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140237 No. 140237 Stickied [View]
Hi everypony! This is our new Trello thread. You can use this to see just what our mods are up to! You can also use it to post your suggestions. Also, we love you! Yay! <3

Direct link: https://trello.com/board/to-do-list/5102fcb0f2c9d29a4d000596


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>> No. 140771
>>140768
Well the radio idea I got from a suggestion from Nature Blossom, iirc, who said we should have a party mode that did crazy things and played all pony music. However, it could go beyond the pony music and have a library we could add our own songs to. That seems like a difficult thing to work out while keeping server stress low, but maybe not. Either way, probably a longer term goal than getting the initial thing put up. It had some positive support and seemed to have momentum, but it got classified under a too much effort for little benefit. So I had figured embeds of radios would be a simple compromise. Easy to implement and it has the added benefit of promoting/reaching out to other facets of the brony community.


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140784 No. 140784 [View]
So this seems to have stopped working...

http://gyropedia.wikia.com/wiki/Banning

>>>/chat/40768714
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>> No. 140805
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140805
We did do some clearing-out of the banned file list, and it seems those were removed when we did. I've re-added them, so they should be working again.
>> No. 140806
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140806
>>140805
lyra add autorefresh threads , pl0x
>> No. 140813
>>140799
Nu! I'm behind seven proxies!

>>140800
>>140803
Zamoondas... Zamoondas everywhere...

>>140805
Ah thanks! So what other banned files are there?


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139362 No. 139362 [View] [Last 50 posts]
It has recently been brought to my attention that an individual we had previously considered to be a valuable member of the moderation team had not been honest with us about their identity. As a result, !!SweetieBelle (Aurroria) has been removed from the team and has had access to the site terminated. This was both surprising and disappointing, but entirely necessary.

Those of you who are familiar with those who have previously sought to obtain a position on the site through subterfuge and social engineering may be familiar with the names Typhoon/Pendragon/Zamoonda. This individual has previously made multiple fake identities and deceived and manipulated the staff of this site and other individuals associated with it. Unfortunately it appears that this deception had continued with the creation of yet another fake identity, Aurroria, which we have only just now discovered.

We do not have any reason at present to have any concerns about any of Aurroria's actions while part of the moderation team. Nevertheless, it is essential that we have trust both within the team and with the community, and it is absolutely untenable to maintain a staff member who had deceived us about their identity and had previously engaged in underhanded practices. Therefore Aurroria was removed from the site immediately once this unfortunate revelation was brought to my attention.

The ideas behind Project May (those being to provide some additional features by use of an optional account system) are those which have been considered previously over a long period of time and have met with the approval of the team. However, Aurroria was a major driving force behind this particular project, and it will be put on indefinite hiatus.

I would like to thank those who brought this to my attention, and apologise to all of you for being deceived by this individual who, unfortunately, had taken advantage of our trust. We are determined to ensure that nothing like this happens again, and hope that this has not damaged your faith in us too greatly.

We know there will be questions and comments. Please keep them to this thread and we will answer them as best as we can. Other threads on this topic w
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>> No. 140810
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140810
>>140796

All this for a pony website.

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those pesky kids and that mangy dog.
>> No. 140811
>>140787
>>inb4 backdoor discovered in Project May

havent found one yet, still looking

>>140796
before you start talking about compromised passwords, unless your COMPUTER is compromised, the passwords are fine. They're encoded even on our end, as every system does

so yeah. passwords are encrypted

edit2: I also went through the login scripts for anywhere it grabs plaintext and sends it out. Didnt find anything

Last edited at Sat, May 25th, 2013 14:42

>> No. 140812
>>140811
>unless your COMPUTER is compromised
Considering that he flat out admitted to having done exactly that to a user already, and to have had a botnet of infected systems, I would say it's a legitimate concern regardless, hence all the caution and double-checking everything.


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129068 No. 129068 [View] [Last 50 posts]
Ponychan X is in the process of a rewrite.

A lot of previous features are missing at this point. Asking for them gets them higher on the to-do list. This version only has the essentials. They should be done as soon as possible, though. Sorry for any inconvenience there.

Hightlights:

- Quick reply
-- Post without reloading the page
-- Queue up images and choose which to post with
-- Automatically dump queued up images with no user interaction
-- Shows image upload percent
-- Shows image thumbnail previews
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>> No. 140807
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140807
>>140801
It's the exact same effect. Blocking somepony only removes their post from your sight, ignoring it pretends the post was removed from your sight.
>> No. 140808
>>140807

It's not really the same. I think it's a feature marketed towards people without self control to ignore internet peeps, so it's more for when ignoring just doesnt work
>> No. 140809
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140809
>>140808
Heh, that was the point, if it doesn't work practice self-control. The reason I disabled it was because it blocked out entire threads and had some false positives, seemingly similar to Ember's issue. Though... I haven't exactly been a paragon of self-control.


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Can we have this be an actual theme? I like it.
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>> No. 139342
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139342
I figured one of the more tech minded mods would have got here by now and answered this with a degree of certainty, but since they haven't:

"Maybe."

Should be relatively simple since it's just the site minus the CSS page as far as i'm aware.
>> No. 140797
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140797
>>139316
As it turns out it is entirely possible to do this yourself provided you are using Firefox.

You are using a browser that respects your freedoms right?

I haven't gotten it working entirely yet because I don't actually know CSS and it's 3AM but it looks like this so far.

If you're using Firefox get the Stylish addon and I can give you the codes which will make things work.

Or we can wait for somepony to actually implement this, it shouldn't take long if you know CSS.
>> No. 140798
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140798
Or you might be able to set your browser to simply not load colgate.css for only the ponychan.net domain.

This strikes me as something that would work very well.

This also strikes me as something I don't know how to do.


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139998 No. 139998 [View]
Hello Everypony, my name, or Trip rather, is Clonehunter. As such I am a murderous bastard with a respect and want for cloning technology, but with a blood thirsty hate for actual clones that must be brought to justice through death.

Violent. Brutal. DEATH.

Anyways, this isn't about that. Seeing that we have a freshly fired Moderator, I figure a new one is in order, and I am nominating myself as a candidate for the next mod, and while actual mod names may be assigned by the admin, I am voting for !!Mrs. Cake, though !!JeffGoldblum would be nice too. Anyways, a fearless new mod is needed. Where can I work and moderate? I'll be happy to work anywhere that's needed even if some backwater board like /int/ where I don't speak the language or /dis/, whatever the hell that is. In addition you're all looking for somepony who doesn't use multiple aliases or hide behind lies. I have always been Clonehunter! I may post Doomguy, Goldblum, or Mrs. Cake and her family, but I always have the same trip, the same name. I come to you all in your time of need to bring what you seek, a moderator who isn't out for himself in some retarded struggle for power, but to help the community. Have I helped it much before? No, I haven't. I've been here a very long time and really haven't given anything back, being conceited and selfish and not even paying attention on /meta/ much unless it affected the serial I eventually moved away from /Pony/ to enjoy. I feel it's time for me to give back.

Many of you may not know me, but for the longest time since 2007 I've been known as Clonehunter on everything I've ever sued minus Runescape and Jedi Outcast where it was Terf01 and Jedi Hunter Gran respectively. I was awful in my internet use, just look up 'Clone Hunter' on the Massassi.net forums and you'll see my hideous noob behavior. I have since changed my ways and matured as I went from forum to forum, whetehr it be further noobage at Hevaen Games or starting to realize myself at Jurassic Mods and finally ending up on Jurassic Park Legac and DoomWorld where I became myself, even more so with the help of Ponychan and
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>> No. 140765
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140765
>>140764
You don't even use proper capitalization.
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140767
>>140765

another satisfied customer
>> No. 140795
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140795
>>140764
I'm afraid I have to agree with Wang here.

We can't have a mod that encourages no capitalization, as that leads to misspellings that go unnoticed, misspellings no one cares about, and then suddenly everypony has awful grammar and there's not stopping the outbreak! Soon everypony will become unintelligible, and it'll be pure chaos everywhere.


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139345 No. 139345 [View]
Im an old fag, and i kind of wanted to know whats going on in ponychan's controll tower.[?]troll[/?/] Like im pretty sure that that ponychans traffic has slowed down lately. Does anybody know how much? And how many mods do you have running now? Just curious.
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>> No. 140778
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140778
hawkeye was too big a nerd to be the crazy guitar squealing super fast rainbow pony, he had to be the quiet farm guy
>> No. 140779
>>140777
wasnt that where that joke came from? I'm pretty sure you were around that far back lol
>> No. 140782
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140782
>>140777
It's great seeing old faces returning. How ya been?


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139337 No. 139337 [View]
It's not really that big of a deal, and I'm not sure if anypony else has mentioned it yet, but the "Powered by Kusaba X" link down at the bottom of the page leads to an unclaimed domain pagefiller.

Again, not really that important, just thought you guys should know.
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>> No. 139344
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139344
>>139339
That's right, we use a fork of Kusaba X for which that was the correct URL at the time. But it's easy to fix, indeed.

You should start seeing the updated link now.
>> No. 140776
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140776
The Kusaba X team is really really bad about fixing thigns like that. Hell, they're bad about fixing thigns in general
>> No. 140780
>>140776
To be fair, it's more us than them

It WAS a correct link when we started, and I dont think we've ever actually loaded a NEW version of kusaba in... patched plenty of things selectively, but never started over from the base.

This version of kusaba should just be called KusabaPony or something, but there's more custom code than you'd believe lol

Plus, I think orange actually helped THEM patch a few things that he had fixed.


But yeah, it's been a bad link for ages. We had a reason why we didnt change it, not supposed to or something... I cant remember now


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138074 No. 138074 [View]
Hey /meta/, I got a bunch of experimental ideas. The whole point of making this thread is to come up with ideas that will improve ponychan's performance and userfriendliness, no matter how radical they are. Fuck imageboard taboos, man.

Here are a couple of mine. But you can come up with your own as well here, or simply give your input towards mine.

1) Cascading pages. Write a script where if you scroll to the bottom of page 0, the following pages are automatically called up at the bottom of their previous page. There is a famous reddit extension called RES that does something very similar to this.

2) Since /fic/ has this unspoken rule where you can let your thread fall many pages back and still consider it an active thread, I have a suggestion for this. When your window is wide enough, (like maybe 1800px threshold) The page formats threads like a book.
See mock-up: http://i.imgur.com/0R4tAfd.jpg

3) Write a few lines of javascript to randomize the front page's subtitle with a few quotes.
See mock-up: http://i.imgur.com/6X2qi2q.png
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140774
>>140772
I think that idea has been proposed and "denied" quite a few times before.

But you could try out /all/, just set it up to show /oat/ and /pony/..
>> No. 140775
>>140772
Yeah, they are two separate communities that attract different people. They have their own separate boards because that divide of attention exists naturally, I believe.

Well, since there currently is no plans for a sidebar anymore, and the Cascading Pages concept was a flop, can I suggest a revisiting of /all/'s coding? Seeing as it hides all threads from the client's side rather than from php output, it seems pretty heavyweight and wasteful of bandwidth. I'm sure there will be no objections from anypony to say that /all/ isn't a useful tool.
>> No. 140781
>>140775
You're pretty much spot on about the pony/oat merge idea. They're just too completely different cultures at this point

Also, I wouldnt rule everything out... but I have a godawful amount of work to do BEFORE we can really start re-adding features. I got a lot of code on a lot of server to run a manual integrity check on.


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139261 No. 139261 [View]
Dear mods,
"WahaHA!" is also used as an insult, not just a sexual term, and is therefore useful in roleplay.
Case in point capped and posted here.
Therefore, I'd like to ask that the WahaHA! filter be removed from /rp/.
Thanks!
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>> No. 139315
>>139314
You're awesome.
Thank you very much.
>> No. 140744
Sorry for necro, but it's been brought to my attention that "cunt" is also commonly used as an insult, so also probably shouldn't be filtered on /rp/.
>> No. 140747
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140747
>>140744

Ye cheeky cunt myate, I'll burstche, sware on me mum


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139268 No. 139268 [View]
So why can't you access the site's first link on google and shouldn't forbidden sites not appear on the seach results?
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>> No. 139297
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139297
>>139296
Yeah you pointed out that the problem was fixed. So really, you should be in prison by now. I mean, they lock people up for life for doing shit like this.
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139298
>>139297
i really did think somepony must have fixed the problem quickly though, sarcasm aside. which is hardly a bad thing, quite the opposite i was pretty impressed. of course if that wasnt the case, i dunno why it was doing it for me and the op

oh well, off to work
>> No. 139341
>>139268
If this happens:

1. Clear your cache and try again.

If that doesn't work...

2. Restart your computer.

Works for me every time.


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139325 No. 139325 [View]
http://www.ponychan.net/chan/chat/res/40741128+50.html

That image on the top for everypony to see, it's self-mutilation. I'm wondering why the person who created this thread hasn't been banned, it says they should be according the rules.

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139336
>>139335
>> No. 139338
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139338
>>139335
>> No. 139340
>>139335
while you're entirely correct, have you seen /mlp/? It's nothing but disturbing fetish threads, generals and general shittiness. At least they're somewhat self-aware of how awful they are, but that's always gonna be the issue when you're locked to just one tv show as a topic that doesn't even have new episodes at the moment. I'd almost prefer the nazi mods here, except I don't even care about ponies anymore.


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139045 No. 139045 Locked [View]
This is Ponychan's development blog!

Here, our developers are going to drop tidbits of information as we progress further with the current project. This might include sneak peaks of what we have so far, what we're doing and what might be going through our heads! You can expect updates roughly once a day!
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>> No. 139271
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139271
>>139270
Finished! Unfortunately, not much point in enabling it as it heavily relies on you being actually logged into an account. Probably should reconsider the way it's stored in the database, though.
>> No. 139321
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139321
>>139271
I lied
>pic related

Should be up in the morning though.

!!Lyra, don't be shy, get in here, you silly alicorn!
>> No. 139324
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139324
Web development is never quite easy. You could technically speaking write a whole lot of stuff in just a couple of minutes, but how do you exactly know what you need?

There's a lot of flying obstacles not just in Kusaba X, but in programming at large. As we move forward and press on with changes, more areas of the code become outdated. If we create a function which relies on a basic standard of applying it whenever any of the calling functions are used, how do we implement it if each function in Kusaba X is bruteforced into a class and summoned upon naming, without a single magic method?

As we build one part, we have to build another. So far, we've refrained from using templates, but that would bite us in the butt sometime soon. But it's not necessary to accomplishing this massive project, so we'd be able to set up some kind of prim and proper management and organization for the template files during a revision project. Kusaba X has no global Exception functions, nor any way to contact them without rethinking how just about everything is called to board.php, which is the backbone of Kusaba X. Without wasting a lot of time "prettying" things up or making them "economic" or sticking to DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) standards as opposed to WET (Write Everything Twice), this project can last well beyond May.

A good philosophy here is to remember your target. Don't cut corners, but remember your job, whenever you code. If a client asks you to build a screen, and you notice they don't have a table for it, you build a screen, not take some of your budget, buy and build for them a table, and cut a few corners with the screen. We often have to remember our goals, without falling into deadly traps that would ensnare us. As the project pushes on, one foot at a time, like a car you're trying to lift off the road with the help of a few other non-athletic friends, we grow closer and closer to completion.

But even if we don't make it by the end of May, one thing is for certain: No cutting corners. When this goes live, I, Mithent, Grandil, Guard, we all want people to say "Wow!" and experien


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I receive this error message when I try to upload a picture on /chat/. What does this mean? It seems I cannot load pictures anywhere.
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>> No. 139310
Never mind. I'll try another device later.
>> No. 139313
Hi Acapella! Can you try again and tell me what the error is now?
>> No. 140751
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140751
>>139313


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139287 No. 139287 Locked [View]
http://www.ponychan.net/chan/chat/res/40737628.html

Rape jokes are okay on Ponychan? Guess it won't be long before we're the new /b/.
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>> No. 139309
>>139306
I'm sorry.
>> No. 139311
>>139287
Um could you please lock this thread.
>> No. 139312
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139312
>>139309
You really need to sort out your apology complex.

Having a different opinion isnt something you should be apologizing for.

>>139311
Okay.


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