eZabel 3.0 - Coming Soon
by So, eZabel 3.0 will hopefully be going live on July 1st, or earlier. At first, it will not have many features, and it will be quite a bit slower than the current eZabel. But things will rapidly improve, as the new framework is conducive to agile development. ;)
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Start thinking up Poll ideas, because they're coming back soon!
will you look at the size of those tab lookin' buttons!
Hey Ian, is there anyway to mark certain Conversations as favorites (journals or forum)? Could look into that?
Thanks!
i have plans for that
plans, haha
i know, srsly. hahaha
We need to strap you to your computer chair at home and tape your eyelids open for a 24 hour period until you perfect ezabel.
i support this radical new movement IWZ
lol?
We need to bring back the points system and the top ten users. :) I wanna see if I've moved up the list at all.
I think i will definitely be displacing somebody. But I guess it all depends on the backend calculations.
i'll make sure the calculations put you two in the top 5 ;)
so how exactly does one gain eZabel Rep?
lotta farming...
Thai said he wants a button that translates his pages to all asian languages so he can share his humor with his relatives
And mike says sometimes when he visits the musings it eats his lunch
How about a button to donate already. SHEESH
Tested.. it works :-)
for what amount? because my amount isn't working
the Donation button only accepts donations of $1,000,000 or more, sorry
maaaaaan, zabel!
You really have become a demanding dictator! JK JK
But, seriously, that Monster must be MADE of $$!! Oh, but wait, it's canadian dollars. I'm sure any one of us could pull THAT off. Pretty sly, Mon!
yeah, $1,000,000 canadian is like, what, $0.35 US?
hahaa
so how many points did i get sucka
So I'm still having a problem with the ezabel page not loading on the first try. I've had to reload once or twice before the page actually shows. The weird thing is it doesn't show an error, it just shows nothing.
yeah i get that.
Ditto.
okay, you three: what browser and OS?
also, try deleting any eZabel cookies you have, and clearing your cache
This is interesting - I cleared my cookies and then the site came up on the first try, with my password remembered through firefox. Then I clicked the "remember me" button and entered the password. The next time I opened the site, it delayed me again. Maybe it's a remembering passwords issue.
hm, ok. that's weird, but something to work with.
Yeah, I think that's it. I took the "remember me" off and it loaded correctly, but with it on, it had to refresh. I tried it a couple times and it kept doing the same thing: no "remember me" - opens right away; "remember me" - refresh to open.
OSX Tiger / Firefox
Win XP Pro / Firefox
How about an option to have ezMessages forwarded to an e-mail address?
yeah, this is a great idea and something i want to get in.
My inbox/outbox is getting mighty messy... I would love to delete messages... :-)
so weird.. deleting works for me. i'll have to do some more testing
deleting doesn't work for me either. is it possible that only mods are able to delete their inbox stuff.
i can delete from inbox now, but i don't even see the option in my outbox
I want a button that changes all "ians", "iwz", "milklyaulkes husband" into " GameBoy"
I don't think I am doing anything different...
Do we need to code the web addresses to be hyperlinks?
yeah, i haven't added in a parser yet, so if you want to make a link, use HTML
<a href="http://whatever">click here linky link</a>
Tenjewberrymuds
Dude you said parser. Parsy parser, oooo I love parsing
no need for a parser.
rails has a method "linkify"
so like:
<%= linkify comment.text %>
instead of
<%= comment.text %>
ah! that's nice. that's a great quick fix. i'll get it in ASAP.
i've been looking into implementing RedCloth or BlueCloth. their markup languages seem pretty nice.
ideally, i'd like to get the old tags working again, of course.
apparently I just imagined this method, I can't seem to find it anywhere. weird....
hmmm... looks like it should be there...
Contrast this to the way Ruby on Rails handles templating logic. In essence, it /does/ have a templating language - it just so happens that this language is Ruby as well. What's really smart is that Rails makes use of Ruby's syntactic flexibility to create a domain specific language (or mini language) adapted to the needs of templates. Built in functions are provided like h() (for HTML escaping) and linkify() (for auto-marking-up links). Because Ruby lets you omit parentheses, you end up with template code looking like this:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/ruby_on_rails_a.html
OK! I found it: (it's automatically available to you within a rails RHTML file, this is found in text_helper.rb)
# Turns all urls and email addresses into clickable links. The +link+ parameter can limit what should be linked.
# Options are :all (default), :email_addresses, and :urls.
#
# Example:
# auto_link("Go to http://www.rubyonrails.com and say hello to david@loudthinking.com") =>
# Go to http://www.rubyonrails.com and
# say hello to david@loudthinking.com
#
# If a block is given, each url and email address is yielded and the
# result is used as the link text. Example:
# auto_link(post.body, :all, :target => '_blank') do |text|
# truncate(text, 15)
# end
def auto_link(text, link = :all, href_options = {}, &block)
return '' if text.blank?
case link
when :all then auto_link_urls(auto_link_email_addresses(text, &block), href_options, &block)
when :email_addresses then auto_link_email_addresses(text, &block)
when :urls then auto_link_urls(text, href_options, &block)
end
end
I think profiles and pictures should be a top priority. I need to see how many hot sisters we have in here. LOL!
And it would be cool if you set up our profiles so that it says our exact ages.
feelin' your wheaties, huh, bruvaman?
Brother..jwmatch.com is thataway.
You're too funny... It's nice to know what everyone looks like. I'll be sure to wear a Darth Vader mask.
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Hey what're you laughing at Taco Bell boy?
pwn'd
OH YES. I have finally gotten past a big hurdle in eZabel 3.0 development. I couldn't get something working, and it was really bothering me and demotivating me.
But, I'm past it! YESSS
Coming soon: Searching! And it's fast, and better than ever! I just have to come up with an interface for it. YESSSSSS
Whoo hoo!! I have been using the basic search, even that was very handy. :-)
Happy to hear you've passed your 'blockage'. LOL
here's the basic functionality:
/comments/search?q=mazda
it's not really displaying the results in a "search result" display yet, so ignore the fact that all replies to a result are also displayed.
Any chance we could get the search results sorted by date?
Right now the order seems kinda random.
ditto.. but I am finding interesting random info.. ;-)
Yeah... I've been finding lots of stuff I'd prefer to forget too...
Yeah, I think I can get that working. The dates are being indexed, it's just a matter of figuring out the correct search syntax.
The current result order is by score, or best match.
Feature idea/request that just came to me:
Watchable threads. It'd be so nice to have a personal home page, where not only do new threads are listed, but also threads of interest we asked to watch that have new comments. A lot of times 2 or 3 threads are active in a forum, but I only care about one of them.
sweet idea. this would be very useful
lol you so do not care about any of them, foo
Spousal Pwnge
Sometime's ezabel pillages my firefox at 99% CPU for a while when rendering pages, especially musings
I found a bug.. it is kind weird...
I have been trying to delete messages from my in box to no avail... but I noticed that the ones I sent to myself ( I was seeing if my HTML looked ok ) they 'delete' from the outbox....
I know it sounds delusional. But I am sure they were there a second ago. :-)
I was just curious... how high up on the priorities is editing of comments?
Near the top I hope. ;-)
Haha, sorry, that's pretty low. I'm not sure if I'll allow it, actually.
Okay, that's not true. I think what I'll do is give you a window of time where you can edit. Like, within the first 2 minutes you'll be able to edit your comment.
ok, ok so.. if it turns out to be truly heinous, will we be able to bug a mod to change?
That would just be alot of extra work no? Like my comment 472 in musings I double pasted the link, I would want to bug anybody about that.
Another nameless poster unknowingly used a heinous expression (he happened to be a mod and expunged all the many, many references to it)
What about us peons? While I understand the reasoning... and will respect your decision, I would like to express my desire to be able to edit. :-)
well it's a good way for IAN to make sure the mods are doing their jobs.
They should be deleting double posts and editing bad content.
FIRE the lazy mods
what is the reasoning behind that?
i don't like people changing the past.
shacker!
C'mon Ian aren't you an Orwellian fan?
OR ARE YOU REALLY WINSTON SMITH?!?!??!
The Ministry of Truth
The propaganda arm of Oceania's regime. Minitrue controls information: political literature, the Party organization, and the telescreens. Winston Smith works for Minitrue, "rectifying" historical records and newspaper articles to make them conform to Big Brother's most recent pronouncements, thus making everything that the Party says true.
i will not be confused by your doublespeak.
I am obviously firmly opposed to The Ministry of Truth and its Orwellian antics!
=D
Two minutes is OK... I guess.. is it open for negotiation? Five would be better, Ten ideal.
Two minutes goes by too quick and does/would it reset for another two? So like you didn't get the HTML right, you could return again and again until it was right?
I think we should introduce newspeak into Ezabel, eliminating all those words we don't really need.
completely agree ian.
come on at least 5 mins, i make so many errors it takes forever to fix them!
HEYYYYYYYYY how about having the post comment box on TOP of the page instead of the bottom!!!!!!
good idea. I have something better planned, i think. coming soon!
anticipation....
Ian, what happend to the User information? Will those be returning?
yeah, that's high on my priority list. profiles are _kinda_ already working. but you can't see all the information, or even edit your own stuff yet.
coming soon! but i have a few other things i want to get working first
Howsabout this... dunno how much more bandwith this would consume.. buy could the musings button at the top auto refresh so as to give the current number of new comments?
that's a neat idea. something like that is definitely doable.
I was thinking that I wanted the quick Ctrl+Ent post thing back, but it's not a good idea til we can edit, because there'd definitely be a lotta funky looking posts from me.
what does that do?
pressing ctrl+enter is the same as pressing the "post" button, just no mouse action.
oh i hit space enter
whoops no i dont. i hit tab space
auto login - check
redirect to appropriate page after posting - check
way to go ian!
i miss being able to modify/correct our own comments. im scared to type anything because i cant delete or change. LOL
hear hear
or is it here here?
MK seems to be correct...
ok some little things-profiles and stuff...name/AIM screenname/picture and stuff. maybe have forum views like a typical internet forum where it lists the posts in chronological order instead of jumping all around.
Ian can we request little things, while your working on the big stuff? Or will that cloud your mind?
PLEASE DO! That's what this thread is for! Otherwise, I'll never do them. :)
OK... here are a couple...
Some picture albums are defective. e.g. BFS @ T-bones
/pictures/show/1376
Can the pics be resized on the fly? e.g. large pics to say a size that fits your white box? (then a further click on the image for full size, without menu etc.)
/pictures/show/954
And I guess while 'we are' at it, page the large albums.
/albums/show/38
Oh, and that white box, or rather the menu on the right can it not be fixed to the white box...
/journals/list
^^^^ if you resize this page you lose the menu on the right, instead of the menu coming in with the right side of the window.
I know this is mostly superficial stuff, and I don't want to think I don't appreciate all you hard work by being nit picky. So... just ignore whatever is just crazy talk.
monster
Oh these are good! keep 'em coming.
I didn't even know about any of these things.
Oooh on the more practical side editing comments, and deleting EZ messages.
Ok now this is more of a feature that might sound far fetched...
Would it be possible to collapse a thread in musings? That way I would only keep convo's open (uncollapsed) that are of interest to me or that are active.
Did that make sense?
i like the new homepage. the events section is weird though. im sure everythings getting worked on.
I'm still using ezabel 1.0
I hate 3.0
and ezabel 3.0 hates you.
lets fight
I would like to make a few suggestions/requests.
could the login not be all the way at the bottom of the page, i really hate scrolling (note: it appears only to be at the bottom of the page when i use ie, it is at the side when using firefox, ie blows)
also, is there a way that we can be automatically redirected to the page we are posting on following a post. right now the top says comment posted and you have to click back to go to the page. i'm lazy, can this happen without me having to click.
3.o is good
these two things are at the top of my list, along with Search.
actually, search is KINDA working already.
/topics/search?q=love
I have to slap an interface on it. It only works for News/Forums/Journals right now. Doesn't yet work for Comments.
Another thing at the top of my list is Autologin.
will you be able to see what i search for?
will you then sell the results to the government?
not unless i really want to.
yes.
Ian can you bring the e-mail notifaction pop-up back?
oh yeah, that's a good one. i can probably get that working
So... Ian do you know the day, the hour?
Looks like I may be making the switch on Wednesday evening. Once I switch DNS, it'll take up to 48 hours before everybody starts getting onto the new site; some sooner.
OMG OGM WHAT SHOULD WE DO FOR THAT TIME!?!?!?!?!?
only the father knows
you know i still can't see my mod stuff in the spots where i'm a mod.
yeah, i know! that's been broken forever. i haven't really put in a lot of mod controls into 3.0 yet, so we'll see where it all ends up
Got FAQs done, and Pictures are in working order, but need some tweaks.
Events are there in a basic form, but I need to throw an interface up for them.
Wow, I get to put up my ugly mug.
Can we put up multiple pictures in this version?
Sorry, I think you misunderstood. I simply got the existing photo albums working like they currently work now.
I don't have any sort of picture uploading working.
Oh. Well get on it buddy. :o)
if you'd like to save yourself some time, just eliminate the Music Forum entirely, hahahaha
definitely need to have News/Home, Polls, Journals, all the Forums, Search, PMing, Pics and Search. And don't forgot Search.
So far I have News/Home, Journals, all the Forums, Polls, and PMing working.
Events, Search, FAQs, and Pics to come.
Also, I need to optimize optimize optimize. Right now it's verrrry slow.
I also need to get Autologin working.
ahh, the things we take for granted.
Is the time right? I am posting this 12:08 Pacific, 3:08 your time... and it shows up as being posted at 2:08?
the time on this server is Central time, so it's an hour off from Eastern
yessss are musings gonna be the old way finally?
yea, i like the old way musings were...i can't totally remember how it was..but i just know i liked it better, and you didnt have to hold your mouse over a comment to read it.
I remember being one of the two holdouts until it was forcibly mandated haha
you guys! are you kidding me?
hahahahaha
what the heck.
well, your wish may be partially granted. the initial version will not work the same way as eZabel 2.0 does. it'll be a pretty plain nested view. NOT quite Flat like you weirdos prefer, but threaded. you just won't have to expand comments to read them.
and as i add in other views, you'll be able to choose which you want.
i think i remember it being lynz and myself...
and i believe i was one of them too, and beachbum, it was more than 2
VIVA EL OLD MUSING VIEW!!!!
me too...... but now i like this view becuase all the new posts are at the top you dont have to scroll through pages of posts
I was the last one !
I was a total hold out! I don't even remember why I like the old way better or if I would now..but I did and was very disgruntled at the switch over (obviously not disgruntled enough to stop playing on ezabel though).
i really miss the search site thing.
maybe a chat room. real simple, y'know. i remember that bootleg clicking chat room you had on here. it was plumb'tarded.
hmmmm... nah
I want a webcam...
So I can shake my thang -a - thang on the camera to songs like... PURRRRPLEEE RAIIIIIIIN
PPURRRPLE RAIIIIIIN
and then maybe perhaps - if you're good - pretend to almost think about taking my shirt off
wow, fun. i dunno. i think the people are the best feature. maybe get us a tip calculator and a miniature golf game.
lol these two feature requests rule
seriously, dude. get a miniature golf game on here! we could have a ezabel score card!
im playing miniature golf on sunday!
i want to play miniature golf with you. can you handle that?
of course i can!
hahaha, good
dude five minutes from my house is a glow in the dark mini golf. 18 holes of blacklight goodness
thats where we should play...
one day we should make a group to do it. And then hang out at my pad, which now has full A/C
well we do happen to be going next sunday.....
first tell me who the we is....
I think we really need search back.
id like it to be the JW myspace plz...looking to meet babeage thx ian
wait... it isn't already? haha jk
Well, you did get rid of the profile pics...
/photos/
Still kinda there...
you cheeky monkey! look at all of us!
HAHAHA is that sean next to you in your pic?
yeah, he was trying to bite me, as always. we were in my friends wedding together. IIII was the best man. HE was the best ladies man. go figure.
and a random ex, YIKES!
dude i liked that pic too haha
Interesting... I didn't know you could do that. I wonder where my old pic went? Maybe I deleted it a while back...
Hey Ian, I really REALLY need to get rid of my pics on the ezabel.com/photos... those pictures are old and hideous....
of course they're hideous... they're pictures of YOU
jk giac i think ur sexy