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#1

Organizational News and Updates / Re: TOR Blocked

Last post by Oldiesmann - Today at 09:20:25 PM

That's surprising! Didn't know SMF is blocked in some countries. A user group for VPN users sounds like a smart workaround. Thanks for sharing this!

The only way that could be done though is through manual registration - someone would have to email the team with their desired username/password/email address, then wait until an admin could register them and add them to that group.

#2

Site Comments, Issues and Concerns / Re: Dark theme for this site?

Last post by Sir Osis of Liver - Today at 08:44:52 PM

Hey, Ant, good to see you again.

#3

SMF 2.0.x Support / Re: Can't login

Last post by Sir Osis of Liver - Today at 08:43:16 PM

Ask your other admin to change the cookie name in Admin > Server Settings > Cookies and Sessions.  That will log everyone out, and they'll get a clean cookie when they log back in.

#4

SMF 2.1.x Support / Re: Problem updating Smf

Last post by Sir Osis of Liver - Today at 08:39:19 PM

You don't need the upgrade package if you're already in 2.1.  You can update by installing the patch in package manager.

#5

SMF 2.1.x Support / Re: What does it mean to unapp...

Last post by Burt - Today at 07:52:22 PM

I think this looks much better:

Removal of approval for some previously approved thing is "disapproving" an approved state 

Look around...

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/approved.html

https://www.applied-grammar.com/opposite-of-approved/

https://www.powerthesaurus.org/approved/antonyms

Sorry, but no.  As far as American English goes, disapproving a topic is wrong usage.

I'm an English teacher - i would mark your usage as incorrect on any paper that I graded.  😜

You mean an "American English" teacher...     

It has always been like that, even before you were born.. Nobody knows why but every country that does use the English language, other than the UK, eventually drift away from the conventional to suit their needs..

Personally, I prefer to stick with the UK version of the English language, possibly because to us (AUS) makes more sense..

We have our different version of English here as well, as you probably already know.. Have you ever driven a ute before? 

#6

Bug Reports / Re: Fatal Error: Call to unde...

Last post by shawnb61 - Today at 07:51:31 PM

I'm sure your knowledge in this area goes way beyond mine but I can't wrap my head around why the issue as described didn't take out every SMF forum on the planet.

I'm actually at the other end of that spectrum...  I'm unclear how it's taking out sites at all.  The issue is specific to Punycode usage, and even then to a specific subset of characters.  I could see that possibly affecting some posts with Punycode links, etc. 

But take down a site?  Maybe if folks are using Punycode in their boardurls?  I haven't applied the fix to any of my test environments and they're all fine.

#7

Bug Reports / Re: Fatal Error: Call to unde...

Last post by zappaDPJ - Today at 07:13:09 PM

The unicode tables are now updated straight from the source.  Part of the weekly maintenance task.

But the unicode folks made a huge change in direction in a recent revision (#33) of unicode 6 - while the smf code is operating under the prior rules.   

I'm sure your knowledge in this area goes way beyond mine but I can't wrap my head around why the issue as described didn't take out every SMF forum on the planet.

#8

SMF 2.1.x Support / Problem updating Smf

Last post by Cryptics_cry - Today at 06:43:26 PM

I have version 2.1 and it works fine. I downloaded the major update to 2.1.6. Yesterday I tried to update including the database backup, and it sat at 4% all day. Today I tried without a backup, and it's been stuck for a while. What should I do?

#9

Site Comments, Issues and Concerns / Re: Dark theme for this site?

Last post by Antechinus - Today at 06:19:09 PM

The problem is things here have been customized some to add in the site menu and site-wide search bar at the top. If we add another theme, we either have to modify it accordingly or you lose the custom header stuff.

The best way is to either use Dark Reader (available for Firefox, Chrome or Microsoft Edge), or the Vivaldi web browser which has the feature built in. It's not a perfect solution but it should work well enough.

The CSS I wrote already deals with this stie's custom content.

#10

Site Comments, Issues and Concerns / Re: Dark theme for this site?

Last post by Antechinus - Today at 06:18:34 PM

since I already have an "Ant's Curve Variants" page there (with associated support thread) the sensible option is to add these Stylus override files as extra downloads on the Themes Site. Easy to keep track of, and easy to update.

And while I'm at it, I might as well make these two into actual installable themes. Most of the work is already done anyway.

Any chance of making them installable themes? Would be much appreciated.

They are just CSS files running in Stylus. If you wanted them as actual SMF themes you could do it simply by appending the CSS to the SMF default theme, with the most sensible option probably being to just add another call for the custom CSS file after the others.

This would not be elegant, because the current CSS relies on a lot of fairly brutal overrides of the default CSS, but it would work, and it's something anyone can easily do if they really want to.

I m not currently using SMF on any sites other than this one, so I have little incentive to put in a lot of work.