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Started by Gryzor, 08:18, 01 October 16

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Like the new Portal homepage?

Yes
95 (58.6%)
No
46 (28.4%)
Needs customisation
21 (13%)

Total Members Voted: 161

Gryzor

@Targhan , unfortunately that is out for now, because it seems to mess with Tapatalk...

Gryzor

Everyone else, thanks for your kind words. I hope we find some balance soon...

remax

Only a suggestion but...


If we find a valuable applet that allow to display IRC on the portal, that would be great to relay the future IRC channel of M4Board owners... Perhaps instead of the shoutbox.
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Gryzor

Eh? So, have an IRC box for M4 owners?


Because if we're talking IRC in general - that's way out of scope...

PulkoMandy

Quote from: Gryzor on 14:24, 06 October 16
@Targhan , unfortunately that is out for now, because it seems to mess with Tapatalk...


It doesn't have to be on the main page. Or maybe tapatalk shouldn't point to the main page (how does it manage with the portal anyway?). But the list of recent/active/unread topics is a quite useful tool to quickly see "what's hot today" and not having to browse through all the categories or posts. We have other things to do than reading everything on the forum, you know  :D

Gryzor

Tapatalk doesn't "point" to anywhere. It's how it draws data from the forum that gets messed up if I change the top of the forum's homepage. The Portal is on a separate page and it does a proper redirect that TT can understand and follow, as far as I can see.


For "live" topics you can use Unread, Replies or the "Recently Updated Posts" block at the bottom of the forum page...

Duke

Quote from: Gryzor on 15:55, 06 October 16
Eh? So, have an IRC box for M4 owners?


Because if we're talking IRC in general - that's way out of scope...
Perhaps a link to something like https://webchat.freenode.net that autojoins #cpc channel with your forum nick. Not investigated if its possible to script that up.

remax

Quote from: Gryzor on 15:55, 06 October 16
Eh? So, have an IRC box for M4 owners?

The point is, thanks to the M4 and SymbOS, it would be possible to have people on their CPC discussing with people on the forum... As it was said, it would need to auto join a channel but it's very classical on any IRC applet integrated in a forum.

Well, it is just an idea i find VERY attractive (far more than a simple shoutbox), but if i'm the only one, or if it's too complicated, it will stay at the idea stage ;)
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MiguelSky

#33
Quote from: PulkoMandy on 16:06, 06 October 16But the list of recent/active/unread topics is a quite useful tool to quickly see "what's hot today" and not having to browse through all the categories or posts. We have other things to do than reading everything on the forum, you know  :D
I agree with PulkoMandy and I miss too (like Targhan) the 10 pages this tool had in the old version of forum. I used to navigate through this pages every visit and not in the categories.

Prodatron

Quote from: remax on 20:38, 06 October 16
The point is, thanks to the M4 and SymbOS, it would be possible to have people on their CPC discussing with people on the forum... As it was said, it would need to auto join a channel but it's very classical on any IRC applet integrated in a forum.

Well, it is just an idea i find VERY attractive (far more than a simple shoutbox), but if i'm the only one, or if it's too complicated, it will stay at the idea stage ;)

I totally agree, since we are now online nearly every day with the alpha version of the M4Board driver and syMIRC it's really cool to meet CPC people in IRC. Just think about what is happening, if everyone can use it with his M4 (hopefully very soon). And it would be even cooler if there is some CPCWiki<->IRC integration. Maybe it could replace the shoutbox, as IRC is still the more basic and common thing, but I have no idea about such plugin-stuff at all.
So it's only a thought.

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PulkoMandy

Quote from: Gryzor on 16:16, 06 October 16
Tapatalk doesn't "point" to anywhere. It's how it draws data from the forum that gets messed up if I change the top of the forum's homepage. The Portal is on a separate page and it does a proper redirect that TT can understand and follow, as far as I can see.


For "live" topics you can use Unread, Replies or the "Recently Updated Posts" block at the bottom of the forum page...


I don't understand, because the link to the portal is http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php and the link to the forums is http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=forum
So, I guess Tapatalk manages to get to http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=forum in that case?


Anyway, the "Unread" page is all I need (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/unread/?all;start=0), as long as it gives a list of unread *topics*, not unread *posts*. You can mess with all the other pages as much as you want, I will use just this one (and I'm ok with the extra click to reach it).

Gryzor

Ok, let's take a shot at IRC. Which server/channel?


Unfortunately it won't be on the main page, too complicated to do the integration...


@PulkoMandy : Unread gives the threads that contain unread posts/replies, not every single post, naturally :D

Gryzor

Just installed it, check out the next-to-last tab at the top menu, conveniently titled "chat".


Chose a random server and channel for now, let me know...

Edoz(MSX)

Could we change the server to freenode ? and than to #cpc ? That seems already the most active channel for CPC currently.

remax

Quote from: Edoz(MSX) on 14:46, 07 October 16
Could we change the server to freenode ? and than to #cpc ? That seems already the most active channel for CPC currently.


Same!
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Gryzor

Hm, which freenode server do you guys use? Tried a couple and they won't resolve...

Gryzor

Can you try it yourselves?

PulkoMandy

Usually "chat.freenode.net" points to all of the currently online servers. Just use that and let the freenode people decide?

remax

On the webchat i'm on herbert.freenode.net, but i don't know if it's limited to the webchat only...
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Gryzor

For some reason chat.freenode.net terminates my connection...

remax

#45
Quote from: Gryzor on 08:37, 09 October 16
For some reason chat.freenode.net terminates my connection...

Yeah, it's not specific to this IRC client...

We have to find a solution.

It's possible it doesn't like mibbit...

"Connections via mibbit are no longer supported on freenode" bingo !

This one supports freenode : https://kiwiirc.com/embedding

Perhaps give it a try !
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Gryzor

But, will Kiwiirc connect to the freenode channels? I wouldn't think so...

Prodatron

On the CPC I am using
verne.freenode.net
This was always working fine, and you can reach the #CPC channel.

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Gryzor

As @remax said, freenode won't let our client connect to it so it doesn't matter which freenode server I tell it to connect to :(

remax

Quote from: Gryzor on 16:01, 09 October 16
But, will Kiwiirc connect to the freenode channels? I wouldn't think so...

yes! i'm on it with kiwi and it's written "freenode approved" on the home page
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