[edited 306 times; latest by CGameProgrammer on 1117857600 -- highlight modified text]
Does anyone think they can design a nice avatar image? It should be a grayscale GIF, ideally composed of black and white along with any grays inbetween, and should be 20-30 pixels wide and 25-30 pixels high.
To-do:
* (May 07 2005) Make new posts private, with a button on the post for confirming it to make it public.
* (Mar 05 2005) Need to fix the Search page.
* (Feb 23 2005) When someone uploads a new file that replaces an old one, from a different path, the download count should be cleared.
* (Feb 14 2005) Interactive-style color scheme customization.
* (Feb 14 2005) Allow custom avatars again.
* (Feb 02 2005) BUG: Long 'words' in comments (like a long URL) can force the comment to be too wide. This is evident in comment #297 of this thread... in 800x600 resolution, that comment messes up the formatting due to the URL. It should be forcibly broken in two in that situation.
* (Feb 02 2005) It would be cool to have the download-files part of a post be in an iframe that periodically refreshes itself, so with a popular post you could actually watch the download counter increase.
* (Oct 12 2004) Display people's timezones and text descriptions of their region.
* (Feb 24 2004) Add an option, possibly not just for registered users, to automatically watch all posts that have been commented by you. Also add an option to be e-mailed when anything is updated on the site.
* (Feb 16 2004) After a comment has been posted, display text reminding the person that they can watch the post if they want.
* (Nov 18 2003) Shortcut codes, as an alternative to HTML.
* (Nov 18 2003) Automatically add titles to anchors.
* (Oct 9 2003) rewrite FAQ when all else is complete
Completed:
* (Jun 03 2005) Redesigned the Upload New Images page.
* (Jun 03 2005) Improved the performance of most of the scripts slightly..
* (May 12 2005) The look of those HTML image tooltips has been modified and hopefully improved.
* (May 12 2005) The rows of tiny thumbnails on the main page have been combined into a single image per page for vastly quicker load times.
* (May 04 2005) There are now HTML tooltips over the thumbnail-bar images.
* (May 04 2005) Image thumbnails now display text indicating they can be left-clicked, and thumbnails for very small images (same size as the thumbnail) are no longer clickable.
* (May 04 2005) BUGFIX: Previously, names or passwords that contained apostrophes or quotation marks wouldn't have been handled correctly. Fixed. Now any name or password can be used for anything.
* (Mar 18 2005) When you create or edit a post, helpful instructions appear on the top of the page.
* (Mar 18 2005) Full-sized images are no longer cached; hopefully this will make it more obvious to people when they improperly hotlink them that it doesn't work.
* (Mar 12 2005) Smiley faces! Hurray!
* (Mar 12 2005) When editing posts, you now get a friendly dialog box if you've entered the wrong password or are trying to edit it using the wrong name. This dialog has a link for you to be e-mailed your password if you want.
* (Mar 12 2005) BUGFIX: New posts would not be generated correctly due to a script bug. Fixed.
* (Mar 09 2005) BUGFIX: Those of you who use Internet Explorer may have noticed an error message displayed when viewing the root page. This was due to a poorly formatted string and it's been fixed.
* (Mar 09 2005) Much better tooltips in comments. The avatar, last post, and edit/reply/quote tooltips have all changed, and I think they look much better than before.
* (Mar 09 2005) BUGFIX: Lines of text were spaced too far apart in Linux, according to my observations. This broke the formatting in many places, so it's been fixed.
* (Mar 09 2005) Server-side scripts replaced with static HTML, because it's so much better! Really!
* (Mar 05 2005) The cursor is now the default arrow when over most text. I like it better this way.
* (Mar 05 2005) The Features part of the menu used to seem messed up because it listed even deleted posts, but it no longer does. Also, the Submit buttons on its submenus are now functional.
* (Mar 05 2005) Instead of listing referring URLs at the bottom of posts, there's now a Referrers button that lists them, and it's much more informative than it used to be.
* (Feb 17 2005) Google ads have been removed from posts; they now only appear alongside the full-size images.
* (Feb 16 2005) Thumbnails in posts now look much better, and mention the size of the full-size image and the last time it was modified.
* (Feb 15 2005) BUGFIX: Previously, editing a post made all its files appear as if they were modified (the timestamp was wrong). Fixed.
* (Feb 13 2005) BUGFIX: The RSS feed had a script error that prevented it from working. Fixed.
* (Feb 13 2005) The View Profile page is working again.
* (Feb 12 2005) Substantial changes to the back-end... now, once you post using some name and password, that name can only be used from then on with that password (unless you change it, and you can). Should potentially make things smoother.
* (Feb 06 2005) Unread comments are now highlighted with a dark border.
* (Feb 06 2005) The information displayed for each comment now differs based on the size of the browser window. Less is displayed in small windows where more information wouldn't fit.
* (Feb 06 2005) BUGFIXES: Images are now properly cached, cookies again work (they didn't for a day or two), and there was a bug that prevented registered users from editing their profiles. Also, the list of pages for comments now no longer shows for posts with only one page of comments, and there was a bug that prevented this page from being changed in certain circumstances. Lastly, there was a bug that made posts show the default browser font instead of the post's. All these bugs are now fixed.
* (Feb 05 2005) Changed the cookies slightly; nobody will notice a difference, but the old cookies are now ignored since their names have changed.
* (Feb 04 2005) Moved from LunarPages to UltraUnix.net.
* (Feb 04 2005) Added indices to the database. SQL queries are vastly sped up now.
* (Feb 04 2005) If the daily download limit for a post has been exceeded, blocked downloaders are now told exactly when (to the nearest hour) they'll be allowed to download the file. Also, the 50MB/day download limit has been increased to 200MB/day (though it's always been 500MB/day for very new posts).
* (Feb 04 2005) BUGFIX: An obscure bug that corrupted some downloaded files has finally been fixed.
* (Feb 04 2005) Magnifying glass added next to people's names, which provides information on them in the tooltip. Also, names are links to people's e-mail addresses.
* (Feb 02 2005) The number of downloads of a file (and date of last download) are now updated dynamically and not just when a post has been edited.
* (Jan 30 2005) You can see what changed in edited posts! Awesome!
* (Jan 30 2005) Previously, the site tracked the domain names of the websites that referred people to specific posts here. So if www.blah.com/a/b/c.php contained a link to a post here, this site would remember that someone came from www.blah.com and would note it at the bottom of the screen when viewing that post. But that's not very useful, since it's much more interesting knowing the exact webpage that had a link to the post.
Therefore I've changed it so the exact webpage is stored. Also, search-engine queries now show up as queries instead of webpage links. For example, I went to Google and typed in "Site Updates and Feedback". This post was on the top, so I clicked the link. Scroll down to the very bottom of the screen to see that.
But to do this, I had to clear the record of any previous visitors to posts. Oh well. It was a bit bugged anyway.
* (Jan 29 2005) Radio-button and checkbox graphics have all been combined into a single file. It slightly improves page loading time, but mainly it means that when you mouse-over a radio button or checkbox, you don't have to wait for the mouse-over graphic to load because it already did.
* (Jan 27 2005) Some posts have ads below the images, but these were too wide to fit in 800x600 resolution, so I've switched to a smaller ad that fits well.
* (Jan 26 2005) Previously, when you click a thumbnail on the main page to view a post, the last 8 tops get displayed on the top of the new page. Now, the 8 posts for the row you've clicked on get displayed instead. Also, the left/right page arrows are no longer displayed when viewing specfic posts (they didn't work anyway) and there's a link back to the main index.
* (Jan 25 2005) The 8pt comment font has been enlarged to 10pt.
* (Jan 25 2005) A warning is displayed on the top of the page when a person does not have JavaScript enabled.
* (Jan 25 2005) BUGFIX: Someone notified me that there was a script error on the XML page. Fixed.
* (Jan 25 2005) BUGFIX: The background image for mouse-over links now works in Internet Explorer.
* (Jan 25 2005) BUGFIX: That annoying menu-button bug with Internet Explorer has been fixed (it caused the mouse-over buttons to not be displayed).
* (Jan 25 2005) The horribly obsolete color-scheme preview has finally been updated. It now appears correctly.
* (Jan 25 2005) Uploaded files are now displayed in a better manner, with more information given as well.
* (Jan 25 2005) The Upload New Images page has undergone a major revision regarding image and file uploads. It's now much more user-friendly, I hope.
* (Nov 09 2004) BUGFIX: The menu buttons weren't being rendered in Internet Explorer on mouse-over. Fixed.
* (Nov 04 2004) New image types allowed! GIF and BMP images can now be used. They weren't before because my PHP installation can't natively save GIF images or load or save bitmaps, but I realized I could just save both as PNG images, so I do. And I wrote my own loader for bitmaps.
* (Nov 04 2004) The "Welcome" section has been updated slightly, basically to account for file uploads.
* (Nov 04 2004) BUGFIX: The Upload New Images and Edit Post pages now correctly work when you use Back or Forward to get to them. Before, they did not, as a side effect of me using custom checkboxes and radio buttons.
* (Nov 04 2004) All PHP scripts are sent to the browser in zipped form, so pages should load blazingly fast now.
* (Nov 04 2004) You can now replace specific images with others without having to re-upload all of the images, and you can delete specifc images.
* (Nov 03 2004) There is no longer a maximum width and height for images; any size is allowed, though the filesize still can't be greater than 1 MB for each image.
* (Nov 03 2004) BUGFIX: Previously, uploaded JPEG images were loaded to memory and then saved to the server, but since they use lossy compression, doing this doubled the loss of quality of the fullsize images. Now the images you upload are stored directly to the server, so there is no additional loss of quality.
* (Oct 30 2004) File uploads have now been implemented.
* (Oct 28 2004) BUGFIX: For 1-2 weeks, anyone who created a new post with "create new account" checked had errors when posting. Fixed.
* (Oct 12 2004) Most errors are now reported in a much more friendly and informative way.
* (Oct 08 2004) Detailed error page for people who hotlink to large images. The look of the Search page has been improved as well.
* (Oct 06 2004) The Upload New Images and Edit Post pages have been modified, improving the look, expanding the Choose Category section, and implementing image previews.
* (Oct 04 2004) Changed the banner image. Also, the thumbnail bar now shows 24 posts instead of 8 (three rows of 8 instead of one) when viewing the root page.
* (Oct 03 2004) The RSS page has been redone; it's much more useful now. Instead of mirroring the Recent Activity list, it just shows new posts, with an excerpt from the description and a link to the first thumbnail, among other things.
* (Aug 30 2004) Recent Activity list now looks better, and has different colors.
* (Apr 04 2004) BUGFIX: URLs that are automatically converted to links now use the correct link colors for that post.
* (Apr 04 2004) Default colors changed (temporarily?). Also the shading for background images has been changed to hopefully produce better results.
* (Mar 30 2004) BUGFIX: Narrow images could cause formatting problems on the thumbnail bar. Fixed.
* (Mar 23 2004) Added text like "Last 10 Uploaded Images" to the thumbnail bar to hopefully make its purpose more clear.
* (Feb 16 2004) Variable comments-per-page sizes, finally. Not really necessary, but by editing your profile, you can choose to show 10, 20, or 40 comments per page.
* (Feb 16 2004) Even simpler URLs -- now comment pages aren't on the address bar either. JavaScript is used for this, but that's fine, it's already used very heavily anyway.
* (Feb 16 2004) Simpler URLs. Before, links on the thumbnail bar were like "?View=250&Page=1" but now the Page parameter has been removed -- a session variable is used to remember it instead (unless you're changing pages of course). The reason this is good is it helps make Google ads relevant -- they need consistent URLs.
* (Feb 15 2004) There's now an option in users' profiles to display time in 24-hour format instead of the default 12-hour.
* (Feb 15 2004) URLs that weren't explicitly converted to links now automatically are. This was desperately needed; people keep using plain-text URLs. Anyway it works both with links beginning with "http://" and with links merely beginning with "www.". You can see it at work in the Samcraft and Project Hugo posts, for example. It also applies to comments. The three links right below this were done in plaintext and linkified automatically.
* (Feb 14 2004) Posts now have very short link-to URLs, like http://www.devimg.net/~194, and user profiles can be accessed with a URL like http://www.devimg.net/~CGameProgrammer.
* (Feb 14 2004) If someone [explicitly]creates a link without the http:// bit in front, so it ends up being a link to http://www.devimg.net/www.google.com, the 404 page will send you to the correct URL.
* (Feb 12 2004) On the New Post page, the option to automatically create an account will no longer appear if you're a registered user with your name and password stored as cookies.
* (Feb 12 2004) Added a confirm-password box when creating a new image post. Actually I allow this to be blank, but if it's not then the two passwords have to match.
* (Feb 12 2004) BUGFIX: Fixed a search bug that caused some comments to be attributed to the wrong person. Caveat: Keyword searches now list the dates comments were last edited, whereas searches without keywords now list the dates the comments were originally created. I can change it by adding a new field to the database, but I probably won't bother.
* (Feb 11 2004) Colors for links over the titlebar and toolbar now are chosen better.
* (Feb 11 2004) There's now an option to automatically create an account when you submit a new post.
* (Feb 11 2004) If you're watching a post, get e-mailed about a change to it, and then view that post without clicking the link in the e-mail, the site will realize it now. So instead of waiting indefinitely for you to click the e-mail's link, it'll e-mail you again when the post is updated again. This can't work in all cases though -- for instance, you need to be registered.
* (Feb 10 2004) Maximum image size for all image posts increased to 1600x1200.
* (Feb 10 2004) BUGFIX: Things like "<" no longer get converted to "<" when editing posts.
* (Feb 10 2004) Posts' style sheets and graphics are now properly cached; if modified, you'll see the new ones, not the cached ones. Before, graphics were always cached and style sheets were never cached.
* (Feb 10 2004) Posts' graphics are now only used if they don't use the default color scheme; otherwise, a default set is used. Results in much shorter loading times for uncached posts. For example, if a post uses a red titlebar but has identical colors otherwise, its titlebar graphic is used but for everything else the generic graphics are used.
* (Feb 10 2004) The User Profile page now has links to the thumbnail view of a person's posts, and for browsing all of their comments.
* (Feb 10 2004) The number of unique visitors in the last 24 hours is now displayed on the bottom, and I'm no longer showing the total page hits or your IP address's page hits, since neither figure is very interesting (especially the latter).
* (Feb 07 2004) You can now use <img> tags in posts.
* (Feb 07 2004) JavaScript is allowed in posts, but still not in comments. If this gets abused, I'll restrict certain commands.
* (Feb 07 2004) New post type: articles! They have special formatting for images.
* (Feb 07 2004) New menu category -- Features. For viewing news, articles, and discussions.
* (Feb 06 2004) Current time is now displayed in upper-right corner.
* (Feb 06 2004) BUGFIX: Times and dates now display correctly in Opera.
* (Feb 06 2004) BUGFIX: Comment # text for each comment is now the correct link color for that post instead of always blue.
* (Feb 06 2004) Only the last two or three segments of the host name are now displayed for non-registered commenters (as a tooltip over the face icon).
* (Feb 05 2004) Comments are no longer in an embedded frame, so the site is now much more compatible with different browsers, plus scrolling works better.
* (Feb 05 2004) URLs are a little simpler now, viewing a post sets the titlebar text to its title, and you can see the referrer URLs on the bottom.
* (Feb 05 2004) Viewing a post's link-to page now shows the regular menu instead of a single button that brings you to the root page.
* (Jan 26 2004) Restrictions on uploaded images have been relaxed; desktop captures and graphics can be 1600x1200 and projects and photos can be 1024x768. The quality of the saved JPEGs was also increased.
* (Jan 26 2004) Experimenting with Google AdSense text ads.
* (Jan 26 2004) Very minor JavaScript bugs have been fixed.
* (Jan 26 2004) The order of comments in a post is no longer set by the creator of the post; it's now a local setting for each [registered] user.
* (Jan 26 2004) Fixed a bug that caused the site to go back to page one after viewing a post from the thumbnail bar.
* (Jan 25 2004) No longer are the full IPs of nonregistered people shown; the second half is obscured, and you can also see other names that have been used with the same IP address.
* (Jan 25 2004) Fixed a bug that prevented partially deleted posts from showing up on the thumbnail bar.
* (Jan 11 2004) Posts no longer appear in a resizable embedded frame (iframe), to improve browser compatibility. The comments still use one though.
* (Dec 26 2003) Temporarily am showing the full IPs of non-registered commenters, as a tooltip of the face icon.
* (Dec 16 2003) Search added. It searches both comments and posts. It's a bit bare-bones at the moment, however.
* (Dec 01 2003) Created a full-featured post-comment area to simplify quoting or replying to multiple posts or excerpts of a post.
* (Nov 27 2003) The Recent Activity area now shows new users and links.
* (Nov 19 2003) After editing your profile, you're shown your new profile, instead of remaining on the edit page.
* (Nov 19 2003) BUGFIX: Since avatars were implemented, a bug prevented anyone from creating new accounts. Not good.
* (Nov 19 2003) Users page now no longer uses iframes, due to some upcoming changes.
* (Nov 19 2003) You can now change the name/password for a post to your account name/password, and if you later change your account password, that new password is used for all posts associated with the account.
* (Nov 19 2003) Titlebar shadows are much more subtle now.
* (Nov 19 2003) Rules for uploading avatars has changed (grayscale GIFs now, no PNGs), and caching of avatars is now done properly, so everyone will always see the latest avatars icons.
* (Nov 19 2003) Edit Post page now looks much better, like Submit Images page.
* (Nov 19 2003) BUGFIX (Removed image caption colors without realizing I still needed them. They're back in now.)
* (Nov 18 2003) Posts' comments are now loaded a bit more quickly, and I think I fixed a bug that sometimes caused a comment's header bar to be compressed really short.
* (Nov 18 2003) The comment page currently being viewed is now shown.
* (Nov 18 2003) BUGFIX (The "cancel comment" button appears gray even when not disabled.)
* (Nov 18 2003) The text-backup thing won't cough up text you don't want as often.
* (Nov 17 2003) Icons used in comments instead of text, for the profile link, last-post link, etc.
* (Nov 17 2003) E-mail addresses are now obscured through JavaScript and decoded when the page loads. I seriously doubt any e-mail harvesting bots run javascript code, so now you don't have to be shy about posting your real e-mail address.
* (Nov 15 2003) The appearance of the Submit Images page has been redone; it no longer looks so horribly messy.
* (Nov 15 2003) Quote All button added to the reply form.
* (Nov 15 2003) Cool reply-to form for replying to comments, makes quoting easy, and now multiple posts can be quoted in the same post.
* (Nov 15 2003) Menu buttons "completed" (until I redo them sometime later, of course).
* (Nov 13 2003) Banner link exchange now on the main page.
* (Nov 12 2003) Arrows on left/right of thumbnail bar to easily and more intuitively change pages.
* (Nov 12 2003) Titlebar shrunk from 56 pixels wide to 40.
* (Nov 11 2003) Word "can" given nice emphasis in top-right corner
* (Nov 11 2003) YATR -- Yet Another Total Redesign. Big changes to the main page, and posts themselves also look different. Default color scheme changed as well.
* (Nov 10 2003) The number of edits of a post are now shown.
* (Nov 09 2003) Helpful dialog appears if you try posting a blank comment.
* (Nov 09 2003) Comment page list looks a bit different ("X-Y" replaced with "(X to Y)", along with style changes), plus it's listed both below and above the comments, instead of only above.
* (Nov 09 2003) Post stylesheets are no longer cached, so when you edit their colors, you now see the changes properly (as do others).
* (Nov 08 2003) Comment pages listed by comments shown instead of page number. It's clearer this way, right?
* (Oct 29 2003) Recent Activity list added; discussions/news removed from upper-right corner, cookie-settings moved there instead.
* (Oct 28 2003) Background, border, and text colors for the post-comment area have been changed. Borders are bright, backgrounds a bit darker, and text is the same hue as the other two.
* (Oct 28 2003) "Add a comment to Post Name" text added to the comment area.
* (Oct 28 2003) Discussions now look decent; the comments are flush with the titlebar.
* (Oct 28 2003) A couple of bugs related to the width of comments has been fixed.
* (Oct 26 2003) New menu, with submenu items.
* (Oct 26 2003) Reply notification checkbox on the New Post page, to encourage posters to 'watch' their posts.
* (Oct 26 2003) 25% gray background instead of 50%, with other colors also being changed as a result.
* (Oct 24 2003) The Submit Link page is better organized now
* (Oct 24 2003) Links page can now show banners of people who link to this site with its banner
* (Oct 24 2003) Link-to page
* (Oct 23 2003) New toolbar button graphics. You may have to clear your cache to see them.
* (Oct 23 2003) Post watching. You're emailed when the post is edited or commented... try it out!
* (Oct 21 2003) When a comment is written in reply to another, and it says "in reply to #", clicking the number brings up a small pop-up showing the comment.
* (Oct 19 2003) Dates are now displayed in the local timezone, whatever that happens to be.
* (Oct 18 2003) The look of the links page has been changed a bit.
* (Oct 18 2003) The Links page is now better organized, submitting links is more intuitive, and you can edit or delete links.
* (Oct 18 2003) The archives are greatly improved. They look better, posts are sorted by category so no ugly "news" images, images and text correctly aligns even when different sizes, and it loads quicker.
* (Oct 17 2003) New post category! Discussions have been renamed to "news/announcements". Actual discussions now are pure comments, and images are allowed in the comments (through hotlinking with * (Oct 12 2003) mouseover images for the menu.
* (Oct 11 2003) Comment pages! The default is 10 comments per page, but the code is written such that any multiple of 5 can be used. Later I'll add the ability to choose that value into the Edit Profile area. (I could put it above or beside the page numbers, but it would be redundant doing that for each post, and would look sort of messy.) To see pages in action, look for a post with over 10 comments.
* (Oct 11 2003) Comments now display in an <iframe>, which means posting and editing comments is much faster, loading a post is a bit faster, and switching comment pages will be very fast.
* (Oct 11 2003) Added "clear" and "restore" buttons for comments
* (Oct 11 2003) More accurate "active user" count. Before, it listed the number of people who refreshed the main page in the last 5 minutes. Now, it lists the number of people who viewed a post in the last 5 minutes.
* (Oct 11 2003) Optimized SQL queries quite a bit, but this only affects loading the main page; viewing a post doesn't access the database.
* (Oct 11 2003) Changed the thumbnail bar to something that I hope others agree is better-looking. Also you can see the number of comments for discussions.
* (Oct 10 2003) Links in comments and posts now reflect the colors you chose
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