Site changes - Spam Reports, Etc Please use this thread

[Phil_S]

Phil: There is some weirdness on the main index page. Moderators names are repeating. See the picture. Thought you'd like to know.
--Phil S.

[pompeiisneaks]

See my previous post I'm aware. Something else buggy that I've submitted as a request to the phpbb team for review.

~Phil

[vibratoking]

Phil, thanks for fixing TAG. And congrats on becoming a mod. Thanks for stepping up to a largely thankless position.

Navigating TAG and finding info is a bit difficult. This is especially true for new users. This is typical for forums like this one. Lot's of great information, but hard to find. Any chance of cleaning up some of the sections? In particular, there are quite a few threads in the files sections, Dumble and Trainwreck, that should be in the corresponding discussion sections because the topics have nothing to do with files. I view the file sections as a library where members can locate schematics, layouts, build guides, documents, etc... Currently the file sections are bit polluted with discussion threads. In fact, the files sections might be renamed to documentation sections to make it more clear what type of posts are contained within.

[pompeiisneaks]

Phil, thanks for fixing TAG. And congrats on becoming a mod. Thanks for stepping up to a largely thankless position.

Navigating TAG and finding info is a bit difficult. This is especially true for new users. This is typical for forums like this one. Lot's of great information, but hard to find. Any chance of cleaning up some of the sections? In particular, there are quite a few threads in the files sections, Dumble and Trainwreck, that should be in the corresponding discussion sections because the topics have nothing to do with files. I view the file sections as a library where members can locate schematics, layouts, build guides, documents, etc... Currently the file sections are bit polluted with discussion threads. In fact, the files sections might be renamed to documentation sections to make it more clear what type of posts are contained within.

good idea, I'll do some cleanup, moving, but won't rename, I'll just add some pinned instructions so people do the right thing.

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[pompeiisneaks]

I've figured out the problem with the search missing the post link.

First off, you can still 'click' to the link by looking at the data on the right side.

Below is nerdspeak, so you can do the tl;dr now if you're not interested.

It seems that the 'conversion' didn't copy over the 'topic subject' for the replies people made to an original thread. I did a test of this by doing a quick db update of all 22 rows of a thread I was involved in that the search showed 'empty' post subjects (Except the original one) example for this thread the first subject is :

Site changes - Spam Reports, Etc Please use this thread

The rest should have something like

Re: Site changes - Spam Reports, Etc Please use this thread

but instead were just 'empty'

To fix this I'm going to have to write a perl script that gets every single topic ID, and the topic subject, and does a database update for any row that's empty for htat field and update it with:

Re: original subject here

type thing. for the SQL savvy, here's what I did for one:

UPDATE phpbb_posts SET post_subject="Re: Site work over the next 24-48 hours" WHERE topic_id="29899" AND post_subject="";

that fixed that thread so there's a 'link' for the search.

[Littlewyan]

Still having an issue with a security warning.

Browsing to the homepage is fine but when I go into a section like Technical Discussion or Marshall Discussion I get this error from Sophos.

[pompeiisneaks]

I'll see if I can get it delisted for sophos

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[pompeiisneaks]

ok I requested a delisting, we'll see, they say at sophos that it can take up to 5 days.

~Phil

[Littlewyan]

Great, thanks Phil. As its only doing it on the sub forums though does that not mean there could be something wrong with them in particular?

[pompeiisneaks]

No I'm guessing they've just had the listing for a while and hadn't delisted us, and I didn't know they had us listed (I used a tool that looked over multiple listings and didn't mention sophos.

~Phil

[Littlewyan]

A tool? Cool! Yeah it only randomly happens............Bit odd.

Great job sorting out the forum by the way. Its much better

[sluckey]

Phil, is there a way to filter out the "bots" that show up in the registered users list at the bottom of the index page?

[pompeiisneaks]

Phil, is there a way to filter out the "bots" that show up in the registered users list at the bottom of the index page?

Do you mean hide them visibly, or block them? They are indexing the site so search results on Google etc find content better. I can see if there's a way to not show them though.

[sluckey]

Just hide them from the registered users list.

[pompeiisneaks]

Just hide them from the registered users list.

I'll look into it.

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