What do I expect? (I've already seen /z/, it's the reason I came here in the first place, a reincarnation of the best board ever without SovietRussia!lM51PoudCg)

So yeah...

* => %F %L
F => Alice|Bob
L => %A%B
A => some|things|that|form|the|first|half
B => stuff|forming|the|second|half

Then you'd get names like "Alice halfstuff" and whatever.

* => %F %L
F => Alice|Bob
L => Smith|Jones

I should probably put something like this onto that page...

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJHZ4E9tRHM

Fixed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

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.

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.

You are boring mutherfuckers, where everithing i like? Why do live somehow like that way?

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!!

I think perhaps a few shootings of Nintendo staff are in order,

We need more discipline in our progressive struggle against the inperialist dogs!

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!!!!!!!

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  1.9255

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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  0.3726

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The idea was that a lot of people unfamiliar with the 2ch style boards tend to be fairly confused and type into the first reply box they see instead of scrolling down to the 'new thread' form at the bottom. You can see that on http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/ on occasion, with people posting bugs about Xee or the screensavers in the Wakaba thread, or whichever other thread happened to be at the top of the page.
Plus it does make the page look less cluttered, especially with Blue Moon style, but in practice, yeah, it just kind of sucked.

I don't like PHP. Still used it to code up a little page to search boxtorrents (that's what it was called when I first wrote the thing) by tags, both inclusive and exclusive. The "feature" is that even though the register_globals setting has been depreciated for many years now, they still do a substitution on the HTTP GET variables to change periods to underscores. It only really effects a.f.k., one of the better sub groups.

In the end, I found and slightly modified a function to create a proper array from the input URL. Though for some reason the tag checkboxes don't stay checked after a search now...

The feature in question: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42677

>свободной коммунистической России!

Я джва года хочу такую Россию!!

If you have a better solution for the floods of off-topic and incomprehensible garbage posts, abusive trolls, spam, and child porn from Russian IP addresses, I'll gladly hear it.

I believe it is an error message.

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.

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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 :)

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

> 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