Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


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.


DCJensen - May 30, 2008 5:12:28 am PDT #2335 of 4677
All is well that ends in pizza.

I remember the old BBS boards having some sort of back-end zip function to zip up posts for offline mail readers. Too bad there isn't a way to implement that sort of thing with large threadsucks. It's all text and it wouldn't take up much processing power nowadays.

Signed, still wistful for Silly Little Mail Reader.


§ ita § - May 30, 2008 5:22:32 am PDT #2336 of 4677
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

We can add it to the list--though I'd recommend something a little more proactive than "too bad there isn't a way" when it comes to feature requests. There's probably a way. The question is about the degree of effort.


DCJensen - May 30, 2008 5:36:03 am PDT #2337 of 4677
All is well that ends in pizza.

Right, I was addressing her problem with threadsucking. I should have been more specific.


§ ita § - May 30, 2008 5:39:01 am PDT #2338 of 4677
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's still probably a way to threadsuck to a zipped file. I haven't investigated it so I don't know how hard it is, but why wouldn't there be?


amych - May 30, 2008 6:48:42 am PDT #2339 of 4677
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

php zip functions: [link] -- although it looks like there are different libraries for php4 and php5, so if you're thinking of an upgrade, you might want to hold off.


Tom Scola - May 30, 2008 9:16:30 am PDT #2340 of 4677
hwæt

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flea - Jun 06, 2008 4:38:03 am PDT #2341 of 4677
information libertarian

Could someone kindly and gently tell me how to delete the cookie in Firefox? I can't *find* the Preferences option. It is possible I have the stupid this morning. But I so would love to stop logging in over and over.


Jessica - Jun 06, 2008 4:42:40 am PDT #2342 of 4677
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Under Tools there's an option to "Clear Private Data" with a ticky box for cookies.


flea - Jun 06, 2008 5:01:53 am PDT #2343 of 4677
information libertarian

Oh, bliss. Bless you.


sumi - Jun 11, 2008 5:51:47 am PDT #2344 of 4677
Art Crawl!!!

The b.org is still randomly logging me out.

It doesn't bother me when I have to log in when I first open the page but the randomly logging me out throughout the day doesn't seem right.

What was the fix for this again?