deskthority - Suggestions and Changelog

[webwit]

Mu you really ought to put your hand up for one of these roles. You basically live here man.

He has secretary written all over him. Nifty with them words and putting them in the right order.

Also might appreciate that in a typical good Asimov story, the secretary has the real power.

[002]

I don't know if you're shitty with money. Your purchases seem like sound investments to this point (Kishsaver)

[7bit]

Mu you really ought to put your hand up for one of these roles. You basically live here man.

He has secretary written all over him. Nifty with them words and putting them in the right order.

Also might appreciate that in a typical good Asimov story, the secretary has the real power.

Yes!

Mu for president secretary!!!


BTW:
I would like to have a GB-counterpart of GB (Group Buy).


And:
Can we have the category in red, green and blue, please?

[Hypersphere]

Mu you really ought to put your hand up for one of these roles. You basically live here man.

He has secretary written all over him. Nifty with them words and putting them in the right order.

Also might appreciate that in a typical good Asimov story, the secretary has the real power.

Yes, I have always treasured that conversation in the 1951 version of The Day the Earth Stood Still between Mr. Carpenter and the boy, who explains the true power structure of the "Department of Commerce" in Washington: "That man they call the secretary isn't at all. My mom's a real secretary."

[Muirium]

Hey, my mom was too!

What's our secretary do again, besides Machiavelli?

[webwit]

This: http://deskthority.net/club-management- ... t6678.html

[Muirium]

Right. Looks doable. I don't like the look of IRC (always been allergic to chat systems) but as you mention there we could do that stuff in club threads anyway, which I much prefer for being on record and polls too.

Whenever the current secretary fancies getting shot of it, you can tap me.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Mu in a short skirt … wait …

[Muirium]

It's a KILT!! Okay!

[Muirium]

Another (trivially simple?) request for the PM system: no nesting in subject line, please. Eg. Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Did you hear ab…

Bonus points for handling mixed strings of replies and forwards. My preference: strip all previous Re: and Fwd: text and just use the current one. All replies are Re: End of.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Yeah I've noticed that too. I don't know what triggers it though — it only seems to do it on certain specific conversations.

[Muirium]

Even more weird, the stacked text sometimes includes a space, sometimes not. Two recent threads in my PMs:

Re: Fwd: Re: Re: Re: Re: Who Makes the Caps for HiPro?
Re:Re:Re:Re: 2.4GHz 56 Key Keyboard

[002]

I think that's because I was replying to you from Tapatalk.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Looking at my messages, I found this bizarre sequence:

To HaaTa: Mystery switch
From HaaTa: Re: Re: Mystery switch

What on earth happened there? His message directly quoted mine and I have no reason to believe that any messages are missing. phpBB added "Re:" twice at once.

"Re:" changed to "Re: Re:" randomly in a reply from 002, and thus it remained until with one of my replies I removed the extra "Re:".

So far, it seems it's never affected any of my outgoing messages, but it's affected messages from 002, QWERTim, HaaTa, 002, 002 … 002 seems to be a big culprit here of these naughty message subjects ;-) (you can't search for "Re: Re:" as it reads this as "Re:")

And HaaTa again. And twice more.

It's only affecting messages from very specific people, but not on every message — only QWERTim seems to have managed a "Re: Re: Re:" as normally it stops at two, in conversations that lasted long enough to tell.

You need to pay 002 and HaaTa a visit and give them a bit of allo allo allo …

(The search results also say "Received: $DATE\nby: $SENDER" — that should be from $SENDER, otherwise it appears that the sender was the one who received it.)

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Ah, 002 confesses!

[002]

Haha, guilty as charged. I actually didn't realise Tapatalk was causing it until last night when I was comparing a reply I sent to webwit from my phone and from PC.
If I reply to you in PM and it adds another RE, then you know I'm supposed to be working

[Daniel Beardsmore]

The wiki tag doesn't recognise certain valid targets, for example:

[wiki]Alps SKBL/SKBM series[/wiki]

[wiki]Category:Keyboards[/wiki]

It mistakenly breaks off parsing after encountering characters that are valid and commonly used in page titles such as ":" (namespace separator) and "/".

[002]

I've noticed that too but I thought it was just a Tapatalk issue.

[webwit]

Test 123...

[wiki]Alps SKBL/SKBM series[/wiki]

[wiki]Category:Keyboards[/wiki]

Ok works now, but not for old posts. Unless edited which triggers a reparse.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Thanks!

[jefferai]

Muirium suggested posting here...

If I subscribe to a thread, Tapatalk notifies me and I get email notifications. If I unsubscribe I lose both of those. What I'd like to have is for Tapatalk to notify me and to not get email notifications.

Is there already a way to do this that I'm not seeing, and if not, can there be?

Thanks!

[Daniel Beardsmore]

On a user's profile page, their main keyboard and mouse and favourite switch show up twice: once under the main details block, and again under the contact block below.

[Madhias]

Is it possible to deactivate the [IMG] tag when hit quote and just show the name or the link to the image?

[002]

Either that or warn if img tags are in quote tags:
"Warning: You are about to quote a post with images. Are you sure you are a bad enough dude to do this?!"

[7bit]

Better: A 2nd button "quote with images". It could be symbolised by an icon that shows a photograph.

[chzel]

or auto format [IMG] to

Spoiler:

[IMG]?

[Muirium]

Yes!

Must be default behaviour. The people who quote half a Charles Dickens novel above their one liner are precisely the people who don't pay attention to context. I'm strongly in favour of this move. If pics are vital, you can hand-edit your post to remove the spoiler tags afterwards.

Actually, any chance we can auto detect how vast a length of text the quote is, too? I'd rather a truncated first line (as they all contain their own link now) rather than the mess that currently happens so regularly whe someone makes an epic post and it gets repeated several times after the fact for no reason.

[mr_a500]

Actually, any chance we can auto detect how vast a length of text the quote is, too? I'd rather a truncated first line (as they all contain their own link now) rather than the mess that currently happens so regularly whe someone makes an epic post and it gets repeated several times after the fact for no reason.

I would hate that. I usually quote exactly what I'm responding to and if what I quoted was truncated, it would drive me insane. (and make the post less clear)

I agree that it's annoying when somebody does a quote of a quote of a long bloody quote just to say "me too", but I think education is better than automation.

Same goes for images. I usually quote images for a reason. I don't want it automatically hidden or removed.

[Muirium]

Good point. But wordcount is the trigger. If someone quotes an entire post (kicking in above 100 words perhaps) then autopopulate their post editor with spoiler tags around the whole quote. Only then.

Often, I'll manually chop a quoted post up into separate blocks so I can answer each of those. This woud add one extra step to that (manually deleting the spoiler tags) while saving us all a lot of egregious repetitiousness elsewhere.

[7bit]

Solution:
speech-bubble: quoting without photos
speech-bubble with photograph: quoting with photos
speech-bubble with scissors: cut off what the software thinks is enough quoting