Cacophony.  That's pretty.  What's it mean?

Harmony ,'Underneath'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


§ ita § - Oct 31, 2007 7:59:18 am PDT #1469 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It occurs to me that the intermediary step is either useful, annoying, or somewhere I can put in an option to go back to the original placement of mark, where it gave you back a page starting not with the marked post, but with whatever post you'd been stared with before.

Leaving #3 out for the moment, I guess the thing is--which minimises more mouseclicks? Putting the commenting functionality right there? Or having it on a separate screen and returning right back to the fray?

Or...altering the HTML to somehow have it make no difference, but that makes my head spin in a number of ways.


Kat - Oct 31, 2007 8:05:27 am PDT #1470 of 4673
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Leaving #3 out for the moment, I guess the thing is--which minimises more mouseclicks? Putting the commenting functionality right there? Or having it on a separate screen and returning right back to the fray?

For me, personally, either would work because the issue I have is the marking and then forgetting why once I get to the bookmark page.

Which is my way of saying, either is brilliant.


Cass - Oct 31, 2007 5:46:56 pm PDT #1471 of 4673
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I concur with Kat, either would be brilliant. I always forget to go and actually note what I marked so either option would be wonderful.


§ ita § - Oct 31, 2007 5:51:18 pm PDT #1472 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

either would work because the issue I have is the marking and then forgetting why once I get to the bookmark page.

One of them used to be the way!

And some people, probably users, FORCED me to change.


Typo Boy - Nov 04, 2007 12:21:27 pm PST #1473 of 4673
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Just wanted to let you know. I've been using the css version whenever I remembered, and it really works well. Even lighter and faster than the old board. The only bug I've run into with it was when I posted my vote. I suspect that was a relative addressing issue, with the form expecting a different source address. So in that case I had to use the old board, but everything else has been great so far.


Jon B. - Nov 04, 2007 1:33:27 pm PST #1474 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The only bug I've run into with it was when I posted my vote. I suspect that was a relative addressing issue

Yeah. That's my bad. There's no mirror of the "votes" folder in the css version. I should've used the absolute address.


Allyson - Nov 11, 2007 9:23:32 am PST #1475 of 4673
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Is there a high res version of the Buffistas logo I can have?


DXMachina - Nov 11, 2007 10:34:08 am PST #1476 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

We have it as either a .tif [link] , or as an .eps [link] .


Allyson - Nov 11, 2007 11:10:34 am PST #1477 of 4673
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Thanks, DX!


DXMachina - Nov 16, 2007 4:37:14 pm PST #1478 of 4673
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Is it possible to move the header text up a bit on the home and message center pages, maybe have it wrap around the fan support graphic a little bit? There's an awful lot of white space in the middle of the top of the page. It's not nearly as bad on the thread pages, mostly because it looks like the thread header text is wrapping around the graphic. That's not happening on the home page. I realized the column layouts are different, but I think it would look better if we could adjust it somehow.

eta: And now that I measure more carefully, the thread header isn't wrapping, but the top of the header seems even with the bottom of the graphic, whereas on the home page there a noticeable gap twixt the two.