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Thu, 07 Nov 2024 09:16:32 -0800
Andy from
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Survey: what additional features would you like to see on here?
I have everything working pretty well, but I always like to improve things.
What would you like to have in the way of JDU features? I can think of a few
things that might be cool:
1. Facebook-style post reactions for guests so that lurkers can have some
interaction with users, even if it's just giving a thumbs-up or a heart. This
would be helpful because users could get a sense of whether people appreciate
their comments.
2. View counts and statistics that better reflect the actual readership of the
site, which is about 2,000 people. This would let people see which posts are
popular with lurkers.
We already have DM's, search, a private Thunderdome for registered users,
topics, tags, URL parsing, and others. I'm very happy with the backend
software, which I wrote from scratch. I have this running half-joke, which is
that I am the greatest lawyer-programmer in the world. It's true.
#Programming #Technology
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:54:22 -0800
zerosugar
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this is a hard call. maybe allow pics to be added just on thunderdome alone. its
possible it could be flooded with nudes or obscene stuff, but its private anyway
and can always be deleted. iirc pics are not allowed on autoadmit. i do not use
autoadmit, but saw some posts there and no pics. another option would be voice
tags, but that may be harder.
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:02:37 -0800
Andy from
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All right, I started with a reaction button. That was some intense programming.
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:19:49 -0800
Andy from
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I think I fixed this so that replying doesn't erase the reactions.
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 13:20:32 -0800
Andy from
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That was hard. Lol.
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:30:27 -0800
marlon from
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no more porno pics, it got so ugly
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:00:12 -0800
Andy from
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@marlonTest I specifically recall one photo of two naked people
with what looked like chili smeared over their genital areas. Then I realized
it wasn't chili. Barf.
Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:02:03 -0800
marlon from
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those were bad days, JDU was dead anyhow, nothing like the golden days
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 07:08:15 -0800
Andy from
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You know what else would be cool? If you could tag threads to follow and get a
page of only followed threads. That way, you can pick and choose what posts you
want to see the most of. Or maybe when you react to a post, you see those
threads at the top. I did do a test run of a mouseover preview that shows you
who is active in any particular thread. That was super cool and you can still
turn it on manually, but it puts a lot of load on the server because it has to
process a request every time your cursor moves on the screen. This platform is
an ongoing evolution of my custom bulletin board software, Mosaicβ’, and it's
shaping up well. I was encouraged to spend more time on it by learning from the
logs that there are about 2,000 active readers instead of 50.
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:26:31 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
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You should offer a recall or delete feature for posts.
Fri, 08 Nov 2024 18:27:32 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
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No pics. It will degrade into porn. One bad apple will ruin the bunch.
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 03:07:37 -0800
Andy from
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I'm working on the reactions feature this morning. It's going to be tough to
have reactions to individual replies, which are not stored in a fashion that
makes it easy for me. But I think I can manage that with an addition to the
reply feature that adds a unique ID for each reply. If I have a unique ID, I
can add it to the reactions in the .meta file and track reactions for each
reply.
@whiteguyinchinaTest I can probably do a recall feature, but that would
only be if there are no replies to a post. Meanwhile, folks would have to tag
or email me to remove individual posts.
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 03:28:25 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #14014998 to /posts/all/1730999792-137.txt
I'm working on the reactions feature. Added a unique ID to each reply, which
will enable per-reply reactions.
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 04:27:04 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #19282660 to /posts/all/1730999792-137.txt
This should work.
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 04:31:34 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #13792906
Test
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 04:33:11 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #12928283 Test
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 05:09:41 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #16181183 OK, now you can react to
individual replies. This is a lot better than reacting to whole posts, which I
will enable in the index.
Sat, 09 Nov 2024 05:13:53 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #19841499 P.S. The reactions are only
going to be available for replies posted after I enabled that feature. Sorry.
Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:14:51 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #15332798 I'm still working on the reaction
feature. Something happened with the CSS code where the buttons are not always
aligned. Lol. I also need to match the reactions up with the reply ID numbers
so that you see the reactions in the correct place on the page instead of all at
the bottom.
Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:54:23 -0800
Andy from
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Reply #11158703 Still working on the reaction
feature. Because I support IPv6 on all my websites, the reaction list is
unreasonably long when folks are not logged in. Will be improving the interface
in the near future, as I find the time.
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