Site Discussion

Added a preview button. (Just on the text boards for now.) The javascript to shove the button and form onto the post is a bit unwieldy for what should be such a simple task, but hey, that's javascript for ya. The server handler, on the other hand, was stupidly easy:

# -*- python -*-
elif 'preview' in form:
    message = handle_message(board, form.int('preview'), 0, form.field4, form.markup)
    io.write_http_header(length=len(message))
    sys.stdout.write(message)

_{No, that form.markup field isn't meaningful... yet.}

sweet, thanks!

Oh, when someone sages a thread, the link does not appear as sage, it appears as http://sovietrussia.org/dis/#sage, is this intentional?

Yep! I got annoyed by accidentally clicking irrelevant mailto:sage links, so if something doesn't look like a link or e-mail, it sticks a # in front of it.

>>15
Oh, heh, that works!

Shit, it's been forever since I've been here.

>>17
herro :3

>>18
Hy

>>19 I follow you on twitter

>>20
:D

>>64
4-ch and other Kareha-based boards look fine, I looked through the source and css looking for what the problem here could be, but I can't find anything.

Not so much about the site, but 22 of the 50 threads on /f/ are dumb tinfoil-hat bullshit. Could we get some pruning? Maybe a few posts were okay but we don't need the german and japanese versions...

Thanks a lot :D

Copy/pasting from /a/:

> There's a quote bug in IE7. When viewing a thread, clicking on "1227" does not insert ">>1227" in the text field. It does work in IE when clicking on the post number on page 0-10.
>
> In Opera, the quote links work

The search feature doesn't work right. On /f/ if I search "frankie", which is obviously the top thread, it says no results found.

>>69
You needed to search for the top thread? :P
Google crawls and updates ... whenever. I don't know how often, but if you search for something like Touhou you'll get pages.

I suppose it works, if you consider the new stuff is visible on the front page and thus less likely to need searching.

When are you going to release the site code?

>>71
When it doesn't suck. :/

Well, that's not quite fair. It's not horrible code, it's just not very good. It started as a Python translation of Wakaba that used Trevorchan's database, and with no framework or really any structure. Over time bits and pieces have been replaced but it's still really quite haphazard, and I would really like to start fresh with a real framework (Pylons or TurboGears, probably) and get all the features which were at some point implemented functioning again (namely: fastcgi, lazy thread caching, some nonsensical charts and goodies in the admin panel, capcodes, ...)

Not to mention all the crap that spontaneously breaks whenever I try to fix something else, because the only installed copy in existence is on this server. (Yes, I keep backups, I'm not that much of a dunce :)

>>72
Couldn't (some of us) help?

>>73
Eh. I don't want another Kusaba-incident wherein bad code perpetuates despite the author's intent to remove/replace it. Plus, I think I learned a few things from building matsuba, and hacking at a handful of other board scripts, and it'd probably just be better to apply that knowledge than to try to describe it.

Don't get me wrong, matsuba isn't nearly as bad as the average PHP script – it really is clean in a lot of places, but it has a lot of quirks. More of hard-to-maintain, and perhaps suffering from Second System Syndrome.

Example: the logic for how posts get deleted is split between the database and the filesystem, and neither of the two "talk" to each other. As it is, deleting a file causes a database request; that returns a list of referenced files and thread IDs that were affected by the request; the controller passes that information onto the filesystem handler, which actually does the deleting; then the controller gets back a list of files that were actually deleted, checks to see if one of those files was the same url where the request originated. (That's how you end up on the same page after deleting something – unless you deleted the thread from its own page.)

In a way, the current structure makes sense from a design perspective, but it makes things too complicated and doesn't provide much benefit. If I were redesigning things I'd just have one unified data store for everything; it'd simplify the code tremendously, which, of course, would make things more maintainable and better in the long run.

yeah, it's called "Blue Moon". you can see it by clicking "Blue Moon" under "Board look" :P

I had an idea for what to put on /z/, but now it's kinda fail.
Please feel free to edit the script (found http://sovietrussia.org/dat/zmanage.py?action=fileman it's script.js) and/or post ideas

Instead of the current music, what about http://www.mpcforum.com/forum.php?do=mp ? It's live so it always has different music!

another idea: (I looked in /js/matsuba.js?v=2 and saw 'insert') new dockbar has buttons that can style text?

What are you all (Or you if it's one guy) using to make those fantastic rainbow gifs every now and then? It seems like it's the same or similar filter being used, and I'd like someone to share it before I try making something similar.

I think it's all one guy...

GIMP Hue/Saturation in increments of 36. Ten frames. 40 ms.

Thanks, >>8!

uhhh could a mod delete the picture of the little girl crying on /z/!

Hey loves, can we sort out stickies now plz?

>>11
"Sorted", meaning all threads are unstuck. Will look into what spontaneously broke later.

So... what is the difference between Futaba and Yotsuba style besides HUGE FONTS for the post numbers, cutting off 3/4 of the topic list at the top, and hiding the name/date information?

Seems kinda DQN.

>>4
The colors don't contrast as much. Sharp corners, etc.

If new textboard styles are coming, I'd like to suggest Headline (Photon for textboards) and Mercury.

>>6
Headline is already on here.

Mercury added... have fun.

To the poster who wanted Yotsuba, post a stylesheet file that works with Kareha. 4chan's is entirely incompatible.

>To the poster who wanted Yotsuba, post a stylesheet file that works with Kareha. 4chan's is entirely incompatible.

I'll work on this over the weekend.

>>9
Which weekend?

>>10
Sorry sorry, I've been real busy. I'll get around to it some day.

I've had this style sheet I ported over from Yotsuba a long time ago. I just found this site though.

http://tablecat.exofire.net/yotsuba.css

It should work with both Kareha and Wakaba. I only remember using it on a Wakaba oekaki board I had. You just need to go download fade.png from 4chan and put it in the 'img' folder.

>>12
Good show, but wrong style. This thread is about the theme for the text boards, not the imageboards – like http://dis.4chan.org/prog/ and then click on "Yotsuba" at the top.