HAY GUYS

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Aug 3, 2007, 02:01 AM

Miles purchased a copy of vbSEO and uploaded it. I've fixed up the server and it seems to be working. Please post any bugs you find here.

For those who don't know what the heck vbSEO is, it turns

http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2

into

http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/2-general-discussion/

and so on.

~~Since we had vbSEO running previously, this means any old internal links using the "friendly" syntax are now working once more.~~

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Little Shithead · Aug 2, 2007, 01:03 PM

Sub-forums that have the same name won't work.

Any of the brackets for this years BSC will take you to last year's BSC.

Easy enough to fix.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

***Bigblah*** · Local time: Aug 3, 2007, 02:54 AM

Since it'll take some advanced tweaking to get vbSEO to discard category titles when using the entire forum path (i.e. ../forum-title/subforum-title), I've added in the forum IDs for now. That should fix forum view. Note that, in thread view, the forum ID will not be present.

How ya doing, buddy?

YO PITTSBURGH MIKE HERE · Local time: Aug 2, 2007, 10:55 AM

I just noticed some dead links in the SAUS forum. Particularly the ones to individual brackets.

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***Bigblah*** · Local time: Aug 3, 2007, 03:02 AM

I was tweaking settings a while ago, they should work for you now.

I was speaking idiomatically.

YO PITTSBURGH MIKE HERE · Local time: Aug 2, 2007, 01:09 PM

Cool.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

eriol33 · Local time: Aug 5, 2007, 09:09 PM

very nice! and it's nice to see there are a some new subforums in animespot

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Zergrinch · Local time: Aug 13, 2007, 10:00 PM

I tried spying on Face's (♪^___^♪) profile, but all the friendly URL gave me was this schmuck

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Franky Mikey · Local time: Aug 13, 2007, 03:58 PM

Does that make me URL-unfriendly?

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**THE POWER OF WATER** · Local time: Aug 13, 2007, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by CHz

My problem with the SEO is that there was a link redirection thing with links in private forums where the board software would give a blank referer, which means that I couldn't make links to music in My Stuff and Audio Requests that would only work when followed from GFF. I know the reason: letting gamingforce.org/forums/my-stuff/35711-itt-we-hotlink.html show up in referer logs would expose the hidden forums, but I don't support the SEO unless the redirection can be turned off.

Redirects.

How ya doing, buddy?

janus zeal · Aug 15, 2007, 03:44 PM

Getting a User does not exist error for ♪^___^♪'s profile. (http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/members/♪^___^♪.html)

CHz: does it matter if the hidden forums require the user to be in a special usergroup to see? Or are they not protected like that?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Chaotic · Aug 15, 2007, 03:50 PM

Actually, if you look at ^-^ (Ness)'s profile, his links to Face's.

But it's a little inconvenient that I can't access Ness's profile when I need to. <_<

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Franky Mikey · Local time: Aug 15, 2007, 10:16 PM

The proper link to my profile is this one: http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/members/-___-.html

I had to click my avatar in my journal to find it. All other links to my profile on the forum are broken.

As for ness's link, it does indeed show my profile instead. http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/members/-.html

No idea what's the proper link for his, if there's still one.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Chaotic · Aug 15, 2007, 04:21 PM

Ness's is: http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/members/%5E-%5E.html

Otherwise, if you just change that "-" to "^-^", it would link to his profile.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

**THE POWER OF WATER** · Local time: Aug 15, 2007, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by janus zeal

CHz: does it matter if the hidden forums require the user to be in a special usergroup to see? Or are they not protected like that?

I'm not in a special usergroup, so I have no idea, but I expect it affects all forums which are not visible to people who aren't logged in.

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***Sarag*** · Aug 30, 2007, 08:42 PM

blah can you fix the links on the number & permalink so when assholes who don't browse with 25 posts per page give me links, I'm not hunting for their stupid post I didn't really want to read anyway.

It should be possible since the 'originally posted by' links work properly, even when said assholes quote posts.

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Mersenne · 02:40 AM

Blah, could you provide an option to turn friendly URLs on/off in the user cp?

I ask this because with the old system, copying and pasting download urls from Megaupload, Rapidshare, etc was much, much easier. Before I could copy links directly from the page and save them on notepad for later use. However, now I have to quote or click the links to obtain the full url address.

Eg. compare:
'MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service' INSTEAD OF 'http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TOMBSTONED'

The friendly urls are more time consuming and look like unsightly advertising. An option to turn them off would be nice.

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**THE POWER OF WATER** · Local time: Aug 31, 2007, 05:53 AM

good idea i sup– wait what the hell are you talking about

I have no idea what functionality you're describing, but it's most certainly not the "'friendly' URLs," which affects only GFF's page links. This system means that http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/showthread.php?t=24637 gets translated to http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/general-game-music-discussion/24637-song-week-week-103-voting-week-104-nominating.html, which does a much better job of indicating what's being linked to.

Can you link to a post showing this thing you're talking about? Because I've never seen that happen before. In fact, it didn't even happen to this post: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5CMNQHFJ

There's nowhere I can't reach.

**RacinReaver** · Local time: Aug 31, 2007, 09:44 AM

I think he means the trackback thing on links to external URLs. Try mousing over some external links and see what it says at the bottom of your browser window.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Mersenne · 12:27 PM

CHz, I don't get the links coming up like that when I post. Have a look here to see what I mean. Perhaps try posting another Megaupload link and see what happens.

Testing urls:

MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service
RapidShare: 1-Click Webhosting
Beirut - Pompeii (2007).zip
Send big files the easy way. Files too large for email attachments? No problem!

should be:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GHQXQ0HH
http://rapidshare.com/files/19564616/23.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/?8yrazoytuhh
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jcbc4j

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**THE POWER OF WATER** · Local time: Aug 31, 2007, 11:20 AM

Just uploaded a text file I just made instead of stealing an upload and pasted the links directly here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TZ0OAF0Y
http://rapidshare.com/files/52509830/test.txt.html
http://www.mediafire.com/?a0vrb034ldd
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2b5do2

The blurb text appears in your post, so I figured that the upload pages provide a forum link like [url=http://www.megaupload.com/?d=whatever]MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service[/url], but I couldn't find anything of that form on MegaUpload or anywhere. It looks like you've found some heretofore undiscovered (possibly just activated with the recent board update) feature that takes unlabeled links and labels them with the title of the site they go to, but damn if I know how you all are triggering it.

How ya doing, buddy?

Basil · Local time: Sep 11, 2007, 05:40 PM

Another issue with friendly URLs is this - say I wanted to ban someone from my journal or I wanted to know the ID of a member here. It's not possible to ban usernames from your journal, only member IDs, and the only way I can find this out is by going into somebody's journal comments and hovering the mouse over the username or the avatar of that person.

I could just go into that person's journal and find their user ID in the URL link, but what if the person didn't have a journal?

I suppose I could go through the trouble of going through this process to find an ID, but I second having an option to turn friendly URLs on/off. It would at least make things just a little bit easier. =[

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

**RacinReaver** · Local time: Sep 11, 2007, 07:59 PM

Their User ID is also the Member Number shown in every post they make. It's right below the custom title and above their level. Yours is 499, for example.

FELIPE NO

***Sarag*** · Sep 11, 2007, 10:45 PM

yeah but seriously? f that. You should be able to put in names or something, jesus christ.

You can so tell that was a placeholder hack-job that bobo put in and never got around to fixing.

In fact, if he had to write his own forum, we'd all have to put in the thread number that we want to reply to. PEople will be able to post to mod hut threads for almost a full year before bobo got around to 'fixing' that hole.

actually that would be awesome.

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Basil · Local time: Sep 11, 2007, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Their User ID is also the Member Number shown in every post they make. It's right below the custom title and above their level. Yours is 499, for example.

Holy fuck, I can't believe I missed that one.

You made me look stupid, now I'll counter with a mad face.

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