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Marco wrote:fix of the day: smileys in the quick reply box work properly now. Finally, quick reply is now fully functional.
Deleting own posts is now possible as long as they haven't been replied to and they were posted in the last 60 minutes.


Nice! :clap: but what are you meaning by "replied"? you mean when quoted? and if not, how is that handled? just curiosity. By the way 1 hour is a bit too much for regret imho
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Basically, it has to be the last post in the topic for you to be able to delete it. If someone posts afterwards, you can no longer delete it.

Cool part, if let's say you triple-post, you can delete the last, and then you can delete the last again, removing a total of 2 extra posts.
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Thank you for the reply and the explanation
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Some fixes of the day:
- The AJAX error message in the portal is fixed (special thanks @RequiemLux)
- On low-resolution devices (mobiles), screenshot module is disabled from portal, to prevent unwanted bandwith usage on mobile and because well, it's too small

more coming later
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More:
- Topics from the "Games" forum no longer appear in new/unread posts or search results.
- Guests can no longer use the shoutbox.
- Removed "Welcome thread" and added a link to the old forums on the main index
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finally :thumb:
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Marco wrote:More:
- Topics from the "Games" forum no longer appear in new/unread posts or search results.
- Guests can no longer use the shoutbox.
- Removed "Welcome thread" and added a link to the old forums on the main index

Woot, woot!
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As many of you noticed, there is a new layout. One of the goals is to remove all the unecessary crap that contaminates the view, while still keeping the functionality. As you can see, some links have been moved inside "quick links" menu in the navigation, and things like useless "current time" have been removed.

This is still a work in progress, and the posts are something I haven't started yet but will see some changes. The idea is to do some re-arrangements, such as removing the topic subject on every single post, as well as the redundant "by ..." and move the date somewhere else. The user's profile on the posts at the left will be condensed so that they don't make 1-liner posts super high. Once this is done, I could probably increase the posts displayed per page to something like 15.

Additionally, a lot of work regarding mobile responsiveness has been done, but of course this isn't visible for desktop users. A bunch of display/overlapping glitches have been fixed, and the header has been reworked so that on resolutions lower than 700 pixels, a menu button is shown. There are still some bugs on mobile, but most functionality should be there, so no need for 3rd party software like tapatalk.
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Additionally, a lot of work regarding mobile responsiveness has been done, but of course this isn't visible for desktop users. A bunch of display/overlapping glitches have been fixed, and the header has been reworked so that on resolutions lower than 700 pixels, a menu button is shown. There are still some bugs on mobile, but most functionality should be there, so no need for 3rd party software like tapatalk.


You magnificent bastard. Thank you <3
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Ok, after a decent time without coding forums, there is a little update: the twitch module has been rewritten, and rather than fetching data individually for each channel, it will now combine everything and receive the data for all channels in a single HTTP request. Thus, the amount of HTTP requests in the homepage was reduced by 33%, so this should make the loading a little bit faster.

Additionally, I deactivated a developer functionality which was recompiling style components on all page loads. This means that aside from just a faster homepage, the whole forum should be at least a little bit faster.

More to come :)