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#175685 Nintendo Network ID On Profile Page
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on 24 February 2013 - 05:40 PM
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This has been added.
#94125 Valve has officially revealed Steam for Linux - including L4D2!
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on 17 July 2012 - 05:29 PM
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This is pretty exciting. Although we likely won't see the Linux version of the Steam client for a while, it's great to hear that Valve are actively working on porting it and the Source engine over. I have been considering a switch to Linux for some time; and although I'm aware that the vast majority of Steam's library won't be playable at launch, having the framework in place for Linux software delivery opens the door for developers to port their efforts over as well.
#80858 The new and improved forum search engine
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on 26 May 2012 - 10:22 AM
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I set up a new search backend called Sphinx, which seamlessly replaces the native MySQL fulltext search method we used before. Sphinx maintains its own search indexes separately from the database, so running a search will create no additional load on the database. This means better and more consistent site speed and loading times for everyone.
But moreover, Sphinx itself is much better at returning relevant results than MySQL as well. So when you search for something, the results should be much closer to what you were expecting to find!
Finally, there are a few specific usability changes I'd like to share with you:
But moreover, Sphinx itself is much better at returning relevant results than MySQL as well. So when you search for something, the results should be much closer to what you were expecting to find!
Finally, there are a few specific usability changes I'd like to share with you:
- The minimum word length has been lowered to 2 characters.
- Sphinx can perform a wildcard search to match a partial word, using an asterisk as the wildcard. For example, running a search query for game* will match games and gameboy
- Sphinx updates its search index every 15 minutes. New posts and topics may take up to 15 minutes to become searchable ("View New Content" is unaffected, by the way, as it does not use Sphinx).
#92774 chat kicks me for no reason!
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on 10 July 2012 - 02:26 AM
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IP.Chat is quite a glitchy piece of software. It's supposed to auto-kick you after 30 minutes of being idle, but whether it actually does or not is up in the air. In my experience, ad blockers (regardless of whether you have the site whitelisted or not - it's enough to just have one enabled) often cause problems with it. If you don't use one, then IP.Chat is likely just having a bad day.
Unfortunately, there's virtually nothing that can be done about it, as IP.Chat is a remotely hosted solution that runs on IPS's servers, not my own.
Unfortunately, there's virtually nothing that can be done about it, as IP.Chat is a remotely hosted solution that runs on IPS's servers, not my own.
#74659 Avatar bug? (culprit found inside)
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on 25 April 2012 - 01:14 AM
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IP.SEO has been screwing around. This should be fixed now. Please let me know if you come across any other "glitched" topics like that.
#175904 Is anyone else getting tired of certain people spamming threads?
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on 24 February 2013 - 11:50 PM
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If you see spammy threads coming up, hit that bright red report button on the OP and they'll be taken care of.
#177776 Automatically clear text formatting from a paste
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on 01 March 2013 - 02:22 AM
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CKEditor works best with pastes if you use one of the three paste buttons (in the red box):
They offer a variety of options for handling the formatting of the content. With that said, I'd advocate a simple link to the original source over reproducing the content, anyway.
This site is actually running on an older version of IP.Board, and a variety of changes have been made to the editor since then. I'll look into getting us upgraded, which might come with some improvements to direct pasting.
They offer a variety of options for handling the formatting of the content. With that said, I'd advocate a simple link to the original source over reproducing the content, anyway.
This site is actually running on an older version of IP.Board, and a variety of changes have been made to the editor since then. I'll look into getting us upgraded, which might come with some improvements to direct pasting.
#96509 Increase/Remove The Limit of Likes
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on 29 July 2012 - 04:14 PM
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I thought I had this set to something higher than 10. 
Good suggestion. I went ahead and raised the limit to an unrealistically high number (unfortunately, IP.Board doesn't give me the option to remove the limit entirely).
Good suggestion. I went ahead and raised the limit to an unrealistically high number (unfortunately, IP.Board doesn't give me the option to remove the limit entirely).
#180394 Sex site ad on the forums
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on 07 March 2013 - 04:11 PM
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May I please have the URL that ad led to? I'll be happy to blacklist it, but I can only do that if I know its destination.
#96512 Glitchy Chat Number
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on 29 July 2012 - 04:19 PM
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IP.Chat is a rather glitchy piece of work. It's hosted remotely on servers I don't control, and IPS are very slow with updates to it, so I'd attribute this to the software just not being quite up to par. Something we'll have to put up with, unfortunately, that is beyond my control.
#181062 Save the Chat 2013
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on 09 March 2013 - 04:46 PM
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I'm not taking anything out on anyone. I would just like to review the logs and see if it is detrimental to the community here as a whole. Chatrooms, by their very nature, are exponentially more difficult to moderate than forums, and the very spontaneity that the chat regulars love about it is what makes it so difficult to moderate.
Moreover, considering that chat message are seen once and then almost never again, they don't add any publicly visible content to the site, which is sort of what forum communities are all about.
If you want the chatroom to remain, show us that you can use it responsibly and in a balance with the public forums, rather than starting a "campaign" to "save" it. The fate of the chatroom rests on what we see in the logs, not what you say about it on the forums.
#89610 SQL Errors?
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on 23 June 2012 - 11:09 PM
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I moved all of my sites to a bigger, faster, and cheaper server over the past couple of days or so. I expected the migration to go very smoothly, but a server-side analytics package created a number of unexpected issues with the process. We're now up and running on the new server, though - hope you enjoy the speed boost!
#89611 Pony Theme Not Working. Again.
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on 23 June 2012 - 11:10 PM
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What even is this?
There's a version of the site with an alternate, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic-themed banner at the top. Looks like the banner got glitched up during today's server migration. This has been fixed now.
