You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both.

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.


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.


Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 12:40:01 pm PST #4410 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

I added a very short and simple about page. In large part I just wanted to demo how pages work for admins.


Gris - Nov 02, 2020 12:51:22 pm PST #4411 of 4671
Hey. New board.

Gud, I added a couple of PRs you can look at whenever. One is just readme tweaks for things i ran into getting everything running, the second adds several view options.


Gudanov - Nov 02, 2020 1:03:00 pm PST #4412 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping

Cool! Too much to do during work, but hopefully I can get to it tonight.


Gris - Nov 02, 2020 2:53:40 pm PST #4413 of 4671
Hey. New board.

No problem, no rush. I was off work today. Back to the grind tomorrow so I can't do much to help the rest of the week.