<![CDATA[Eagle Time - Eagle Time Forums]]> https://eagle-time.org/ Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:28:40 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Moderation complaints]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5400 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 04:11:22 +0000 Dragon Fogel]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5400 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfXk...sp=sharing

I regret taking so long to write this. However, the lack of a formal process for making complaints without contacting the moderators has been a significant factor in the delay.

I do not intend to come back here, but I will be happy to talk with anyone who wishes to reconnect. I would also be willing to talk with moderators about ways some of these problems can be addressed, on the condition that they do not make any attempt to defend the past decisions to me.

I will be available on Discord and Steam and I have e-mail notifications set for PMs here.

For anyone interested in my projects, I have a personal site at https://flyingisland.ca/ where I have an archive for Swamped and have started (but not yet organized an archive for) a new adventure. I intend to post new projects there over time.

Thank you to everyone who has provided support for me over this, whether directly or indirectly.]]> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JfXk...sp=sharing

I regret taking so long to write this. However, the lack of a formal process for making complaints without contacting the moderators has been a significant factor in the delay.

I do not intend to come back here, but I will be happy to talk with anyone who wishes to reconnect. I would also be willing to talk with moderators about ways some of these problems can be addressed, on the condition that they do not make any attempt to defend the past decisions to me.

I will be available on Discord and Steam and I have e-mail notifications set for PMs here.

For anyone interested in my projects, I have a personal site at https://flyingisland.ca/ where I have an archive for Swamped and have started (but not yet organized an archive for) a new adventure. I intend to post new projects there over time.

Thank you to everyone who has provided support for me over this, whether directly or indirectly.]]> <![CDATA[Forum Registrations are closed.]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5380 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 05:01:21 +0000 Schazer]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5380
due to a thoroughly impractical deluge of spammer registrations over the last year or more, registration for the forums is now Closed.

If you are a legitimate prospective forum user, please check in at our Discord and make yourself known, so we can arrange something so you're able to sign up.]]>
due to a thoroughly impractical deluge of spammer registrations over the last year or more, registration for the forums is now Closed.

If you are a legitimate prospective forum user, please check in at our Discord and make yourself known, so we can arrange something so you're able to sign up.]]> <![CDATA[10 Update Challenge Contest!]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5069 Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:06:53 +0000 Eversor]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5069
The premise is: Make a quest that ends after the 10th update.

We will have folks vote on the best ones at the end of the month and top two will get some prizes!

The community is small right now, so if you like making adventures and wanna take the challenge, come join in this February!

https://wizdingo.proboards.com/thread/65/contest-time]]>
The premise is: Make a quest that ends after the 10th update.

We will have folks vote on the best ones at the end of the month and top two will get some prizes!

The community is small right now, so if you like making adventures and wanna take the challenge, come join in this February!

https://wizdingo.proboards.com/thread/65/contest-time]]> <![CDATA[I need help.]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5045 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 17:53:53 +0000 Dragon Fogel]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=5045
Since you may not be interested in that thread before this one, I will make a very quick summary.

I have strong disagreements with the mod team, and their past behavior has made me feel uncomfortable being in a space where they have authority. Last year, I made an effort to discuss these disagreements with Mirdini. It did not work out and I felt even worse.

So, I have sadly concluded my only option is to leave. But there is unfinished business which has caused me to drag my feet on actually making my exit, and I have been struggling for far too long to attempt to deal with it. I have concluded it is more than I can handle on my own, so this is a request for help.

The first and most important thing is that I want to reconnect with my friends.
Due to emotional distress, I retreated from every part of this community, but in the end, my problems are with moderation, not with the community as a whole. There are people I've missed, and I've withdrawn from them. Nothing makes me feel worse about this period of absence and silence than how little I did to let people know I wasn't okay.
So, this is an open offer. If you consider me a friend, feel free to contact me somehow and we'll work something out about staying in touch. I plan to set up a Discord server just for convenience, but I'm okay with people not joining that and just talking to me through DMs if they'd prefer.
I wish I had the emotional strength to make the first move in contacting individual people, but unfortunately I don't.

The second thing is that I want to write up my complaints and post them here, so everyone can know why I left.
Unfortunately, going over the key events causes me a lot of anxiety. As a result, so far I've only managed to write anything at all about it by being much vaguer than I would like to be.
I feel it has taken me far too long to do this, and I cannot get over the hurdles on my own. I am looking for any sort of help that people can provide here, even if it's just lending a sympathetic ear and occasionally prodding me so I don't stall on it for even longer than I already have.

Third, whatever else I do, I intend to continue Swamped. I have been posting it on this forum purely out of inertia.
I want to set up my own webspace so I can continue it there, but transferring it over is a lot of work and I would appreciate  help with getting it done. Not to mention there are people here who have better design sense than I do and might be able to make the site look nice.
I may transfer other works over, but this is the main priority.

Thank you to anyone who responds.]]>
Since you may not be interested in that thread before this one, I will make a very quick summary.

I have strong disagreements with the mod team, and their past behavior has made me feel uncomfortable being in a space where they have authority. Last year, I made an effort to discuss these disagreements with Mirdini. It did not work out and I felt even worse.

So, I have sadly concluded my only option is to leave. But there is unfinished business which has caused me to drag my feet on actually making my exit, and I have been struggling for far too long to attempt to deal with it. I have concluded it is more than I can handle on my own, so this is a request for help.

The first and most important thing is that I want to reconnect with my friends.
Due to emotional distress, I retreated from every part of this community, but in the end, my problems are with moderation, not with the community as a whole. There are people I've missed, and I've withdrawn from them. Nothing makes me feel worse about this period of absence and silence than how little I did to let people know I wasn't okay.
So, this is an open offer. If you consider me a friend, feel free to contact me somehow and we'll work something out about staying in touch. I plan to set up a Discord server just for convenience, but I'm okay with people not joining that and just talking to me through DMs if they'd prefer.
I wish I had the emotional strength to make the first move in contacting individual people, but unfortunately I don't.

The second thing is that I want to write up my complaints and post them here, so everyone can know why I left.
Unfortunately, going over the key events causes me a lot of anxiety. As a result, so far I've only managed to write anything at all about it by being much vaguer than I would like to be.
I feel it has taken me far too long to do this, and I cannot get over the hurdles on my own. I am looking for any sort of help that people can provide here, even if it's just lending a sympathetic ear and occasionally prodding me so I don't stall on it for even longer than I already have.

Third, whatever else I do, I intend to continue Swamped. I have been posting it on this forum purely out of inertia.
I want to set up my own webspace so I can continue it there, but transferring it over is a lot of work and I would appreciate  help with getting it done. Not to mention there are people here who have better design sense than I do and might be able to make the site look nice.
I may transfer other works over, but this is the main priority.

Thank you to anyone who responds.]]> <![CDATA[I am upset and have been struggling to talk about it.]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=4763 Sat, 04 Jul 2020 14:03:59 +0000 Dragon Fogel]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=4763
Unfortunately, I am not emotionally ready to make those complaints publicly yet. I need help getting there. For now, I will focus on the conversation I tried to have privately about these problems.

Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been very active outside of Swamped for some time now. This is because of extreme discomfort with how the moderators have handled certain matters in the past. As things stand, going into a space under their jurisdiction has been very difficult for me.

I apologize for my vagueness on what, specifically, I have complaints about. It is emotionally difficult for me to discuss it. (This is also the reason much of this post sounds very stilted. It has been a struggle to write it at all.) Because of this, it took me an uncomfortably long time to even attempt to contact the mods about the problem.

When I had finally worked up the strength, I sent a private message to Mirdini. He asked if I wanted to share my concerns with the rest of the mod team; I did not feel ready for that and just wanted to focus on doing what I could. I explained the concerns that I had specifically about bringing up my complaints - what I was worried might happen. He gave me what reassurance he could, and we started from there.

In general I found these conversations difficult - there were a number of matters where I felt Mirdini was not taking my complaints seriously, and it was painful to read his responses. It wasn’t uniformly unhelpful, but I did feel like there were significant portions of the discussion that were going nowhere.

I tried to change the direction by focusing on three points that I considered my most serious complaints. (I do have one regret about this message - I used the term “minutia” to describe the rest of the conversation, which implied it wasn’t important. Much of it was important to me, just not to the same degree.) I even specifically said that none of these points depended on another significant point of dispute - for the moment, I will call this matter “Issue X”, since I am not ready to discuss it directly but will be referring back to it later.

After I sent that message, I did not hear anything back for more than a month. The silence grew to become stressful in and of itself. In this state of mind, I happened to look at the early message where I outlined the concerns that had given me pause about contacting a moderator in the first place. I realized that the very things I was worried about had been happening.

So, between that and the slow response, I’d had enough. I sent Mirdini another PM asking to pass me along to another moderator, or failing that, to someone chosen by the mod team to talk to me. It was somewhere around another month before he responded.

That response was deeply disheartening.

Mirdini said he had already brought up my complaints on Issue X with the other moderators. Up to this point, the one thing he had asked me for permission to share with them was bringing up a policy suggestion and mentioning that it was something I was concerned about. So I was already thrown off that he had already had this conversation without saying anything whatsoever about it to me until this point. (To be clear: I remember him being apologetic about it in the message. However, I have not confirmed my memory of this because the thought of rereading those messages is difficult right now.)

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this happening. I haven’t really been able to process it, because it was overshadowed by the rest of the response.

What Mirdini said was that the moderators all agreed with the decision in question as it stood. He said that there would be no change on Issue X, and he said that he didn’t expect I would be able to “move on”, so that left me with the options of leaving or making a public complaint. He told me he expected the other moderators to agree if I contacted them, though he said I was welcome to try it.

This was deeply hurtful, and baffling. At first I wondered if I had somehow forgotten to say that I thought the three points I had singled out were still problems regardless of the status on Issue X. I sent a reply in frustration where I said it explicitly and told him I found the implication hurtful. I said not to bother sending another response unless it included some form of apology.

I was even more frustrated when I went over the message history and saw that I had, in fact, said what I remembered saying. I had three complaints that I had explicitly said were my top priorities and where my problems were still problems regardless of Issue X.

This was a month ago. I concluded that I did need to make a public complaint in order to satisfy myself that I had done what I could, but I struggled with doing so. I had been talking to one person privately for support, but that person has not been available for some time now and I lacked confidence in approaching anyone else about it.

I still intend to make a public complaint about the overall matter, but for now, I thought it best to make clear just how badly my efforts to address this privately failed.

At the same time, I feel the problem is larger than Mirdini handling this poorly. I think the real problem is that there is no real complaints process for moderation.

If someone objects to a moderator decision, their only options are to talk to the moderators in private - that is to say, the same moderators who made the decision - or to raise it publicly. Which, speaking from experience, can be very stressful and is hardly a guarantee of action. What is more, the moderators will likely take part in the discussion and are easily capable of influencing its direction, even if they don’t intend to. I found moderator comments in a previous discussion to be very discouraging and this played a significant role in my reluctance to say anything.

So regardless of what else happens, I would like to say that this community desperately needs some kind of oversight committee to allow people to make complaints about moderation and moderator behavior without involving the moderators themselves in the outcomes of those decisions. Without a better complaints process, what happened to me is certain to play out again.

I recognize this is not a simple policy to implement, but it is a necessary one. Around a year ago, the moderators indicated a desire to get more serious about moderation. What I’ve seen has convinced me that this cannot be done without external accountability.

As for myself, I honestly don’t know if I’ll be staying here, though I intend to stick around until I manage to get my full set of complaints put together. I guess we’ll see what happens at that point.

Don't worry about my general state of well-being, though. There are other places I'm active in, and they've been keeping me together while I was dealing with this. I have also started making preparations to leave if I conclude that's my only option.

Because this was very stressful to write, and I have a lot of anxiety about how it will be received, I am going to withdraw even more now. Swamped updates will still happen, but you won’t be seeing the daily notifications in the update channel. And I will not be looking at any other part of this forum, including this post. I hate to drop this and run, but it really feels like the only way I can get this done at all.

This is not to say I am unwilling to talk to individual people. Feel free to contact me, though I make no guarantees about how much I’m going to be willing to say about this particular topic.]]>
Unfortunately, I am not emotionally ready to make those complaints publicly yet. I need help getting there. For now, I will focus on the conversation I tried to have privately about these problems.

Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t been very active outside of Swamped for some time now. This is because of extreme discomfort with how the moderators have handled certain matters in the past. As things stand, going into a space under their jurisdiction has been very difficult for me.

I apologize for my vagueness on what, specifically, I have complaints about. It is emotionally difficult for me to discuss it. (This is also the reason much of this post sounds very stilted. It has been a struggle to write it at all.) Because of this, it took me an uncomfortably long time to even attempt to contact the mods about the problem.

When I had finally worked up the strength, I sent a private message to Mirdini. He asked if I wanted to share my concerns with the rest of the mod team; I did not feel ready for that and just wanted to focus on doing what I could. I explained the concerns that I had specifically about bringing up my complaints - what I was worried might happen. He gave me what reassurance he could, and we started from there.

In general I found these conversations difficult - there were a number of matters where I felt Mirdini was not taking my complaints seriously, and it was painful to read his responses. It wasn’t uniformly unhelpful, but I did feel like there were significant portions of the discussion that were going nowhere.

I tried to change the direction by focusing on three points that I considered my most serious complaints. (I do have one regret about this message - I used the term “minutia” to describe the rest of the conversation, which implied it wasn’t important. Much of it was important to me, just not to the same degree.) I even specifically said that none of these points depended on another significant point of dispute - for the moment, I will call this matter “Issue X”, since I am not ready to discuss it directly but will be referring back to it later.

After I sent that message, I did not hear anything back for more than a month. The silence grew to become stressful in and of itself. In this state of mind, I happened to look at the early message where I outlined the concerns that had given me pause about contacting a moderator in the first place. I realized that the very things I was worried about had been happening.

So, between that and the slow response, I’d had enough. I sent Mirdini another PM asking to pass me along to another moderator, or failing that, to someone chosen by the mod team to talk to me. It was somewhere around another month before he responded.

That response was deeply disheartening.

Mirdini said he had already brought up my complaints on Issue X with the other moderators. Up to this point, the one thing he had asked me for permission to share with them was bringing up a policy suggestion and mentioning that it was something I was concerned about. So I was already thrown off that he had already had this conversation without saying anything whatsoever about it to me until this point. (To be clear: I remember him being apologetic about it in the message. However, I have not confirmed my memory of this because the thought of rereading those messages is difficult right now.)

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this happening. I haven’t really been able to process it, because it was overshadowed by the rest of the response.

What Mirdini said was that the moderators all agreed with the decision in question as it stood. He said that there would be no change on Issue X, and he said that he didn’t expect I would be able to “move on”, so that left me with the options of leaving or making a public complaint. He told me he expected the other moderators to agree if I contacted them, though he said I was welcome to try it.

This was deeply hurtful, and baffling. At first I wondered if I had somehow forgotten to say that I thought the three points I had singled out were still problems regardless of the status on Issue X. I sent a reply in frustration where I said it explicitly and told him I found the implication hurtful. I said not to bother sending another response unless it included some form of apology.

I was even more frustrated when I went over the message history and saw that I had, in fact, said what I remembered saying. I had three complaints that I had explicitly said were my top priorities and where my problems were still problems regardless of Issue X.

This was a month ago. I concluded that I did need to make a public complaint in order to satisfy myself that I had done what I could, but I struggled with doing so. I had been talking to one person privately for support, but that person has not been available for some time now and I lacked confidence in approaching anyone else about it.

I still intend to make a public complaint about the overall matter, but for now, I thought it best to make clear just how badly my efforts to address this privately failed.

At the same time, I feel the problem is larger than Mirdini handling this poorly. I think the real problem is that there is no real complaints process for moderation.

If someone objects to a moderator decision, their only options are to talk to the moderators in private - that is to say, the same moderators who made the decision - or to raise it publicly. Which, speaking from experience, can be very stressful and is hardly a guarantee of action. What is more, the moderators will likely take part in the discussion and are easily capable of influencing its direction, even if they don’t intend to. I found moderator comments in a previous discussion to be very discouraging and this played a significant role in my reluctance to say anything.

So regardless of what else happens, I would like to say that this community desperately needs some kind of oversight committee to allow people to make complaints about moderation and moderator behavior without involving the moderators themselves in the outcomes of those decisions. Without a better complaints process, what happened to me is certain to play out again.

I recognize this is not a simple policy to implement, but it is a necessary one. Around a year ago, the moderators indicated a desire to get more serious about moderation. What I’ve seen has convinced me that this cannot be done without external accountability.

As for myself, I honestly don’t know if I’ll be staying here, though I intend to stick around until I manage to get my full set of complaints put together. I guess we’ll see what happens at that point.

Don't worry about my general state of well-being, though. There are other places I'm active in, and they've been keeping me together while I was dealing with this. I have also started making preparations to leave if I conclude that's my only option.

Because this was very stressful to write, and I have a lot of anxiety about how it will be received, I am going to withdraw even more now. Swamped updates will still happen, but you won’t be seeing the daily notifications in the update channel. And I will not be looking at any other part of this forum, including this post. I hate to drop this and run, but it really feels like the only way I can get this done at all.

This is not to say I am unwilling to talk to individual people. Feel free to contact me, though I make no guarantees about how much I’m going to be willing to say about this particular topic.]]> <![CDATA[Mod Action Log]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=4512 Fri, 20 Sep 2019 23:12:27 +0000 Mirdini]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=4512
What warrants being posted in this thread and whether any prior mod actions published on Discondor will be mirrored here is still something under discussion, but this thread is here for now as a placeholder.]]>
What warrants being posted in this thread and whether any prior mod actions published on Discondor will be mirrored here is still something under discussion, but this thread is here for now as a placeholder.]]> <![CDATA[June 2019 Site update]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=4471 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 23:23:12 +0000 Schazer]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=4471
Eagle Time's domain name and hosting renewal came up again this year, and Pinary decided it was good a time as any to rejigger things so I'm now the one owning/hosting all of this.

This means we're going to have a downtime at some point, for some duration, over the next six hours. During this time Eagle Time's forum software will be updated, the site will be backed up, and the whole shebang copied onto my hosting and the domain pointed in the right direction.

I will make sure to post in here before we enter downtime. Thanks for your patience!]]>
Eagle Time's domain name and hosting renewal came up again this year, and Pinary decided it was good a time as any to rejigger things so I'm now the one owning/hosting all of this.

This means we're going to have a downtime at some point, for some duration, over the next six hours. During this time Eagle Time's forum software will be updated, the site will be backed up, and the whole shebang copied onto my hosting and the domain pointed in the right direction.

I will make sure to post in here before we enter downtime. Thanks for your patience!]]> <![CDATA[New BBCode (Pardon Our Dust Beta Version)]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3876 Tue, 11 Sep 2018 01:59:59 +0000 Sunspider]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3876
NOTE 1: The rich-text editor doesn't currently recognize these tags, and gets confused parsing them (especially when not in Source Mode). If you plan to use them, I'd suggest editing your posts in an external notepad and copypasting them in to preview, since it has a bad habit of eating posts sometimes. At very least, edit in Source Mode by clicking on the page button on the editor (you can also set Source Mode to be default in your user settings). And keep backups as you work, because the editor might eat posts because of this. Also, keep an eye out for the editor auto-replacing tags with tags you don't want. Hoping to get tags fixed in the editor ASAP, but it's a big fix. Bear with it for now, please. It'll get better.

NOTE 2: Apologies for any broken or borked features. Bug will need to be ironed out, old tags may be messed up for a bit, and it's possible that some of these tags may change how they look/work in the next few weeks. I'll do my best not to break anything if they get redesigned extensively. Also, if you have any trouble with these tags, please leave a note here

Expanded Text Styling:

First of all, here are some returning tags, which have been enhanced with handy new features. Also, anything given in all caps is a parameter; for example COLOR is a hex color code or name, while ### represents a number up to 3 digits long. If you have any questions about how these are used, please ask!
  • Overlines: [noparse]Text can now have overlines drawn using [o]TEXT[/o].[/noparse]
  • Colored Text Lines: [noparse]Underline, Strike-through, and Overline tags can now have colors, using [u=COLOR], [s=COLOR], or [o=COLOR] respectively. NOTE: These seem to be kinda tempermental, and caused this post to be eaten a few times when editing, so keep backups when using them for now![/noparse]
  • Color Shorthand: [noparse][c=COLOR]TEXT[/c] is a compact alternative to writing color tags for text.[/noparse]
  • Outlining: [noparse][outline=COLOR]TEXT[/outline] will draw a 1-pixel outline around text of a given color.[/noparse]

Neutral outlines help [outline=#808080][c=yellow]Light Text[/c][/outline] show on light bgs, and [outline=#808080][c=purple]Dark Text[/c][/outline] show on dark bgs!

New Fonts:

We're test-driving a series of new fonts. These might get pared down a bit in time, and others are still to be added. They're applied with [noparse]TEXT[/noparse] as before. The full list of potential new fonts can be found here!
[fixed][3x1]

Acme
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Delius Swash Caps
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Flavors
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Nanum Pen Script
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Enhanced Background Tags:
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Backgrounds have several new features! They now expand to cover all of the content they're placed around, allowing you to put background colors behind images, spoilers, code blocks, and more! In addition, there are new image backgrounds, which allow you to put stretched or tiled images behind your content, to create graphical text elements and such.
  • Classic: [noparse]CONTENT or CONTENT work as before. Both BG and Background should be interchangeable with all new tags too.[/noparse]
  • Image Background: [noparse]Using CONTENT will apply the image at the URL as a stretched image in the background of the content.[/noparse]
  • Tiling Image: [noparse]If you want the image to tile in the background, CONTENT will tile the image background instead of stretching it. You can also use "style=tile-x" and "style=tile-y" to limit image tiling to the X or Y direction only. Other valid styles are "tile-top", "tile-bottom", "tile-left", and "tile-right". These tile parallel to that edge.[/noparse]
  • Resizing Tiles: [noparse]If you need to resize the tiles, CONTENT allows you to resize the dimensions manually, similar to images.[/noparse]
  • Resizing Border Margins: [noparse]You can expand the background to be larger than the content it wraps around, using [bg border=###]CONTENT[/bg]. This works for images or color backgrounds, and expands the edge of the background by that many pixels. On the below image, it's used to extend the black background past the edge of the quote.[/noparse]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby Wrote:The Dancing Baby animation spread quickly on popular web forums, individual web sites, international e-mail, demo videos, commercials, and eventually mainstream television. Awareness of the baby most significantly increased when featured on CBS, CNN, and Fox's Ally McBeal comic drama series. The animation was shown on several episodes of Ally McBeal as a recurring hallucination, suggesting a metaphor for the ticking of Ally's biological clock. On that show, it was curiously accompanied by Blue Swede's cover of the B. J. Thomas song "Hooked on a Feeling." Various commercial advertisements presented the Dancing Baby animation to international markets continuing the mainstream media attention. This particular manifestation of the video, bound to the song, is widely distributed and referred to as the "Ugachaka (or Oogachaka) Baby."


This case used "style=tile-bottom" to tile the fire only along the bottom of the text. Also, the [noparse][bg][/noparse] tag is 2 lines of text tall, so the fire can extend beyond the top of the text.


I lit this text on fire for you. I hope you like it.

Box Tags:
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A new tag for organizing and styling content. By default, it draws a box that shrinks around whatever's inside it, and fits in the same line as other content, making highly customizable containers similar to quote or code boxes.[noparse][box]CONTENT[/box][/noparse] is the simplest form of box tag.

[box]Behold!
I am a normal box![/box] And I'm some text that's in the same line as the box, but I figure I'll just wrap around to the next line or so when we're done running parallel? Like, I'm lined up with the bottom, not the top of the box, so... this is just where I is, I guess.

Box tags can also be given color and border size parameters, like [noparse][box=grey border=2]CONTENT[/box][/noparse]. NOTE: If you want to make a box invisible, just use the color "transparent"; this is a color value that works on other tags too, if you didn't know!

[box=#F69 border=4]I'm a pink box that's given a border size of 4 pixels! :O[/box]

Normally, boxes shrink to fit their content, but if given a size they will constrain their content to fit within that size instead. Much like images, boxes can be resized by [noparse][box width=### height=###]CONTENT[/box][/noparse] parameters. You can also use size=###x### to define both dimensions at once, or use x=### and y=###.

[box width=250 height=100]I am a box that's been told to be 250 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. When there's too much content like text or big images, I get scrollbars all up in my business, which lets users scan around. Works horizontally or vertically, though only goes horizontal if it's gotta. Images that are too wide, for example.[/box]

When giving a box a width=full or size=full parameter, the box is set to be full-width, and stretch to fill whatever content it's inside.

[box width=full]My text is much smaller than full width![/box]

Also note that tags like [noparse][url] or [bg][/noparse] affect all the content inside them, so you can make these apply to the entire box, and all it's contents. It might not seem like much on it's own, but when combined together, this tag can create some fun content wrappers, like this boy right here.

[box=#0CF][bg=#069][box=#fff]What is Lorem Ipsum?[/box] [box=#0CF]Why should I care?[/box] [box=#0CF]Original Text[/box] [box=#0CF]Quit[/box]
[box=transparent height=200]> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.[/box][/box][/bg]

And, for what might be my favorite feature, the box tag can also be given an image to turn into a border for it. This can create textboxes, faux UI elements, buttons, word bubbles, or other graphical text elements. [noparse][box=URL]CONTENT[/box][/noparse] will chop up the image URL you give it into 3x3 equal pieces, and use it to create the edges, corners, and background for a graphical box!

[Image: dNiP06K.png] <-- This is the raw image, which gets chopped up into 3x3 tiles...

[box=https://i.imgur.com/dNiP06K.png border=32]...and this is the box that gets drawn using the edges, corners, and background tiles made from it. And if you feel really sassy, you can make it a gif, and it'll be animated.[/box]

NOTE: You can still give it a width=###, height=###, and/or border=### like above too, which looks like [noparse][box=URL width=### height=### border=###]CONTENT[/box][/noparse]. Since the border parameter resizes the border thickness of the image, if it's important to match the scale of the raw image as closely as possible, the border=### should be equal to 1/3 of the image size, or the width of one of the 3x3 tiles.

Layout Tags:

Layouts are a powerful new tag for arranging content. Think of them like invisible tables, with rows and columns. They can be used to make grids, stick content that can't normally be side-by-side next to each other, or even make a boring old data table. NOTE: For now, layouts can be at most 5x5 cells. Bigger layouts coming soon.

Like lists, Layouts are built with multiple tags:
  • Layout Tags: [noparse]The [#x#]CONTENT[/#x#] tags are the outer tags that define a new layout, where # is the number of cells in the layout, horizontal by vertical. Currently handles layouts up to 5x5.[/noparse]
  • New Column: [noparse]The [|] tag divides cells horizontally, marking a new cell in the column.[/noparse]
  • New Row: [noparse]The [-] tag divides cells vertically, marking the start of a new row.[/noparse]
  • Fixed Width: [noparse]Put a pair of [fixed][/fixed] tags outside any layout to make it Fixed Width; all cells will be equal width instead of shrinking to fit content, and are as wide as the page. (NOTE: These will probably be changed, since layouts will hopefully eventually get a width/style parameter. Keep that in mind when using them!).[/noparse]

Example of a 3-by-3 layout:
Code:
[3x3]
Cell 1A [|] Cell 2A [|] Cell 3A
[-]
Cell 1B [|] Cell 2B [|] Cell 3B
[-]
Cell 1C [|] Cell 2C [|] Cell 3C
[/3x3]

Layouts can be used to do all sorts of things, like create textboxes that resize to fit their content...

[2x1][img width=96]https://i.imgur.com/MKwOx6i.png[/img] [|]
Hi there. It's me, famous game director Todd Howard. We here at Bethesda Game Studios have heard what you've been saying, and I'm very excited to announce that we are finally porting Skyrim to Eagle Time. Soon, you'll be able to share interactive text and graphics-based adventures featuring all your favorite vikings, lizards, and wizards in a living, breathing message board environment.
[/2x1]

...put normally full-width content like quotes and spoilers side-by-side in even-sized [noparse][fixed][/noparse] tables...

[fixed][2x1]
My Left Brain Wrote:Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs
[|]
My Right Brain Wrote:Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats
[/2x1][/fixed]

...and whatever else you crazy kids get up to these days. I'm not your boss.

Web Embed Tags:

PLEASE USE RESPONSIBLY!!! This is a test-drive of a new feature; allowing users to embed an external webpage inside a frame in their post. This is intended for use in creating interactive content, minigames, or animations to go with adventures using HTML, to fill the sort of role older content like Flash used to. For now, you'll need an external place to host HTML; if you don't have a server, places like free Github Pages work well too. If it's useful and people are good about it, we may be able to make hosting interactive content like this easier in the future. NOTE: It's equivalent to forcing someone to automatically open a new tab on their browser, so don't abuse it or overdo it!
  • Basic Embedded Webpage: [noparse][web=URL] or [web]URL[/web] will create a simple full-width frame to put the linked webpage into your post.[/noparse]
  • Resized Page: [noparse]Use [web size=###x###]URL[/web], or [web width=### height=###] if you need the content frame to be locked to a specific size. As with images, you can omit either width=### or height=###, and the other will be calculated automatically.[/noparse]

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NOTE 1: The rich-text editor doesn't currently recognize these tags, and gets confused parsing them (especially when not in Source Mode). If you plan to use them, I'd suggest editing your posts in an external notepad and copypasting them in to preview, since it has a bad habit of eating posts sometimes. At very least, edit in Source Mode by clicking on the page button on the editor (you can also set Source Mode to be default in your user settings). And keep backups as you work, because the editor might eat posts because of this. Also, keep an eye out for the editor auto-replacing tags with tags you don't want. Hoping to get tags fixed in the editor ASAP, but it's a big fix. Bear with it for now, please. It'll get better.

NOTE 2: Apologies for any broken or borked features. Bug will need to be ironed out, old tags may be messed up for a bit, and it's possible that some of these tags may change how they look/work in the next few weeks. I'll do my best not to break anything if they get redesigned extensively. Also, if you have any trouble with these tags, please leave a note here

Expanded Text Styling:

First of all, here are some returning tags, which have been enhanced with handy new features. Also, anything given in all caps is a parameter; for example COLOR is a hex color code or name, while ### represents a number up to 3 digits long. If you have any questions about how these are used, please ask!
  • Overlines: [noparse]Text can now have overlines drawn using [o]TEXT[/o].[/noparse]
  • Colored Text Lines: [noparse]Underline, Strike-through, and Overline tags can now have colors, using [u=COLOR], [s=COLOR], or [o=COLOR] respectively. NOTE: These seem to be kinda tempermental, and caused this post to be eaten a few times when editing, so keep backups when using them for now![/noparse]
  • Color Shorthand: [noparse][c=COLOR]TEXT[/c] is a compact alternative to writing color tags for text.[/noparse]
  • Outlining: [noparse][outline=COLOR]TEXT[/outline] will draw a 1-pixel outline around text of a given color.[/noparse]

Neutral outlines help [outline=#808080][c=yellow]Light Text[/c][/outline] show on light bgs, and [outline=#808080][c=purple]Dark Text[/c][/outline] show on dark bgs!

New Fonts:

We're test-driving a series of new fonts. These might get pared down a bit in time, and others are still to be added. They're applied with [noparse]TEXT[/noparse] as before. The full list of potential new fonts can be found here!
[fixed][3x1]

Acme
Audiowide
Caveat Brush
Creepster
Dancing Script
Delius Swash Caps
Electrolize
Flavors
Glass Antiqua
Grand Hotel
Indie Flower
Kelly Slab

[|]

Lato
Lobster Two
MedievalSharp
Mina
Monoton
Montserrat Alternates
Mystery Quest
Nanum Pen Script
Nova Square
Open Sans
Oregano
Pacifico

[|]

Poiret One
Princess Sofia
Redressed
Righteous
Roboto
Share
Special Elite
Sunshiney
Ubuntu Mono
Unica One
Unifont
VT323

[/3x1][/fixed]

Enhanced Background Tags:
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Backgrounds have several new features! They now expand to cover all of the content they're placed around, allowing you to put background colors behind images, spoilers, code blocks, and more! In addition, there are new image backgrounds, which allow you to put stretched or tiled images behind your content, to create graphical text elements and such.
  • Classic: [noparse]CONTENT or CONTENT work as before. Both BG and Background should be interchangeable with all new tags too.[/noparse]
  • Image Background: [noparse]Using CONTENT will apply the image at the URL as a stretched image in the background of the content.[/noparse]
  • Tiling Image: [noparse]If you want the image to tile in the background, CONTENT will tile the image background instead of stretching it. You can also use "style=tile-x" and "style=tile-y" to limit image tiling to the X or Y direction only. Other valid styles are "tile-top", "tile-bottom", "tile-left", and "tile-right". These tile parallel to that edge.[/noparse]
  • Resizing Tiles: [noparse]If you need to resize the tiles, CONTENT allows you to resize the dimensions manually, similar to images.[/noparse]
  • Resizing Border Margins: [noparse]You can expand the background to be larger than the content it wraps around, using [bg border=###]CONTENT[/bg]. This works for images or color backgrounds, and expands the edge of the background by that many pixels. On the below image, it's used to extend the black background past the edge of the quote.[/noparse]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_baby Wrote:The Dancing Baby animation spread quickly on popular web forums, individual web sites, international e-mail, demo videos, commercials, and eventually mainstream television. Awareness of the baby most significantly increased when featured on CBS, CNN, and Fox's Ally McBeal comic drama series. The animation was shown on several episodes of Ally McBeal as a recurring hallucination, suggesting a metaphor for the ticking of Ally's biological clock. On that show, it was curiously accompanied by Blue Swede's cover of the B. J. Thomas song "Hooked on a Feeling." Various commercial advertisements presented the Dancing Baby animation to international markets continuing the mainstream media attention. This particular manifestation of the video, bound to the song, is widely distributed and referred to as the "Ugachaka (or Oogachaka) Baby."


This case used "style=tile-bottom" to tile the fire only along the bottom of the text. Also, the [noparse][bg][/noparse] tag is 2 lines of text tall, so the fire can extend beyond the top of the text.


I lit this text on fire for you. I hope you like it.

Box Tags:
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A new tag for organizing and styling content. By default, it draws a box that shrinks around whatever's inside it, and fits in the same line as other content, making highly customizable containers similar to quote or code boxes.[noparse][box]CONTENT[/box][/noparse] is the simplest form of box tag.

[box]Behold!
I am a normal box![/box] And I'm some text that's in the same line as the box, but I figure I'll just wrap around to the next line or so when we're done running parallel? Like, I'm lined up with the bottom, not the top of the box, so... this is just where I is, I guess.

Box tags can also be given color and border size parameters, like [noparse][box=grey border=2]CONTENT[/box][/noparse]. NOTE: If you want to make a box invisible, just use the color "transparent"; this is a color value that works on other tags too, if you didn't know!

[box=#F69 border=4]I'm a pink box that's given a border size of 4 pixels! :O[/box]

Normally, boxes shrink to fit their content, but if given a size they will constrain their content to fit within that size instead. Much like images, boxes can be resized by [noparse][box width=### height=###]CONTENT[/box][/noparse] parameters. You can also use size=###x### to define both dimensions at once, or use x=### and y=###.

[box width=250 height=100]I am a box that's been told to be 250 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. When there's too much content like text or big images, I get scrollbars all up in my business, which lets users scan around. Works horizontally or vertically, though only goes horizontal if it's gotta. Images that are too wide, for example.[/box]

When giving a box a width=full or size=full parameter, the box is set to be full-width, and stretch to fill whatever content it's inside.

[box width=full]My text is much smaller than full width![/box]

Also note that tags like [noparse][url] or [bg][/noparse] affect all the content inside them, so you can make these apply to the entire box, and all it's contents. It might not seem like much on it's own, but when combined together, this tag can create some fun content wrappers, like this boy right here.

[box=#0CF][bg=#069][box=#fff]What is Lorem Ipsum?[/box] [box=#0CF]Why should I care?[/box] [box=#0CF]Original Text[/box] [box=#0CF]Quit[/box]
[box=transparent height=200]> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.[/box][/box][/bg]

And, for what might be my favorite feature, the box tag can also be given an image to turn into a border for it. This can create textboxes, faux UI elements, buttons, word bubbles, or other graphical text elements. [noparse][box=URL]CONTENT[/box][/noparse] will chop up the image URL you give it into 3x3 equal pieces, and use it to create the edges, corners, and background for a graphical box!

[Image: dNiP06K.png] <-- This is the raw image, which gets chopped up into 3x3 tiles...

[box=https://i.imgur.com/dNiP06K.png border=32]...and this is the box that gets drawn using the edges, corners, and background tiles made from it. And if you feel really sassy, you can make it a gif, and it'll be animated.[/box]

NOTE: You can still give it a width=###, height=###, and/or border=### like above too, which looks like [noparse][box=URL width=### height=### border=###]CONTENT[/box][/noparse]. Since the border parameter resizes the border thickness of the image, if it's important to match the scale of the raw image as closely as possible, the border=### should be equal to 1/3 of the image size, or the width of one of the 3x3 tiles.

Layout Tags:

Layouts are a powerful new tag for arranging content. Think of them like invisible tables, with rows and columns. They can be used to make grids, stick content that can't normally be side-by-side next to each other, or even make a boring old data table. NOTE: For now, layouts can be at most 5x5 cells. Bigger layouts coming soon.

Like lists, Layouts are built with multiple tags:
  • Layout Tags: [noparse]The [#x#]CONTENT[/#x#] tags are the outer tags that define a new layout, where # is the number of cells in the layout, horizontal by vertical. Currently handles layouts up to 5x5.[/noparse]
  • New Column: [noparse]The [|] tag divides cells horizontally, marking a new cell in the column.[/noparse]
  • New Row: [noparse]The [-] tag divides cells vertically, marking the start of a new row.[/noparse]
  • Fixed Width: [noparse]Put a pair of [fixed][/fixed] tags outside any layout to make it Fixed Width; all cells will be equal width instead of shrinking to fit content, and are as wide as the page. (NOTE: These will probably be changed, since layouts will hopefully eventually get a width/style parameter. Keep that in mind when using them!).[/noparse]

Example of a 3-by-3 layout:
Code:
[3x3]
Cell 1A [|] Cell 2A [|] Cell 3A
[-]
Cell 1B [|] Cell 2B [|] Cell 3B
[-]
Cell 1C [|] Cell 2C [|] Cell 3C
[/3x3]

Layouts can be used to do all sorts of things, like create textboxes that resize to fit their content...

[2x1][img width=96]https://i.imgur.com/MKwOx6i.png[/img] [|]
Hi there. It's me, famous game director Todd Howard. We here at Bethesda Game Studios have heard what you've been saying, and I'm very excited to announce that we are finally porting Skyrim to Eagle Time. Soon, you'll be able to share interactive text and graphics-based adventures featuring all your favorite vikings, lizards, and wizards in a living, breathing message board environment.
[/2x1]

...put normally full-width content like quotes and spoilers side-by-side in even-sized [noparse][fixed][/noparse] tables...

[fixed][2x1]
My Left Brain Wrote:Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs
[|]
My Right Brain Wrote:Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats
[/2x1][/fixed]

...and whatever else you crazy kids get up to these days. I'm not your boss.

Web Embed Tags:

PLEASE USE RESPONSIBLY!!! This is a test-drive of a new feature; allowing users to embed an external webpage inside a frame in their post. This is intended for use in creating interactive content, minigames, or animations to go with adventures using HTML, to fill the sort of role older content like Flash used to. For now, you'll need an external place to host HTML; if you don't have a server, places like free Github Pages work well too. If it's useful and people are good about it, we may be able to make hosting interactive content like this easier in the future. NOTE: It's equivalent to forcing someone to automatically open a new tab on their browser, so don't abuse it or overdo it!
  • Basic Embedded Webpage: [noparse][web=URL] or [web]URL[/web] will create a simple full-width frame to put the linked webpage into your post.[/noparse]
  • Resized Page: [noparse]Use [web size=###x###]URL[/web], or [web width=### height=###] if you need the content frame to be locked to a specific size. As with images, you can omit either width=### or height=###, and the other will be calculated automatically.[/noparse]

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]]> <![CDATA[ALERT ALERT IT'S GO TIME FOR DOWNTIME]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3868 Mon, 10 Sep 2018 02:28:55 +0000 Schazer]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3868 The much-anticipated work of Sunspider is almost ready to come online. This means we'll be taking the forum offline for a stint, which also allows for a final backup to make sure none of our precious Content is lost in the event of unforseen circumstances.

We expect to be offline in around half an hour from this post, so please prepare accordingly!

See you soon!]]> The much-anticipated work of Sunspider is almost ready to come online. This means we'll be taking the forum offline for a stint, which also allows for a final backup to make sure none of our precious Content is lost in the event of unforseen circumstances.

We expect to be offline in around half an hour from this post, so please prepare accordingly!

See you soon!]]> <![CDATA[i forgot how to do a thing]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3408 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:33:48 +0000 Thalia V1]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3408 <![CDATA[2018 Hosting Fund-raiser and Fun-draiser]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3402 Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:53:21 +0000 Pinary]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3402
[button removed - goal has been met!]

Additionally, for those who haven't heard, we've got Sunspider working on some fixes and updates for the site, including improved spambot filtering and various UI fixes, so if you want to keep track of that as it's going on and pitch in a cup of coffee or three, make sure to check out that thread over here!]]>
[button removed - goal has been met!]

Additionally, for those who haven't heard, we've got Sunspider working on some fixes and updates for the site, including improved spambot filtering and various UI fixes, so if you want to keep track of that as it's going on and pitch in a cup of coffee or three, make sure to check out that thread over here!]]> <![CDATA[Forum Overhaul Fix-'em-up Jamboree]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3324 Sun, 27 May 2018 11:42:06 +0000 Sunspider]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3324
If you've not been on Discord to hear me grumble and post screenshots, I've been quietly plugging away at a Forum Overhaul for a bit now. Main goals are to get old features working after the last big update, to set up some new features, fix old themes that the update broke, and hopefully resolve the recent spambot problem.

As part of the overhaul, I've been implementing some features folks have requested. If there are new formatting features you'd like to have access to when creating content, new or tweaked editor features you'd like, or so on, please let me know. Also, once these changes go live, I'm going to need help bugtesting in different browsers, diagnosing formatting trouble, and so on. Your input is much appreciated!

Lastly, I've been taking time off freelancing work lately to commit a solid block of time to this, and Schazer had me set up a Ko-Fi to help out. If you'd like to donate to support the work that's going into the overhaul, feel free to buy me some coffee! The thing's getting done either way, but any support would definitely help me out.

~ Donation Link ~


TASK PROGRESS:
I'll try to keep an up-to-date log of things that need fixing, and how that's coming along, up here in the OP.
  • Death to Spambots: (In Progress)
    • (5/27/2018) - Spam detection and reporting plugins are all set up, to make manual spam moderation easier. Eventually, once enough data's in, I'm hoping to reliably automate bot detection and banning. Currently trying to figure out if something's wrong with the CAPTCHA configuration which is letting bots register, or if this is human-assisted spam.
    • (8/29/2018) - The Spam Analyzer is all set up, and is checking the post content of first-time-posters for spammy behavior. This has solved the majority of spambot issues, and we are flagging or blocking 90% of spambots! Unfortunately it's not 100% reliable, so manual moderation is still needed; the plugin occasionally flagged some new users posts as spam, and can't catch spambots that post innocuous word salad threads and leave a URL in the thread title. I may be able to overhaul the plugin, but that needs some research time. Also researching new solutions, including creating a more powerful Anti-Spambot Bot that can take moderator action against definite spammers, and message any human users who get moderated wrongly, with directions for contacting a moderator to fix it.
  • Fix Layout and Buttons Broken by Update: (In Progress)
    • (5/27/2018) - Mostly done recreating the main Eagle Time stylesheet. Trying to keep things close to the original, with a few readability and usability tweaks. The links, buttons, and features are pretty much all working again, though they still need to be tested on browsers other than Chrome and Firefox.
    • Here's a screenshot of the redone main theme!
  • Redesign Themes Broken by Update: (Not Started)
    • (5/27/2018) - The Fortuna theme, as well as several other themes, were broken by the update and the subsequent fixes to the Layout. Once the main theme is done, I hope to recreate the rest of the themes to fit the new layout.
  • Fix the Post Editor: (Not Started)
    • (5/27/2018) - Currently figuring out how the SCEditor works, how to fix broken features, and how to eventually add new features. Hoping to add an optional rich text WYSIWYG editor, so folks who don't want to mess with bbcode can format their posts without fussing with tags too!
    • Some WIP icons, including some for new editor features!
  • Implement New Formatting Tags: (In Progress)
    • (5/27/2018) - Several new tags have been implemented in the testbed server; [alt], [box], [table], [trow], and [tcell]. More info on these below. Other tags are in early testing and implementation stages; colored text outlines, expanded audio and video embedding, float tags to let text flow around images, image-based backgrounds that text can be written over, text mirroring, image/text rotation, and a few others. Mostly pruning over the possibilities, to make sure they're intuitive, unique, useful, and don't break other things.


NEW FORMATTING TAGS:
These tags aren't currently available for post formatting, but they'll be bundled with the official release. If there are other formatting features you'd like to see, please let me know!

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If you've not been on Discord to hear me grumble and post screenshots, I've been quietly plugging away at a Forum Overhaul for a bit now. Main goals are to get old features working after the last big update, to set up some new features, fix old themes that the update broke, and hopefully resolve the recent spambot problem.

As part of the overhaul, I've been implementing some features folks have requested. If there are new formatting features you'd like to have access to when creating content, new or tweaked editor features you'd like, or so on, please let me know. Also, once these changes go live, I'm going to need help bugtesting in different browsers, diagnosing formatting trouble, and so on. Your input is much appreciated!

Lastly, I've been taking time off freelancing work lately to commit a solid block of time to this, and Schazer had me set up a Ko-Fi to help out. If you'd like to donate to support the work that's going into the overhaul, feel free to buy me some coffee! The thing's getting done either way, but any support would definitely help me out.

~ Donation Link ~


TASK PROGRESS:
I'll try to keep an up-to-date log of things that need fixing, and how that's coming along, up here in the OP.
  • Death to Spambots: (In Progress)
    • (5/27/2018) - Spam detection and reporting plugins are all set up, to make manual spam moderation easier. Eventually, once enough data's in, I'm hoping to reliably automate bot detection and banning. Currently trying to figure out if something's wrong with the CAPTCHA configuration which is letting bots register, or if this is human-assisted spam.
    • (8/29/2018) - The Spam Analyzer is all set up, and is checking the post content of first-time-posters for spammy behavior. This has solved the majority of spambot issues, and we are flagging or blocking 90% of spambots! Unfortunately it's not 100% reliable, so manual moderation is still needed; the plugin occasionally flagged some new users posts as spam, and can't catch spambots that post innocuous word salad threads and leave a URL in the thread title. I may be able to overhaul the plugin, but that needs some research time. Also researching new solutions, including creating a more powerful Anti-Spambot Bot that can take moderator action against definite spammers, and message any human users who get moderated wrongly, with directions for contacting a moderator to fix it.
  • Fix Layout and Buttons Broken by Update: (In Progress)
    • (5/27/2018) - Mostly done recreating the main Eagle Time stylesheet. Trying to keep things close to the original, with a few readability and usability tweaks. The links, buttons, and features are pretty much all working again, though they still need to be tested on browsers other than Chrome and Firefox.
    • Here's a screenshot of the redone main theme!
  • Redesign Themes Broken by Update: (Not Started)
    • (5/27/2018) - The Fortuna theme, as well as several other themes, were broken by the update and the subsequent fixes to the Layout. Once the main theme is done, I hope to recreate the rest of the themes to fit the new layout.
  • Fix the Post Editor: (Not Started)
    • (5/27/2018) - Currently figuring out how the SCEditor works, how to fix broken features, and how to eventually add new features. Hoping to add an optional rich text WYSIWYG editor, so folks who don't want to mess with bbcode can format their posts without fussing with tags too!
    • Some WIP icons, including some for new editor features!
  • Implement New Formatting Tags: (In Progress)
    • (5/27/2018) - Several new tags have been implemented in the testbed server; [alt], [box], [table], [trow], and [tcell]. More info on these below. Other tags are in early testing and implementation stages; colored text outlines, expanded audio and video embedding, float tags to let text flow around images, image-based backgrounds that text can be written over, text mirroring, image/text rotation, and a few others. Mostly pruning over the possibilities, to make sure they're intuitive, unique, useful, and don't break other things.


NEW FORMATTING TAGS:
These tags aren't currently available for post formatting, but they'll be bundled with the official release. If there are other formatting features you'd like to see, please let me know!

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]]> <![CDATA[Potentially kinda dumb question]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3139 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:20:58 +0000 PlatinumJesus]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=3139 <![CDATA[Spambots]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=2887 Wed, 07 Feb 2018 06:48:37 +0000 SeaWyrm]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=2887 (02-07-2018, 02:15 AM)Gatr Wrote: »I can't help but feel that the more we respond to these threads the more spambots will appear. This wave only really started after a couple of reckless shitposting in certain bot threads.
We should knock it off if this is true. Last thing we want is tribbles.]]> (02-07-2018, 02:15 AM)Gatr Wrote: »I can't help but feel that the more we respond to these threads the more spambots will appear. This wave only really started after a couple of reckless shitposting in certain bot threads.
We should knock it off if this is true. Last thing we want is tribbles.]]> <![CDATA[Questions about the history of this place]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=2607 Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:57:01 +0000 DrewLinky]]> https://eagle-time.org/showthread.php?tid=2607
If any of you would be willing to answer these questions, please let me know; I'd like to write down this information so that it's accessible for people who'd like to know what happened in the past. If you have information for me or know of other people I could consult about this, please contact me. I'm fine with any format, but I'm especially accessible on Discord: Drew Linky#6251.

Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.]]>
If any of you would be willing to answer these questions, please let me know; I'd like to write down this information so that it's accessible for people who'd like to know what happened in the past. If you have information for me or know of other people I could consult about this, please contact me. I'm fine with any format, but I'm especially accessible on Discord: Drew Linky#6251.

Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.]]>