Re: Very New VOGONS on Old Systems: using the 2020 era forums on retro PCs

Posted on 2020-01-01, 00:49

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The login does not work because the session cookie has the secure flag, so the browser ignores it since it comes over an insecure channel from the browser’s perspective. If you want to log in for some reason you will probably need to use an HTTP-aware proxy which can rewrite the Set-Cookie header to …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2019-12-31, 19:21

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Hi, here is another one of my big reply-to-everyone replies! [hr] I can't log in using my windows10 phone , I enter my credentials but the login page just refreshes and asks about them again If I enter a wrong password I get a message about it, entering the correct one does not produce any result …

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Re: Very New VOGONS on Old Systems: using the 2020 era forums on retro PCs

Posted on 2019-12-31, 07:37

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Unless the forum admins feel like being generous and providing some way to access and use VOGONS on old systems […] Install stunnel on a modern computer on your LAN Add this configuration to stunnel.conf: [http-to-https] client = yes accept = 0.0.0.0:80 connect = www.vogons.org:443 Point the DNS on …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-31, 07:03

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Hi, I’ve reviewed all the comments to make sure I did not miss anything, so here comes another massive update reply post. [hr] any chance making theme compatible with old/retro browsers? retrozilla loads site unstyled right now. The unstyled theme is the “compatible” theme. :-) Browsers need to …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-31, 04:00

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Gene Wirchenko wrote on 2019-12-31, 03:56: Lost: a very useful feature: last signon. I used this to determine how far to go back. Now, I will have to make a note of this somewhere. Last login date is in the profile menu at the top right of every page.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-31, 02:35

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I’ve made changes to the topic view design to address earlier feedback about problems with dithering and feeling like the content was not visible. I did try to keep some accent patterns just so it is not all flat. My hope is that by using patterns more sparingly and by fixing them to the viewport …

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2019-12-30, 23:47

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Minor bug Global Settings - User Control Panel - Hide my online status This only toggles the dot beside the user name in avatar space. When toggled to Hide, the user's name is still listed in the Who's Online box at the bottom of the page. I did try toggling on/off with proper logout between to see …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-30, 21:25

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keropi wrote on 2019-12-30, 19:47: Is it possible to add to themes the bog standard themes this forum software supports? No, sorry! See my reply here to ATauenis’s similar question for why.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-30, 18:49

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That sounds weird. Could you link the thread you are looking at? Sure, it's "Bought these (retro) hardware today" within General Old Hardware. Link here. But it's the same with any thread with more than a few pages. I have attached a screenshot of what I'm seeing to this post. Vanilla phpBB has a …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-30, 18:19

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I'm having trouble understanding the page selector within threads. Is there a trick or method to knowing which number will take me to the next page on from what I'm reading? e.g. I clicked on a large thread, and the choices are 1, 1588, and 1590. Does that mean I am on page 1587, the next page is …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-30, 05:30

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"Hidden Login" is not working. Why do you think this? "New Posts" only shows posts posted after you last logged in. That is how it has always worked, as far as I know. I don’t know if people have always just been confused about the difference between “New posts” and “Unread posts” (like, er, me, …

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2019-12-30, 05:17

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i think it is not possible to start watching topic without posting there may result in people posting/deleting just to start watching -> as a result everyone who watches the topic will get a notification and/or receive an email about everyone who started to watch ;) Next to the “reply” button is …

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Re: Style problems/bugs

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robertmo wrote on 2019-12-30, 03:13: Just wondering. Are there any possible negative consequences to overall forum performance of every user having a huge list of history of notifications? No 😀 robertmo wrote on 2019-12-30, 03:13: Does the history wipes out itself after some time? Yes—30 days, …

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2019-12-30, 04:22

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Yeah, that's a stretch goal if I ever heard one - there's years upon years of wrong character encoding in the post database resulting in mojibake, people writing with country-specific fonts when these days they'd use Unicode, and there's probably no good way to fix it - I know I've brought it up …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-30, 02:22

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Would you please dare to elaborate why this forum needs a custom mouse cursor which overrides my system settings Because they’re the O.G. Windows 95 cursors and it’s fun to do fun things! and also answer the question in my post earlier ? Muchas Gracias. I’m working on the feedback related to the …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-29, 19:55

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...is there a way to bring back the page numbers next to the post title? So that you can quickly go to the last page of eleventy pages long threads. This. I miss this. It made it easier to instantly jump to a page when you know that the thread has progressed another page worth of posts and you know …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-29, 17:10

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I'm getting used to the new layout. I actually like the way the text is, easier for me to read without having to move closer to the monitor. After lurking on here a little and just reading this thread, I'm pretty comfortable with it. There is one minor thing though, and this likely affects a very …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-29, 01:43

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You wanna talk about memories... TEH GRAY! :D TEH GRAY, *AND* the use of the old 04B bitmap fonts in the art and 1px borders and a small fixed optimized size so the graphics don't break. It's a few .:'s, shoutboxes and scanline patterns away from peak 2002 web design. The only design residue of …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-28, 21:03

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Snover, this is very weird and worrisome... Before the upgrade you only had one post. So the number matches and a backup made to test development on also only has one post for you which is a lot older. Are you sure about having more posts ? (are you not confused with a different account you might …

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2019-12-28, 18:58

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Bug: you cannot move to posts without subject https://www.vogons.org/search.php?st=0&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&author=Stiletto&start=4220 Creeper ;) (Golly, some of my early posts are embarrassing...) What you're complaining about is not leaping out at me, which specifically is affected? I fixed it …

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