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WangleSpong5000
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Yeah I suppose this is the difference between studying a thing and having professional experience and industry knowledge of it.
That said I do think things such as React, Angular and Vue etc. to be the way of the future.
Funny thing is loads of people said similar things in the strange period of time when shiny new frameworks were being pumped out in ridiculous
quantities! Haha ... and there all gone now 
Hyperbole be thy name
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JJay
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I think it would be cool if we could upload avatars.
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Sulaiman
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I can't add much to this topic, but one feature of the SM forum that I think is very important is
the inability to edit forum posts after 24 hours.
This removes the temptation to correct mistakes without announcemen
- bad for science and threads containing 'lively discussions'.
I have seen this occur elsewhere.
As a user my only real complaint is spam,
all other aspects of this forum I can live with,
I'd continue as-is until unable to, unless maintenance is too difficult.
CAUTION : Hobby Chemist, not Professional or even Amateur
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Velzee
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I second this.
Check out the ScienceMadness Wiki: http://www.sciencemadness.org/smwiki/index.php/Main_Page
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
—Arthur Schopenhauer
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sodium_stearate
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My vote is please do not change it!
It works. It's solid. It's reliable. It's dependable.
Please let's use our heads here and realize when
to leave well enough alone!
Every darn time any software actually works well,
it's not long until someone changes it into some
piece of garbage that does not work nearly as well.
This works well. Please leave it alone!
[Edited on 30-4-2018 by sodium_stearate]
"Opportunity is missed by most people
because it is dressed in overalls and it
looks like work" T.A. Edison
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Melgar
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I guess I should probably add to this thread to mention that I've made progress with converting to phpBB. The theme I chose was semi-arbitrary, and
other themes can be imported easily enough. Here's an example of a page from it:
http://35.185.63.230/talk/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=66361
It's running the test database, which has been scrubbed of a lot of data, but the rest should all work. There are some glitches in how it parses
bbcode, but those could be fixed for the production run. I set up nginx instead of Apache as the web server, which allows for regex-based redirection
from old links. I also kept every single thread, post, attachment, and user id the same when doing the transfer, so any redirects can be done just by
repositioning the relevant numbers in a new URL. And that can be done with simple regular expressions. Since phpBB had the most similar underlying
database structure, that's the one I went with. It also has the ability to automatically update the security on MD5-hashed passwords to (I think)
bcrypt when users log in. That means we can keep password hashes intact during the transfer, without security ever being any more lax than it already
is.
There are lots of things that could be changed here, like the maximum size that inline images show up as, among other things. If there's anything
wrong about the way that anything looks, there is certain to be some way to change it.
If we want to integrate the boards better with the wiki, there is an extension here that greatly simplifies this:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Phpbb_Single_Sign-O...
I'd expect this to at least modestly increase participation in editing the wiki.
I guess I need to know what the next step is now. AFAIK, this is the furthest anyone has come with this.
[Edited on 9/22/18 by Melgar]
The first step in the process of learning something is admitting that you don't know it already.
I'm givin' the spam shields max power at full warp, but they just dinna have the power! We're gonna have to evacuate to new forum software!
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Dihydrogenmonoxide
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What happened? Any results? I would love to see a mobile optimized version of this forum. Who even runs the servers? Do you have contact to him?
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Tsjerk
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Apparently XMB is still under active development! Last October 22th there has been the release of XMB 1.9.12! Apparently it includes some
modifications on the registration page.
Edit: the current version SM is running on is 1.9.11, released back in 2012. The second to last patch is from 2013, the last from 2017, which included
only some minor bug fixes.
This forum runs on the new 1.9.12. The registration page includes a captcha.
The Google reCAPTCHA. Free to use up to a million times a month.
[Edited on 29-11-2020 by Tsjerk]
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symboom
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Here is a thread about
What features would you add on sciencemadness
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=155957
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Tsjerk
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What I mean is that if this update is backwards compatible, and I assume it is, nobody has to write code in order to get the captcha functionality.
As far as I understand the most important reason for the transition to new forum software was that the current software was not maintained anymore.
[Edited on 29-11-2020 by Tsjerk]
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Oxy
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If there is something that needs some work I can participate.
I have several years of commercial experience (mostly with back-end) and can help with maintenance, development and also migration to other software
if still considered.
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Tsjerk
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First Polverone has to turn up, I send him some private messages when I found out about this 1.9.12 update, and one more time some weeks ago. I don't
know how many messages he has in his inbox, but mine he hasn't read.
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