Mods that I should / could install wicba

[Tennyo]

Thar, videos can be embedded now. Just post the links and it'll work. For threads that have a youtube video link, just edit and save and it works (as with the last post on the previous page).

Edit: nvm, there's a script that converts old posts with youtube links to working videos. Running it now.

Heck yeah! XD

 

[Strangelove]

Does vB have a hack for telling you, when you're trying to post, that someone else has posted before you finished? Because I miss that about the old forum

 

[Tennyo]

What? I never knew that hack existed! XD That never happened to me I don't think.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Does vB have a hack for telling you, when you're trying to post, that someone else has posted before you finished? Because I miss that about the old forum

I miss it as well, it was actually pretty useful.

 

[Cthulhu]

Does vB have a hack for telling you, when you're trying to post, that someone else has posted before you finished? Because I miss that about the old forum

I'm fairly sure there is - I should go and look out for it.

 

[Cthulhu]

This could work for us: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=207315

Edit: As would this: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=203721. The latter one displays a list of your social groups on the forum home - i.e. only the ones you've joined.

Edit 2: This (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=208412) looks very promising (iPhone app for viewing vB forums), but it still seems to be in development and whatnot. Off course, the iPhone has a browzar, so a browser-compatible layout would work just as well I think.

Edit 3: This (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=201228) looks interesting - it will make active threads auto-refresh themselves while open in your browser, so new posts will appear automagically without you having to refresh the page all the time to check for new posts. Works with AJAX too, so the server load is less than that of people refreshing the whole page all the time. Not that server load is of any concern right now, mind - vB seems to be a LOT more efficient than SMF, and as far as I know, nobody's had any problems with the CPU error since moving to vB.

 

[Channy]

oh oh oh

and the Ajax stats box down the bottom of the page thats on FCF. AND SHOUTBOX.

Those. I miss those dearly. Stats such as "You are most active in this forum.... so and so many members online today... You are responsible for this percentage of all forum posts.."

D=

Does vB have a hack for telling you, when you're trying to post, that someone else has posted before you finished? Because I miss that about the old forum

That was also pretty good. I also miss the name changing hack. But I wonder. When V install the hack for the postbit, and we talked last night he was rerouting ones to make sure it did the proper task... wouldn't there be a way to reroute one of those boxes (perhaps the type face box that may not be popular) into doing the task for changing your own name?

 

[Cthulhu]

That would be quite possible, yes - just add a custom profile field 'display name', and make a template edit. If the display name exists, display the display name instead of the user name, else, just display the user name.

But we'd have to think of a policy for namechanges first - it'd get confusing if everyone constantly changes his/her name and doesn't fill in the AKA field.

 

[Channy]

Policy's all well and good as long as it is somewhat possible. Yaay mayor bee, mayor bee.