Experiment of the Now: Social Boards

[ChurchOfGodBear]

This is neat. Not sure what kind of board Id make, but it's cool to know I could. I've never seen a forum with this feature before.

 

[CatParty]

i can't use my drink rating in these new forums?

 

[Null]

i can't use my drink rating in these new forums?

The add-on is far from perfect. There's a few caveats I may workthrough eventually.

Basically, the Social Board is considered a category, and the Ratings mod doesn't let you whitelist boards by category. So I literally cannot set the Drink rating to work in Social boards.

 

[Strelok]

The add-on is far from perfect. There's a few caveats I may workthrough eventually.

Basically, the Social Board is considered a category, and the Ratings mod doesn't let you whitelist boards by category. So I literally cannot set the Drink rating to work in Social boards.

I assume this is also why the individual social boards don't properly show up in the navigation widget up top, so when you're in a thread you have to navigate out to Social Boards then into the threads board?

 

[Null]

I assume this is also why the individual social boards don't properly show up in the navigation widget up top, so when you're in a thread you have to navigate out to Social Boards then into the threads board?

Yes

 

[Holdek]

Following a random musing

I guess you could say that this was made possible by the forum getting more RAM...Random Access Musing!

(G-get it?)

 

[RequiredName]

So we can finally make a board dedicated to T. J. Church and his diabetic love for erotic celebrity fiction?

 

[Null]

So we can finally make a board dedicated to T. J. Church and his diabetic love for erotic celebrity fiction?

I'd hold off on Lolcow boards. As I said, I might make a feature similar for the exact purpose.

 

[Andrew Noel Schaefer]

While this IS a nice feature... our board is too small for it to really be a thing, as this kind of thing is easily solved by threads in general.

 

[Null]

While this IS a nice feature... our board is too small for it to really be a thing, as this kind of thing is easily solved by threads in general.

I said the same thing about the Update forum and the Jace forum. People tend to grow into room created for them.

 

[Andrew Noel Schaefer]

I said the same thing about the Update forum and the Jace forum. People tend to grow into room created for them.

Nah. The Jace forum and update forums I would say were compleatly, 100% necessary. Update is great for getting the big news on CWC, and with Jace we really need all the posts in one place when he livestreams.

Still! You better belive I am going to create a COMICSPERG! subforum.

 

[exball]

I guess you could say that this was made possible by the forum getting more RAM...Random Access Musing!

(G-get it?)

That's some sick random access humor.

 

[Pikonic]

Has off topic seen a reduce in traffic, because my original impression of this was it was going to slowly kill off topic.

 

[klystron]

It appears that if you start a social forum and a thread and get positive and negative ratings in it, that upon deleting the thread the positive ratings go away and the negatives stick. Interesting.

Also deleting a thread doesn't mark the social forum as being empty, so it won't let me delete it.

Another edit:

I moved the deleted thread to spergatory (which didn't show up there of course) and then my social board was empty. I was then able to delete the board.

I think there may be some bugs to work out.

 

[Null]

I've disabled the mod for now because it's a piece of shit.

Pikonic reported an issue with not being able to edit the board description because of an error. The error was that "you cannot edit the URL portion after it's been set". The URL portion is like /cwcki-forums.8/ in this board. You have a name, a period, and a number. The URL parser ignores anything before the period. These two URLs are practically the same.

http://cwckiforums.com/threads/experiment-of-the-now-social-boards.5599/page-2
http://cwckiforums.com/threads/null-fucks-up-everything-for-fun-lololol.5599/page-2

The problem is the form was throwing an error on something that wasn't even a problem. To try and resolve it, I made it so you CAN edit the URL portion of your social board, and then even posting threw errors -- essentially breaking the entire thing and rendering it all moot.

On top of that there were other issues with how the mod handled navigation (many people noticed that you couldn't click the board name at the top of the page like you can with a normal forum), and I discovered a security flaw that let you read anyone's board, even if they marked it private.


All in all, interesting idea, I wish I could peruse it further, but the mod needs to be developed more before I could exploit it.

 

[champthom]

At first I didn't like the social boards, but by time I liked them, they're gone. But Null, you gotta do to give the people the best damn possible product we can deliver.

 

[KatsuKitty]

The URL parser ignores the slug because I think that's inustry standard behavior.

Django ignored slugs in URLs on a project I once worked on, and a routine prank my friends pull on me is fake slugs that still link to a real article. The ID is all it really wants.

 

[Null]

The URL parser ignores the slug because I think that's inustry standard behavior.

Django ignored slugs in URLs on a project I once worked on, and a routine prank my friends pull on me is fake slugs that still link to a real article. The ID is all it really wants.

Yes. It is a search engine optimization.

Historical note: You may remember that PHPBB had urls like this:
cwckiforums.com/view-thread.php?post=##?&thread=##&forum=##

This is the same information as
cwckiforums.com/thread/thread-name.id/#post-ID

What it's doing is sending the same information back, but removing unfriendly information (like .php and &) and replacing it with titles. The reason it does this is 2-fold. The URL is more easily understood by a person receiving it (you receive 0 information from the URL alone in PHPBB, except that it's on the forums), and Google also likes it more. The main things Google cares about in its search engine sorting is URL (emphasis on domain name) and the page title. A fun thing to do is to search lolcows we have threads on and see how high up on the list we appear, and what causes us to appear at all.

 

[Watcher]

All in all, interesting idea, I wish I could peruse it further, but the mod needs to be developed more before I could exploit it.

Aww I was really getting into it.

I hope you do work on it, it was a really interesting idea and I hope it gets re implemented in the future.