The Today Thread

[PCF]Falcs · **on:** October 01, 2018, 09:30:45 PM

Thought i would start things off :)

Administrator · **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2018, 09:39:40 PM

Well done Wooster. Much appreciated.
This is going to take some getting used to. Sorry to lose the old forum since there was years' worth of stuff on there.

Glamdring · **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2018, 09:53:26 PM

Had a lot of bother logging in using Firefox, which has been slow particularly with PCFF for months. But still slow, with whole new forum. Maybe it's the not-https thing that's bothering it.

Wooster · **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2018, 09:54:11 PM

It's https now
I was modding the user reg process in the main Admin account and I think someone else was using it, so it dropped the certificate and I had to renew it.

Wooster · **Reply #4 on:** October 01, 2018, 09:57:19 PM

This theme I applied ain't great, is it? :)

[PCF]Falcs · **Reply #5 on:** October 01, 2018, 09:59:41 PM

very small text!!!

Wooster · **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2018, 10:09:51 PM

CTRL+Scroll Wheel? ;)

Going to test another

[PCF]Falcs · **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2018, 10:12:25 PM

oo that works :)

Wooster · **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2018, 10:19:51 PM

Added a new theme 'Broken' you can select in your profile settings.

I think it is broken, since the Reply function is at the top of the page. ;D

Default font size if I recall on this means modifying the CSS and it throws everything out of whack, so CTRL+Scroll is the way forward. ;)

Wooster · **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2018, 10:42:10 PM

Profile>Account Settings>Look and Layout

At the very top it show Current Theme with (change) next to it, ther are a few there to tinker with.

Glamdring · **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2018, 10:54:42 PM

Interesting. Surface O Lite is quite good. But we'll see. Broken was okay too.

Wooster · **Reply #11 on:** October 02, 2018, 12:12:48 AM

Sunrise is good on a larger monitor, you can switch between day and night mode as well.

Wooster · **Reply #12 on:** October 02, 2018, 09:01:14 AM

Just installed reCaptcha to simplify the registration process and hopefully weed out the spam accounts that I've already had to prune.

How do they know a new forum has gone up so quickly?

Glamdring · **Reply #13 on:** October 02, 2018, 09:23:36 AM

I suspect they have checked out the old one and found this instead. It is odd though. Maybe they get lists handed to them to try by bots that trawl constantly.

Wooster · **Reply #14 on:** October 02, 2018, 09:35:24 AM

You could be right.
I had to put a redirect in place to steer visitors to the correct directory (the old site was in pc-forums.co.uk/phpbb/), so the old spambots will get redirected as well.

reCaptcha is a Google Authentication thing, the 'I am not a robot' check box you see on a lot of sites, so fingers crossed it's effective. :)

[PCF]Falcs · **Reply #15 on:** October 02, 2018, 09:58:07 AM

Have to admit this looks better than the old forum!

Wooster · **Reply #16 on:** October 02, 2018, 03:31:15 PM

reCaptcha seems to work.
No dodgy signups all day. 8)

[PCF]Falcs · **Reply #17 on:** October 02, 2018, 03:41:50 PM

Just need to get the old peeps back on here now!

Glamdring · **Reply #18 on:** October 02, 2018, 04:18:09 PM

Some of them will turn up sooner or later. The forum is certainly faster than it was.

Wooster · **Reply #19 on:** October 02, 2018, 07:24:25 PM

Quote from: Wooster on October 02, 2018, 09:35:24 AM

reCaptcha is a Google Authentication thing, the 'I am not a robot' check box you see on a lot of sites...

It's a lot cleverer than just a wee check box: http://qnimate.com/how-does-googles-no-captcha-recaptcha-work/ 8)

Glamdring · **Reply #20 on:** October 02, 2018, 09:13:51 PM

I'd read that before. Very clever. Proves how un-AI bot are compared to the way we work.

Wooster · **Reply #21 on:** October 02, 2018, 10:57:32 PM

We did get one a couple of hours ago, but it must have been a manual sign up.
It's easy to prune the dafties out on this board as well.

Wooster · **Reply #22 on:** October 03, 2018, 12:19:53 AM

Buggered the emotes up somehow, will fix tomorrow. :)

Splinter · **Reply #23 on:** October 03, 2018, 09:30:08 AM

I managed to register and get past the ReCaptcha no problems.
Onwards and upwards :)

Glamdring · **Reply #24 on:** October 03, 2018, 10:24:36 AM

Cool. ^

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I've noticed an increasing number of people using the term 'get-go'. Why? I hate it. It means nothing other than 'beginning'. It isn't cool or smart. It isn't hipster or anything other than an 'annoyism'. There. It's made me invent a term for it. 'Get-go' is like people who begin sentences with 'So...' I hate that too.