this is mainly for the news archives, but would be nice for thread archive too:
could we get a toggleable button on the archive pages that switches between sorting threads by most recent post and original post date?

sock has been bumping a bunch of old release threads (and this isn't a complaint against that, by all means, keep commenting on the maps, you are playing as it's very informative and interesting). now i've lost track of the newest releases and i'm not sure but i think i had queued a couple of the newest ones to play but hadn't downloaded them yet.

would this be a hard feature to implement? 

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_all_news.php is sorted by creation date. 

so the real problem is that i'm just dumb then. :P thanks, lol. 

 

forgot to fix the spam last night. 

metl:

either im tripping crazy balls here, or I have some crazy spyware or you have placed a small add occasionally into your pages? 

I am sure he did not, so be more specific and we might be able to help you. 

well, sometimes, this happens:

http://www.mediafire.com/?2oakqmd2zzy

I think I might be infected with something. 

...

That's much worse. 

run spybot or malware malybtes. If they dont work, run combofix as a last resort. 

there are no ads on func, must be you have some spyware or ISP proxy or something like that which inserts ads. 

testing new spam protection... 

czg 1105 

I can't seem to be able to login to func_ and change my profile. Got a new blog up at http://debrisland.wordpress.com/ and want to add it. 

if you forgot your password, does the "email me" feature work for you? 

I don't have that e-mail anymore. If you could hook me up at biffdebris@charter.net it would be righteous. 

Seriously, the IP display is scary. Couldn't you replace it with some simple hashes? That way one could still notice when someone fakes or comes back but it would not be such a privacy issue. 

as most forums do

(not that it bothers me, like) 

Well... I guess it's there as a deterrent. Since anonymous abusers are not moderators, they won't see the display if it's moderator-only, which means there is no deterrent. If it's a hash they may not understand what it is -- therefore it's not a deterrent.

However, we could perhaps hide the IP on posts from logged-in users. That would solve the issue for regular users.

What are you afraid of, though? Being targetted for a DoS attack or something? 

I am not sure, I just feel uneasy. The IP makes it impossible to be truly pseudonymous in theory. In Germany you must not store IP addresses for privacy reasons. 

One new feature i'd like is a verbatim markup, but otherwise ... func's format is a big plus for me. 

Also, IP addresses have no benefit over hashes at all. 

though the legal specifcs appear to be unsettled, i think it might be safer just to disable IPs for now and wait a while and see if any court decisions clarify what is and isn't allowed. While IP addresses theoretically deter abuse, we don't see a huge amount of that type of abuse (anonymous posters pretending to be multiple people.)