New Forum Features (BETA)

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Have some new features ready for testing on http://forumsbeta.stardock.com 

  1. New Stardock Admin category
  2. Upload Images with new posts and replies.
  3. Autosave 

 

 

Here are some important notes about the following features.

  1. Image uploads
    1. Max file size is 5MB
    2. Image Resizing: If you resize an image within the text editor, the physical image size will remain the original size and only be adjusted by html/css
      1. if you resize the image via the Image Editor tool, it will change the physical size of the file.
    3. Access: Currently only access levels 5 through 9 (Masters on up) will have access to Image Upload features.  This may change in the near future.
    4. Abandoned images.  Images are uploaded immediately, if you delete the image from your post before saving your post, it is still uploaded to the server but not assigned to any image.  Or never save your post.  This is an abandoned image.  Currently there is a rule that will only allow you to have 30 abandoned images,  this is to help prevent spammers from abusing image upload capabilities.  There will be a job to clean up abandoned images but that is still a work in progress.
  2. Autosave 
    1. Access: Currently access levels 2 and up have access to the AutoSave feature.
    2. Autosaves every 30 seconds.  We can change that to be faster if needed.
    3. Autosave is based on the URL and Browser.  So if you are posting in to Category X where the URL = http://forumsbeta.stardock.com/newpost/forum/{X}  and you navigate away and go to a new category Y, http://forumsbeta.stardock.com/newpost/forum/{Y}  you will not be able to restore your last draft from category X when on the URL for category Y.  You would need to return to the original url to restore your draft.  Or if you read the next page of a post that will change the URL. And if you change browsers or computers then the draft will not be available.

 

If testing goes well I hope to push these changes into production next Tuesday.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

 

test

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

And as Brad has quickly learned,  you can Paste images from your clipboard into the editor too!

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Talking with Brad, we will probably be changing the access level for allowing Image Uploads to be Access level 2 or higher.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Todo items:

Remove Image Uploads from Private Message or create the system to properly track images with PM's.

Same with Email system, except the email system is current broken.

Put CDN Path, Access Level configurations into database for easy re-configuration.

Create Service to cleanup abandoned images and to delete images upon post deletion (Hard delete).

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

/me does the Happy Dance ...;)

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Looks like it's a log-out and log-in thing......

.....and, dang it, I've never logged out......[gotta research how]....;)

Edit....or not.....that didn't work.

 

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Darn 'Jafo-exclusion code' is active again ....;p

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Bump.  Testing display access of posts in private forums.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

shows with yellow 'flag'

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Forums have been updated with the new code.  The new features are currently available to Access Level 2 and higher.

Feel free to boosts peoples access that you feel are deserving of it.

Also, because of caching issues people may need to do a CTRL-F5 to force the javascript files to get updated.

Reply #12 from Stardock.net Forums Top

testing

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

testing