It's been a long time coming... but I'm proud to present the new Club409. It looks pretty much the same, but there's some cool stuff going on under the hood. Here's a few things I've been adding:
Subforums
It's not very visible right now, but threads can be categorized into sub-forums. Everything is currently in "Main", but I'd like to start moving stuff into their respective areas.
* I'd like to convert "Notable News" and "Internet Cartoons" into their own subforms, and break them down into threads / even more sub-forums (each popular comic can get its own forum, like xkcd and such..). Any objections / suggestions?
Tags
Rather than forcing things to be in one hierarchical category (i.e. subforums), you can tag threads with keywords to make them show up in a list together, like this:
http://www.club409.com/tag/internets
See also: list of threads that "
shouldbeaforum"
Linking directly to posts
This is used quite a bit throughout the site, but the most visible use is when there's an update in a thread for a logged-in user. If you click on the thread title on the front page, it'll take you directly to the first unseen post in that thread (as
requested).
How-To:As of right now you can mouse-over the username of a post, and it'll tell you the post id.. then,
create your link like this:
<a href='/post/view/
{ID NUMBER}'>
{LINK TEXT}</a>
I hope to make this process easier, maybe double clicking a post will pop up some pre-made link text that you can copy.. idk. I also plan on doing some snazzy highlight effect of the post that gets linked to.
Mobile 409
Click the "Toggle Mobile" link in the menu to go into / out of mobile mode.
Themes
This section isn't all that exciting until there's a finished theme other than "Classic" and "Mobile," but anyway.. You can go to your preferences page to edit your theme choice. Eventually this will be populated with different color schemes / layouts.
Timezones
I've got 5 timezones defined in there now (dropdown on preferences page), but if anyone wants a different zone to be available just let me know. I've got a javascript timezone detector scheme written up, but I haven't put it in place yet.. We'll see.
Thread name in title tag
Instead of just saying "Club409" everywhere, it now shows what page you're lookin at in the title bar
Bugfixes, Migration, Known Issues
- Deleting the only post in a thread will now delete that thread
- Deleting a post brings you back to the right page of that thread
- All old internal links to other threads / pages have been converted to the new URL scheme.. if you find one that's broken, let me know.
- Deleting a post is a bit more ninja-like.. If you post to a thread that's on the front page, and then delete the post, the thread will go back to where it was in the list, and it'll look like nothing happened. The behavior exhibited for posting & deleting in an older thread is slightly different for performance reasons, but shouldn't really matter anyway.
