Likes / Dislikes

jammy_dodger

Whats this cloud test thingie i see on the side of everyones posts? is it new ?

Tyrrial

So what is this option under the avatar? how does it work, why is it there, and all that jazz

DeVore

Be calm citizen. Consume. All is well. Cloud is at play. god help us all

DeV.

Praetorian

NM. I'm sure it will be good! Can't delete my post off admin!

Cloud

Sure is, it's a new function called likedis - you can add your Likes / Dislikes in the User CP on the right hand side.

I've just finished writing the hack today so there's potentially some changes to be made.

If anyone can figure out the best way to get the I'm Feeling Lucky and ODP links back into the URL 1 / 2 text boxen let me know.

Enjoy

J.
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jammy_dodger

Are there any rules on what you post in it.
Cause if muppetry catches on (it always does) someone will post something offencive

eg.



LIKES

white people




DISLIKES


BL*** People

bizmark

have faith in the majory of us m8 where not all assholes or raceists though i do see where your comeing from

btw cloud good idea

Cloud

Well those kind of people will have been banned long before they find that option in the CP Hopefully in a future version we can do some matching between people, say you like both Quake and Star Trek, you could see who is the nearest match to you and what else they like (that you might).

If anyone can figure out the best way to get the I'm Feeling Lucky and ODP links back into the URL 1 / 2 text boxen let me know.

bizmark

rightfuly so

must go figer this new thingamajig out now lol cya in 2340

DeVore

There are no rules.... like most of boards if you post stuff we find offensive we'll ban you.

Just out of curiousity when you go round to a mates house do you ask him 20 questions of what he considers polite behaviour before hangin' out with him?

DeV

bizmark

no after a night of old skool doom playstation muiltplayer we mostly manage to destroy some part of each other,s house and body,s

jammy_dodger

Just out of curiousity when you go round to a mates house do you ask him 20 questions of what he considers polite behaviour before hangin' out with him?

What an odd question !

No, but i generally get to know someone, and have a good idea of what they're about before i call to their home.


Anyway ill be updateing my likes and dislikes, shortly.

oh and this has to be my favorite Devore quote

There are no rules

DeVore

and this is my favourite jammy_dodger quote:

Originally posted by jammy_dodger

No, but i generally get to know someone, and have a good idea of what they're about before i call to their home.

now theres an idea...



DeV.

bizmark

good counter dev

Victor

Originally posted by Cloud
Well those kind of people will have been banned long before they find that option in the CP Hopefully in a future version we can do some matching between people, say you like both Quake and Star Trek, you could see who is the nearest match to you and what else they like (that you might).

If anyone can figure out the best way to get the I'm Feeling Lucky and ODP links back into the URL 1 / 2 text boxen let me know.

You are working on the dating board aren't you?

bizmark

soon it will be a new dateing feature !

those cards are class

seamus

Originally posted by Cloud
If anyone can figure out the best way to get the I'm Feeling Lucky and ODP links back into the URL 1 / 2 text boxen let me know.

I don't presume to think I could solve this better than you...but,

I don't know the ins & outs of PHP (or javascript), but I would think the best way is to start up a transaction using a google URL (i.e. search Term + standard options + 'I'm feeling lucky' indentifier), and then read the location header returned, and stick it in the box.

Ditto for the ODP link, but instead of putting in 'site: directory.google.com' as part of the search term, use the get variable instead (not sure what the var name is), e.g. google.com/search?..........&s=directory.google.com

Not strictly necessary, but may allow you to create a single function to deal with both links

Gordon

Interesting idea.

Just to point out - Unregistered users also get the like/dislike link beneath their nick. Not a problem, just to let you know o cloudful one.

PhilipMarlowe

Why not just put a dynamic text link like

<a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&btnI=Im%2BFeeling%2BLucky&q=dynamicstuff">I'm 
Feeling Lucky</a>

instead of the actual url?

Cloud

Thanks for the suggestion seamus, I guess that's what I'm not sure about, will a header be returned for the Google page first, and the link will just be the Google I'm Feeling Lucky one. Licksy, I have a link like that opening the new window (apart from the googlet client thing, what's that do?) - something like hl=en&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=the+text+from+the+first+box

Keep the ideas coming! LOL at Victor. Bizmark, you called eircom "idoits" in your likedis list, I presume that was a typo I-do-it too!

J.
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seamus

Originally posted by Cloud
Thanks for the suggestion seamus, I guess that's what I'm not sure about, will a header be returned for the Google page first, and the link will just be the Google I'm Feeling Lucky one. Licksy, I have a link like that opening the new window (apart from the googlet client thing, what's that do?) - something like hl=en&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky&q=the+text+from+the+first+box

Keep the ideas coming! LOL at Victor. Bizmark, you called eircom "idoits" in your likedis list, I presume that was a typo I-do-it too!

J.
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/me can hear his brain ticking overtime

Hmmm......hmm.....hmmm.....

I guess iff you have a javascript function which takes two parameters: The link (e.g. hl=en&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky) and the text box. Then this uses these two pieces to create the full google link. It would seem that google then just redirects you to the page - similar to the PHP header function location: "www.website.tld". Afaik, this is also the header returned to the client. So if there was some way of say, temporarily opening a new browser window with the google search page (or having it open in the background of the client computer), using javascript to extract the location header, and then closing the connection/browser window, this would suit your purpose. I think. I'm not overly sure.

Perhaps if you just opened a new window with the Page returned by google, and let people decide themselves if they want to copy and paste it into the text boxen.

In fact, I just thought.....

A suck em and see.....

The Javascript opens the new browser window, reads the header and copies it into the text boxen. That way a user gets to view what link is going to be placed into their likes/dislikes, and can then change it again at the click of the link - As opposed to having to copy/paste the link to see what google returned.....?

(Probably gobbledeegook )

ecksor

The googly thing should return some sort of refresh information in the header. I propose that the backend bit for accepting edited information should look this up when you input the information first and cache it somewhere instead of having some shenanigans going on to try and look it up for each request. We get enough complaints about site speed as it is.

GuanYin

I dunno about dislikes....

If i don't like something i'm not going to encourage them by giving their website traffic....

Me: "I hate Pop stars"

Record producer webmaster: "Our site is getting more hits"

Record Producer: "GReat, lets do 10 more seasons of Pop Idol"

..its unlikely, but are you prepared to take that risk?

Are you?

bizmark

god damn it i swear if that happens ill hunt you all down and make you ALL say sorry to every freaking irish person in the country:)

PhilipMarlowe

Doen't c&p a google 'i'm feeling lucky' result into a static link not seem a bit pointless? Like shouldn't the result be subject to change once in a while?

Maybe offer the google result along with an (optional) inputted url?

Trebor

haven't tried it yet but do you have to put in the links?

what if i say that i like women with natural breast and dislike women with fake brest's?

(btw i mean this in a serious way not as spam)

wonder what google would return for that?

seamus

Originally posted by ecksor
We get enough complaints about site speed as it is.

Isn't Javascript clientside?

I'm not sure exactly what Cloud wanted, but from a brief skim through the web, and some bad attempts on this machine, it should be very possible to open a new window with the google link in it, and use Javascript to get the page URL for copying back into the text box.

Personally, I'd like to see what website I'm linking to before I submit the info

Wouldn't getting the headers from google *after* the info is submitted be much more horrible drain on the boards.ie server?

(I'd do more investigating/testing on the Javascript thingie, but I'm in work, on a crap machine, and I should be studying )

ecksor

[php]
<?
print google_lucky("boards cloud");

function google_lucky($search_term) {
$lucky_path = "/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky";
$lucky_path.= "&q=" . urlencode($search_term);

$http_conn = fsockopen("www.google.com", 80);

fputs($http_conn, "GET " . $lucky_path . " HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: www.google.com\r\n\r\n");
while( !feof($http_conn) ) {
if( ereg("Location: (.+)", fgets($http_conn, 128), $url_matches) ) {
return $url_matches[1];
}
}
}
?>
[/php]

When run from the command line we get:

jerry@muppet $ php -q lucky.php 
[url]http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/board/an/localities.northam.usa.states.kansas.counties.cloud/25/next/71[/url]
jerry@muppet $

Seems like a bit of a rough way of doing it, but it works. If anyone can point me to a neat library that does the same thing (or extracts headers) then that would be cool.

ecksor

Originally posted by seamus
Isn't Javascript clientside?

Doesn't matter, the menus are clientside and they slow the site down as far as the user is concerned.

Wouldn't getting the headers from google *after* the info is submitted be much more horrible drain on the boards.ie server?

Not really, and besides, you only do it once, when the user submits the string.

(And people shouldn't need to have javascript enabled to use our site properly goddammit).

PiE

The "Like" & "Dislike" image icons aint working

Don't understand why we HAVE to put in 2 URLs though.

Gordon

Originally posted by ecksor
(And people shouldn't need to have javascript enabled to use our site properly goddammit).

Can I just wholeheartedly agree with that please, thx.

DeVore

and what do ye suggest for the nav dropdown (the one everyone complains if it dissappears for like... 2 seconds) eh EH?

Seriously though. Wtf is wrong with Javascript? And how would you navigate 250+ boards without it?

DeV.

ecksor

I don't mind having a javascript menu (although I hate the current one), but I personally navigate around using the usercp and the last20 feature of the front page. I'd rather have big honking category buttons similar to the 5 dudes on the current page to get to the forums, instead of one little link saying 'bulletin' that most users can't see and if your mouse is dirty the chances are you'll hit the wrong link anyway.

The point is that if you have javascript turned off you can still get around the site (as long as you already know where everything is). Some sort of frankenstein javascript function opening windows and parsing the resulting location signifies a lack of functionality for users who don't have javascript. Does anyone have difficulty selecting sorting orders in the photopost application? I notice it has drop down options but no way of submitting them without the onChange event.

lordsippa

Good idea. Perhaps change it to only show when an user has some listed... think of us poor 56k-ers who'll click on useless links!

I'll be quiet now.

CuLT

I "like" everything the way it is! bah change = bad.

That is change in navigation method, if you have a sticky mouse, its time to get a new one.

I'm on 56k, I think if the js element were missing* it would make it far more difficult to navgate, the only change I would even consider proposing would be giving the top of the page its own frame.
I don't know how well that would work, but it would mean people wouldn't have to wait 4 seconds for the menus to load. Thats about all I'd change, and its not that important to me.





*Why would anyone disable javascript?

ecksor

Originally posted by CuLT
I'm on 56k, I think if the js element were missing* it would make it far more difficult to navgate, the only change I would even consider proposing would be giving the top of the page its own frame.

Nobody is talking about getting rid of javascript menus.

*Why would anyone disable javascript?

Cross site scripting worries perhaps, or proxies may strip out javascript before it gets to the user. Not all browsers support javascript, and in the case of boards specifically, it is almost or completely unusable in some browsers until you disable the javascript.

But this is all beside the point anyway. You have your javascript. Good for you. Events and menus and all that muck will most likely always work for you and things in general will stay fine for you. I'm referring to features that will only work in a javascript browser as being a bad thing.

Mercury_Tilt

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BuffyBot

OK...is there anyway of turning it off? It's bugging me for some reason.

I think it would have been better if it were down on the bottom of the post with "www" "profile" etc, rather than the left hand side.

Gordon

Originally posted by DeVore
Seriously though. Wtf is wrong with Javascript? And how would you navigate 250+ boards without it?

As the Mac users are always complaining about - the javascript/dhtml thing isn't always acceptable in non-IE browsers. I switched off Javascript for Boards on my Mac ages ago and have found that some places in particular are difficult to get to. If you would like - I can tally up a good long list for you. (one in particular is this link which is difficult to find even with the drop down menu.)

Mind you - being a Mac user does have other benefits on boards. For some reason many of Mercury_Tilts posts randomly disappear every so often.

Mercury_Tilt

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Gordon

Cloud

Woh we're going way OT!

I am currently forcing the selection of a Google Directory category for the second URL so that we can do some cool matching later on - trust me, it will be worth it...

Thanks,

John.
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Cloud

Thinking of replacing the text with an image, what do you think?

seamus

Sweeet.

White one for likes, black for dislikes, yeah?

Sposs

Originally posted by seamus
Sweeet.

White one for likes, black for dislikes, yeah?

Thats Racist

Cloud

Nope it's just for the different themes (that didn't sound right when I said skins).

KdjaCL

Oh i thought it was for users you liked an disliked.

Umm hope Mordeth doesnt click on mine

kdjac

Mercury_Tilt

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DeVore

Actually I secretly love it when people use stuff we create for purposes we never forsaw.

Officially I have to frown of course but when noones looking I giggle...

DeV.

Thorbar

I like the feature but as someone said ealier I don't think it should be in the lefthand side of the page. Its busy enough over there (look at shinji's one ffs) and I think it would fit in nicely beside buddy on the bottom.

Cloud

Yes I think you are right Thorbar.