Arantor

The problem with making it a clickable option is the mechanics underneath of how you actually store that preference. Yes, XF has per-user preferences but it's actually a whole set of subtasks for 1) loading that preference and turning it into CSS efficiently, 2) exposing a UI for that toggle somewhere and 3) actually saving that option - because I'm certain that the people who want the preference won't want to squirrel it away in the user preferences page where it will be hard to find (based on my experience of watching people run into this with SMF)

I've been trickling content out a little bit - I'm still getting used to Invision's take on TipTap and the little before-after arrows threw me for a loop to start with. I'd put in a quote box to put some quoted content into, put the content in that, and wasn't immediately sure how to then write new content after the quote box. Invision, of course, doesn't do bbcode so you're not able to get at a source view (dealbreaker for some, no worries for me as long as I don't have to do any complex formatting) Pages is great if you have something you can put into them in terms of structured content (which is where databases shine)

Not sure I agree that the 'putting things at the bottom is better on mobile' but I'll wait to try it before reserving judgement. Interesting how much 'we don't want no Markdown' has produced, especially since MD will by the looks of it be the default experience with no way to disable it. No biggie for me, but I could see this being a dealbreaker for others.

I didn’t mean search traffic - I meant human traffic. People tend to visit the chat, do their social thing and not visit the rest of the forum. When you don’t have a chat, people visit off-topic sections to chat in between other posts.

It can absolutely, but the reason I point it out is because I think I remember going to your site when you first posted and I remember seeing something about flat earth. (Correct me if I'm wrong but you seem to have cut that section now) Something like that is an area of discussion my natural instinct is simply to deconstruct with the full weight of my knowledge, because there is no basis to it (much as the moon landing happened, it's beyond dispute), and in my mind no good comes of even giving air time to the debate of those topics unless that air time is deconstruction.

They should be. They are, however, not at all equal. Putting aside the domains that have specific registrars where you can't get the domain except through specific companies (you aren't buying a .ly from Namecheap), there's some registrars that take the proverbial with pricing. For example I just looked up adomainthatdefinitelydoesntexist.com on Namecheap and saw it was for the expected $10 or thereabouts, while Network Solutions wanted $11.99, defaulted to 3 years rather than 1, and gave me multiple screens of up-sells before I'd even seen the basic price of a domain. And then there's cases like iwantmyname which made the news last week after Funko Pop (yes, that Funko Pop) and its AI-powered brand protection service flagged a page on Itch.io for trademark violation. This caused the domain provider to unilaterally suspend the domain entirely until a human could be reached to verify it. Itch.io isn't exactly a small hobby site, either.

I have seen this niche tackled before but I think this is the most professional take I've seen yet. The thing that I can't quite wrap my head around, as someone who is deeply, deeply cynical is whether this is more about popularising discussion for the purposes of legitmising or deconstructing what's been posted.

Unless you're so desperate for numbers that you leave some of it there!

Sure sign of a newbie admin, or very possibly a very old school admin back after a very extended hiatus. Though it's fair to say that roleplay does lean slightly harder into this by using boards as locations to post in and sometimes a more expressive board list implies where people can set stories, in ways that don't quite align to the usual board thinking.

I've always been a night owl, do my best thinking well into the tiny hours.

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So much spammy content though.

Either that or the bots are a little too friendly.

Hello and welcome from a fellow Brit!

I'm regularly in bed for 2am, and up at 8am.

Right now I'm listening to the rattle of the dehumidifier drying my laundry.

And for regular forums this is normal, we all do it, more or less. But roleplay forums are bizarre and have very different usage patterns. The function of “what is there for me to engage with” is fundamentally not the same. Please see my epic case study post for more deets.

I didn’t so much “start drifting” into a negative state of mind as much as finding myself there 20+ years ago and just figuring out how to cope since. The worst part is when the thoughts are so intrusive they block even hobbies/interests trying to get a foothold in, and the only coping strategy is to sleep until life wants me for something again, like work.

I built an entire fork to refit the OEM to suit my needs :P But the most interesting of that, really, was gutting the “unread posts” features SMF ships with because it just does not make sense or use in our world.

Of course it’s Matt, he’s the sole arbiter of w.org - it can’t be anyone else. And while it’s notionally harmless, it’s a flex I don’t imagine the court will look so favourably on.

Whether it is or not is kinda irrelevant - it’s not a detail that you should have to explicitly agree to, to be able to log into the support community for the world’s most popular CMS…

Matt is flexing again, and he is demonstrating how unhappy he is about being made to do things. [ATTACH type=full" size="503x661]522[/ATTACH] (Yes this is real.)

Depends how big the DDOS is.

No because the DDOS hits CloudFlare specifically on XenForo.com and they limited the traffic going to the cloud server in the first place.

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