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#1 2013-03-15 12:14:45

catachresis
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averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

averr.tk

Essentially a site to discuss anything and everything, averr is a light, simple textboard.
Create and post in threads, send messages, and upvote interesting and informative comments.

Passwords are hashed. Emails are optional, but are required if you desire to reset your password.

Please report any bugs/errors you find.
Feedback would be very appreciated. :)

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#2 2013-03-15 13:08:51

transparent
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

Very nice looking
Hopefully this one stays up longer than previous ones ;)


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#3 2013-03-15 13:16:02

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

Thank you.
What are you implying :I

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#4 2013-03-15 13:32:21

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

Very beautiful site!
Did you make it yourself?


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#5 2013-03-15 13:43:43

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

mythbusteranimator wrote:

Very beautiful site!
Did you make it yourself?

:) Thank you, and yes, it was completely (hand)coded using gedit.

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#6 2013-03-15 13:50:54

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

Cool.  smile
I want to learn PHP.  tongue


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#7 2013-03-15 13:57:22

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

Looks amazing!


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#8 2013-03-15 16:22:30

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

mythbusteranimator wrote:

Cool. :)
I want to learn PHP. :P

You should.

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#9 2013-03-15 16:46:45

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

nice

pretty simplistic in design, but i like that


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#10 2013-03-15 22:51:30

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

fix your “ etc. problems
and the profanity filter causes some problems; it rendered shore s*e
also, I'd like to have hyphens, underscores, and numbers in usernames

Last edited by dontbombiraq (2013-03-15 22:53:50)


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#11 2013-03-15 23:55:31

soupoftomato
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

I like it! It looks sleek and minimalsitic.

Reading the square topic post areas in the scrolling post looker area (sorry, uh, front page?) is kind of hard to see. Maybe make the squares more contrasted against the background and the text darker?

I also don't like the use of what would seem to be reddit's commenting system. I think a site like this should just be in a conversational flow - like an average forum (like this one).

The registering was very convenient, awesome.

Organization of categories seems a bit weird, but it doesn't matter.

Quotation marks aren't working.


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#12 2013-03-16 14:32:05

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

I can't reply to anything


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#13 2013-03-16 14:42:14

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

dontbombiraq wrote:

fix your “ etc. problems
and the profanity filter causes some problems; it rendered shore s*e
also, I'd like to have hyphens, underscores, and numbers in usernames

Done.
Fixed.
That's quite valid. Added.

You should now be able to have numbers/hyphens/underscores in your username as well.

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#14 2013-03-16 14:49:36

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

dontbombiraq wrote:

I can't reply to anything

Try again? :/

The tables were truncated for some reason when the server managed to connect to mysql again, after a period when connections were refused.
All users/comments/threads were emptied, so you may have to re-register.

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#15 2013-03-16 14:51:02

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

Wish I waited until now to register, so I wouldn't have had to be "fireTwoOneNine".  tongue

Also, the site renders very weird on Android phones (can't make a screenshot atm, sorry).

Otherwise, the site's awesome.  smile


http://bluetetrarpg.x10.mx/usercard/img.php?name=fire219

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#16 2013-03-16 14:59:08

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

fire219 wrote:

Wish I waited until now to register, so I wouldn't have had to be "fireTwoOneNine". :P

Also, the site renders very weird on Android phones (can't make a screenshot atm, sorry).

Otherwise, the site's awesome. :)

The 'users' table was truncated along with all the others, so you may have to re-register anyway.
Also, how does it look? Could you describe it?
And thank you.

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#17 2013-03-16 15:04:33

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

soupoftomato wrote:

I like it! It looks sleek and minimalsitic.

Reading the square topic post areas in the scrolling post looker area (sorry, uh, front page?) is kind of hard to see. Maybe make the squares more contrasted against the background and the text darker?

I also don't like the use of what would seem to be reddit's commenting system. I think a site like this should just be in a conversational flow - like an average forum (like this one).

The registering was very convenient, awesome.

Organization of categories seems a bit weird, but it doesn't matter.

Quotation marks aren't working.

Thank you for actually taking the time to critique it thoroughly.

That's an interesting point. I will change that.

When you refer to reddit's commenting to system, do you refer to the threaded discussion, or the sorting of comments by votes and 'hotness' (although the comments on averr are sorted simply by time)?

What order do you think the categories should be in?

Quotation marks should be fixed.

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#18 2013-03-16 15:31:08

fire219
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

catachresis wrote:

fire219 wrote:

Wish I waited until now to register, so I wouldn't have had to be "fireTwoOneNine".  tongue

Also, the site renders very weird on Android phones (can't make a screenshot atm, sorry).

Otherwise, the site's awesome.  smile

The 'users' table was truncated along with all the others, so you may have to re-register anyway.
Also, how does it look? Could you describe it?
And thank you.

The side bar is pushed up over the center part (thread boxes), for example


http://bluetetrarpg.x10.mx/usercard/img.php?name=fire219

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#19 2013-03-16 15:41:46

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

fire219 wrote:

catachresis wrote:

fire219 wrote:

Wish I waited until now to register, so I wouldn't have had to be "fireTwoOneNine".  tongue

Also, the site renders very weird on Android phones (can't make a screenshot atm, sorry).

Otherwise, the site's awesome.  smile

The 'users' table was truncated along with all the others, so you may have to re-register anyway.
Also, how does it look? Could you describe it?
And thank you.

The side bar is pushed up over the center part (thread boxes), for example

Similar to this?
i.imgur.com/2ONTEiS.png

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#20 2013-03-16 15:53:48

fire219
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

catachresis wrote:

fire219 wrote:

catachresis wrote:


The 'users' table was truncated along with all the others, so you may have to re-register anyway.
Also, how does it look? Could you describe it?
And thank you.

The side bar is pushed up over the center part (thread boxes), for example

Similar to this?
i.imgur.com/2ONTEiS.png

No, it is like it is normally, just laying over the thread boxes.


http://bluetetrarpg.x10.mx/usercard/img.php?name=fire219

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#21 2013-03-16 16:03:27

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

catachresis wrote:

dontbombiraq wrote:

I can't reply to anything

Try again?  hmm

The tables were truncated for some reason when the server managed to connect to mysql again, after a period when connections were refused.
All users/comments/threads were emptied, so you may have to re-register.

It just says "An error occurred. Please check submitted information."


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#22 2013-03-16 18:07:31

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

On my large screen Android I can't get to the bottom categories because they keep being pushed off the screen. I can also scroll down forever wheeeee


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#23 2013-03-17 15:24:42

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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

Salted passwords?


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#24 2013-03-18 01:39:30

catachresis
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

fire219 wrote:

catachresis wrote:

fire219 wrote:

The side bar is pushed up over the center part (thread boxes), for example

Similar to this?
i.imgur.com/2ONTEiS.png

No, it is like it is normally, just laying over the thread boxes.

Hmm, strange...
What browser/version/device are you using?

scratchisthebest wrote:

On my large screen Android I can't get to the bottom categories because they keep being pushed off the screen. I can also scroll down forever wheeeee

:/
I'll try and fix the CSS.

SeptimusHeap wrote:

Salted passwords?

Yes, they're salted before hashing.

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#25 2013-03-18 16:49:37

fire219
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Re: averr: a light, new textboard. thoughts?

catachresis wrote:

fire219 wrote:

catachresis wrote:


Similar to this?
i.imgur.com/2ONTEiS.png

No, it is like it is normally, just laying over the thread boxes.

Hmm, strange...
What browser/version/device are you using?

I was using the stock browser on Android Gingerbread (2.3.6 to be specific), device is a Samsung Captivate Glide.

Just got a screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/pvUu8PH.png


http://bluetetrarpg.x10.mx/usercard/img.php?name=fire219

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