Hoops

ozhoopsboards - essentially dead ?

Wouldn't be high up the priority list. But I've considered an edit option with edit history which would serve instead of a preview.

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Certificate alert it seems Isaac?

FYI Isaac, I still do some moderating here and there (a very light touch though). Mostly changing titles of deciding nba finals match/playoff threads each year for those who haven't watched the reply and restoring posts when threads are incorrectly flagged for moderation. Very rarely have to delete spam.

I love this forum. I will cry if it ever closes.

Isaac take your time with the improvements and get some rest I don't want to see you up till 2am every night

"Caps Fan, I think there might be a shift to enforced registration"

IMHO - I think that this is essential, and still requiring to be logged in to reply as well.

" but the ability to use a temporary anonymous alias for particular posts while logged in is likely to remain:"

I think leaving the alias is good.

Caps Fan, I think there might be a shift to enforced registration, but the ability to use a temporary anonymous alias for particular posts while logged in is likely to remain. These would be obviously marked and essentially replace anonymous posts as people know them now.

^ Register a handle for yourself and you get the right to vote.

^^ @Caps Fan, did you mean "noms de plumes"? That's French for pen names. :D

I vote yes to a poll function. What does everyone else think?

I immediately DEMAND Galactic Overlord mod status so I can delete all these off-topic posts and give a life ban to the trolls like Issac who have taken MY tread off-topic

:))

Great dedication Issac, the good treads are a credit to what you have freely provided to us all, the bad threads are unintended consequences of giving intoxicated monkeys internet access.

By the way, as you would know, i do like the ability of having occasional access to "non-de-plumes" and the ability to post as "anon". I hope that remains.

Thanks again

There wouldn't have been one here for a decade. I do have a poll-specific site and did some integration at some point, but it's long abandoned.

Let me try to get the basics upgraded before worrying about any of that.

Great work Isaac

Forums are dead...long live Forums!

I'll put that on the list. It's likely people double-clicking or submitting twice rather than waiting.

Perhaps the new platform will take care of this repeat posting issue that turns up every now and then?

Technical innovation is the cornerstone of competitive strategy!

It's certainly possible and I'm not worried too much about the database load, it's just non-trivial to build.

I would definitely like to build in the ability to watch threads for replies and it would probably relate to that. I figure that could bump forum traffic by 20% so there's a commercial case for it too, but we'll see.

Probably more a matter of where it fits within the interface if you need to have links for the thread proper, the most recent post in the thread, and then the earliest post added since you last viewed a thread.

Current thinking is that you would have a list of the last, say, 20 topics you browsed, and there would be an indicator in that list when you returned of how many posts had been added since last read.

The ability to jump to the first unread post in a thread (but I'm guessing that would take some serious work to achieve)

Good on you, Isaac. You're a small champ. Anyone who says otherwise is a chump.

Quick and basic search function added at the bottom of each page and linked in the footer. . Will try to find time to add paging tomorrow.

Dev preview for anyone who cares.

Current state of the Hoops upgrade dev version. Slow going. The demo content shows how long ago I started on it… pic.twitter.com/AjYolbobrL

— Hoops.com.au (@HoopsForum) September 1, 2016

Okay, had to log out and log back in. Sorted.

Thanks again for that.

I don't see it? You sure you upgraded the right account?

Just tried to post a link, that's still not working either.

For particular user levels, every post has a Sin Bin link. Clicking it will withhold a post from public view until I've reviewed it. You can use this to alert me to spam or posts that are particularly offensive or legally questionable.

Added custom width. I was hoping that max-width CSS would deal with things but while it works for images, with iframes it requires a second div and I don't have time to write a reliable output filter for that.

While we're talking improvements...
If we really want to bring the magic, I'd like to request that koberulz begins each post with

Hey,

And signs off with

- koberulz

Added a guide (linked from the footer and in the new-topic and topic-reply forms) explaining how to embed YouTube videos and tweets.

Cheers, that'll make life a bit easier.

koberulz, I've upgraded your account level to be able to post links and also Sin-Bin posts.

Can there be a stickied thread about how to embed videos and images?

Whenever I attempt to make a post with a hyperlink in it I get an error message:

Error 5.029291. Please contact the forum operator.

Appreciate the responses, but could you address the linking issue? I think I recall you saying it was an issue with IPs being associated with spam, but is there a reason it remains disabled even if registered and logged in?

This is a test for the jump-to-latest-post functionality.

I really wish all SBL fans would feel free to start per-round topics for their comp rather than the mega-thread.

This is a test for the jump-to-latest-post functionality.

Edit: OK, it works. If there has been a post since this function was added, its thread in the index will have the last post date linked to the comment. Anchor links in HTML can be unreliable in pages with loads of anchors so I can't promise this will work in the mega-threads.

Edit again: Give me a minute. Will try to get this happening for every thread.

I know I've been working on an upgrade forever, and my dev version doesn't help you until it's live, so take the following with a grain of salt.

A 'like' button would be amazing as far as popular posts. Not threads, but individual posts within the thread conversation.

there was a 3 letter acronym in my above between the "or" ??? "stuff" referring to an infamous historical debate that I was NOT a part of ;)

8. Reserve registered names so others can't use them.

The ability to jump to the first unread post in a thread (but I'm guessing that would take some serious work to achieve)

I don't know about other people, but my bookmark to this site uses the "Latest Action" link. For some reason, threads with just 1 post (i.e. no replies) do not show up in that view.

Can there be a stickied thread about how to embed videos and images?

Also linking of Twitter posts.

You never forget the first argument you have with Mattic, mostly because it's probably still going.....

BJ Carter was better than Anthony Stewart

Pagination on OzHoops was awful.. hopefully if we do end up getting it here, there'll be at least a larger number of posts per page before it starts paging.

Bouncers are gr8 m8

Yeah quoting would be nice. It bugs me when some people are able to do it but not the common folk :(

Also linking of Twitter posts. Good especially for rumors / off season player movements

"plus the very loud and obnoxious minority scaring off anyone new from trying too hard."

that certainly stopped me from going over to OzHoops to read what was going on.

On possible changes to this site, I support pagination (as per Koberulz, makes last unread post easy to find) and an improved search facility for old threads. Also support easier insertion of links.

That said, I find the current format and style pretty good value for the price!

HTML. YouTube offers an HTML embed option under 'share', for images use this: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_images.asp

Can there be a stickied thread about how to embed videos and images?

Or someone want to tell me how to do it?

- I don't know about other people, but my bookmark to this site uses the "Latest Action" link. For some reason, threads with just 1 post (i.e. no replies) do not show up in that view. It would be handy if they did.

No pages in threads please! Scroll much better.

If we're taking suggestions, I think the main difference-makers would be

- The ability to jump to the first unread post in a thread (but I'm guessing that would take some serious work to achieve)

- Allow more than 1 page of threads, so that slightly older topics could be more easily found without needing to resort to a google search. I think this would also help to minimise duplicate threads. I think about 3 pages would be enough (or alternatively just stick with one page but have it show the most recent 150 threads rather than 50)

- I don't know about other people, but my bookmark to this site uses the "Latest Action" link. For some reason, threads with just 1 post (i.e. no replies) do not show up in that view. It would be handy if they did.

"Ozhoops was killed by one person
Unlikely we've heard the last from him
Stupid Tasmanian."



I would've thought it was a Queenslander you were referring to ... but would you be "eyeballing" a suspect ??

10. Ability to make numbered lists.

@Isaac - I think pagination would be it, really, on threads list page and in threads, otherwise I dig it... no pain points other that Mock :D

Actually, a link to the last post on the thread instead of just the timestamp would help, but that's only minor...