Unicode works in posts already (...mostly), it's just bugged in other places... and it's a pain in the ass to update.

But then I'm not sure, as I wrote a big long post that had a [PILE OF POO] in it once and the entire post vanished.



E: okay, so it's still broken. that's weird, because I very definitely remember this working at one point.

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The forum schemes would be nice, but I'd need to actually add them back in. I'd also probably fix ones like Daily Cycle to have background images larger than 2x2 just because browsers appear to be very bad at this whole tiling thing.

Some new ranks would be nice, too, maybe ones to replace the defaults. Maybe I can nag BMF...


Mobile layout is a good one, I can probably whip something up simple enough; that's definitely something I can do locally first thanks to Chrome's developer tools.

The email reset thing is still something I'd like to do most, but I'd also have to fix the obfuscation and add in a way to hide one's email.

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One other thing I'd like to do:

- canonize "thread.php?id=xxx&page=xx" links as the de-facto url format; mostly to stop bots from archiving hundreds of copies of the same page because of permalinks. Basically, this sort of thing. Maybe force-redirect Baidu while I'm at it...

- prevent bots from counting for pageviews. Baidu is a huge abuser of this, sending hundreds of bots at us pretty much constantly.


So many little things. I should probably get these added to the repo as issues

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Is there a problem with stripping out those things? The problem is that a lot of layouts very definitely aren't mobile-friendly; especially not with the greatly reduced horizontal space.

Avatars can make a comeback, but I don't think enabling layouts would be much of a boon. And I think you can still get away with requesting the desktop version in a browser?

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Making the mobile layout usable wouldn't be a huge issue, and there's one simple thing that would immediately make this forum a lot less painful on mobile:



Not perfect, but better. Adding some support for avatars and whatnot would probably be doable; much else would likely take some more work...

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astral plane unicode shit is now available for use everywhere. 🆒

sad problem: there may be an issue with some old data (e.g polls, private messages etc) if they had non-utf8 text in them. but now every table is converted to utf8mb4 going forward so there should be no problems.

wow

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wow! i did some more stuff since my clothes are still in the wash.


4a65065 Fix overly greedy anti-photobucket code
9318ec2 Add photobucket replacement image
Images that were on Photobucket are now replaced with a "🚫 Photobucket Image" placeholder.


b8caeda Update and enhance mobile view
Actually several things:
* Avatars are now limited to 200×* (no more table stretching) via CSS
* A viewport meta tag now exists, which makes mobile about 500% better (not perfect, but very much better)
* Avatars are now enabled in mobile mode, capped to 50×50

You can see a screenshot of it over to the right (click to enlarge)

This also added "image-rendering: pixelated", which is supposed to make enlarged images use nearest-neighbor but make scaled down images use the resampling stuff that's normally used. In Chrome, this seems to actually make everything use nearest-neighbor, but, whatever; most stuff here is pixels anyway.


14f8190 Remove old filter tracking code
Before, posts that had some common script crap filtered out of them were logged for later analysis. In reality this never happened and this table took up over 1 GB of data, about three times as much as actual posts!


877647b Add years to readable durations
Being a 10 year old forum, a lot of "last activity" and "last post" dates were getting into the four-digit range. This makes those show up as "x.y years" if they're over a year long.


0449b82 Shrink downtime window from 5 minutes to 1 minute
Want a fun story? Great; so the automatic backup thing hasn't actually been running since 2015. Yeah, seriously; the PHP binary moved on DreamHost and I just never updated it (and never noticed it was missing ). That's fixed now. But since the code exists in GitHub now, most of the backup process has been turned off; the database is being backed up, and with the removal of the huge table (see above) it should go a lot faster now.


4fdd16c Fix and add thread meta tags
If you ever linked a thread on something like Telegram, you'd probably see something like this:

Needless to say, that's... not quite right.

It turns out that there's code to put in the first post of a thread into the meta description tag, but the availability of that was checked by filter_bool(), which... filtered it to a bool, which prints as 1. Oops.

Now it just (properly) checks if it's set.


This also adds a "link rel='canonical'" tag for threads with the "pid" flag set; mostly to help bots realize that every single ?pid=xxxxxx link isn't a unique URL at all. I think I might have to go with the 301 option and "nofollow" links on the permalinks to really stop that (or just block Baidu)


f50d451 Remove dead code
There's a few files in the codebase that are just plain unreferenced and dead, so those got deleted.

58ea368 Move to utf8mb4 and add php7 mysql compat shim
This was covered before. Emojis! 👍

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