Wittmeister's Feature List

[Sir Lüc]

The Shoutbox has been restored to full operation and styled to blend in with Witt's theme. (Incidentally, it probably was a problem with the embed provider's servers which they fixed on their own)

Edit: also for some reason Privacy Badger blocks the Discord CDN so if you don't see the shoutbox avatars that's why.

[Sir Lüc]

Sadly we have had another shoutbox outage in the last 3 hours or so. If this persists, I have selected an alternative embedder (which seems superior anyway, so we might switch no matter what).

[Sir Lüc]

PSA: I'm currently testing an alternate discord embed for the Shoutbox (you may notice a floating icon on the bottom right). This is because the current embed is a bit buggy - last week the embed bot went offline for a couple of hours every day, and now it seems that messages are sent but not displayed until you reload the page.

As far as I know, this alternate embed is not mantained in its current version "v1" anymore, and the developers are working on "v2" which is currently in beta. Perhaps, when it will be out of beta (it still lacks some stuff that is present in the current embed), we can evaluate whether it's worth switching.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Interesting that it uses a BBCode enclosure. If you hover over people's names you can see their user number (u=##). In a pinch, you can find someone's U# and then tag people manually by number

Yes, that's how the mod works.

1) Search the text of the post for @<username> (the original mod, before my edit, was @<displayname>)
2) For each of those, find numeric ID and real name and replace the <username> bit
3) Send a notification and mantain DB tables with a list of seen and unseen mentions

Of course, if you do this manually, you are doing point 2) only. You get no notification that way.

Couldn't get this to work like it's supposed to, since selecting the autocomplete filled in the name but didn't make it a link with a notification.

[Sir Lüc]

Thank you for noticing. I will get on it sometime this week, sorry but Witt-admin activity might be reduced over the holidays.

Three spam accounts have been deleted. From now on, suspicious accounts will be immediately banned from posting while the identity is ascertained, then deleted. (Although this is probably an area where the Chancery should set a policy. Sadly I'm not so confident that we will get to see "official", lawful operation of this forum happen anytime soon.)

We currently have 44 registered citizens and 1 registered prospective.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

Sadly I'm not so confident that we will get to see "official", lawful operation of this forum happen anytime soon.

The target of 50 registrations was an arbitrary one and can be ignored if the Government decides to do so.

[GV]

Sadly I'm not so confident that we will get to see "official", lawful operation of this forum happen anytime soon.

The target of 50 registrations was an arbitrary one and can be ignored if the Government decides to do so.

We were at 49(!!) and then went to 46.  Is someone trying to troll us?  lolz

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Not a priority at all, but I noticed that YouTube videos don't resize on mobile. So I'm not sure you can watch them unless you go full screen while on mobile. Just FYI.

[Sir Lüc]

Sadly I'm not so confident that we will get to see "official", lawful operation of this forum happen anytime soon.

The target of 50 registrations was an arbitrary one and can be ignored if the Government decides to do so.

I was referring more to the fact that we need the Chancery to do its thing, ie take officially control of policy and certify the forum for use, than the Government's goal which is obviously not legally binding.

We are at 49 registered members, of which 1 is Wittmeister, 1 is a prospective and 1 is no longer a citizen. So 46 registered citizens.

[Sir Lüc]

Not a priority at all, but I noticed that YouTube videos don't resize on mobile. So I'm not sure you can watch them unless you go full screen while on mobile. Just FYI.

Fixed!

[Eðo Grischun]

We are at 49 registered members ... 1 is no longer a citizen.

Really weird.  I said a few days ago that I was kind of shocked to see Cresti Caveglhet on the list of striker-outers.  The fact that he registered an account of New Witt right before striking out makes it all the more odd.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

I said a few days ago that I was kind of shocked to see Cresti Caveglhet on the list of striker-outers.  The fact that he registered an account of New Witt right before striking out makes it all the more odd.

Obviously the compulsory-voting rule isn't actually working to make sure that those who are still interested in Talossa keep voting.

[Sir Lüc]

Wittenberg has been upgraded to SMF 2.0.16, which carries security fixes and other benefits, including GDPR compliance support (we do need to set a privacy policy to be fully compliant though).

[Sir Lüc]

Oh, and the Mentions mod has been reinstalled, as it was misbehaving.

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Is there a way to have personal messages arranged like they were on old Witt?

[Sir Ian Plätschisch]

Is there a way to have personal messages arranged like they were on old Witt?

Nevermind, I just found the message settings menu.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Is there a block function?  I couldn't find one.

[Sevastáin Pinátsch]

Is there a block function?  I couldn't find one.

https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?action=profile;area=lists;sa=ignore;

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

Is there a block function?  I couldn't find one.

https://wittenberg.talossa.com/index.php?action=profile;area=lists;sa=ignore;

Ah, it's a dropdown under Modify Profile.  Thank you!

[Sir Lüc]

The Registration Agreement has been updated and it's likely that more changes will happen "soon" as we adjust to using New Witt as the only Witt, particularly quality of life changes and other changes related to the implementation of Wittiquette.

In unrelated news, we've had a lot of spam accounts registering lately, which is a bit of a nuisance but not much of a real issue because 1) they're easy to mass delete; 2) they can do nothing unless assigned to a group by an admin or Immigration. Because of this, though, we have now switched to reCAPTCHA for verification instead of SMF's Visual Verification Image.

Finally, this post (and the Welcome one, which will also be locked) will be moved to the Webspace board soon, with a FAQ post being worked on. As always, continue using this post for feedback, criticism and help.