I never noticed that. Silly me. 

Spam posts will now be completely hidden from non-moderators when viewing a thread. Instead you will see a line at the bottom of the page that says "16 posts not shown on this page because they were spam"

This should solve the problem of seeing a wall of spam when 16 posts in a row get flagged by moderators. For example the general abuse thread right now had 16 spams.

It does not solve the problem of seeing "new 16" on the forum when they are all spam. 

That definitely caught me by surprise. Do you think we'll someday see them excluded from the new count? 

 

My favorite part of this change is seeing the total spam counts for the primary threads. 

backslashes get eaten up when I preview a post, but not when I actually post - e.g. if I type \b and preview it, I see b, but when I post for real, I see \b 

I am wondering why Func doesn't have nesting of replies and similar features.

I am not knocking your efforts metlslime at all and I'm used to it -- but just really curious as to why it's remained the same for so long.

And to be clear I DO appreciate someone taking the time to admin etc. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:If_it_ain't_broke,_don't_fix_it 

Understand, but occasionally I see confusion and miscommunication in the threads. Shit, I've gone off on people who weren't replying to me and seen others do the same. I wonder if there's a specific reason other than the bile that would spew forth from the usual suspects toward any changes here?

And again - just wondering and making friendly conversation. :) 

My wild stab-in-the-dark guess would be that he has more important things to do with his time than mess around fundamentally rewriting how func_messageboard works :} 

yeah its more so about website development (or whatever the cools kids call it) being a time sink.

I dont think youre wrong in asking this really. Its just something that none of us have the perfect mixture of experience + freetime to make any worthwhile changes. 

I'd take this over vBulletin or phpBB any day. Simple and it works, no dumb crap.

Replies wouldn't be an issue if people kept using post number or @ references in their titles, but i'll admit I even struggle to be consistent with that sometimes... making a way to do it automatically would be nice I guess. I don't think nested replies are needed though. 

I love how streamlined and fast it is so agreed. 

The board is how it is primarily because it was a clone of Qmap, which came before. I basically took Qmap's design, removed any feature I thought wasn't essential (e.g. columns) and cleaned up the visual layout. So it's basically a simplified/minimalistic version of Qmap.

As for why we don't have features like nested replies to posts, that is the same answer (qmap didn't), but to be honest I am always thinking about ways the board could evolve to be better and more usable and more approachable to newcomers (and veterans.) Those ideas are simmering very slowly and will take a long time to see the light of day, because I don't have a lot of time, and also because there's no urgency to make the changes because the site already works.

For example I finally changed it so spam posts are invisible to non-moderators, this was on my to-do list for about 4 years probably, and I only finally did it because there was a mass of spam that all appeared on the same day, and it happened to be a day when I was at home :) 

Thanks metlslime for all that you do and for the explanation. We wouldn't have this community without you so thanks! Looking forward to whatever goodies come along when you have time. 

lack of nesting kinda keeps the conversations more inclusive I think. 

I feel like threaded forums encourage people to post replies that just nitpick parent comments, since the software is helping keep the nitpicking neatly organized in a tree.. whereas linear encourages you to carry the discussion forward, because everyone following the thread is going to see your post. 

Nested replies can be really messy if implemented poorly. Most people tag the user or the post number if replying on a super busy thread.

Honestly the only feature that I would really like is an integrated search function.

That would be the shit.

Otherwise it's really func_tional. 

Would be edit and delete 

Editing and deleting is dangerous stuff. One of the best things about the site is that nothing ever disappears from it. People come and go but what they talked about and knowledge they shared still exists today, and that's really neat. 

Deleting: nope
Editing: yes, but only for the first hour after posting, so you can fix broken links etc. 

+1 

Deleting: nope
Editing: nope

HTH. 

If this hypothetical edit function is to be used for legit purposes, (fixing typos, bad links) and not just for shitposting reasons, then the edit window should be small - 1 hour seems too generous.

Thing is, I don't really see the point of this when you can just use the already existing "post preview" feature. If posts are still full of errors after you've previewed it, you're just sloppy and deserve to have your stupidly written in stone for all eternity. 

Moderators can edit posts. Why not just let them do it if it realy has to be done?