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Suggestions/Feature Requests; Updated 8th October 2016
Topic Started: Sep 9 2016, 11:48 AM (1,577 Views)
Moonface
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Sign-up names won't work though. When a username is changed, it makes the old one free to use by anyone else. What if I sign up as Moonface, change my name to Sunbum, then someone else makes a new Moonface account? You now have two Moonface names used on sign-up that the tagging code has to try and work with to target the correct user.
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Chelonian
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I didn't know here sign up name was gone when changing username. Sign up name and display name/username were seperate things on the other board. The sign up name never changed even if the username did. I guess the sign up name would be akin to user id here. Though there was still user id.

Sign up name - permanent

Username - change to whatever they wanted any number of times unless admin used a plugin to stop it

User id was the which number member they were when they signed up. I. E. Admin would be 1 and next member 2 etc. So profile URL would be: http://************.***/user/2 for second member that signed up to the board.
Edited by Chelonian, Sep 17 2016, 08:17 PM.
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ElementalAlchemist
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Moonface
Sep 17 2016, 12:26 PM
Sign-up names won't work though. When a username is changed, it makes the old one free to use by anyone else. What if I sign up as Moonface, change my name to Sunbum, then someone else makes a new Moonface account? You now have two Moonface names used on sign-up that the tagging code has to try and work with to target the correct user.
I'd expect (hope; I've not seen the code, but, as someone who writes code, I have some idea of how I'd expect it to work at least) that the BBCode can be preprocessed.
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If I type @Quozzo then the server could query the database and retrieve the members ID, then replace the tag with its BBcode equivalent on the server. `[user=2070103][/user]`

When viewing a post with the tag, it is parsed as bbcode which queries the server and retrieves the user's username. Even if it has changed afterwards.

The space between the tags could contain the username. It won't affect anything, its just for show so the user who quoted the post will know who user 2070103 is.

When the post is edited it could update the username between the tags but may be inconsistant with the actual username if it has changed before the post was edited. Instead, when quoting a post it could query the database for each tag and replace the username inside the tag with the users current username.

Each post would need to track who has been tagged and who hasnt, so when the post is edited and someone new has been tagged, it will only notify the new user, it wont renotify everyone that is tagged in the post again.

So to sum it up

  • @user will query the database and retrieve the user's id on submission, convert it into bbcode.
  • [user=2070103][/user]Will query the database and retrieve the id's username when viewing a post, convert it into html.
  • [user=2070103][/user]Will query the database and retrieve the id's username when editing a post, converting it into bbcode

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I updated the main post. Any comments on the other things? Particulary the smilies problem? And the move post to another topic problem.
Edited by Chelonian, Sep 27 2016, 11:02 AM.
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Cory
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Chelonian
Sep 9 2016, 11:48 AM
- YouTube etc vids automatically come up just using the url rather than bbcode
I don't think this should be a default feature for various reasons:

  1. The coding required to convert URL's into videos is very minimal.
  2. People could abuse the system by posting hundreds, if not thousands of URL's to videos and essentially make a users browser crash.
  3. In relation to the above, posted media will slow down the page greater then a posted link, which is a bad thing for people with slower connections.
  4. Some people want to link to a video not for the video itself, but other content on the page.
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Cory
Sep 29 2016, 08:53 PM
Chelonian
Sep 9 2016, 11:48 AM
- YouTube etc vids automatically come up just using the url rather than bbcode
I don't think this should be a default feature for various reasons:

  1. The coding required to convert URL's into videos is very minimal.
  2. People could abuse the system by posting hundreds, if not thousands of URL's to videos and essentially make a users browser crash.
  3. In relation to the above, posted media will slow down the page greater then a posted link, which is a bad thing for people with slower connections.
  4. Some people want to link to a video not for the video itself, but other content on the page.
While I agree, browsers nowadays are smart enough not to load everything until the user wants to see it.
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Updated.
Edited by Chelonian, Oct 19 2016, 10:33 PM.
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