dBoard 4.0 Release

My wife said I should do a bit of research on it even if it takes a while as apparently I was "in the way" over xmas; so I'm going to use the Googles to get to the bottom of it.

A minor improvement has been made to the way messages are positioned into view. The "Reply To" and "Replies" links to messages on the same page are now links (previously they were Javascript positioning code). This has several positive effects:

• Clicking on these links puts them in your browser's history, so now clicking on "Back" and "Forward" includes these links.
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• They can be dragged and dropped into other browser tabs and windows.
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• They can be copied and pasted.

Bugs are possible, please report them here.

Works okay.One thing that has bugged me for a while, though, is that the big white box that you put the reply into seems to have a fixed width instead of a relative width, so it doesn't scale when you make the window smaller.I know you can manually adjust the size of the box, but that's kind of a hassle especially since the size resets every time you click to preview your message.What do you think?

Thank you.They used to be links. Then they changed to javascript.I'm glad to see that they are back to being links. For me, that means that I can middle click to open in a new tab, while the previous tab remembers what I had been looking at.

Middle click? You have one of those genetically modified Frankenmeeses don't you.

I just realized what buttons you are talking about. I thought you meant the Reply button for replying to a post. Now I see you changed the replies links at the bottom of each message that list everyone who has replied to a post.That is a very handy change indeed!

There are a variety of ways to link to a specific message.Offhand, when I click on a mid or midt type link, things seem to work fine.Other situations (alas I didn't note an example or two), the link results in going to the top of the relevant page, but not to the specified message.Anyone else having this happen?Moose Edited by Minnemooseus, : Stray word jumped into the subtitle.

Any new link should work because they should all have "#MessageID" on the end, but old links without it won't position to the message. I'll fix this later today.

I've just released these minor fixes and improvements:

• Old links to messages should now position messages properly at the top the browser page.
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• In the board's control panel (only accessible to moderators), the information provided for the member search function now includes the registration IP address. The "Next 50 Members" link now also works properly.
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• The [utube] code now accepts a start time argument. Simply include a "t=" argument specifying the hours, minutes and seconds, like this:
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  [utube=YRxS8IVQRcs,t=1h5m23s]
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  You can leave out those parts you don't need, for example:
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  [utube=YRxS8IVQRcs,t=5m]

Edited by Admin, : Simplify YouTube examples.

I haven't been encountering any specific message links problems. I'm wondering if some combination of my computer and a bit flaky ISP might have been causing stalls at page top. It was indicated that the download was complete.Anyway - What got me to this topic.There is a hovermessage for the member rating number:

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Member ratings are on a scale from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). They are a measure of a member\'s ability to draw votes for their messages over the past 90 days.'

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I think it would be nice if it said something like:

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Member ratings are on a scale from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest). This member has drawn X votes for Y messages over the past 90 days.

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MooseEdited by Minnemooseus, : Fix 2nd quote box.

I'm still not happy with the rating formula. When I fix it for hopefully the last time I'll update the tooltip, too.Edited by Admin, : Change author.

Had no idea the ratings went up to 10. Everyone's rating is less than 4; most people are at about 1 or so.I've never really like the all-or-nothing rating system, though. I'd be more likely to give more rating of messages if there were something like a 5-star system.

You can sort on the member ratings on the members page: As you can see it's an all or nothing kind of thing. A very few people get high ratings, everyone else gets the dregs. As I write this Asgara has 10 while the next highest is dwise1 with 4.9.I like providing options, so a board configuration option that allows an n-star rating system would be something I'd be interested in eventually doing. I'm in a particularly difficult piece of implementation right now, but usually I can whip through these kinds of things in short order, so when I finish with the current work I'm hoping progress will increase substantially. When I begin work on changes to the rating system I'll solicit input, but I don't know when that will be.

Cool.I just thought of something else that might be useful: the ability to use the [mbrid] tag in the [qs=""] field. Even with [noparse], I can't show the tags without it getting seriously muddled. But if implemented it would allow quick creation of the following:Right now you get:" Hello World![/qs] (even with the [noparse] tag).

I'd rather see the number of votes too. It's better to see that I got 10 cheers than to see that I got 1 cheer per 100 posts.