Forum Discussion v6 - Newpunch Migration Underway - General

The ticker is pretty fun way to catch people who suddenly rates a post of yours that's a few years old

[QUOTE=UberMunchkin;53060290][img]https://i.imgur.com/sUbpYey.png[/img] holy shit it's been a while[/QUOTE] a hero returns in our darkest hour

Maybe the users AND the mods should take the forum less seriously and be more good sports.

I'm confused with Hezzy's post about name change thing. Who I should PM to?

Name changes are only really done for REALLY GOOD reasons. "My name sucks" isn't a good reason.

[QUOTE=Pascall;53060975]Name changes are only really done for REALLY GOOD reasons. "My name sucks" isn't a good reason.[/QUOTE] Is that because vBulletin is a pain to work with?

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;53060980]Is that because vBulletin is a pain to work with?[/QUOTE] I think it's more because Hezzy knows he'd get inundated with requests from people, far more than he has the time to handle, and stuff like titles is probably enough on his plate as is. But, all hope is not lost. On Newpunch, any new username you've selected at signup will keep when you link your old fp account.

[QUOTE=wingless;53061025]I think it's more because Hezzy knows he'd get inundated with requests from people, far more than he has the time to handle, and stuff like titles is probably enough on his plate as is. But, all hope is not lost. On Newpunch, any new username you've selected at signup will keep when you link your old fp account.[/QUOTE] Little of column A, little of column B. They explained in another thread that changing a username isn't something this forum's software "likes" to do. I don't know how it works but they certainly made it seem like it wasn't as simple as pulling up a menu and clicking a button. Then take whatever tech work would need to be done and multiply it a few hundred times for all the requests, and the end result is a bad time.

[QUOTE=Johnny Joe;53060980]Is that because vBulletin is a pain to work with?[/QUOTE] its easy as piss to change display names in AdminCP of any board software its just Hezzy is busy and allowing users to change their names on demand would be a terrible idea so its good its locked away for special circumstances

ok ok all right you guys finally made it, all right, I'll do it, I'll voluntarily do the name changing job, give me the admin panel

I like those little messages that pop up when you put the little emote things on people's posts. Can we have that in newpunch please?

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;53061977]"Your GitHub repositories have been successfully deleted" "Your Facebook friends have been sent pictures of postal's ass"[/QUOTE] "You have successfully contributed your life savings to the community fund"

[QUOTE=Nookyava;53061982]"You have successfully contributed your life savings to the community fund"[/QUOTE] Coin spent

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;53061661]its easy as piss to change display names in AdminCP of any board software its just Hezzy is busy and allowing users to change their names on demand would be a terrible idea so its good its locked away for special circumstances[/QUOTE] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/9uOBlsq.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;53062221]It's kind of odd that changing someone's display name would cause more stress for people with more posts. But I've never looked at how vBulletin stores posts and there's a reason y'all are leaving it behind to go for something custom and probably smarter.[/QUOTE] I'm guessing based on that information that it has to go through and update the name on all of your posts and if that involves updating 30k posts it might cause issues. I'm just using newpunch as a one time name change (and keeping the same avatar to stay recognisable).

[QUOTE=Mezzokoko;53062118][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/9uOBlsq.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] better reason we can all agree on: you let one rando change his name because he kinda felt like it and 20,000 other regulars will immediately ask to get it done because half of the forum registered when they were 12 or during the age of the internet where badly copypasting a shoop da whoop face onto literally anything was encouraged. It's not work to do one or five but it's a chore nobody should have to deal with when it turns into an unending queue of people you've never seen before who accuse you of giving special treatment to the popular regulars who ask speaking of which, after 2 years a mod (gwilty? on behalf of garry??? postal tell me who I love again) finally agreed to delete the rando who registered 'dai' and never posted so I could get that all the sweet ticker notifications when people post links to dailymail

make facepunch an anonymous board where people only recognize each other by avatars wait

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;53062716]That's exactly what I considered the odd thing seeing how a properly structured database would reference the author of a post by their ID (which never changes) instead of actually having anything of their display name (which can change) in the post table. I highly doubt vBulletin would store the display name with all the posts because anyone that can code a forum software like this would know it would be stupid. Example relational database structure (with only relevant parts): [b]posts[/b] id = 12512 message = This is my post here author_id = 421 [b]users[/b] id = 421 name = DenverCoder9 There's just no way all posts for a user should be updated or I'm missing something obvious.[/QUOTE] I think the underlying DB is just not optimized (either it isn't laid out like this or they don't index posts on user id's) and that's why the operation would be slow, yeah

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;53061977]"Your GitHub repositories have been successfully deleted" "Your Facebook friends have been sent pictures of postal's ass"[/QUOTE] your penis has been successfully enlarged

"1 point added towards your ban"

[QUOTE=thejjokerr;53062716]That's exactly what I considered the odd thing seeing how a properly structured database would reference the author of a post by their ID (which never changes) instead of actually having anything of their display name (which can change) in the post table. I highly doubt vBulletin would store the display name with all the posts because anyone that can code a forum software like this would know it would be stupid. Example relational database structure (with only relevant parts): [b]posts[/b] id = 12512 message = This is my post here author_id = 421 [b]users[/b] id = 421 name = DenverCoder9 There's just no way all posts for a user should be updated or I'm missing something obvious.[/QUOTE] Oh I recognise that it's a terrible system but based on the information that it does do a ton of work updating if you have many posts it implies that's what it does.

[QUOTE=NeonpieDFTBA;53063066]Oh I recognise that it's a terrible system but based on the information that it does do a ton of work updating if you have many posts it implies that's what it does.[/QUOTE] To confirm, VB4 does this, and I think this forum is built on VB3. So it is safe to assume that they didn't make the database design worse over time. [img]https://puu.sh/z4ydf/1d0bf324cb.png[/img] Whoever did vBulletin's database design should be blacklisted. Edit: And Xenforo does it too, holy shit

[QUOTE=Revenge282;53063100]To confirm, VB4 does this, and I think this forum is built on VB3. So it is safe to assume that they didn't make the database design worse over time. [img]https://puu.sh/z4ydf/1d0bf324cb.png[/img] Whoever did vBulletin's database design should be blacklisted.[/QUOTE] what the christ this terrifies me

Would changing my name from "PaChIrA" to just "Pachira" be a pain in the ass? I really regret capitalizing like that :v:

[QUOTE=Extronic;53063132]it's in case someone's account gets deleted, so when you see guests posts they still have usernames[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure if you delete an account that it removes the users name from their postings and it becomes "Guest" or something anon-like. Either way, there are much more effective ways at handling that, but we are getting off-topic.

Maybe gives marginal performance gains by avoiding joins

If I edit a thread title it doesn't show, does a moderator have to change it for people to see the new title?

[QUOTE=TheBorealis;53063909]If I edit a thread title it doesn't show, does a moderator have to change it for people to see the new title?[/QUOTE] iirc you have 5 minutes to change the title before you need a mod to step in

[QUOTE=Clovis;53064009]Forums discussion Literally talking about the meat and bones of the forum "off-topic"[/QUOTE] Is this a greentext without arrows?

The "Read Threads With New Posts" page shows this thread has a post made 9 hours ago: [url]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1527202&page=6[/url] But it doesn't show up in the thread itself.