Quote from: NotATether on July 16, 2024, 08:26:02 AM

Don't worry, I'm on it.

Nice. But, pretty much completely irrelevant to the topic at hand. Tongue

(You get a pass for being the member that sent me my first ever merits... 10 IIRC. Thanks!) Cheesy

Quote from: EarnOnVictor on July 17, 2024, 07:24:52 AM

Can you further help in the area of autosave of typed posts?

I'll likely look into this at some point. I know TryNinja put together a script for this, but, something built-in would be nice, I agree.

Quote from: ChiBitCTy on July 19, 2024, 05:13:38 AM

Would a btalk app be a realistic possibility.

(I'm just kidding, I know you said you're only asking from the perspective of technical curiosity.) Wink

That's a really tough question to answer. From my point of view, the short answer is yes...

The long answer involves all sorts of shit that you and everyone else would probably find incredibly boring. But, basically, I can see a path to eventually getting Bitcointalk to a place where the database remains as-is, but it's "wrapped" in a way that makes it possible for it to service multiple frontends. In that universe, there'd still be the tried-and-true "legacy" frontend for the diehards that want to keep using SMF, but there'd also be one or more "modern" frontends that would be more feature-rich and would be much easier to develop on (right now, adding features to the forum involves way more work/thinking than it really should: SMF is a security-incident minefield; a saner architecture/codebase would allow for development to happen at a much quicker pace). Another way to state my perspective is that I think SMF's database schema and invariants could be maintained (at least, to the extent that the "legacy" frontend wouldn't break), and that, with clever enough engineering, non-SMF frontends could be erected on top of the existing database, allowing a modernization effort to progress without ever actually having to "migrate" anything or anyone.

Quote from: ChiBitCTy on July 19, 2024, 05:13:38 AM

Built in photo upload option. This would be freakn sweet. Not having to use imgur and those of that ilk would be lovely.

Yup, that would be nice! But, like Loyce mentioned, I can't imagine theymos wanting to deal with the hassle of hosting the images directly. I've been thinking for a while now about some kind of distributed image hosting, run on a volunteer-basis by interested forum members. I've also been thinking about a new BBCode tag to specifically reference content-addressable images that are being hosted in this way. If that project ever gets off the ground, then I can see a way to make uploading images feel like a completely built-in feature (but without getting theymos tangled in administrative/legal issues).

Quote from: Mate2237 on July 20, 2024, 02:08:46 PM

(...) say "Last Active: (Recently)" and i was not well pleased.

Ha! That made me smile. (The thing you're complaining about is due to this. I'll probably not get around to fixing it anytime soon.) Grin

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on July 20, 2024, 02:43:49 PM

For example, I may not be looking for any particular conversation I've had with user X, but I want to get all the messages we exchanged.

I'm currently working on something that'll help with that. If what I have in mind doesn't end up solving your problem, then I'll re-visit your specific suggestion.

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on July 20, 2024, 02:43:49 PM

Another feedback: When searching for PM, I want to be able to search to my Outbox only, instead of my Inbox.

Yup, it's on my list (it originally came to me from Cyrus).

Quote from: vapourminer on July 20, 2024, 09:37:27 PM

you know that button - the clickable new button shows at the end of the thread title that takes you the the latest posts in a thread... can it be moved to the front?

Nice idea! I run into that exact same thing. Wink

(I think this is one of those ideas that should be behind a profile-setting, though.)

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 07:37:57 PM

Those buttons lead to the last post, while "new" leads to the first unread post in a topic.

The first few weeks (maybe even months) that I used the forum, I didn't realize that the little blue "new" thing was a button... I just used the "Last post" icon at the end. I probably missed a lot of posts before I figured out the difference between the latest post and the newest post. Embarrassed