bfarber
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Everything posted by bfarber
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Makes sense. Should also probably limit that functionality to admins only. e.g. you need to be an admin to delete pms presently, so it would make sense to only allow admins to delete pms through the changed feature set I'd imagine.
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One more thing to add, though I'm not sure it'll help you any. As technology progresses, you'll find you simply need more resources to stay up to date. It's how computers and software work, I'm afraid. 2.0 uses more resources than 1.3 2.1 uses more resources than 2.0 2.3 uses more resources than 2.1 3.0 uses more resources than 2.3 Windows ME used more resources than Windows 98 Windows 2000 used more resources than NT/ME/98 Windows XP uses more resources than Win2K Windows Vista uses more resources than Windows XP Unfortunately you simply can't progress and add all the gee-whiz bells and whistles everyone wants without some sort of tradeoff in resource usage. I'm positive we could make IPB 3 just as efficient as IPB 2.3.....if we were working with the exact same feature set. i.e. get rid of friendly urls, get rid of the report center, get rid of personal conversations, get rid of the new skin. But then we'd be on 2.3, wouldn't we?
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Or you could use the little icon that takes you to the first unread post, thereby skipping the part of the topic you've already read. Why does it irritate you though. I mean, perhaps you need a slight break from the computer in that case? :P :D
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All you have to do is submit the report and then forget about it. The piracy department will do everything they can. Unfortunately they are not able to reply to each report, nor are they able to disclose the results of their attempts to address piracy reports, but if you have reported a site you've done all you can do, and we appreciate it. :)
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Interesting thoughts though. I get weary of adding too many "administrative" features to the front end. Lord forbid an XSS attack shows up and someone manages to take over an admin account on the front end without a password, that's bad enough. But if we add too many administrative features on the front end, the potential damage increases a lot. Marking as spam will automatically unapprove all the user's recent posts. Perhaps we can add an option to also delete their posts and pms? Would basically take care of your concerns.
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What version of PHP are you using? PHP 5.2 comes with a default memory_limit of 128MB because of changes the PHP group made in how memory gets reported - you have it set to 16MB, which is likely not enough for some actions.
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Rikki disagrees. Generally he likes to check the skin out immediately upon import before all members are able to select it.
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Personally I don't see the point myself. I honestly don't care if an old topic is bumped, and I've never really understood why others do... if someone has something to add to a topic, let em add it. If it's actual spam, it'll get reported and dealt with. For the record, content is sorted by last_post by default, so if you delete the new post, it gets "unbumped".
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You should probably submit a ticket in that case. Anytime I've opted to delete all of a member's posts, it has deleted all of their posts.
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In practice it shouldn't matter. Any performance differences between the field types are negligible, and the only way you can run into issues is if you are directly inserting/modifying data in those fields outside of the standard IPB interface, so there shouldn't be any associated bugs.
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This board works just fine for me. While we always look towards improving performance where-ever possible during upgrades, I don't think you're likely to see any magic bullets between minor point releases. The last few releases have improved performance quite a bit by identifying and working out many resource issues with memberlist and search, for instance.
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You should simply select both options when you submit the form. As for the error message, sounds like a link doesn't get formatted properly when it sends you back to the page or something. It could be a bug.
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If we added a way for users to select which forums show up in the view new posts feed, would that be a sufficient solution? That's something that I think a lot more users would find useful, but should also address your primary concern?
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What browser are you using? I've never seen what you are talking about myself.
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If 50 accounts showed up within an hour from "x.x.x.x" would you not consider that a red flag though? I agree, going by IP address alone can cause problems. But that's not to say IP address shouldn't be factored in.
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I have no idea what you've been waiting for since 2.3.0. The ACP was not language-abstractable, but we made it so in 3.0. There was no native RTL support, and we've added it for 3.0 out of the box, and have slowly been improving it in IE7 (the only browser that has issues with our implementations). IPB never supported locale support before 3.0, allowing you to customize the date formats for your own language. All of this is done for internationalization and language-independence, and then when 2 strings aren't translated you accuse us of not caring about our customers? Sigh.
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Not being able to post a topic - that's a major issue. Getting an SQL error when you try to view the board index - that's a major issue. Having a string that displays that CAN be translated via one area of the ACP, but is not multi-lingual so it cannot be translated separately for each area - this is a "minor" issue when compared to everything else that can happen in IPB. I'm sure when Microsoft releases their localized versions of Windows in other countries, when they get reports of single strings that are not translated, these are not categorized as level 5 critical bugs. Please take a moment to look at this in perspective. While it *impacts* you, I think you can agree that a single string out of several thousand that isn't multi-lingual is not an extremely serious issue. :)
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I can assure you, there are. Though I have no statistics on how many are "big" and get 100+ registrations a day, nor do I have any statistics on how many use the spam service. But if you stop and think about it, the service is included at no additional charge for all new license purchases, so any new purchases made will most likely make use of the service. The number of users using the service is not likely to plateau, but rather to continue to grow.
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And for sites that get 50 users a day? A check every 3 days would mean 150 users - that's a lot to process in one request from one server. Multiplied by tens of thousands, again..
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I'd say that since our forum rules forbids you from using an avatar that is similar in appearance to a staff avatar (to help avoid any confusion for newer members) it's probably counter-productive to the rules to release a GDK if you ask me.
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I'll be brutally honest and say that when you are working with millions of lines of PHP code in a software project as big as IPB, it's extremely simple to overlook something as minor as a single tab not being translatable. It's really not intentional. We really don't want to start a war on the forums because a single tab can only be in one language. Honestly.
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Perhaps, but I'm not sure $20/year would cover this. Can you even begin to imagine the overhead in having a system on our end contact tens of thousands of remote sites to try to notify them when it discovers a spammer?
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When adding a member in the ACP you can already opt to have the password emailed to the user. Couldn't you just button-mash and check that option? It's the same thing in the end. The end-user doesn't really know if you are able to randomly generate a password or if you did it manually, so it's already on the honor-system that you aren't noting their password anyways. And they can always change it once they login for the first time.
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For the record, Charles said the board could be translated, and those tabs *can in fact* be translated. They are just not multi-lingual at this time. There is an open report on making them multi-lingual which we will look into for a future release.
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Just out of curiosity, what's the point in "relocking" a forum? :unsure: What does it matter exactly if the next time you visit that forum you don't have to re-enter the password? It's just, this is the first time I've seen this requested, and I'm not really sure what purpose it would serve.
