Changelog of new features/modifications

[Foggy]

• Added "edit" BBCode - creates a box to call attention to edits

• Added "Imgwidth=" BBCode - adjust the size of your graphics

• Added "highlight" BBCode - highlight your text in yellow

• Changed number of levels of "nested" quotes to "unlimited"

Edit: Any of these may be changed later if Justin objects.

[Foggy]

• Added two custom profile fields to fend off spammers/spambots, following the instructions at:

http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/custom- ... mmer-tool/

[Foggy]

• Added "linkbtn" BBCode - creates a button with a link that opens a new window (or tab)

Usage:

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[linkbtn]TEXT,URL[/linkbtn]

[Foggy]

• Added links at the bottom right of every page: "View new posts" and "View active topics"

• Added 15 new smilies:

[Foggy]

• Removed automatic "Re: " from replies

• Removed annoying "Last edited by so-and-so" line if you edit a post.

[Foggy]

• Updated forum software from phpBB v. 3.0.4 to 3.0.5

[Foggy]

• Added a paragraph to the Registration Agreement so as I don't have to keep 'splaining to new members why their posts don't show up right off the bat:

NOTE: As an anti-spam feature, your first three posts will be submitted for moderation, and will not be visible to the other members until approved. Non-spammers will be approved at our earliest opportunity (and spammers will be permanently banned). After three posts have been approved, you may post freely. We apologize for the inconvenience, but this protects our forum.

[Foggy]

• Rebuilt the board's search index. Search now searches all posts back to Day 1 (Jan. 23, 2009).

Anomaly:
Board Index showed.34,839 posts before building search index. ACP reported searching more than 36,500 posts. I don't know where the other 1,600+ posts are.

[Foggy]

• Added three more smilies

DOH!
Talk to the hand
Whistling

[Foggy]

• Moved all custom BBCodes into a drop-down box in order to unclutter the posting page.

• Added new BBCode - Vimeo


Usage:
http://www.vimeo.com/{IDENTIFIER}

Select and apply BBCode.

Note:
Had a little trouble with my first one because the "www" is missing from the Vimeo website. The one I wanted ("Beached," see it in the YouTubes thread) had the link:


http://vimeo.com/1785993

...which didn't work. Plugged in the "www" so it was:


http://www.vimeo.com/1785993

... and that fixed it.

[Foggy]

• Added new BBCodes for subscript and superscript.

• Added new BBCode for right-aligned text.

• Added three new smilies:

- Shhh.

- daydreaming

- bangin' your head on a brick wall

[Foggy]

• Added new BBCode: "wrapimg" - makes your text "wrap" around an image.

Usage:

Self-explanatory: select a link to an image and apply the BBCode.

Example:


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[wrapimg]http://www.politijab.com/phpBB3/styles/prosilver_se/imageset/site_logo.gif[/wrapimg] (followed by the text of your choice)


It sometimes seems as though the “anti-birther” community is just as obsessed as the people it keeps an eye on. On Politijab.com, there’s an entire forum devoted to Taitz, complete with topics such as “Orly’s Facebook Page” and “How Long Until Orly’s Breakdown?” At YesToDemocracy.com, bloggers provide regular updates on the latest birther activities, with some choice digs at the “nitrous-huffing,” “cavity creep” that is Orly Taitz.

“It’s just fascinating,” says Bob Haggard, a frequent poster on Politijab’s Orly Taitz forum. “She runs around the country doing things that amount to absolutely nothing. She tells her followers that she ‘files’ all sorts of documents, but she never files anything. She drops stuff off.”

Patrick McKinnion of Yes to Democracy puts it a different way: “There’s a certain amount of fascination with unbridled insanity, and that’s what you’re seeing with the birthers: a level of hatred that borders, if not absolutely pole-vaults, into insanity.”

[Foggy]

• added "mm" BBCode for embedding videos from Media Matters

When you watch a Media Matters video, there's a little tab at the bottom right that says "embed". If you click on it, you get a popup with some code.

Example:

<object width="320" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf"></param><param name="flashvars" value="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/07/22/msnbc-20090722-pigmentation.flv"></param><embed src="http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/flash/mediaplayer316.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="config=http://mediamatters.org/embed/cfg?flv=http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/07/22/msnbc-20090722-pigmentation.flv" width="320" height="260"></embed></object>

The key URL is in bold, blue font. Strip the rest of that HTML crap away, leaving ONLY the link that ends in ".flv" and wrap it with "mm" BBCode tags:

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[mm]http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/video/2009/07/22/msnbc-20090722-pigmentation.flv[/mm]

[Foggy]

• Changed number of Private Messages in a folder to "unlimited" (at request of a member).

• Changed number of user-created folders to 10

[Foggy]

• Replaced "linkbtn" BBCode with just plain ol' "link" BBCode.

... since it doesn't make a button any more ... still works exactly the same, though.

[Foggy]

• Four more smilies

"praying"

"thinking"

"broken heart"

and "popcorn" [/list]

[Justin]

Enjoy the smilies... but do not abuse the smilies... or you will lose the smilies...

(There are numbers lower than five.....)

[Foggy]

• Removed the link to list and ranking of top phpBB3 forums.

• At the request of a member, added a timestamp to every page of the forum (bottom of the page, just above the phpBB credits). The timestamp reflects the time on YOUR computer that you accessed the page.

[Justin]

For the time being, I have removed images from being used in signatures at the end of posts. Thousands of posts ending in the same three or four pictures is not a wise use of the site's resources. My apologies to those who utilized them to this point. Avatars will have to suffice for now. Thank you.