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2019-11-13 at 12:05 PM UTC in ISS is the best forum software I've usedFuck I hate it when admins install 46 different brand of dildo in your ass that you never wanted
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2019-11-13 at 12 PM UTC in ZOE QUINN FINALLY GOING TO KILL HERSELF
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2019-11-13 at 11:56 AM UTC in ISS is the best forum software I've used
Originally posted by Lanny Aww
They really are. It's amazing given how mature the space really should be. I liked vB3 and ISS takes a lot of cues from it but there was still plenty of jank there. 3 hasn't been patched in a long ass time and 4 and 5 are trash (especially 5, I fucking hate vB5 so so much). I think SMF is probably the best offering (besides ISS, but I mean I'm clearly pretty biased there) but then that has its fair share of problems and questionable design decisions.
I'd love to see ISS adoption beyond NiS but there are a few road blocks. On the technical side, I need to upgrade to python 3 by end of year to keep getting security patches which is necessary but it's going to be tedious and unsexy work. Then I want to make the extension system a lot less jank, right now it's kind of kludged together and you have to rebuild the UI any time you add or remove an extension for reasons that improve site performance (resource bundling) but make the idea of distributing an extension that's not in the core repo kind of a nightmare so that's a pretty big roadblock to any kind of third party extension ecosystem. The major PHP BBSs all do the economically smart thing and make plugin authoring very easy in terms of getting something started and distributing plugins, but there's a cost in maintenance (ambitious extensions that need versioning for e.g. vB is a sisyphean task) and performance (we've probably all seen the horrors of a forum where the admin got plugin happy and just threw every shiny looking thing into the config).
Then there's semi-technical stuff, a few people have gone through setting up a dev environment and it's not exactly a one step process. As far as I know I'm the only person who's ever even tried to set up a production instance of ISS and you need to probably be a professional level developer and/or ops person to do it all correctly. I've been thinking of setting up a dockerized build which I hope would kill both the development and production birds with one stone, but I've never gone though that process before so I'm not sure how much is going to be involved there. Heroku would also be nice for the turn-key installs but I don't really like tieing it to a commercial closed source product.
And then there's the purely social stuff, i.e. anyone outside of NiS even realizing ISS is a thing and convincing them to use it. Two big selling points in this space are ease of installation and plugin ecosystems, which as mentioned are both pretty weak for ISS at the moment. I invested in stuff like performance, code simplicity, and broad useragent support early on and all of these are kind of afterthoughts for people when shopping for forum software. You have to actually have a forum and traffic on it before you start caring a whole lot about things like performance or supporting lynx or anything like that. Most forum admins aren't programmers and will literally never care about simplicity of a codebase directly.
So yeah, I think there are cool things about ISS beyond it just being a pet project, but it's going to take a lot of elbow grease before it can be a meaningful competitor to commercial software like vB or large OSS forums like phpbb.
You are being humble, like a fag.
I really do think that if you make the installation clean and easy (and I guess cheap/free), and get the word out, it would get some grassroots adoption. The biggest "forum" in the world is Reddit and you can't do shit on it. People just wanna post.
You could even do a 2 tier system: 1 base version that is just free to install and has this simple, stable, fast forum functionality with no bullshit. And then if you want additional bullshit then you can pay for the development branch where new stuff is added. -
2019-11-13 at 11:37 AM UTC in Colorize tabs to match themes
Originally posted by Lanny The iOS one is actually a bit more complicated. Normal safari ignores it, it only applies when you do the "add to my homescreen" thing. And that does this thing where if you trigger a full navigation (like this site does all the time) then you get kicked back to normal safari. I'd like to set up turbolinks optionally so that would work appropriately, but that's going to involve some significant work to not break the js/no-js mechanisms for stuff like post editing, quotes, etc plus I think there's going to have to be some cache busting code on the UI. So it goes on the back burner, but it's probably only a weekend of work.
"It just works"
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2019-11-13 at 12:51 AM UTC in I just got the leasing manager at my apartment complex fired.
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2019-11-13 at 12:47 AM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕Oh no Sploo is becoming a retard again.
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2019-11-13 at 12:46 AM UTC in I just got the leasing manager at my apartment complex fired.
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2019-11-13 at 12:35 AM UTC in ZOE QUINN FINALLY GOING TO KILL HERSELF
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2019-11-13 at 12:29 AM UTC in I just got the leasing manager at my apartment complex fired.I'll make another confession, I had another pair of reasons:
1. I am nice to the lady at the office and I come in very happy and positive to the staff usually. And this guy gave me the customer service fuck off forced greeting, when that's not how the previous person was at all, I really got along with them all. It kinda rubbed me the wrong way, twice.
2. He is Indian so fuck him. -
2019-11-13 at 12:23 AM UTC in I just got the leasing manager at my apartment complex fired.
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2019-11-13 at 12:22 AM UTC in I just got the leasing manager at my apartment complex fired.
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2019-11-12 at 10:59 PM UTC in Dump idiot Trump:O (=====B
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2019-11-12 at 10:53 PM UTC in ZOE QUINN FINALLY GOING TO KILL HERSELF
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2019-11-12 at 10:42 PM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕Cripple boi
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2019-11-12 at 10:18 PM UTC in I just got the leasing manager at my apartment complex fired.
Originally posted by Sudo how did you do that?
I asked other tenants that since he was stonewalling their complaints, they should write their complaints with the property on the memo for their rent payment. Those ones are always read by the money guys in small companies. I told them to specifically cite him by name for his stonewalling as bad customer service and that they wouldn't be renewing their lease without changes, including in staff.
I also created several Google Accounts with names matching other tenants and left reviews without asking them but with their real complaints, and again cited him by name.
Edit: reviews on GMaps -
2019-11-12 at 10:11 PM UTC in Is there anything we all agree on?
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2019-11-12 at 9:38 PM UTC in Is there anything we all agree on?We can agree that we do not know whether or not we agree on anything aside from this fact.
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2019-11-12 at 9:31 PM UTC in I just got the leasing manager at my apartment complex fired.Big time Schadenfreude. I'm actively getting my jollies right now.
The real loller is that he didn't even do anything wrong to me.
I was just an asshole and he had me dead to rights with my lease agreement. That encounter gave me fantasies of chronic and sustained cruelty to him. I thought of smashing his knees with a ballpeen hammer. But I tempered those emotions and got slow, petty revenge. Good luck getting a new job faggot! -
2019-11-12 at 6:09 PM UTC in Colorize tabs to match themesWhoops made the commit on branch but didn't submit PR. Should be up now.
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2019-11-12 at 5:07 PM UTC in Here is my question.
Originally posted by 6011UM
Who said 'sour patch kids' was a flavor? Nowhere on the box does it say that.
In any event they just do the flavor of all of them mixed together. Like you see with skittles ejuice. If it tastes like a bunch of sour patch kids mixed together, its sour patch kids flavor.
In saying what he's saying. Not arguing his point. Fag.
