or dealing with having to check files in and out.
Is there a check to make sure more than one admin isn't editing the same page at the same time?
When we landed here you said you needed a few days to get space worthy again and is there somethin' wrong with your bunk?
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
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.
Jon B. - May 22, 2018 4:23:35 pm PDT #4087 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Gudanov - May 22, 2018 4:37:25 pm PDT #4088 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Nope. I'm sort of assuming that pages won't be edited all that often.
Gudanov - May 22, 2018 4:53:08 pm PDT #4089 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
It could be added. When the edit form is loaded there could be a timeout period and disallow loading the edit form until either the edits are posted or the timeout expires. But that has its own drawbacks if someone starts editing and then comes back in an hour or so then their editing session will have timed out.
Jon B. - May 22, 2018 4:59:48 pm PDT #4090 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I'm sort of assuming that pages won't be edited all that often.
That is a reasonable assumption.
Gudanov - May 23, 2018 4:54:13 am PDT #4091 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Inserting links in the page editor doesn't work right now. I'll need to find the right settings so the editor doesn't keep mangling urls.
Overall, the beta board is getting pretty functional now.
Gudanov - May 28, 2018 4:23:55 pm PDT #4092 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Some minor tweaks. Replaced the page editor with something that has a more comfortable license.
With pages now editable, I'm considering static pages largely taken care of as far as code goes.
Need to take care of the optional left sidebar, messaging admins, archiving threads, and enabling the random quotes before bumping to beta 0.4.
At that point it's just minor features and bug fixes to polish things up , but the board will be pretty much ready to go.
Gudanov - May 30, 2018 4:22:31 am PDT #4093 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
I've thought of an idea for migration without migrating user accounts. I could suck in the current threads and set all the users to a special legacy user. I can store the legacy time, legacy user name, and legacy tagline with the post and display those instead when a post is created by the legacy user.
Those posts would be a little different in that the user name wouldn't be a link and you couldn't block the user, but I don't think that would be that big a deal.
Tom Scola - May 30, 2018 5:15:14 am PDT #4094 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
What's the issue with migrating user accounts?
Gudanov - May 30, 2018 5:26:13 am PDT #4095 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
There are a lot of user accounts, many that aren't active. In order to migrate users we'd need to store the old password hashes which aren't secure. Even if users are required to change the password immediately, all those inactive hashes will still be sitting around. The database will be much better protected, but we can't count on the database never being breached and those old passwords being cracked.
Tom Scola - May 30, 2018 5:49:55 am PDT #4096 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
We can migrate the accounts and make everyone change their passwords without copying the old password hashes.