FA Code Update: Project Ferrox

[Pico]

also will there be a way to disable emoticons?

is that required? it would be possible to implement, if there are enough votes for this

well I just don't like the emoticon graphics (except :note: and :sleepy: ) and prefer to use this face -> (o: (but the other way around!), yet FA and these forums always convert : o to the smiley , which is annoying. i would like the ability to disable all smileys on my submissions or even my userpage so no one can see them there. or perhaps let us customize smileys for our pages ?

[timoran]

It was suggested somewhere by somebody, and there was an actual debate over this.. As far as i can remember, it was desided that the users hould have the possibility to edit their own posts and comments only within first 15 minutes of the actual post. I agree with that desigion.
Still not aware if it was accepted by other admins or not..

Nobody has yet explained why having a 15 minute or n-number-of-minutes limit on editability is good.

Sometimes you realize a mistake and need to edit the next day.

Why go through the extra development time to lock out past 15 minutes only to frustrate people? What is the benefit?

Just make it always editable.

[Dragoneer]

Nobody has yet explained why having a 15 minute or n-number-of-minutes limit on editability is good.

To limit trolling and people covering up their tracks.

[timoran]

Nobody has yet explained why having a 15 minute or n-number-of-minutes limit on editability is good.

To limit trolling and people covering up their tracks.

Leave an audit trail visible to admins. That will be easier to program, and make the edit feature less useless, than a 15 minute cap.

[VictoriaViper]

Hmph. Well, this all sounds nice enough. I just hope it'll actually work, and it'll actually be something we'll stick with for a while. It's hard to get too enthusiastic about this particular upgrade when we'll probably have another upgrade that's "100 times better than our old, crappy one!" in a few months or so. :P

But, I suppose that's life in the computer age.

[ArrowTibbs]

I vote for the option to disable smilies too, the ones on the actual site are too big for the text so they stretch sentences and make gaps.

[VictoriaViper]

Oh, hey, can I make a suggestion? If not, please ignore this. ^_^

But, anyway, I, personally, would love having a "Critique Encouraged/Optional/Discouraged" option on pictures. I know that some artists would really love to have their work nitpicked into little pieces, whereas others would rather never hear a bad word spoken about their creations. It'd be nice to know who wants what for people, like me, who just like to roam around and randomly comment on things.

Just an idea.

[Dragoneer]

Oh, hey, can I make a suggestion? If not, please ignore this. ^_^

But, anyway, I, personally, would love having a "Critique Encouraged/Optional/Discouraged" option on pictures. I know that some artists would really love to have their work nitpicked into little pieces, whereas others would rather never hear a bad word spoken about their creations. It'd be nice to know who wants what for people, like me, who just like to roam around and randomly comment on things.

Just an idea.

I dig this idea. I'd post it over to the suggestion bin, add a poll... see what other people think. I beleive this warrants its own thread. What say you?

[Emerson]

One option I'd like to see added (and forgive me if this has already been suggested) is to be able to split your gallery into sections. For example, I'd like to have a section just for gift art and commissions I receive, so its not mixed in with my own art.

I apologize if I just asked for a miracle. :3

[Dragoneer]

One option I'd like to see added (and forgive me if this has already been suggested) is to be able to split your gallery into sections. For example, I'd like to have a section just for gift art and commissions I receive, so its not mixed in with my own art.

I apologize if I just asked for a miracle. :3

I don't think it'd be too hard to do that.

[yak]

I vote for it..

[ArrowTibbs]

I'm all for it ^_^

[Arshes Nei]

I'd also like the ability to disable comments too.

[yak]

woah.. that was unexpected..

[wasd20x6]

I have only one request for the new site. If it would be possible to list how many mature or adult works that a person has done, that could be helpful. Otherwise, people who block such art wouldn't be able to tell who posts that kind of stuff or not.

[Arshes Nei]

woah.. that was unexpected..

What is unexpected?

[ArrowTibbs]

The Spanish Inquisition!

Sorry Arshes, that was just irresistable :P

[Emerson]

The Spanish Inquisition!

Sorry Arshes, that was just irresistable :P

That was good. I can't believe I didn't see that opportunity...

[yak]

woah.. that was unexpected..

What is unexpected?

i can't understand why would anyone want to disable that?
this would make FA some sort of image dumps, some galeries to showcase your work or somehing.... besides, if people would want to comment on a pic, rest assured - they will find a way. shouts, notes, PM's, etc.. so... why just not let them write that where it was supposed to be written?

could you please explain the thoughts behind this sugestion?

and also, thank you for suggesting things in the first place. i can't say this for others, but personally, i would love FA to be community-friendly and open. and this means that your wish is my command. if you can suggest something and properly explain your suggestion, and it is possible to implement, AND it will be voted for - it would most likely be implemented.
if not with the current codebase, then with the release of FA codenamed "Ferrox"

[Fenrir]

OMG the preview text is in Latin?!



Hmm, still no possibility to change one's user name?
Will it be available in another uppgrade?


It feels annoying having to create a new account and loose all the comments... :P

[VictoriaViper]

Oh, hey, can I make a suggestion? If not, please ignore this. ^_^

But, anyway, I, personally, would love having a "Critique Encouraged/Optional/Discouraged" option on pictures. I know that some artists would really love to have their work nitpicked into little pieces, whereas others would rather never hear a bad word spoken about their creations. It'd be nice to know who wants what for people, like me, who just like to roam around and randomly comment on things.

Just an idea.

I dig this idea. I'd post it over to the suggestion bin, add a poll... see what other people think. I beleive this warrants its own thread. What say you?

Oh. Well, of course. Who am I to say no to the Lead Administratimon? Heh. ^_^;

[Dragoneer]

Hmm, still no possibility to change one's user name?

I want to change my account name as well, so... we'll see what happens down the road with that.

[Firon]

I do hope you guys don't have magic_quotes_* or register_globals on in your php config.
(also, use lighttpd and eaccelerator, and get your code compliant with PHP5 :P)

[Ralesk]

Does that mean that when a user saves an image, it gets saved as 13549.jpg, or gets a filename with the artist name and image title without any numbers in it?

Well, I know as an artist I wouldn't want my work renamed, so...

Content-Disposition is your friend. Please do use it

I recommend having an unsigned int kind of submission ID (which is what we have now, but you could totally save the files under that name too, makes it excellent for avoiding file system troubles with funky characters) and in all cases the header should Content-Disposition the image to have a name as the original (which is to be saved in the database).

OMG the preview text is in Latin?!

A suggestion (mostly unrelated to Lorem Ipsum :P ): please either use UTF-8 all over the site (and not just parts of it as now), or don't ever escape /&#(x[0-9A-F]{1,4}|[0-9]{1,5});/i (which is how dA seems to do it FINALLY after years and years of bitching at them for escaping the gosh darned entities).

That's all I have for now.

[kawayama]

i was just wondering if there's any change to how stories/poems are uploaded? as it is now, the only way to upload a story, and have it immediately visible, is to upload a txt file. which, by definition, is pure text.

it would be nice to be able to use bold and italics in stories. [align=center]centering text could also be fun. [/align] not to mention inlining pictures. that could really enhance a text. (we could limit it to pictures stored in the FA database)

is there any way this could be implemented?

edit: i brought it up here, because i didn't see anything about it in the new screen shots.