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Gavin

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Posted on 11-18-05 02:33 AM Link | Quote
In my spare time, on and off for the past few months, I've been experimenting with creating my own forums and watered down content management system and such. Although due to lazyness, rewrites, and lack of time lately it hasn't been getting the attention I wish. Either way, I had been getting bored and experimented a bit with some javascript for the forum ordering and editing process. I mean, it just seems that most forums take an incredibly un-intuitive and simply annoying approach to forum management. If you've ever run, say, a phpBB board and had to set permissions for different forums? It drove me crazy, not that it was really that difficult or complicated, just that such a popular forum could have such a ridiculously lack-luster process. Maybe it's just me being crazy though, because the forum seems to be doing alright for itself :roll:

Anyway, this is just a little test video screen capture of what I was working on. I haven't touched in a bit of a while, but hopefully it will be coming along soon enough

screenshot video (flash file). So what do you think of the idea?


(also side-notes: What I meant at the end about ordering is the fact that the number ordering does not yet currently update, something I'll of course be fixing and adding. I was pretty much right in the middle of this particular feature when I stopped working on it, so I'm not really even done yet.

The typing sounds and the clicky circle animation thing were thrown in there by the video capture program for god knows what reason. It's a shitty trial version anyway, so if anyone has any good ideas on a replacement, please recommend

Also don't pay attention to any themes/color schemes as it's fully skinable and I haven't created the final layout yet, I'm just using the one I shat together for testing.)
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Posted on 11-18-05 05:42 PM Link | Quote
wow...that was really cool, it would be really neat to have something like that for either acmlmboard, or a totally new forum...I wouldnt imagine it would be overly hard to impliment it on something already existing either...

really nice
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Posted on 11-18-05 08:06 PM Link | Quote
Sweet. I should steal make something like that. Dunno what use it'd be, but what the hell.
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Posted on 11-18-05 09:42 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by dcahrakos
wow...that was really cool, it would be really neat to have something like that for either acmlmboard, or a totally new forum...I wouldnt imagine it would be overly hard to impliment it on something already existing either...

really nice


Bah. Time for me to be grumpy: The only thing I've done programming-wise for an Acmlmboard directly (besides making the sourcode readable) is make a small example of AJAX integration in hopes that someone would pick up on it, but nobody seemed to care, and it was just a way to try to get the message out to the target audience. I have no plans to ever let any of my code go towards bettering this forum software directly. Any of my subsequent non-commercial projects I release will most likely be under the GPL, so they would have to adopt the same licensing.

All that aside, yah, it's currently deployed in my own forum . And yah, the code should be pretty easy to port. Thanks a lot for the comments!

Originally posted by HyperHacker
Sweet. I should steal make something like that. Dunno what use it'd be, but what the hell.


Go for it, it shouldn't be too hard. If you don't know how you're going to do it yet, check this out: You're going to want to look into simple javascript list dragging/ordering code for the forum order changing. There are at least 4 different of them online as far as I can recall, although unfortunatly I seem to have misplaced the links. Cross-browser alpha-transparency, trapping keyboard commands, (depending on how you want to save the changes) XMLHttpRequest. I was also planning on having the "add" function on the moderator area be one of those neat-o dynamically updating drop-down list things that some people are using for quickly searching data.
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Posted on 11-19-05 07:30 AM Link | Quote
That spells H-O-T

which spells hawt
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Posted on 11-19-05 08:38 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Zem
That spells H-O-T

which spells hawt


Thanks! So does my name triple-reversed

As I've stated I have many projects to tend to first, but I started taking a crack at this thing again last night. I'm going go try to really hunker down this winter and get to work. Expect something within a few months from my test forum..
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Posted on 11-21-05 01:01 AM Link | Quote
Pretty spiffy use of javascript. It'd be a really good theme to go with a board that has battles and/or other interactions.

(edited by elixirnova on 11-21-05 12:02 AM)
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Posted on 11-23-05 02:17 PM Link | Quote
Yes, but always keep in mind that the system needs to work for people without javascript on. Maybe without all features, but at least the basics.
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Posted on 11-23-05 06:36 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Yes, but always keep in mind that the system needs to work for people without javascript on. Maybe without all features, but at least the basics.


by nature I tend to design things that validate and degrade accordingly, however on this specific project I have been torn. Frankly how many users actually disable javascript? And is there a time when I can sacrifice a small portion of the userbase for, in my opinion, a feature or component that will set the software apart from others like it? I was pondering this when creating the replying method. I feel that this board's method, which is used by virtually every other board in existance, just plain sucks. I was thinking about implimenting some spiffy AJAX-ian approach, but momentarily stayed my hand. I still haven't decided... but I'm leaning towards extending the middle finger to the javascript disabling, tin-foil hat wearing maniacs out there (luckily or unfortunatly for them, however you see it..)

(edited by Gavin on 11-23-05 05:38 PM)
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