and now (1234, despite what RiotAct thinks) it was gone for me…

Looks OK to us… Who’s your ISP? Have you got scripting disabled on your browser?

Okay, partially resolved. Now its just the picture that is broken.

Your Velocity Internet picture & link is broken.

Now when you submit a story, you need to click on the button “Submit for Review”. This will stop those nasty admins from publishing your story before the masterpiece is completed.

Sorry for the slightly longer than expected “small hiccup” this evening. Hope everything is still working OK… Let us know if you see any funny things, or any problems with the site.

no idea what’s happening there Skidbladnir, but i will keep an eye on it.

lol swaggie, i’ll make sure i release it at midnight when nobody is on for the first hour 🙂

minor quibble: Has anyone else noticed that a lot of posts are coming through without spaces between snetences recently?
I noticed it on the Deathcap article, and i know I was putting in spaces. 😐

“get a modicum of testing so that you buggers don’t break it within the first hour of its release”

He he, anyone up for the challenge 🙂

Jonathon Reynolds11:14 pm 06 Jan 08

@el…
So we can rewrite history perhaps?

el ......VNBerlinaV810:38 pm 06 Jan 08

Post editing?

haha, one of the benefits of admin access is no more spelling mistakes. However, I am definately including a spell checker. Haven’t quite got the quote feature working with another plugin we are also including so it may not make it into the first release.

Vic Bitterman9:57 pm 06 Jan 08

@Jazz

I believe you mean ‘patience’; not ‘patients’. Unless this is the RiotACT emergency hospital!!! 🙂

See what I mean about how hard to quote and track??!!!!! 🙂

patience grasshoppers. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

i’d also like to see something thatr enables current threads to be kept to the fore, rather than have to delve back into histiry to find topics that we keep wanting to post to, even though other stories might come and go meantime.

is this too much to ask?

kudos to keeping govt firewalls from blocking oir access to meaningful dialogue!!

VB’s got a point about search and threaded comments, but there are plugins for WordPress that’ll fix both those problems, and it’ll save you trying to migrate all the back-end data into a new application.

lol thanks for the advice vic.

yes we’ve looked at those and have a couple of other things on the back burner for future installments. The main reason we haven’t gone down the pat of of the shelf bulletin board software in the past has been the penchant for govt firewalls to block them, but are looking into some custom development that will mimic those features you mention.

thanks for the feedback

Vic Bitterman2:06 pm 06 Jan 08

Basically Jazz, wordpress works fine as a blog with a few people replying to the bloggers topic.

When scaled up to say the strength of this site – which is really more than a blog now, it’s got to be Canberra’s number 1 forum – it is hard to reply and quote, use other features, track threaded comments, do complex searches and so on.

Check out the offerings from phpBB or vBulletin for example… pick a random forum on the net and I reckon they will use one of these two!

Anyway, good onya for doing what you are doing.

There will be no change to the content or focus on Riot.

What we’ve been working on is to make it easier to find stories that will interest you, skip over the ones that don’t and give our regular readers a few extra features whilst making it easier for new readers to get involved and have a say.

I hope you won’t be discouraging freak from visiting us regularly and posting their rants, it brings us such joy and so many laughs.

It’s weird. You’re not ever quite sure what it’s up to.

what’s wrong with wordpress?

Yeah, WordPress is a slightly weird interface.

Going to make it break-proof, eh? Ha! We’ll see.

Vic Bitterman9:59 am 06 Jan 08

I only hope you are getting rid of wordpress!

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