General discussions: Introducing forum

Rodion (admin) 2014-08-01 04:32:03

Dear friends!

In answer to your requests I've tried to create the forum for our site.

Currently it has simple and limited functionality, however all users who solved more than 5 problems can use it:

you can create new topics;
you can add posts to topics.

Note that editing and deletion of posts is not yet implemented so be careful!
I hope to add these features soon

As you may see posts use simple Markdown for formatting (though plain HTML blocks <b>like this</b> are disabled).

TestUser 2014-08-01 04:39:12

And here am I - test user with the test record.

Sorry for annoyance! :)

Guy Gervais 2014-08-01 06:58:11

Test message...

This is pretty cool.

Moff 2014-08-01 11:44:51

Test message.

Sorry for my terribe English, my native language is C/C++. :)

Rodion (admin) 2014-08-01 13:18:11

But I thought you use Python almost always :)

And it seems your English is not worse than mine. Hope our friends who are native-English speakers will excuse us kindly...

Moriarty 2014-08-01 17:32:20

Foo bar. :) PaddingX

Moriarty 2014-08-01 17:33:26

I don't get how the admin's second message is aligned one level above the replies.

Moriarty 2014-08-01 17:33:41

Ah, coz he's the OP?

Guy Gervais 2014-08-01 17:56:25

Administration has it's privileges :)

Would it be a good idea to put the "Forum" button in a different color so that it stands out? I never would've seen it if I hadn't been to Facebook to check the news...

Rodion (admin) 2014-08-01 23:27:45

Well, this confusing padding was intended to show the messages of the user who started the topic. So in [this topic] Guy Gervais have his priveleges, not this nasty admin! ;-)

Probably this was not the greatest idea, I agree... :D

> Would it be a good idea to put the "Forum" button in a different color so that it stands out?

Funny idea... Perhaps it's better then to make it blinking? I'll try!

Guy Gervais 2014-08-02 07:22:50

I thought you were kidding about getting it to blink.

Rodion_Gork 2014-08-02 15:38:20

Getting it to blink itself is a kind of kidding so you were almost correct :)

I thought this idea inspired by you - about marking links to new features somehow - is a good idea. Hope this blinking do not like too silly!

UPD: Added this record from my "personal" user to see that editing of the posts is working.
Though currently it is allowed to edit post only during first hour after creating it.

Shoshannah 2014-08-04 11:41:03

How can I get it to stop blinking? I'm about to get a seizure!

nicolas_patrois 2014-08-04 12:29:25

With the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox?

Rodion (admin) 2014-08-04 14:21:49

> How can I get it to stop blinking? I'm about to get a seizure!

Ow, it was not intended to harm anyone. It would be "intelligent" if it stops blinking after user clicked this menu...

However probably it would be better to turn blinking off completely :)

UPD: Hope now I killed this feature. Sorry for inconvenience!