I'll have a look, Cindy. Thanks for the research.

So .. it's the triangles, then? Circles? Squares? Something that doesn't mean anything else?

Are we talking about the folders again? Because I'm still anti-triangle.

ita,

Thank you for giving me the chance to work on the site. I appreciate the trust involved and will do my best to provide good quality product that will make everyone's experience enjoyable.

I took a look through the Buffista Requests and found a project that would serve well as a trial/initiation project and should be fairly trivial to implement.

It's the large font type for the compose box to aid visually impaired people. ita "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Dec 22, 2004 3:38:48 pm PST Not all browsers will increase the font size of the compose box (IE in particular), so it's necessary to code the capability.

What I propose to do is add a field to the member profile table called comp_font (composition font) which will be an unsigned tinyint (0-255) and the default value will be 10. This field will be made available via the Set Profile page. The user could set their composition box font (the textarea I'm typing in now) to 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 or 20 via a select box.

The current html for the textarea box would be modified so that the rows and columns would be proportionally increased (or decreased) to accomodate the requested font size (via php magic). The textarea would be implemented like so:

<textarea cols=10 rows=4 style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 30px;">large font</textarea>

I've tried this code in Firefox 1.0.6, IE 6.0.2900 and Opera 8.02 all on XP Home w/ SP2 and it works. I don't have access to other platforms to test.

Please let me know either here or at my email address if this sounds like a good course of action. Thanks again, and I look forward to working with you and the other Admins.

Oh, and if we're discussing folder iconography, I would think a couple stakes instead of a triangle would be more thematically appropriate.

Also, why not "Dusted Threads" instead of "Closed Threads"? Maybe that's too cute. Sorry, it's the chocolate malt talking.

One thing we still need is a way to search for a user name by their e-mail address in the admins interface.

We still need a lot of things ... my biggest beef right now is the tag closing code. What we have now is better than nothing, but it frells up the HTML with abandon. Just in a less destructive way.

That's what I was going to parse out.

I know the larger font is a good idea, but I don't feel people fiending for it.

As for the searching for e-mail addresses -- it is important, but can be mitigated for th emoment by routing all those requests to me and I can poke through the database.

I'm thinking we should have an admin page, where all our sundry links are collected, so that left column doesn't get too long.

The other thing I'm jonesing on is cleaning up the CSS and removing much of the deprecated formatting in our HTML. DX, you can't really get your font stuff without that, and I know you want that muchly.

As for the searching for e-mail addresses -- it is important, but can be mitigated for th emoment by routing all those requests to me and I can poke through the database.

Consider yourself routed. There's a request that I can't help in the admins inbox (along with a zillion fake user names). I tried searching the new users folder, but the request must be about a much older name.

The other thing I'm jonesing on is cleaning up the CSS and removing much of the deprecated formatting in our HTML. DX, you can't really get your font stuff without that, and I know you want that muchly.

In term of what's important for the site, though, I think the tag fixing thing would probably be of more use. Also, if you're working on code to block fake username requests, I think that should get priority, because we keep getting hit, and I'm getting worried that they know something that we don't.

I've cleaned the code so I'm sure we're not abusable, but it's still fucking annoying, and you're right -- kiddy needs to be headed off at the pass.

Maybe if I get some quiet time at work today.

I'm getting worried that they know something that we don't.

What does you mean, DX? If you don't mind my asking.

Suela, our registration system is under attack by someone who appears to be trying to exploit some security hole there. As far as we know, no hole exists, but the attempts keep on coming. I'd have given up long ago, which is why I wondered if we're missing something. Besides that, it frelling annoying. Whoever it is is chewing up user names faster than a cancelled Minearverse show.