If you could have ANYTHING you wanted here at MM...

[pj]

I had tried that and didn't really like the look of it, and neither did Nina.  She's open to working with others, but she really needs to be involved in planning, discussion and final approval before anybody takes off with new ideas.

By the way - the logo image up there WAS linked back to the main page, but it isn't anymore.  That's because I didn't do it right - I did it by manual edit rather than with a mod package.  We'll add that back to the to-do list.

[pj]

Addendum to the above -

If anybody wants their own theme to customize and play with for potential use, let me know.  It isn't a big deal to set it up and grant access - but but but (there's always a 'but'.)

BUT - all that is open to change are the style sheets and graphics.  If any more than that needs to be done, it needs to be discussed and looked at very carefully before implementing, because of the need to maintain consistency across the themes to prevent nightmare problems when we do modifications and updates.

I hope to have completely custom themes here.  Incorporating the MM logos and dream-related graphics would be very cool.

[Adam]

I would love to be able to create my own theme is possible!! I didn't think we were allowed to do this. Where can I get a vanilla version of our forum to modify?

 

[pj]

I need to create it for you and grant you access to it.  The idea isn't so you can have your own personal, private theme, but rather so you can play with a theme with the goal of coming up with ideas for customizing our primary themes.

I'll add this to my to-do list for today - but let me know which of our themes you would like as a base theme to start with.

[Josh]

Hey, could I give that a shot, too, pj? I'd like to mess around with the default theme a bit. SMF themes are largely based on style sheets, correct? I'm trying to learn CSS this month, already got a good ways, and I'd really like to see if I can improve this theme a bit.

In fact, I think I'm going to do something I've been meaning to do for awhile now; install SMF on my own domain, where I can see what it looks like in action there. I understand that we've got a lot of modifications running here, so it won't be exactly the same, but it'll be fun to mess around with anyway. I'm a hands-on guy, I like to be able to really work with whatever it is I'm working with.

[pj]

Sure - let me know which theme you want to start with.

The rules are important to follow though - only edit graphics and style sheet.  Going into the templates creates nightmares for a system as heavily customized as ours.

[Josh]

Sure - let me know which theme you want to start with.

The rules are important to follow though - only edit graphics and style sheet.  Going into the templates creates nightmares for a system as heavily customized as ours.

I'd like to experiment with the default, MortalMist, for now, I think. I understand, I can well imagine some of the issues that could arise.

[pj]

Ok - may not be set up until Monday, and I'll PM you more details.

[pj]

You're all set, MoS.  I PM'd some info to you.

[Seeker]

The scheduled discussions in Chat sounds like a pretty neat idea and I'm up for it as my schedule allows.

Now on to wants.  Now that we have the stuff in place to tally up our LDs, Dreams, Frags, how about some reporting software to make some cool graphs?  Or a .CSV export?

[unseen wombat]

This may sound silly, but I'd like to be able to have a state flag option in the "location" on our profile, instead of just the general "United States." America is a big place. It'd be kinda nice to see what part of the country everyone is from and show off my own flag. (The only one that's not square)!

[Josh]

You're all set, MoS.  I PM'd some info to you.

Thanks, pj! Sorry I haven't been around much this past week, I've been busy working on getting LL up and running. I'll see what I can do with the theme this coming week, things should be settled down enough by then that I'll have the time to work on it. I have a few things I want to try.

[dodobird]

I'd like the option of searching for all the posts or threads by a certain user.

Also I'd like the option of deleting a thread that I started, ( maybe with the limitation that I will be able to do that if no one has replied to them yet)

[pj]

1)  Click on Search, then Advanced Search, or go into the user's profile and use the convenient link.

2)  I think you can already do that so long as nobody has replied.  We have unlimited ability to edit and delete posts - if you delete the first post in a thread, the thread should go away.  I'll check and try to verify that later.  Worst case scenario is you could always wipe the contents and title of that first post and let an admin know there's some cleaning up needed in Aisle 7.

[pj]

Ok - 2) above is not accurate.  You cannot remove your own threads, and there is a reason for this.

We have no way of limiting thread removal to only threads that haven't been replied to.  You own your posts, but not the posts of others.  All members have unlimited edit and post removal, but not the ability to remove the posts of others.

The compromise there is as stated above - you can remove the content and title from your own posts in your own threads, and if they are not replied to you may ask an Admin to remove the thread for you.

You do have the ability to lock your own threads, by the way.