Ant_222 wrote on 2020-01-10, 18:42:
It is safe to assume a line width of a least 72 characters, which is standard in plain-text files.
Small phones in portrait mode (e.g. iPhone SE) show a maximum of 33 characters in monospace at a standard size, so no, I am afraid it is not safe to assume a 72 character minimum these days 😀
Ant_222 wrote on 2020-01-10, 18:42:
Another option is not to right-aling, but write:
Yes, it would be something like this.
Ant_222 wrote on 2020-01-09, 13:37:
This continuous notification system has been used in several forums in which I participated 10-15 years ago, including englishforums.com. […] When I asked the englishforums.com admin why they had changed to the frugal notifications, he said it was to blow up online activity including the clicking on banners. Surely it cannot be the motivation here.
There is definitely no motivation to drive traffic so people click on the ads which don’t exist 😀
What I meant is that phpBB’s notification system isn’t designed to work the way you are asking for it to work, and I don’t have the resources right now to change it so that it will do what you are asking.
It tries (and, judging by the related bug reports, fails quite often) to send only one notification per new post/topic.
It does not expose post content to the email templates at all.
It can’t send HTML mail, and the markup model is BBCode instead of something smarter which works naturally in plain text like Markdown, so any post formatting (like “Quote by <user> on <date>”) would be lost. Also, while the parser/formatter is nominally object-oriented, in practice most of this stuff ends up interacting with global objects in unpredictable ways. Also also, even though the formatter is based on XSLT and so in theory should have a raw text output mode, I’ve tried and failed getting it to not require everything that enters and exits to be well-formed XML since it is actually a semi-bespoke XSL engine.
Just like the “why can’t you just expose extra themes” question, the “why can’t you just send emails with more content in them” is a totally rational question and the answer is that phpBB isn’t designed to enable things like this so most of these enhancements end up being fairly hacky (replacing whole components) which then makes it harder to keep up-to-date with upstream versions which are constantly touching things in non-backwards-compatible ways.