wrongplanet features/bugs you care most about

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I was wondering if the common "friends" feature had ever been suggested for wrongplanet forums. It makes it easier to keep track of members you might have bonded with considering the large active community on the site. Once a member accepts anothers' friend request, the members' names usually show up in a "friends" box on each other's profile.

This is a popular feature on many forums because it allows users to feel like they have some niche in the community, even if they aren't on enough to become familiar with all the posters here.

I'd like to be able to search for my past posts

You can.

Unfortunately, there is a bug/conflict/syntax problem, when the "Find all posts by Neuro-typical" link gets set up.

Provided: http://www.wrongplanet.net/forumssearch ... ml-typical
Doctored: http://www.wrongplanet.net/forumssearch ... pical.html

Because hyphens are allowed in names, and they are also used in the syntax of the link, it all goes a bit wonky.

Rearranging the link, and replacing the hyphen with an underline (a wildcard) side-steps the issue.

Thanks

I'd like to volunteer to make an avatar gallery.

I'd also like to see a more friendly search interface. One that's in-forum instead of a redirect to a google-like page. I'd just like to know where my name appears aside from where I've posted.

Also, I'd like to be automatically directed to the page or thread or post I just created without having to click on a link.

And user appreciation threads by that user shouldn't be allowed.

Oh, and some kind of age verification should be in place or at least bogus ages should be noticed by someone. There are a lot of ages in the hundreds that people aren't noticing and for all we know, it could be some teenager signing on to get access to the adult forum

deleting our own threads (if we are the OP) to avoid mega embarrassment down the line so the person we wrote about doesn't find them.

we need self deletion of any post or thread we made.

and would it kill ya to upgrade to phpBB3?

This is a common misconseption. People refer to threads they start as "my discussion." It is not yours, it is ours, all of ours. Personally, I try to avoid talking about other people.


You can delete your own posts for a limited time.


You know how autistics feel about change.

i run phpBB3 on my forum. overall it can be themed to smell look and taste like phpBB2 but give all the security and speed and reduced server load of phpBB3

Why not allow users post attachments. It's much easier than using code in my opinion.

attachments of what?

Merle

Ignore feature please.

How do I block an obnoxious member's posts?

of course, it doesn't work on moderators

Get a browser that this all works with.

If you don’t already have it, download and install Mozilla's Firefox browser from here :-

http://www.mozilla.org

(This all works with Mozilla's SeaMonkey as well... see note below).


Install the scripting extension

Next get and install the "Greasemonkey" extension.

One way to do this would be from here :- http://www.greasespot.net/

Click on "Download Greasemonkey" (whatever the latest version is). A box will appear with the option to install the software. Click to install it.

Firefox may prompt you to restart.

A small monkey face icon will appear toward the bottom right corner of your browser window. Greasemonkey is on when the monkey face is red, and off when the monkey icon is grey. To switch it on/off, left click the icon.


Install the "hide user" Java script

Click on here and Greasemonkey should ask if you'd like to install "phpbbuserhide.user.js". (I suggest you let it do so)

Also, there is now a separate, stand-alone version (not requiring Greasemonkey) available as a Firefox extension. I personally haven't tested it.

Finally, I haven't tried the Firefox extension with my Seamonkey. It doesn't say it is compatible, which often means it isn't.


Set up the script appropriately for WrongPlanet

Next right click on Greasemonkey's monkey icon. Choose "Manage User Scripts...".
Beside the box that says "Included Pages", click "Add..." and into the box that appears, copy and paste exactly this:Code:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/post*
Note that the last character is an asterisk.

Click "OK" in that box and "OK" again on the bottom of the "Manage User Scripts" page.


Use it!

Now load any page on WrongPlanet. When you view posts, you will see an "[x]" at the top left of each post, beside every person’s user name. If you want to hide someone’s posts, click that "[x]" and "OK" the popup, then refresh the page. After refresh, their posts will be gone. All that will be left will be the "[x]", their name and "toggle display". If you want to read that specific post, click on "toggle display" their post will then appear. Again, and it will be re-hidden.

To un-hide a user, click again on their "[x]", "OK" the popup and refresh the page.


Note: Using SeaMonkey instead of (as well as?) Firefox

Update: The latest version of Greasemonkey (0.7.2) seems to work fine with the latest SeaMonkey (1.1. - I'm using that combination at this moment.

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This answer comes to you from the joint efforts of (in alphabetic order):
Apatura, Aylissa, Calandale, Immortal, Lau and Starr.

What's up with http://www.aspieaffection.com/ ?
"Database error occured. Check the query and/or DB connection"

I had heard that Aspie Affection was down. I don't know the particulars.

for some reason I cant get into the politics religion and philosphy section it says I'm under age..