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erik wrote:

I agree with this wrote:

This would be a useful feature.

Yep, I'm going to implement this when I add within-post search functionality (probably this week).

Thank you sir!

Hi @erik LRC web guy - I like the changes and thanks for working to make the site better and less troll controlled.

- question - As a web developer, I'm just curious what tech stack you're using.

- request - could you add a feature where moderators can pin important posts to the top of the entire thread? For example, you may have already answered my above question, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the first 6 pages of discussion.

Thanks!

+1 to this, even though I’ve been guilty of this infraction in the past

Is there anything you can do about fixing the use of apostrophes? Also maybe fixing run vs ran automatically.

semi_pro wrote:

Hi @erik LRC web guy - I like the changes and thanks for working to make the site better and less troll controlled.

- question - As a web developer, I'm just curious what tech stack you're using.

- request - could you add a feature where moderators can pin important posts to the top of the entire thread? For example, you may have already answered my above question, but I couldn't find it anywhere in the first 6 pages of discussion.

Thanks!

Good idea. I'll make a note.

Stack:

* Back-end: PHP 7.3, Laravel Framework, PHP-FPM & nginx

* Front-end: Tailwind & PostCSS for CSS, server-rendered HTML pages with VueJS for dynamic stuff, webpack for bundling, code-splitting, etc.

* Database: MySQL 5.7

* Cache/Session store: Redis 5

* Queue manager: Beanstalkd

* CDN/DNS: Cloudflare

* Devops: AWS EC2, Elastic Load Balancer, auto-scaling groups, private DNS, S3 for object storage, Code Deploy/Code Pipeline, Docker for wrangling legacy code & development

Lots of other open-source stuff within all that. There are a lot of moving parts keeping 19 years of content available and old code working, but the new stuff is all pretty well-contained in version control w/ systematic deploy processes, etc.

Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet but I just registered and it was weird - a modal popped up asking me to log into WordPress. The registration process seemed to work fine though.

imagebearer wrote:

Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet but I just registered and it was weird - a modal popped up asking me to log into WordPress. The registration process seemed to work fine though.

Thanks. I have reproduced this and fixed it.

Just pushed up some fixes to make the reply functionality better and more flexible.

Now, the post body by default is hidden. This gives more space for editing and lets the modal fit into browsers better. The "username" label in bold was removed for the same reason.

Moreover, you can now click "continue editing in a separate window" above the editing box and you'll be brought to a standalone page and all your content will be preserved. This, in addition to being able to right click reply and post in a separate window, should strike a balance for being able to quickly fire off a one-line reply without loading a new page, to editing longer posts in a larger window.

I also made the report modal load in a separate window for mobile/tablet users.

You also are no longer required to provide a name when reporting posts.

Keep the feedback coming.

Certain usernames should be un-register-able so that trolls like me can use them to make witty comments from time to time.

For example, the username "Judge Smails" should always be available so I can write "The world needs ditchdiggers, too" on threads complaining about employment.

See, it's little things like that which make this place fun.

Thanks!

The mods should be aware that since the site has been changed it is sometimes failing to enable the quoting of previous posts.

Why does $hit like this continue to persist?

DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. It's the same guy over and over.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9779250

erik wrote:

Stack:

* Back-end: PHP 7.3, Laravel Framework, PHP-FPM & nginx

* Front-end: Tailwind & PostCSS for CSS, server-rendered HTML pages with VueJS for dynamic stuff, webpack for bundling, code-splitting, etc.

* Database: MySQL 5.7

* Cache/Session store: Redis 5

* Queue manager: Beanstalkd

* CDN/DNS: Cloudflare

* Devops: AWS EC2, Elastic Load Balancer, auto-scaling groups, private DNS, S3 for object storage, Code Deploy/Code Pipeline, Docker for wrangling legacy code & development

Lots of other open-source stuff within all that. There are a lot of moving parts keeping 19 years of content available and old code working, but the new stuff is all pretty well-contained in version control w/ systematic deploy processes, etc.

Interesting - thanks for the details. When I see PHP I always think WordPress. Is that what you're building on?

erik wrote:

Blah Blah Blah

You need to fix the bug where you can quote the original poster that you are replying to and edit the quote.

semi_pro wrote:

Interesting - thanks for the details. When I see PHP I always think WordPress. Is that what you're building on?

The articles and homepage are done in WordPress. The forum and shoe site are separate. But there is a layer of integration between them. WordPress shines as a content management system.

Currently, we still use the public-facing features of Wordpress (i.e., themes). Down the road we'll use Wordpress only to manage content (what it's good at), and that content will be presented through a front-end that interacts with WP backend only to get content. We're not there yet but that's where we're heading (and most modern Wordpress developers, too).

Reporter. wrote:

Report post cycles through captchas indefinitely. Can't you make this important feature (report post) a bit less stupid?

Do you mean it just keeps asking you to identify more and more crosswalks (for example) and not approving you?

I've tested it on my end and am not having issues, but I have had that problem with Captcha in general. Might be a Google issue, but if it's on our end a more detailed description would help me.

I like the new fonts.

Also, it's great that my Samsung Android screen off actually times out like it should after 30 secs or whatever I have it set to. For the last few months or more the ads or something kept the screen active and it would never time out.

Armstronglivs wrote:

The mods should be aware that since the site has been changed it is sometimes failing to enable the quoting of previous posts.

Whatever annoys this turd ^^ , don't change it.

erik wrote:

Thanks. I have reproduced.

I doubt it and hope not!

j/k, making sure the most important feature of the site still works!

good job fixing the purple text.

Typo next to the login checkbox.

yghhgvb wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

The mods should be aware that since the site has been changed it is sometimes failing to enable the quoting of previous posts.

Whatever annoys this turd ^^ , don't change it.

Noise from the echo chamber.

Armstronglivs wrote:

yghhgvb wrote:

Whatever annoys this turd ^^ , don't change it.

Noise from the echo chamber.

Sound of a fart ^^