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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #105 on: January 19, 2007, 10:36:33 PM »
says your a protest organizer, that's the class title. SE has no class right now so his is blank (it's under your level).

Strange. It truly wasn't there when I posted earlier.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #106 on: January 19, 2007, 10:37:13 PM »
Sprig tells me that you have to post after choosing your class.

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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #107 on: January 19, 2007, 10:37:42 PM »
it's because after you select a class you have to post once (or I have to run my title correcting script) for one to be assigned you.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #108 on: January 19, 2007, 10:39:13 PM »
so we have to rechoose our class after the reinstall then? Why didn't anybody tell me this?

I did say it, it was in my first post here and I even had a News Box item about that for about a month.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #109 on: January 20, 2007, 10:14:06 PM »
Since this conversation has moved down to this thread I'll post there here.

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We've added an "Article Count" section to user's profiles.  If you have at least one article in our database then it will appear at the end of your profile where you, and others, can see how much you've written and you can figure out how many more articles you need to get an achievement award.

If you feel your count is wrong or you don't have one and think you should PM me and I'll look into it.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #110 on: January 21, 2007, 09:18:09 PM »
K, so, is there already an RSS feed available from TWG?  If so (i'm stupid) where can I find it?  If not, how hard would it be to set up?  I have a friend who told me the other day that he'd definitely subscribe to a TWG RSS feed but that he forgets to check sites that don't have them.

Just remembered why we don't have an RSS feed, we need to have the article link as a variable in the blurb.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #111 on: January 21, 2007, 10:42:39 PM »
Ok after playing around with this some (you'll find that if you submit or edit an article now there's a space for a blurb) there are a few things we have to do for RSS.

1) All our blurbs must be valid XHTML, no more being lazy, that means all <br> tags and <img> tags have to be self-closing and all tags must be lowercase and have and end tag.

2) No special characters.  No ' " $ % & * @ ect

Now for the fist one that means if you're using a WIZYWUG or other HTML editing program you need to find the option that makes what you do XHTML compliant, if there isn't one then you need to check everything by hand.  One tag that's no properly closed and our feed goes bye-bye.  RSS feeds are not forgiving of errors like browsers are.

For the second one I have a script that will encode the special characters to their Unicode equivalents (like &amp; for &, &prime; for ' ect.) so that's not something we have to worry about.

I have not made any of these changes live yet until after the Staff has a chance to discuss all the implications on how things will change if we do this.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #112 on: January 22, 2007, 02:00:38 PM »
so we have to rechoose our class after the reinstall then? Why didn't anybody tell me this?

I did say it, it was in my first post here and I even had a News Box item about that for about a month.
Oh, like I read the news posts.

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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #113 on: March 19, 2007, 06:09:12 AM »
Cleaned up the front page a bit.

Auto centered it and set a max width like the forum.

Added pages to it so you can peruse old blurbs, however this only works to early February since we automatically deleted blurbs before then--which is a shame.

Crap..and I accidental deleted all the google ads...that was smart.

Fixed
« Last Edit: March 19, 2007, 07:19:30 AM by Spriggan »
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #114 on: March 31, 2007, 10:40:39 PM »
sorry if im no help but i dont have any suggestions... u guysis are doing an awsome job! i just dont sorta get the whole level stuff...i wanna know it sounds awsome! :)

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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #115 on: March 31, 2007, 11:22:49 PM »
Please stop spamming.   If you don't have anything that's constructive to add to a post then don't post, you've got too many of these pointless replies which is against forum rules.  If you're doing this just to get levels (as I suspect you are from your above post) then I will remove this feature from you, the last thing I need to be doing is spending my weekend babysitting on this forum.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #116 on: March 31, 2007, 11:29:53 PM »
im sorry but i dont know what a level is as ive said in my last post and i was asking if someone would care to explain. im new on this and i just want someone to help me out but no one is talking to me.

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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #117 on: March 31, 2007, 11:33:33 PM »
Most of your questions are probably answered in the FAQ:
http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=11.0

I think it's only mildly out of date.
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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #118 on: March 31, 2007, 11:35:51 PM »
thnx i can FINALLY understand!  ;D haha gtg thnx so much!

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Re: TWG/Forum Improvements
« Reply #119 on: April 01, 2007, 12:19:17 AM »
Most of your questions are probably answered in the FAQ:
http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=11.0

I think it's only mildly out of date.

SE has been working to update it, think he's almost done then is going to repost it.
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