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#1 Re: FluxBB discussion » The future of FluxBB » 2009-01-04 18:42:39
- bigcortex
I think it's a good decision to abandon 1.3 and I hope that the developers have learned from the mistakes. I hope that in the future, no "core" features will be delegated to a single person.
#2 Re: FluxBB discussion » Topic read marker » 2008-12-20 18:02:50
- bigcortex
Thank you Smartys.
I'm trying to implement a server side traking.
So far, I've created a tracking table
topic_tracking
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user_id
topic_id
date_viewed
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Unique key : (user_id, topic_id)Everytime someone views a topic, I insert/update this table. When I list the topics, I do a left join with this table and if there is a row and the date_viewed field is newer than the date of the last post, the topic is considered read.
For the topics, it works great but I'm trying to find a way to display if a forum is read in the index page. I don't want to crawl all the topics because obviously the overhead would be huge. Anybody here have a solution?
#3 Re: FluxBB discussion » Topic read marker » 2008-12-17 15:32:01
- bigcortex
When you are saying last visit time, do you mean last connexion time?
Also, If I logout, I guess the tracking cookie is killed. So all messages I haven't read are lost?
#4 FluxBB discussion » Topic read marker » 2008-12-17 14:33:07
- bigcortex
- Replies: 7
Can someone explain to me how 1.3 handles this?
Thank you
#5 Re: FluxBB discussion » Why shouldn't I choose PunBB? » 2008-12-06 17:22:38
- bigcortex
6 months ago, the beta3 was *nearly* done. I've been waiting 1.3 for about 2 years. A few weeks ago I asked a Fluxbb developer if it was safe to say that the beta3 would be completed before the end of the year and the answer was a firm and confident "yes". So yeah, I could wait until the end of the year but I wont take the chance. I have decided to look elsewhere.
Thank you very much ex-punbb/fluxbb developers for all the time you have put into this software. I wish you good luck.
#6 Re: Announcements » Development team changes » 2008-10-31 14:55:15
- bigcortex
bigcortex wrote:The comment was encouraging but he could have told us he needed 6 months
How would he have known that it took so long?
I'm not asking for a time frame. I don't care how much time it takes to be completed. It will be done when it's done and I have no problem with that. The issue is the lack of update and communication. How do we know someone is still involved in the project if there is no update? How do we know if the project is still alive?
#7 Re: Announcements » Development team changes » 2008-10-31 14:16:33
- bigcortex
Let's not forget that the markup was supposed to be finished 4 months ago. I'm not blaming anyone for being late but if you are gonna be late, at least post some update. Tell something. There is nothing worse than waiting for something and not knowing what's happening.
I was about to give up on fluxbb until I saw Paul's last comment. The comment was encouraging but he could have told us he needed 6 months and I'd have absolutely no problem with that. Time is not an issue, communication is. On so many occasions I have waited for the release of a project only to realize a few months later that the developer has dropped it.
#8 Re: General discussion » Google announces own webbrowser "Chrome" » 2008-09-03 01:16:27
- bigcortex
eternal243 wrote:personaly i would prefer having google dominating the world instead of microsoft, and thus i support google by using many of their products. Still it would take a lot of work if they want to convince me to skip firefox.
Hmm, at least Microsoft release things that aren't "beta"
(But yeah, it'll need alot to get me to change from Firefox
)
You are right, Microsoft don't release things that are "beta". Instead, they release alpha software...
#9 Re: General discussion » fluxbb.eu - domain for sale » 2008-07-27 17:27:11
- bigcortex
Having the .com and .org is largely enough IMO.
#10 Re: General discussion » The Dark Knight » 2008-07-24 19:02:16
- bigcortex
I saw it last week and I'm gonna see it again this weekend. Absolute brillant movie! 10/10
ps: I'm not a Batman fan. I havent seen Batman Begins, but I didn't like the 4 previous movies.
#11 Re: General discussion » NOW ONLY $9.95!! $15.99!! » 2008-07-21 14:01:43
- bigcortex
You are in -8 GMT time zone, so can I assume that you are living in California? There are really only a few places other than California in where the taxes are not part of the price, but instead later added on price.
In Canada the taxes are not part of the price, and I hate it.
#12 Re: FluxBB discussion » so how much did punbb sell for? » 2008-07-21 13:51:44
- bigcortex
I hope it was over $100000 because it wouldn't have been worth selling for less. Punbb was a well respected script and now it's finished. Fluxbb has a LONG way to go before compensating all the damage that has been done to punbb. A reputation takes a lot of time to build but can be destroyed in a fraction of a second. I think a lot of people have lost faith in this forum software.
#13 Re: FluxBB discussion » Flux API » 2008-07-19 20:36:36
- bigcortex
Some of those functions already are in functions.php. So you just have to include common.php, and you can access them.
For compatiblity issues, I prefer not to use directly punbb functions (they may change without notifications).
Hey bigcortez,
An Integration API has been in the todo for a bit, as Rickard notes on the ticket, we only need a way to read replies at the forum for a particular topic.
Maybe at this point what we need is a How-to.
Reading the last status update, it seems that the idea of an api has been abandoned.
I found a 3rd party api developped by the french punbb community that would suit my needs.
http://code.google.com/p/punsapi/
I hope they will convert this api to fluxbb 1.3
#14 Re: General discussion » Ubuntu » 2008-07-19 19:01:12
- bigcortex
Where can i buy some?
#15 Re: Feature requests » Security: Rewrite the extension hook system » 2008-07-19 18:59:45
- bigcortex
Great job Connor
I can't wait to do performance tests.
#16 FluxBB discussion » Flux API » 2008-07-19 18:57:34
- bigcortex
- Replies: 4
Hello devs,
Will there be a flux api to help us integrate the forum with an existing system? For example, I have a news system and everytime I add a news, I want to create a new topic. Something like : $flux->add_topic($array). In the news page, I want to show the last comment made in the topic. $flux->get_posts($topic_id)
Or if I want to create a user and add it automatically to the flux table: $flux->add_user($array)
#17 Re: Feature requests » Avoid duplicate content in pagination » 2008-07-15 21:19:50
- bigcortex
Sorry for the trouble 
#18 Re: Feature requests » Avoid duplicate content in pagination » 2008-07-15 13:10:54
- bigcortex
Well, yes and no. Duplicate content is bad, yes. However, PunBB 1.2 had "major" problems with duplicate content and still managed to rank quite well in the search engines. And p=1 versus no p is a fairly common duplicate content issue and I can't imagine that the search engines are unable to deal with it.
Just because punbb ranked well doesn't mean it's ok to do it. If we want to advertize punbb as search engine friendly, we have to make sure those little details are in place.
And even if we don't link to p=1, someone else could, negating the benefit.
Most people don't try to manually guess urls. I don't say it wont happen, but it is highly unlikely. Even if they did, they would have to post the link somewhere to have a negative effect.
#19 Re: Feature requests » Avoid duplicate content in pagination » 2008-07-15 02:16:11
- bigcortex
This is something important. I will try to build an extension to solve this but I definitely think it should be included in the core. It's not like it would require huge changes...
#20 Re: Programming » I'm about to install Ubuntu today and.. » 2008-07-11 00:46:18
- bigcortex
If you only want unbunt I would suggest. wubi
It installs ubuntu from windows xp, everything is fixed. So you just have too reboot when you are done
It's already included in the latest Ubuntu version
#21 Re: Programming » I'm about to install Ubuntu today and.. » 2008-07-11 00:16:29
- bigcortex
Didn't know where else to ask this but can I install UBUNTU on my PC while XP is on it?
Thanks
Shedrock
Yes you can. Create a new partition and install ubuntu in it. GRUB will be automatically installed allowing you to chose between XP and Ubuntu when you start your computer.
The latest version allows you to install ubuntu directly from windows just like you would install any other application. Again, when you start your computer you would be asked which OS you want to load.
#22 Feature requests » Avoid duplicate content in pagination » 2008-07-11 00:10:48
- bigcortex
- Replies: 11
I've noticed that the pagination system adds the page number in the url for the 1st page. For example if you access the first page of this forum via the pagination system, the url is http://fluxbb.org/forums/forum/9/featur … s/page/1/.
IMO, it should be http://fluxbb.org/forums/forum/9/feature-requests/
#23 Re: Feature requests » Navigation : user interface » 2008-07-06 23:25:49
- bigcortex
I pretty much agree with all these rules. For example, the topic title in the breadcrumb should definitely not be clickable.
#24 Re: General discussion » Does the development of FluxBB slow down? » 2008-06-25 13:46:44
- bigcortex
http://fluxbb.org/trac/timeline/
Last month: Only 2.64 changes per day.
Obviously markup updates cannot be commited until it's all completed because it would make the latest SVN version unusable.
Edit: And I'd rather see few changes because it means the forum is closer and closer to stable release.
#25 Re: FluxBB discussion » FluxBB homepage: how do you... » 2008-06-21 23:13:43
- bigcortex
Too bad I'm no php developer
I surely am not able to write queries for the database.
I looked at extern.php which seems easier but I dont manage to do what I want: to have shown on another webpage the latest topic in a certain forum.
This is fairly easy to do.
For example, if you want the last 10 topics in the forum 1:
SELECT * FROM topics WHERE forum_id='1' ORDER by last_post DESC LIMIT 0,10