New version

**therother** · 03-08-2005, 02:44

Quick comments on the new system, with the proviso that I've never used Experimental before, so some differences may be due to the style change.

The Good

Removes the rather awkward system where you have to use ; to separate multiple PM recipients.
The search system is a reasonably good idea round here, and I can see clans liking it especially, as their members usually have a unique tag in their username, which can be searched for.
It'll cut down on the mistyping of usernames.
Works fine with my 4 browsers (IE, Mozilla, Firefox and Opera), at least so far.
Buddy list system still works as normal, as does all the other "send PM to user" functions that I've tried.

The Bad

Not being able to quickly type the recipient name is a little annoying, and having to search for each member, even if you know their username, could put unnecessary stress on the server. Not much, obviously, but still.
WYSIWYG editor, as KhuriKhan points out, doesn't work for new PMs or replies, on any of my browsers.
The recipients box takes up a fair amount of room with my account. Less, I suppose, for Members. Unless it has some wrapping system, I don't want to imagine how it looks like with TosaInu's account!

The Ugly

Pressing return, instead of clicking search, in the Insert Recipient Username sends the message! This one is very ugly indeed.

Anyway, in general, I could live with it, although I'm not sure that it adds that much to the board for the effort involved.

**TosaInu** · 03-09-2005, 11:56

Hello,

A new version of this hack is installed (thanks Zero Tolerance from vborg for making it).

-WYSIWYG mode is working now, there was a nameclash between variable names.
-Recipients are in two columns instead of one to reduce space. The remove buttons are replaced by small toggles.
-The buddylist is added, so you have sort of an addressbook.

The return issue wasn't reported yet, this guy codes faster than I think, this return glitch may get fixed.

I guess that just typing the name as extra option will become difficult with the rest of the hack, or that at least heavyweight code is required. The buddylist should make life easier there and looking up a username does indeed involve a SQL query, but it's a fast one in the usertable.

It would be possible to reduce the allowed max of recipients therother (I myself normally send to 1-2 users at the same time, rarely 5 and never more than 10).

**TosaInu** · 03-10-2005, 15:08

Originally Posted by TosaInu

Hello,

A new version of this hack is installed (thanks Zero Tolerance from vborg for making it).

-WYSIWYG mode is working now, there was a nameclash between variable names.
-Recipients are in two columns instead of one to reduce space. The remove buttons are replaced by small toggles.
-The buddylist is added, so you have sort of an addressbook.

The return issue wasn't reported yet, this guy codes faster than I think, this return glitch may get fixed.

I guess that just typing the name as extra option will become difficult with the rest of the hack, or that at least heavyweight code is required. The buddylist should make life easier there and looking up a username does indeed involve a SQL query, but it's a fast one in the usertable.

It would be possible to reduce the allowed max of recipients therother (I myself normally send to 1-2 users at the same time, rarely 5 and never more than 10).

Checking features while I wait for the dump to download.

Is the Recipient system good enough to throw it in?

**Fragony** · 03-10-2005, 15:09

This sucks a bit I must say, not comfortable to the eye at all.

**TosaInu** · 03-10-2005, 15:11

Hello Fragony,

I'm currently using the RTW skin and everything appears to be normal. What are you using? I guess I know the problem you face.

Edit: oeps, it isn't I'm looking at cached stuff. It's temporary.

**therother** · 03-10-2005, 15:15

Many of the board images aren't showing up for me. And for some reason typing messages is very sluggish whilst pages are loading - just noticed that one just now. Maybe that's just my browser (Opera), but it never used to happen with the old version.

**TosaInu** · 03-10-2005, 15:34

typing messages is very sluggish whilst pages are loading

How do you mean?

Yes, I was busy copying images to this new install, so one wouldn't even notice. But the copy proces was very slow (10's of hours and just passed 50%). I'm going to do a folder move, that is a thing that can't be done in advance nor is the current FTP tool capable to do it (:/). The dump download is at 50% now. After that I'll swap to the other PC and sort the layout.

**therother** · 03-10-2005, 15:36

The sluggishness when typing seems to affect Firefox also. In fact, replying to a topic with my poor laptop nearly killed the thing - 100% processor usage for over a minute, just to refresh a page. Very odd indeed.

**TosaInu** · 03-10-2005, 15:09

Originally Posted by therother

Quick comments on the new system, with the proviso that I've never used Experimental before, so some differences may be due to the style change.

The Good

Removes the rather awkward system where you have to use ; to separate multiple PM recipients.
The search system is a reasonably good idea round here, and I can see clans liking it especially, as their members usually have a unique tag in their username, which can be searched for.
It'll cut down on the mistyping of usernames.
Works fine with my 4 browsers (IE, Mozilla, Firefox and Opera), at least so far.
Buddy list system still works as normal, as does all the other "send PM to user" functions that I've tried.

The Bad

Not being able to quickly type the recipient name is a little annoying, and having to search for each member, even if you know their username, could put unnecessary stress on the server. Not much, obviously, but still.
WYSIWYG editor, as KhuriKhan points out, doesn't work for new PMs or replies, on any of my browsers.
The recipients box takes up a fair amount of room with my account. Less, I suppose, for Members. Unless it has some wrapping system, I don't want to imagine how it looks like with TosaInu's account!

The Ugly