It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.

Mal ,'Jaynestown'


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.


Karl - Nov 28, 2016 1:14:57 pm PST #3853 of 4673
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.

Point of order: I generally view b.org in w3m, a console web browser with no Javascript. It works beautifully. I would really, really like for that to remain the case.


Gudanov - Nov 28, 2016 1:21:07 pm PST #3854 of 4673
Coding and Sleeping

Bootstrap is a CSS thing, not a Javascript thing. The idea would be to have things look the same, but in a way that scales to mobile better.


Gudanov - Nov 30, 2016 4:42:22 am PST #3855 of 4673
Coding and Sleeping

Thanks to Jon, the b.org source is now in a private repository in gitlab :).

I've added some issues, investigating the logging out issue, fixing a concerning security flaw, and coming up with a plan for a better mobile experience.

It you want to participate in board development, let me know, and I can hook you up to get access to the repository.

My first task will be organization and cleanup to make local deployment easier.

In general, I think it should be policy to work on a branch rather than master.


Dana - Nov 30, 2016 5:06:46 am PST #3856 of 4673
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, oh, make a scrum team! Have sprints! And daily stand-ups!

(Please do not do these things.)


Gudanov - Nov 30, 2016 5:20:08 am PST #3857 of 4673
Coding and Sleeping

Oh, we're doing it all, including planning poker. I've got a whiteboard and a stack of sticky notes waiting. I'm going to agile the sh*t out of this.

(No, no I'm not.)


-t - Nov 30, 2016 5:34:19 am PST #3858 of 4673
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Agile is a verb now? I had no idea.


Tom Scola - Nov 30, 2016 5:47:28 am PST #3859 of 4673
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Another big issue is that after the PHP upgrade in January, all new database records that are created are encoded as UTF-8, whereas all previous database records were Latin-1. So if you go back and read any old posts, you will see a lot of ⬧s.

I was thinking of writing a script to go through and update all the old records and reencoding any that aren't just plain ascii to utf-8. (I did this manually already for a few things like the quotes, and § ita §'s username. The main problem being that it would take a long time to complete (weeks or even months), and there is the possibility I could fuck up the board's database.


Jessica - Nov 30, 2016 8:17:13 am PST #3860 of 4673
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Buffista product tenets:

All planning poker must be done with kittens.

After planning, post-its must be copied on to the sprint board using a system of different colored pens.

Anyone who suggests building an experience map will be staked.


Jon B. - Nov 30, 2016 9:44:39 am PST #3861 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I've added some issues, investigating the logging out issue, fixing a concerning security flaw, and coming up with a plan for a better mobile experience.

Gud: Do you have the keys to ftp/ssh? i.e. Can you pull updates to the main site?


Calli - Nov 30, 2016 11:09:38 am PST #3862 of 4673
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

No Kanban? Y'all gotta work the Kanban.