Thread: Technical Suggestions

Vekseid said Zero said 1. Attachments While a possibly useful, interesting addition to these forums, I would like to see these features disabled. There's no need for files to be hosted on this board, anything that requires attachments can be offloaded to MegaUpload or an Imagebucket, thus reducing stress on the server and reducing cost. The disabling of this system would also prevent massive uploads especially when dealing with spam, and overall is just an exploitative feature. Click to expand... I might do what I did on E and offload it to an integrated wiki. That way it's not going through phpbb3's retarded download script. Click to expand... A good compromise... but still, what sort of files do people need to upload onto an RP board? That is the question I'm attempting to ask here. I don't actually find that the feature does anything other than waste space and money, and also could potentially give you a securityspam risk. 2. Same goes for the youtube script, that and my textbased brower hates it. Just provide a happy little link and offload resources somewhere else. Click to expand... The only difference here is I'm using the full embed tag recommended by Youtube, I'd be willing to go back to a smaller one but people like the feature yo This place wasn't exactly designed for lynx. Click to expand... True, nor was it designed for links2 D! Textbased, Tabbed browsing ftw. Anyway, I'm not terribly concerned with the youtube tag, and using the full embed tag rather than the smaller one is not the issue, as just the fact you're putting youtube videos on this site. But your site, so I'm backing off on this point. 3. Reduce signiture size andor allow for a 300px limit WITHOUT scrolling feature. Doubt anyone scrolls anyway, so just put the max cap on it and be done with the creating of another annoying frametable. Also, this is a textbased roleplaying site. I understand that removing signatures altogether would be akin to killing artistic expression but at least reducing the obnoxiousness of them would be nice. Click to expand... Are you saying I should just clip it? overflow none? Click to expand... Rather than clipping it, you can just set the size when creating the siggy and tell them that it's too big, an if statement and then return them to the current board with an error. Or, I'm still only familiar with phbb2, the overflow clip would be fine. 4. While I understand that since we're using a domain that's part of the lovely and kind administrator, as well as hosting from such and I don't wish to get them in trouble, perhaps it would behoove us to either a ask for a main page where we specifically require that people over 18 come to this site or turn away or b Give ourselves a domain name and do the same thing. Also, place ourselves on the google non-indexing list for mature material. Click to expand... Sign in as a guest and note the notice at the top. Click to expand... A little notice I don't think is sufficient. I think a full page blocking out entry to the site would be the way to go, and since the little link at the top doesn't actually prevent people from reading the boards... OR, if you made everything other than the welcome, intro to readwrite only for MEMBERS, that would be fine with me too . Thanks for the point by point reply by the way, very helpful.