XF Move To-Do List

I'm not sure how to go about this but being able to refresh the 'New Posts' screen without having to click the 'New Posts' button would be nice. Thus far it seems to link to 'index.php?find-new/<#>/posts' with <#> being the number of times I have gone to that page as it goes up by 1 weather an hour or 2 minutes has passed since I last checked. Thus if I refresh 'index.php?find-new/38/posts' it will only show topics that were new for the 38th time I checked the new posts page rather than new posts period, including dehighlighting old topics instead of removing them.

Why it even does it this way I have no clue. It seems horribly complicated when it should be very simple to just have the page display new posts without a check on if you had visited it recently or not.

Screencaps of what I mean Spoilered below

Spoiler

New Posts Screen


Hitting F5 to refresh


Clicking the New Posts link at the top of the page

Note the URL addresses and the numbers in them. It went from 223 from the first screencap, stayed on it for the second, and went to 225 in the third because 224 was when I hit refresh but it didn't update the URL for the new address and just dehighlighted the topic I checked.

It's not a critical failure but it is a minor annoyance I have noticed that should theoretically be easy to fix.

 

Is there any chance we can get the [abbr] command back somehow? I used it in Beast Art Online a few times, and the loss has turned my characters post into a total mess.

 

is it possible to have a simpler (and less visually tiring font) as the default posting font for a dark theme, or is it limited to the white theme (Nitrogen?) I see it everywhere but the posts, so I think it is. If its too much of a bother to implement, just ignore this.

 

Alright. Will do.

 

Sure this isn't the right place, but I can't seem to find this IRC guide that was in the announcement. Where is it?

 

Check the Help menu. Look at the bottom of the board to find it.

 

Get elegee to add a robot.txt

To site.

 

Only the most irreputable ones will ignore it. All the major search engines like Google or bing will obey them.

 

Read this here. It may help.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/4598466?hl=en&ref_topic=4617736

 

Is the formatting of old posts (see, e.g., here, mostly unreadable, or here, painful, or here, hilarious) expected to be fixed anytime soon?

If not, can you please make absolutely sure you have an uncorrupted dump of the old forum's database before the plug gets pulled on it?

 

It's not a matter of being corrupted. It's just due to the coding differences between smf and xenforo. But alethiophile is working on a script to systematically fix it. Nothing to be done about it until he is done, or you want to fix it manually.

 

No, it actually is corrupted. See that last link, especially: there have been a number of spurious tag insertions, and there should be several "[hr]" tags which are not present. The conversion scripts misparsed the SMF BBCode and attempted to generate equivalent XF BBCode, but failed miserably in all nontrivial cases and many trivial ones.

This cannot be fixed solely by looking at the posts in the XenForo database. If that's what alethiophile's script is doing, it's not going to work. It can, however, be fixed by doing a proper import of those posts with a non-broken importer. (Which will probably have to be written. I realize I may be volunteering.)

 

@tehelgee your thoughts on this?

 

Does anyone have any idea of how endemic the corruption of data is? Is it an issue effecting more then a handful of posts?

Because if not, a simple solution would be to host the old SMF board of QQ on a free hosting level, keep it shut down for new posting, but let users retrieve their old posts at their leisure if said post is corrupted.