Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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.


Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 6:56:26 am PST #4400 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Well, they said changing nameservers could take 24-48 hours and it appears they weren't kidding. I still can't setup up buffistas.org yet.


Jessica - Nov 02, 2020 7:23:24 am PST #4401 of 4671
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

This version of the site is so much better on mobile I love it


Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 9:34:01 am PST #4402 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

I’m reading the source code, and I’m having trouble making sense of it.

Ruby on rails definitely takes some getting used to, but it is really powerful, especially for an old-school website like this one that doesn't use javascript.


Tom Scola - Nov 02, 2020 9:36:08 am PST #4403 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

Too many layers of abstraction. I’m a close-to-the-metal kind of guy.


Tom Scola - Nov 02, 2020 10:09:17 am PST #4404 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

In both the Home Page and the Message Center, the threads should be sorted by last post date.


Jessica - Nov 02, 2020 11:51:26 am PST #4405 of 4671
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

More compliments: new board is SO FAST!!


Consuela - Nov 02, 2020 12:14:20 pm PST #4406 of 4671
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Super fast!

Would it be possible to put a Read New button down the bottom of the page, maybe next to the First/Previous/Next/Last/Recent buttons?


dcp - Nov 02, 2020 12:17:51 pm PST #4407 of 4671
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Consuela, see [link]


Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 12:29:11 pm PST #4408 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Yup. I don't think it is practical to add 'Message Center' and 'Read New' to the button bar with 'First ... Recent' because it won't shrink down well on mobile. But maybe I could add a second bar under it with just 'Message Center' and 'Read New'.

ION, I have now secured a certificate for buffistas.org so https://www.buffistas.org is now an encrypted connection. That means I will need to take the board down sometime tonight to switch to the real domain name. That's a bit too much to try to slip in while waiting on stuff at work.


amych - Nov 02, 2020 12:34:06 pm PST #4409 of 4671
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

But maybe I could add a second bar under it with just 'Message Center' and 'Read New'.

This (or some such solution) would be great - I'm realizing now that I'm using the new board for real that I never realized just how much I depend on those two for 98% of my mindless zombie-mode board reading.