Can I search for topics STARTED by a particular author?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Aug 27, 2017 4:20 pm

I think you can now.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Aug 27, 2017 11:02 am

So, I've decided I am going to do this -- convert to phpBB3 -- with one condition.

One of the additional reasons I've never done it is because I suspected that the people that asked for it would never use it. Therefore, I will be counting for 30 days after the switch. If RetroRomper hasn't posted 30 times, I will undo the conversion and put us all on phpBB 1. The original.

RetroRomper has a chance to cure me of cynicism. We'll see how it goes.

by **loafergirl** » Sat Dec 24, 2016 2:23 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I'm going to mark down "can't post while pooping" as a strength, not a weakness.

though also inaccurate, I think it depends on the device being used. Though I am speaking from experience posting while in a public place, not while pooping, which, I certainly hope, would be done in private... but knowing some of my fellow JCers... we can't be entirely sure of.

by **loafergirl** » Sat Dec 24, 2016 2:19 pm

pinback wrote:Doing an author search results in any thread where the author posted anything. Is there a way to say "just gimme threads started by an author"? Or, more specifically, "just gimme threads started by pinback"?

I know the answer is "no", because this software is terrible, but I'm hoping I'm wrong.

Who are you cyber stalking and why?

by **RetroRomper** » Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:39 pm

Besides the Internet, you don't think we'd want to get off to your jokes?

by **Tdarcos** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:47 pm

RetroRomper wrote:Ugh! Just for one minute, could we seriously note what CONTENT we are losing by not having a forum that we can reply to and navigate with one handed?

Why would you need to navigate it one handed? There are no picture or video images here that would require special use of the other hand, so I don't see why one handed capability is so important.

by **Tdarcos** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:43 pm

The Happiness Engine wrote:Here is a good example of you talking down to your audience. We are all adults, we have seen Casablanca

Are you sure? Not everyone has seen all the classics. For example, the only part of The Seventh Seal is the part they spoof in the movie The Last action Hero.

Speaking of Casablanca, when I first saw it was when my brother taped it off one of the cable channels back in California when we first got a VCR around 1984 or 5. He didn't seem to understand why I was so incensed mad at him because the tape cut off the last 30 seconds of the movie.

by **RetroRomper** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:14 pm

Ugh! Just for one minute, could we seriously note what CONTENT we are losing by not having a forum that we can reply to and navigate with one handed?

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 5:04 pm

First I was shaking with uncontrolled red rage at that thought of someone quoting my words [strike]out of[/strike] completely in context. But then I read the joke and I thought: this guy's a keeper. This guy is a WINNER.

by **Joke Corner** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 4:11 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I'm going to mark down "can't post while pooping" as a strength, not a weakness.

Ha ha, you said it. Now, for some real laughs.

Q: What do Catholics clean up their messes with?

A: Papal Towels.

by **Billy Mays** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 4:08 pm

I don't understand why so many people are making such a big deal out of things, I think the forum is fine the way it is.

by **The Happiness Engine** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 3:15 pm

I love the idea that, out of maybe 10 posts a day here, a non-zero number of them are nervously composed while trying to make room for a prostate exam.

THE
"USING THE WHOLE HAND, DOC?"
ENGINE

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 3:15 pm

I'm going to mark down "can't post while pooping" as a strength, not a weakness.

by **RetroRomper** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 2:34 pm

https://sourceforge.net/projects/mobile-online-phpbb2/

by **RetroRomper** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 1:52 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:It all gives me a sense of community.

I agree, except when it stops us from participating:

*Lack of a mobile site for instance.
*Profile views for "Threads Created By" as opposed to the useless "Threads that have no reply."
*Easier insertion of quotes.
*Easier integration of BB code.

The Barrier of being on an older version is one I can get behind, but is there someway to at least give us a mobile layout? For example, while I'm surfing in a public restroom between doctors appointments, I would have time to actually reply as opposed to deal with just navigating the damn thing.

And lets not forget that you've tried to migrate to phpBB3 and for whatever reason, it foobared the database. Requiring more time than you had at that point.

Except now its ten years later.

--Retro

by **pinback** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 12:48 pm

Good times.

by **The Happiness Engine** » Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:55 am

Here is a good example of you talking down to your audience. We are all adults, we have seen Casablanca, we will get the reference simply by the phrase "shocked, simply shocked!" which turns your last sentence into stating out loud "I made a reference to a movie. Do you guys know the movie I have referenced? It is 'Casablanca' and the part I am referencing is..."

Brevity and Allusion. I used to play a game with a friend where we'd try to see how many layers of reference we could abstract a quote and still have the other person get it.

by **Tdarcos** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 2:37 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I think it makes the site better and ... the fact that even when people get their accounts disabled they can post just as much as they did before.

I had not read this on your long item - now I start to understand why people didn't like my long messages - or I would have said something before. Users forging their identities? This is incredible! I am shocked to hear that this is going on, simply shocked. Just like Louis in Casablanca is utterly shocked when he discovers gambling is going on at Rick's place as the croupier is handing him his winnings.

by **Tdarcos** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 2:31 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:It all gives me a sense of community.

So would living in an insane asylum. However, I'm not really sure if there's much difference.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Dec 17, 2016 12:36 am

Those aren't bad reasons. Nothing wrong with those ideas.

I guess what I would like to communicate to you is the idea that I have left us on phpBB2 because it's tough. It should be difficult to participate here. There should be barriers. I think there's a couple values that this site exhibits, or demonstrates or whatever. Farce being one and a throwback experience to what dial-up BBSs were like being the other. We don't all live in the same town, so it's not exact, and sometimes we do all break character, but I feel this exists because you have to really, really want to be here if a person chooses to post here. I think it makes the site better and it means that there's an actual reward to sticking around and knowing you have to get rid of the "s" in https to make Youtube links work, or the fact that even when people get their accounts disabled they can post just as much as they did before.

It all gives me a sense of community.

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