Board Problems

@Midnight_Reaper

you should donate more.

@vodot There’s an open bug for the search issues. The next release of NodeBB should address the logout issue in most cases.

The logout issue boils down to the fact that anonymous visitors, including Google crawlers, get a session, which is stored in the database. To conserve memory we limit the number of sessions. Sometimes, randomly, a regular user’s session is deleted from the database, thus the logout. In the next version of NodeBB, anonymous visitors will not get a session. The number of sessions in the db will go from hundreds of thousands to thousands.

Thanks again man.  I uploaded a word document in the previous post in that other thread.  I guess this is case closed.  Your help is appreciated :)

Edit: I actually figured out how to make indentations.  It was not obvious by any means, but possible

Here’s what I did:

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You also need to understand that in my day job I’m a software engineer (programmer) and I build scalable websites. It takes a lot of work to do it right. phpBB and SMF work but it does mean they were built right. Not to say those programmers are bad but I doubt anybody who originally worked on phpBB and SMF would ever code something in that same manner ever again. The codebase intertwines the data models, the views, and has no templating system. The code is spaghetti and my eyes bleed whenever I have to read it.

I’ve avoided building my own forum in the past because I know how much work it will be. Enough of that, if nobody else will do it right, then I’ll do it.

VanillaForums comes the closest and has a much cleaner codebase but there are many things that I would still have to implement to run Vanilla.

@Field:

@djensen:

If I upgrade, it will break everything. The next upgrade will be a migration to new forum software, which I will be writing myself because the current state of the forum-world is horrendous. If we don’t evolve, everybody will migrate to Quora and StackExchange.

I’m not too familiar with the SMF system but you should be able to upgrade without breaking links. With phpBB you upgrade the forum not the data. the data is in a separate dbase and is a slave to the forum software. In the beginning at the Underground we were spammed to death so I added a simple security question to the registration process and we haven’t had even one spammer in a year. The question is simple but bots don’t know the answer. “What war does the game cover?” Any doh-head knows the answer, but bots don’t. I honestly have few issues with the phpBB software.

Feedback on the idea so far has been positive in nature but limited in number, so it’s hard to draw any conclusions about what the board membership’s opinion is.  Any thoughts from djensen or the moderators at this point?

That’s exactly what I do. In fact the posting to the forums is only a convenience feature. We would all be able to use the latest TripleA by copying and pasting the summary but, alas, there is no edit mode to fill in your opponent’s moves.

Correct, the “Edit Post” feature was locked out of Games area more than a year ago to prevent moves from being edited.

It has worked well.

Edit should work everywhere else.

Hey and that project is not even done yet.

If it was i think we would win outright.