General site updates, TODO list and discussion

Dream of Omnimaga · December 06, 2015, 08:25:40 PM

Nope it does nothing. I can enter 9 chars of any kind ._.

novenary · December 06, 2015, 10:00:29 PM

Odd, I tested the regex and it works fine but this might be because you have admin rights. Do we have a dummy unprivileged account for testing ?

123outerme · December 06, 2015, 10:03:54 PM

Quote from: Streetwalrus on December 06, 2015, 10:00:29 PM
Odd, I tested the regex and it works fine but this might be because you have admin rights. Do we have a dummy unprivileged account for testing ?

Hey, I may be a dummy but I have privileges too!

* 123outerme leaves now

Dream of Omnimaga · December 06, 2015, 11:03:22 PM

Quote from: 123outerme on December 06, 2015, 10:03:54 PM
Quote from: Streetwalrus on December 06, 2015, 10:00:29 PM
Odd, I tested the regex and it works fine but this might be because you have admin rights. Do we have a dummy unprivileged account for testing ?
Hey, I may be a dummy but I have privileges too!
* 123outerme leaves now

Strange, I am not even full admin. But again I can edit some account profile fields like calcs, github field, etc. I have a test account somewhere but I am not gonna be home until 10:30 PM like yesterday

We also need to install @Sorunome password plugin once ready, but we need to ensure he's planning to port it to SMF 2.1 so we don't remain locked up in SMF 2.0.* once 2.0 reaches EOL.

novenary · December 06, 2015, 11:10:55 PM

Apparently the non working regex might be an SMF bug. I more or less thoroughly tested it and it's perfectly fine, 123outerme tested that for me as well and he can type what he wants. :/
For the mod, of he doesn't port it Juju (or me) can port it as a last resort.

Dream of Omnimaga · December 06, 2015, 11:14:29 PM

That sucks. At least at 9 char it's safer now anyway.

Sorunome · December 07, 2015, 06:01:03 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on December 06, 2015, 11:03:22 PM
Quote from: 123outerme on December 06, 2015, 10:03:54 PM
Quote from: Streetwalrus on December 06, 2015, 10:00:29 PM
Odd, I tested the regex and it works fine but this might be because you have admin rights. Do we have a dummy unprivileged account for testing ?
Hey, I may be a dummy but I have privileges too!
* 123outerme leaves now
Strange, I am not even full admin. But again I can edit some account profile fields like calcs, github field, etc. I have a test account somewhere but I am not gonna be home until 10:30 PM like yesterday

We also need to install @Sorunome password plugin once ready, but we need to ensure he's planning to port it to SMF 2.1 so we don't remain locked up in SMF 2.0.* once 2.0 reaches EOL.

I do plan on porting it to SMF 2.1 but right now my main focus is 2.0.
It will probably end in a way so that it will take some time (a month or two) after 2.1 was released or something, so you wouldn't be able to switch right away.
And, also, I can't and don't want to guarantee that, I cannot know what life will through at me, also uni-wise, but that are my current plans

EDIT: If you want to help me making it more secure: http://ourl.ca/22212

Dream of Omnimaga · December 08, 2015, 07:42:22 PM

Nice to hear. I hope that SMF team don't decide to kill 2.0 the day 2.1 comes out, even if a major security exploit appears in 2.0 right after 2.1 release, now

In any case, we will probably do a backup of the database prior switching, in case an horror show happens

Sorunome · December 08, 2015, 07:57:52 PM

Just noticed that SMF2.1 actually uses that method of password storing, only with strtolower($username) prefixed, so i'm adapting the mod now to fix that.

Dream of Omnimaga · December 08, 2015, 07:59:11 PM

Oh that's great news then. Good idea too to make your mod compatible.

aetios · December 19, 2015, 01:34:12 PM

I guess now that it's pretty much decided that we're going to move to a new forum layout sometime in the relatively near future, should we start thinking about adding it to the todo list? I was thinking to e.g. first rename some forums before moving them.

Dream of Omnimaga · December 23, 2015, 04:46:55 PM

So it looks like Twitterfeed is either dead (no more updates/tweets from them) and now Facebook no longer works, because the last repost is from December there. It looks like I'll have to either setup Twitter to repost stuff on Facebook or find an alternative, because the CW page no longer shows new topics since December 7th https://www.facebook.com/CodeWalrusFans/ https://twitter.com/Codewalr_us

Dream of Omnimaga · December 25, 2015, 06:33:17 AM

Updates:

-Forum sections changes initiated. Some sub-forums are still missing, though, descriptions might be outdated and some topics have yet to be moved

-The site slogan changed a bit. Press Shift+F5 if it doesn't show up. Eventually it will be replaced with an info box below the logo and we might use the discussed Minecraft-like humoristic slogans.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 06, 2016, 02:06:01 AM

I have now disabled the Captcha on user registration, just to see if it was actually useful or not (I think it was useless, since most bots can now bypass it)

If it doesn't cause an increase in spam accounts, then the next thing I'll try is disabling the verification question. Who knows?

(so far, we use Stop Forum Spam and when users with 0 posts try to post a web link, they get an error)

If that fails, then they'll be re-enabled again quick.

Yuki · January 06, 2016, 08:23:04 AM

After a good software update, we moved from SPDY to the newer HTTP/2. If your browser is up to date, you shouldn't see any changes. Also at the same time I added experimental support for the Gopher protocol.

Visit the site on Gopher here: gopher://codewalr.us:70/