@Mateusz
Can we discuss your minimalist bulletin board forum here?
At first, can you please make the RSS feed a valid one?
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsvardos.org%2Frss.php fails because of a missing 'description'.
Should be easy to fix by turning:
<channel>
<title>SvarDOS community forum</title>
<link>
http://svardos.org/?p=forum</link>;
<item>
into:
<channel>
<title>SvarDOS community forum</title>
<link>
http://svardos.org/?p=forum</link>;
<description>a place to talk about SvarDOS and other DOS-related things</description>
<item>
I'm crossing fingers now before clicking 'send', because me is using angle brackets in this message.
Secondly, make <h1>SvarDOS community forum</h1> a clickable link pointing to
http://svardos.org/?p=forum
Otherwise a visitor needs to reach out to 'list of threads' at the right or 'Forum' at the top of the page.
I wonder it may not be good to show whole IP address?
I think it is better to mask some digits for display.
> I wonder it may not be good to show whole IP address?
Hi Roy, the forum is not meant to be anonymous. In my experience it is not possible to have a totally anonymous AND open/registration-free forum without vandalism quickly kicking in.
Now, if you are really concerned, then you may want to consider using tor or something alike?
Mateusz
It's okay for me, that you (M.) collect my IP address, but I would also prefer to hide it from other visitors (people or bots).
Does showing 176.138.251.144 really prevent vandalism better than showing just 176.138.251.XXX?
I just read "TITLE tag of forum pages contains the title of the thread so web crawlers can index it better" at
http://svn.svardos.org/revision.php?repname=SvarDOS&path=%2F&isdir=1&rev=1718
That's cool! I also thought about requesting that feature, because it's also good for bookmarking a thread.
So, thanks! :-)
I'm glad you like it. I noticed that google shows all threads as "SvarDOS forum" which is not very readable and might even be detrimental to indexing. Hopefully this small change will improve things.
BTW I did not forget the IP-address subject initiated by Roy, it's just that my hobby time is limited, so I try to use the little I have as efficiently as possible. My idea is to implement a kind of "trusted users", based on a whitelist of tripcodes. Adding a tripcode to such whitelist would make the forum hide, entirely or partially, the IP of the user. This would allow to provide IP privacy for users that explicitly ask for it. It just has to wait until I get to it.
Mateusz
> it's just that my hobby time is limited, so I try to use the little I have as efficiently as possible.
Sure. No hurry.
> My idea is to implement a kind of "trusted users", based on a whitelist of tripcodes. Adding a tripcode to such whitelist would make the forum hide, entirely or partially, the IP of the user. This would allow to provide IP privacy for users that explicitly ask for it.
Sounds interesting indeed.
> It just has to wait until I get to it.
"It's done, when it's done." And he got away with it. ;-)