Hack weekend 2

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Hack weekend 2

Post by Bitom » Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:21 pm

Hi, folks.

Bren and I have started on hack weekend #2!!!!

Over the course of the day, we'll be making changes to the site and moving through our respective ToDo lists. I'll keep you guys updated on what's getting done as we complete items.

As per usual, Bren is spending a lot of his time on back-end stuff that we never see, and I get to look like a hero by fixing easy things that you can all see.

First one of those fixes: Your PM notifications are now HTML emails!!!! Most BBCode will now go through to the notification email.

Special exception to this is spoilers which can't work in Email because any smart Email program doesn't allow Javascript to execute. When a spoiler is in the text, it will say:
just before the text, but have no end spoiler. this is by design so that you know the test was supposed to be hidden.

Note that themes do not transfer through, just the text decoration, images, and links. So it won't look exactly like your forum view but will be readable now.

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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Brennor » Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:36 pm

As Bitom already mentioned, I've been working behind the scenes and today's big work for me has been the Donation stuff.

I've figured out what the issue is with the PayPal donations not showing up in the donation module. This is because I cannot use IPN (Instant Payment Notification) on my Personal PayPal account, which means that the website doesn't get notified when a payment is made to brennor@brennor.dyndns.org -- we still want to use that account, so I've got to come up with a workaround to fill out the information.
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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by TetNak » Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:56 pm

You guys are awesome!
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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Bitom » Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:04 pm

Done: The link in your PM notifications will now take you directly to the message, instead of to your inbox.

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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Bitom » Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:10 pm

Done: Quoting a PM no longer removes :'s

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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Brennor » Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:44 pm

Going to leave the PayPal stuff as is for now and figure out how to get the data into the system at another time. Moving on...
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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Bitom » Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:11 am

Done: Mobile site now sends PM notifications that link back to the full site.

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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Bitom » Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:28 am

Done: PM button on Mobile site thread view.

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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Bitom » Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:49 am

And my final fix of hack weekend:

Stop post edits from checking for the minimum time between posts.

You can now edit your mistakes immediately after noticing them instead of counting to 20.

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Re: Hack weekend 2

Post by Trogdor » Sun Mar 24, 2013 12:54 am

I like that.

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