Scratch

sparks wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Magnie wrote:

There isn't anything, it's just a blank document with a title.

We should pick things from the list and discuss them in detail, before doing much coding or design. Any, really.

I think we should start with sub categories/boards.

I love folders. I'll give you a (shortened) example of one of my directory paths on my computer: C:\Users\Scimonster\Dropbox\Public\Stuff\Scratch\Website\original\Forums\Block Library. That's where I have some images of the Library, and also a backup file from a while ago.
I think we should add folders into the ScratchBB experience. So, for example, we could have: Scratch/Advanced Topics/[Mods/[BYOB|Panther|other]|Web programming/[HTML|JS|CSS|PHP|other]|System programming/[Windows|Mac|Java|Python|other]|Advanced Scratching|other]. Complicated, eh? 
Here's a tree to help:

Code:

Scratch
- Advanced Topics
- - Mods
- - - BYOB
- - - Panther
- - - Other
- - Web programming
- - - HTML
- - - JS
- - - CSS
- - - PHP
- - - Other
- - System programming
- - - Windows
- - - Mac
- - - Java
- - - Python
- - - Other
- - Advanced Scratching
- - Other

Upsides: Allow for AWESOME categorization of topics.
Downsides: Not everyone will know exactly where to put their topics, and that means more work for mods, moving them.
Maybe there could be "moving mods", who just move stuff, but aren't full mods.
But then the report system would need to be improved, to say what kind of report it is, by dropdown menu(?).

Let's discuss along this track for now...

It sounds pretty good. I certainly was suggesting a better report system to make spam-response times faster, allowing mods to deal with higher priority reports before the low priority ones without having to open each post report.

So here are some more suggestions for report types:
-Spam
-Commercial spam
-Move
-Open/close
-Rude language
-Flame war
-TBG
-Other

Zeusking19 wrote:

Guys, we are on magnie`s chat. Come join us.

I joined. 

I asked the ST about the domain, and apparently they are running low on resources. So, no. We have to use our own host. (I recommend horizon-host, they are quite good)

Lightnin is cool.

blob8108 wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Code:

Scratch
- Advanced Topics
- - Mods
- - - BYOB
- - - Panther
- - - Other
- - Web programming
- - - HTML
- - - JS
- - - CSS
- - - PHP
- - - Other
- - System programming
- - - Windows
- - - Mac
- - - Java
- - - Python
- - - Other
- - Advanced Scratching
- - Other

How about tags for posts, rather than categorising things too much? 

You hit it. GREAT idea.

scimonster wrote:

blob8108 wrote:

How about tags for posts, rather than categorising things too much? 

You hit it. GREAT idea.

To expand further, you could have forums with the same broad categories — like "Advanced Topics" and such — and then more specific tags for individual threads (I meant threads, not posts, *  ) like "BYOB", "HTML", "Python", "Linux", etc. Individual threads could have multiple tags. Perhaps there could be a way of filtering by specific tags, for instance if you're interested in Python and BYOB, then you could filter ATs to just show threads with those topics. What d'you think? 

blob8108 wrote:

scimonster wrote:

blob8108 wrote:

How about tags for posts, rather than categorising things too much? 

You hit it. GREAT idea.

To expand further, you could have forums with the same broad categories — like "Advanced Topics" and such — and then more specific tags for individual threads (I meant threads, not posts, *  ) like "BYOB", "HTML", "Python", "Linux", etc. Individual threads could have multiple tags. Perhaps there could be a way of filtering by specific tags, for instance if you're interested in Python and BYOB, then you could filter ATs to just show threads with those topics. What d'you think? 

That is actually a very good idea! So you could perhaps choose from a list of common tags when creating your thread, or type in your own! Very neat idea! Then people would be able to, say, block threads to do with linux if they're not interested in them and can't help! It also means if you're trying to find a thread and you can't remember the name but you remember it was about PHP you can narrow your search 

sparks wrote:

blob8108 wrote:

scimonster wrote:

You hit it. GREAT idea.

To expand further, you could have forums with the same broad categories — like "Advanced Topics" and such — and then more specific tags for individual threads (I meant threads, not posts, *  ) like "BYOB", "HTML", "Python", "Linux", etc. Individual threads could have multiple tags. Perhaps there could be a way of filtering by specific tags, for instance if you're interested in Python and BYOB, then you could filter ATs to just show threads with those topics. What d'you think? 

That is actually a very good idea! So you could perhaps choose from a list of common tags when creating your thread, or type in your own! Very neat idea! Then people would be able to, say, block threads to do with linux if they're not interested in them and can't help! It also means if you're trying to find a thread and you can't remember the name but you remember it was about PHP you can narrow your search 

Agreed. Awesome idea.

I think one thing we need to discuss is how our files will be structured, eg. the fact that in the scratch forums, topics are viewed in the viewtopic.php and things. Will we have a php script that does a certain thing? config file? All of these need to be decided.

Zeusking19 wrote:

sparks wrote:

Zeusking19 wrote:

Installer update:

The site url field automaticly fills in.

I am hoping to add MySQLi support.

Started the database connection script.

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Update from the SVN for the updates.

Sorry, we're on database connection already? Until we've decided exactly what's on offer for each post there's no point creating a database since we don't know all the fields we need in the SQL table.

Jeez... I AM DOING THE SETUP!!!

We can't make a setup until nearly everything else is done. And currently we shouldn't start coding anything, we should be planning the features and how we will be making them.

Sometimes the read/unread feature here is quite annoying. I think out system should allow for marking specific topics/posts as read/unread.

rookwood101 wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Sometimes the read/unread feature here is quite annoying. I think out system should allow for marking specific topics/posts as read/unread.

maybe it should only display whether it's read or unread if you have visited the topic in the past, and maybe it could show you how many posts have been added since then?

I find it useful when it displays as unread when it's a new topic though. Showing how many new posts since your last visit is much better. Also, as soon as you view a topic, it should automatically mark it as read, unless you manually mark it unread. This prevents it from coming up with lots of "unread" topics that you have read.

rookwood101 wrote:

I have a suggestion that we could follow up instead of using a free host.
A few friends and I pay monthly to rent a dedicated server. If you want, I could set us guys up with an account (We have full root access via terminal) and allow that account to ftp into a folder containing web files. I can configure the web server part of it to display a different page depending on the domain name as well. I suggest we use a domain name from http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en as they're a free. Although I think we should decide on a domain name before any of you guys run off and register one (so don't!).

Edit: Just in case you guys want to know, we host it with http://fraghost.net/ using a dedicated package (not one of the ones displayed on the main site though).

No need, we already have a ded. server set up with a domain name already.  The domain is escratch.org (if you go to it now, its just a small page thing that has some of my stuff, and some PHP test things (that would be taken off and replaced with the forum)