Site Design

[Fangu]

^ It is. And it's almost fully implemented on http://fhtagn.thelifestream.net/, if it only worked

Yop, SSH

I'm too lazy

Edit: Well that didn't go as planned

Edit II: DUH, sudo su. Alright, fhtagn runs again, maybe I'll even bother updating it

 

[Obsidian Fire]

@Flin and Lex: Those indexes are how they appear currently on the site right now. I haven't done anything to them. I wanted to see what you guys had to say about them before I started editing. 'Cause editing stuff once isn't fun.

Ah, so that's why the front page looks all funky, never mind about the image ratio then!

 

[Claymore]

Also, we can work around a 16:9 image. This draft does, for example.

That is a really great draft. Immediately feels a lot more engaging and that there's a lot more content going on.

 

[Flintlock]

^ Thanks. I think it's a bit crowded for my taste, but the idea was to get more information into the first visible screen (without scrolling, in other words) of the site.

Sorry, Obs! I misunderstood. I thought they were drafts you had made up. Clearly we need to make them look consistent with one another. I think I like Index 3 the best, but 4 would work if we got rid of the underline. There's no reason for anything other than a link to be underlined.

 

[Lex]

Index 1 and 2 headings are underlined because they are links, but that's easily changed anyway. It's simply a HTML <u></u> I'm sure.

 

[Cthulhu]

@Fangu, I've actually spent some time this weekend setting up a virtual machine - I've got php, apache and mysql working there, hopefully installing TLS's database and whatnot on there is easy enough. Fuck me setting up a server is a lot easier if you don't try to optimize anything, .

speaking of (also offtopic), I should use it to play with the HipHop virtual machine, which should improve performance even more than our current setup does. Not that PHP is any bottleneck, but still, MOAR.

 

[Fangu]

^ Awesome, were you thinking of setting up Git as well? That would be the last step to having created an AWESOME!!! environment. (Also, you meant a virtual machine for testing, aye? To run on prod? Or did I misunderstand...)

Have a cookie

 

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, I should go for that too; the Wordpress styles are open source and whatnot, right? i.e. I can chuck them in a public repository without problems? I should probably look into that, otherwise I'll have to pay some monies for a private repository.

Also, a VM that runs the whole site and whatnot - testing, development, whatever. It should be possibru to share a folder in the VM with the host computer so you can use whatever editor you use local to edit files which are served from the VM. I think. I'll have to look into that, .

Also om nom nom nom.

 

[Fangu]

Open source, aye.

My prefered method would be to set up Apache + php + mySQL on my desktop, clone a repos, maek branch and develop locally. Then push/ update to external repos, then idk, you can pull and run that branch on the virtual server for some kind of pre-prod test, before pulling from, or copying the files to prod or whatnot.

Although developing on/to a virtual server is just as good an option I guess (we don't really need a pre-prod stage?) to make sure we're on the same version of A + php + DB. We could just work on separate branches or something.

 

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, I guess that'd work too; I still want to set up a VM as a testing environment of sorts. The style and code is simple and non-critical enough to just wing it IMHO, i.e. no separate test environment or whatever. It's not like PHP codes or stylesheets can bring down the site for days on end like some of the enterprisey shit we work with does, .

 

[Fangu]

Exactly. Thinking about how NERVOUS I was before - it makes me laugh It's cute tho.

like, OH NOES, this substr($theExcerpt, 0, $noOfCharacters) will break EVERYTHING and it will take me HOURS to fix it

 

[Cthulhu]

Well TBH you had Java or .net before, that would've actually caused the whole program to go no u, effectively.

 

[Fangu]

Yeah. The setup was pretty unforgiving in that sense.

Maybe we should stop hijacking this thread

 

[Cthulhu]

MY WEBSITE, MY PREROGATIVE TO HIJACK IT, CAN YOU FEEL THAT E-POWAR????

 

[Lex]

back away from the code summoner yuna

back away slowly

 

[Flintlock]

vBulletin-Connector, $15. Works with 3.8, which is what we're running. Worth a try?

 

[Fangu]

^ Someone actually made something! In 2013, it seems. Yep, worth trying out.

 

[Lex]

Ohmygawd this is the bridge we've been searching for! Thank you whoever made this.

EDIT: "Creates matching vBulletin threads for you when you add a new Wordpress post"

0_0

HOORAY

 

[Fangu]

It's not a bridge/ complete integration, though. It just accesses the vB database directly as read only. I'd want to see the code (same for Yop I'm 110% certain) before installing it.

Here's a demo. It's quite similar to what I wanted to make, actually. You can't comment directly on the post page, it sends you to the forum thread, like I intended as well.

Curious to see how it handles BBcode.

 

[Flintlock]

If we don't have $15 in the TLS warchest, I don't mind stumping up at least part of the fee. It'll make my job as community manager easier anyway.

 

[Fangu]

Also, can anybody see how, since our threads/ posts are linear (and not "in response to" (quotes don't count)), how it would be possible to comment on comments? Do you need to set vB to 'not linear' (tree'd) for that?

 

[Lex]

Would that result in pyramid quoting?

Also total aside: the green title looks surprisingly good with your postbit font colour

considering change

 

[Lex]

I realise this isn't high on our list of priorities, but the forum skins that aren't "default" (i.e. any other colour) still have the old banner heading with "Home" "Forums" "Shop" and "Donate"

I know this isn't anything major and they don't actually link anywhere, but we should probably add it to the list of things that have to be fixed in the future.

 

[Ⓐaron]

I suspect setting vBulletin to "threaded" mode would break a lot of our long threads and make them impossible to load (what are you listening to, love triangle debates, ruins/makes your day, chit chat, etc.). I could be wrong, though. I haven't tried it since like vBulletin 3.5.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

If threaded mode is like how comments/forums work on deviantART, it'll definitely break the way the forums read. There, threaded mode works by hiding all the posts that are written in response to the first tier of posts. So the only posts that are actually showing are the posts that are in direct response to the OP. Given how much we quote everyone else and respond to every post but the OP... yeah... I think you're right that it'll break the forums.