Re: List of Third Party Software
Hi Stephen, thanks for the links - however compiling a simple list is not a problem. But gathering all the information and shaping it is. It's most of all a matter of time and I'd like to distribute...
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QuoteWilly PS. I guess I should add LSculpt to the AIOI. That is quite a good idea.
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* main page http://www.ldraw.org does not yet mention the new parts update 2015-01
View Articleerror message on ldraw.org download page
the page http://www.ldraw.org/parts/latest-parts.html shows the error message WARNING: The {breadcrumbs} tag is removed from CMSMS Core Instead, now use in your HTML template: {nav_breadcrumbs} ! who...
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I guess it's related to http://forums.ldraw.org/read.php?1,18261,18262#msg-18262
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Yah. This is on my todo list for the weekend. They changed the entire templating system and the auto-convert borked it up.
View ArticleRe: Broken images on wiki
I totally forgot about this. Now that it's holidays and I'm not leaving Hawaii, I'll have more time for website work.
View Articletop 30 LDraw parts authors up to and including update 2015-01
Counting only the \PARTS folder of our parts collection up to and including parts update 2015-01, and leaving out all trivial "=" alias and "~moved to" files yields as top-30-authors: Philippe Hurbain...
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What impresses me most is the number of people we lost on the way! w. PS. Who is this Philippe Hurbain guy at the top?
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Uh oh. I'm gonna fall off the list soon! Gotta drop out of university to work on more LDraw parts.
View ArticleMajor spam attack
I just deleted something like 1100 posts from a very dedicated spammer. Since this massive amount of posts required me to delete messages from the back end, I apologize if any legitimate posts were...
View ArticleRe: Broken images on wiki
I have no access to that part of the wiki but I'll ping Orion. w.
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Fixed now. I also decided to remove the draconian user sign up that we had. It'll require more vigilance to prevent spam but I'm tired of having to approve user requests.
View ArticleRe: Broken images on wiki
Awesome! However, images are for some reason not being treated as block-level objects. For instance, in this page: http://wiki.ldraw.org/index.php?title=LDraw_to_SimCity_3000_Unlimited_Tutorial the...
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I tried editing a page and adding an external link but got this error: I'm trying to update some dead links in an article, but the Captcha to pass the block did not load properly.
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This should be fixed now. Waiting for the key server to update.
View ArticleForum update (Round 2)
It's time again to discuss an update to the forum software. Development on our current software, Phorum, is effectively dead as there are only 2 primary developers and they really don't do any work on...
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I'm not really qualified to judge, since I don't know much about any forum software. Having said that, have you looked at this Wikipedia page? Discourse stands out as not being PHP (or Java). I...
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QuoteTravis Cobbs I'm not sure what 'native "real name" support' is The display of the user's real name (or some other arbitrary user field) for the post author instead of the user's username.
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Sadly, I can't install Discourse with my host. It looks kinda cool but probably a little too advanced for our needs.
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Another alternative is bbPress. It's integrated with Wordpress so we could convert the main site to Wordpress and have everything in one place. Downside is that I'd have to start from scratch on a...
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bbPress has a converter for phorum. Since my (very neglected) personal site uses Wordpress, I'm going to give it a whirl.
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The main site on Wordpress. Hm... While Wordpress is very good at what is does, in my opininon it's best used for blogs and newssites and such with a lot of dynamic content. Yet, A LOT of (static)...
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I thought the same thing but times have changed a lot for Wordpress and it dead simple to run and update. In the end it may be just forums we run on it, if at all. I hate flat posting so we'll never...
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bbPress is a no-go. The conversion script is wonky and I don't want write another custom script.
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Revisited myBB. Still no native real name support but a I found a plugin that'll do nicely. Hybrid view is still an issue. This may or may not be able to be added with a plugin.
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