When the option to use randomly generated names is checked in the /z/ manage thing, nothing shows up in the name field. Why is this?
It's a rule generator thing. The base rule is *, and you can expand any other rules with the percent sign.
* => %F %L
F => Alice|Bob
L => Smith|JonesI should probably put something like this onto that page...
Okay, cool. Next question: how would I do something like, say, last names generated from multiple parts?
Same way.
* => %F %L
F => Alice|Bob
L => %A%B
A => some|things|that|form|the|first|half
B => stuff|forming|the|second|halfThen you'd get names like "Alice halfstuff" and whatever.
Is it possible to restore /z/'s shit to what it used to be, or at least the wordfilters? Somebody made a really shitty "gnu linus" theme and deleted everything.
Nup. I was considering building some sort of history mechanism but for whatever reason decided against it. I think something along the lines of keeping the board fresh and new...?
Board statistics as of right now:
Board Visible Pruned Rate
----- ------- ------ ------
a 1674 27951 6.8180
m 1330 2351 1.3931
cats 1295 148 0.7135
w 1172 594 0.9881
big 947 173 0.7419
o 881 48 0.7589
ma 765 1993 0.5615
j 664 199 0.5889
cs 541 349 0.3954
z 481 4616 0.5860
prog 282 2 0.3726You need to change the way you calculate rates, it doesn't seem quite right, maybe break it into past week/month/(half?)year.
Wow, that was some complicated SQL. I think this is only the boards that have had activity over the past 30 days, it didn't give any data for some fields.
Board 7 days 30 days
----- ------- -------
a 36.5975 37.9541
big 5.6850 1.6333
cats 0.5308
dis 0.3159 0.3712
f 1.6373 0.5962
m 1.6769 2.2300
ma 1.0307 0.1758
p 0.2736
w 2.2696 1.9325
z 2.0427 1.9255if so, what's the room and server?
Considering Soviet Russia is kinda-sorta iichan affiliated (half the boards are linked from their sidebar), I suppose it's #iichan on synirc. That is, unless you want to make one, in which case it's whatever you want.
I believe majority of users are from iichan and 4-ch.
I'm from wakachan mostly.
lol bumping 2008 thraed
So... what's the deal with this place? As in, in general, what's it all about? I know about /z/ from the old days, but there's not much I know about its reincarnation here or about this site in general.
It's an imageboard site, with a few boards that are part of iichan/wakachan and some boards that aren't. And it has /z/ which is the BEST BOARD ON TEH INTERNETS even though it is so quiet.
I don't remember all the details myself, but, there used to be a site called wiichan.net, which had most of the more generic boards (/a/, /w/, /f/, /cats/) that were on iichan. At some point it moved or renamed or something to sovietrussia.org. /m/ was made when 420chan was down, and that was back before any other chans had music boards so a lot of the 420channers came here and I think that's when /z/ was created too, and it started as just another /b/ with animations in the background and music, which was a lot like 420chan's /b/ when it was in party mode, then they put in the terrorize button and it went completly insane.
Okay, and /z/, if I remember correctly, was a board on 4 that got deleted and now redirects to bees on a cock. Okay. Now, what exactly does the terrorize button do? Is it for anyone to edit /z/? Because that's what it looks like...
Yes, that's what it is, have fun!
(and please don't just delete everything, that's boring)
4chan /z/, in concept, had a rotating moderator position, who had free reign over the board to do whatever they wanted, like changing the stylesheet and banning people. Except the board came and went before two people had the chance to run the site, Soviet Russia!lM51PoudCg was the board's only moderator.
Is this site ran by the same Soviet Russia who used to mod on 4chan?
>>6
no. That's part of where the name came from, though.
I love /z/ right now! Well done to the comrade who did that!
Here is a good video for all you little, wannabee "comrades".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8
The Soviet Union was a grand thing! Its just the fact Stalin ruined everything!
Anything broken about the site, please post here.
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 :)
>>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.
Hi, there is some illegal content on /w/ just now
>>75-76
One of these days I'm going to find the person who's posting that stuff and cut off his nuts.
Can you ban the guy who keeps posting spam on /f/? At least I'm pretty sure it's spam... the .swfs he posts have loading screens but then don't seem to do anything other than open up a new window to some shitty site...
Where did Giant Tetris go?
I just posted it again for you :)
Tetris is the product of the Soviet System. It therefore proves that the Soviet System is the best. Nintendo stole the fruits of the Soviet System, and profited from it.
I think perhaps a few shootings of Nintendo staff are in order,
i thought tetris was hungarian…
No comrade. I assure you its a product of the Soviet system.
This fourm is dead. It looks like the CIA funded owners of this board have discredited the Soviet System with there memes. The Soviet Union is no joke. I think perhaps some shootings of the owners of this site are in order.
In Soviet Russia we had a workers paradise. DONT MAKE IN SOVIET RUSSIA JOKES AROUND ME!!! If you think I'm mean, dont make me set comrade Stalin on you!!
You're the troll comrade. Your a decedent bourgeoisie swine. What do you have against freedom? You love being a little capitalist slave!