General site updates, TODO list and discussion

u/CKH4 February 17, 2015, 10:06:28 PM

Not if an old version of chrome is already installed. In that case I use chrome canary.

u/Yuki February 18, 2015, 12:52:55 AM

I did that a while ago, but I forgot to tell you guys: http://codewalr.us/recent

Also we have a file uploader! It's up to you to find where it is (although you can find some clues at some places)

But I still want to give you some rules about it in case you find it.

The file uploader is perfect for quickly sharing some small files such as calc screenshots and random smilies, and WalrusIRC will show a 50px thumbnail when you post it there, but please don't abuse it and upload a lot of files. The file limit is 128KB, you should be enough. (Note: the maximum file size can change at any time.) It cannot upload anything else than images either. The files are subject to all our forum and IRC rules, so no NSFW. The uploads are logged and I can know who uploaded what, so yeah, watch yourselves

We also recommend Omnimaga's http://img.ourl.ca for anything else such as bigger image files and have fun!

Last Edit: February 18, 2015, 12:54:46 AM by Juju

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron February 18, 2015, 06:29:26 AM

It's installed in your Appdata folder, not in Program Files.

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 18, 2015, 08:02:18 AM

Quote from: Juju on February 18, 2015, 12:52:55 AM
I did that a while ago, but I forgot to tell you guys: http://codewalr.us/recent

Also we have a file uploader! It's up to you to find where it is (although you can find some clues at some places) But I still want to give you some rules about it in case you find it.

The file uploader is perfect for quickly sharing some small files such as calc screenshots and random smilies, and WalrusIRC will show a 50px thumbnail when you post it there, but please don't abuse it and upload a lot of files. The file limit is 128KB, you should be enough. (Note: the maximum file size can change at any time.) It cannot upload anything else than images either. The files are subject to all our forum and IRC rules, so no NSFW. The uploads are logged and I can know who uploaded what, so yeah, watch yourselves We also recommend Omnimaga's http://img.ourl.ca for anything else such as bigger image files and have fun!

Nice update for the image uploader. Just make sure to add a flood control of like 8 files a day (maybe 4 an hour too so people won't spam in one go) in case in the future. If 30 members upload 8 files a day non-stop for 3 years straight and all those files are 128 KB large, then our disk space is maxed out. Maybe we should make it so that there cannot be more than 1000 files in the folder and the oldest file gets deleted once the limit is hit?

Nonetheless, this gets quite handy when I want to post a screenshot fast (assuming it's not a very long topic page requiring me to scroll a lot) because I can now upload it directly from the same page where I am posting, then grab the URL.

Also is there anything new on the Recent posts page or is http://codewalr.us/recent just a redirect?

u/Yuki February 18, 2015, 12:29:10 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on February 18, 2015, 08:02:18 AM
Nonetheless, this gets quite handy when I want to post a screenshot fast (assuming it's not a very long topic page requiring me to scroll a lot) because I can now upload it directly from the same page where I am posting, then grab the URL.

Yeah, that's the point

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on February 18, 2015, 08:02:18 AM
Also is there anything new on the Recent posts page or is http://codewalr.us/recent just a redirect?

Yep, just a redirect.

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 18, 2015, 04:07:29 PM

That reminds me, at one point Street or yourself said they might look into SMF's topic listing to see if they could do their own recent posts mod based on it. I wonder what happened to this?

u/Hayleia February 19, 2015, 08:12:59 PM

I don't know if it was reported already and 26 pages is a bit too long for me to check

WalrusIRC doesn't scroll automatically for everyone. Cumred_Snektron (Chrome) said it worked but matref and I (Firefox) are having problems.
Note, I am only talking about the embedded thing, http://omnomirc.codewalr.us/ works great.

Last Edit: February 19, 2015, 08:20:30 PM by Hayleia

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron February 19, 2015, 08:31:36 PM

Already reported there with my Fx on Windoze 8x64

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 19, 2015, 10:20:05 PM

Yeah same issue in Firefox here. Seems like juju's code is Chrome/Chromium-only.

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 21, 2015, 08:35:36 AM

So the todo list on the first page was quite out of date. I updated it now: http://codewalr.us/index.php?topic=2.0

Among the most recent entries in the TODO list are the following:
-If possible, a mod that adds extra customizable links to the post/quick-reply form (for example, if we want to link to an img.ourl.ca pop up) or make img.codewalr.us work with the post forms instead of just WalrusIRC.
-Make WalrusIRC show forum users in the online list instead of just IRC users
-Get a better Recent Posts mod similar to the one Omnimaga has (or the actual one they use, although it has been several months since we asked permission.)
-Figure out why website stops working randomly (and prevents posting) on the Playstation Vita browser, requiring a restart.
-Make current site skin mobile-friendly (Mediaqueries) - http://codewalr.us/index.php?topic=187.

Site development has kinda stalled in the last month (eg school for people in charge of fixing certain issues I cannot fix and in my case, both being exhausted from work or stress) or so but a lot of things on the todo list were either finished long ago or got worked around, while some were deemed impossible to fix/not a serious issue.

Last Edit: February 23, 2015, 03:26:22 AM by DJ Omnimaga

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron February 23, 2015, 05:01:53 PM

Usually it crashes on Playstation handeld devices because of their low memory. It happened to me on some old websites with the PSP, it'll happen on the Vita also on bigger sites. (IIRc it only has 256/512 MB RAM...)

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 23, 2015, 05:33:31 PM

Do you mean when you get the Failed connection message? I guess that could explain things. The message is rather cryptic, though. >.<

What sucks is that Tapatalk isn't even available for the PSVita. All there is is WAP, WAP2 and imode, which are basically like text-based CodeWalrus.

Last Edit: February 23, 2015, 05:35:28 PM by DJ Omnimaga

u/Duke "Tape" Eiyeron February 23, 2015, 05:39:27 PM

I'm going to be honnest to you : almost no one is browsing the intertubes with the Vita. even though their browser is based on Opera, Opera itself have a really tiny brwosing part and thus the Vita (or the Wii) is way smaller. I don't think web devs will get to catch some more annoyment for something that won't even run a medium-heavy sized site (I'm talking about heavy scripts like jQuery or something like these).

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 23, 2015, 05:49:11 PM

Yeah I guess you have a point. It's probably why not much effort was put in the Vita/PS3 browser and why not many develop for it. I know also that the Vita isn't that popular. However, some people don't have a computer and only have their gaming console as a way to get online. I know on TIMGUL we had an user that used the site using a PS3.

I'm probably gonna strike out that from the todo list, though, because it's among the oldest thing added in the most recent (in black) stuff that got appended there and it's probably not a serious issue for everyone. I was mostly worried that it was a site bug or something or perhaps because of OmnomIRC since the problem only happened when logged in.