Board Software Upgrade

[Supreme Cmdr]

I have upgraded the board to the latest version of UBB. Some corrupted threads were found and have been deleted.

I will be closing the board around midnight or early in the morning in order to back it up entirely.

Tomorrow, I will look for and install some UBB add-ons e.g. Who's Online etc. If you have a suggestions for UBB add-ons, let me know.

[Epsilon 5]

- See if you have any new pv on the bar at the top.

- A larger text editing square.

- Making that several space are not collapsed into one.

[Pedro Pablo Laracuente]

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Who's Online

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SC, do you mean how many users are online or just something else. (This can be a great thing)

[Epsilon 5]

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Originally posted by Cmdr. P. Laracuente:

SC, do you mean how many users are online or just something else. (This can be a great thing)

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Hehe, like having a list of everyone that is browsing the forum? That would be cool.

[jpprod]

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Originally posted by Epsilon 5:

Making that several space are not collapsed into one.

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That's actually a HTML feature, and I'm pretty sure no UBB add-on offers this feature since it may have performance implications. Generally speaking there are two ways to achieve this:

1. Replacing all spaces with the HTML non-breaking space,  . This approach is problematic, since non-breaking spaces interfere with text wrapping and may break HTML code, which is enabled in this forum. The replace procedure would take some CPU power or extra storage space off the server (reformatted message is either stored or message text reformatted per-request).

2. Using <pre>-tag. This makes no sense to do automatically, since you can use it manually, and there even already is a tag for this in the UBB code (the CODE tag).

Sorry for the slightly off-topic post, but as a message board developer hobbyist (my own board is much faster than UBB by the way), I just can't help myself

[edit: HTML tag broke the message]

[Supreme Cmdr]

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Originally posted by Epsilon 5:

- See if you have any new pv on the bar at the top.

- A larger text editing square.

- Making that several space are not collapsed into one.

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No. Siddown

[Supreme Cmdr]

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Originally posted by Epsilon 5:

Hehe, like having a list of everyone that is browsing the forum? That would be cool.

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Who's Online

[Tyrn]

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Originally posted by Jukka T. Paajanen:

That's actually a HTML feature, and I'm pretty sure no UBB add-on offers this feature since it may have performance implications. Generally speaking there are two ways to achieve this:

1. Replacing all spaces with the HTML non-breaking space, &nbsp;. This approach is problematic, since non-breaking spaces interfere with text wrapping and may break HTML code, which is enabled in this forum. The replace procedure would take some CPU power or extra storage space off the server (reformatted message is either stored or message text reformatted per-request).

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There is a much better way of making sure that double spaces don't collapse and still not break line wrapping:  &nbsp;

Did you catch that?

The trick is to insert one &nbsp; and follow it with a regular single space.  The &nbsp; is treated as a character and not white space and the single space is treated as any other normal space and allows the line to wrap if need be.

[Fendi]

The who's online bit would be nice. That way I can see who else is online with me as my timezone leads by several hours and I guess most of you guys across the Atlantic would be asleep then.

Um do we have a poll feature? If not it would be a handy feature to toy with.