Title says it all, folks - what sort of stuff do you want to see with Flare2? This is only the fifth restart... This time using an interface Jubes whipped up that will break out of the forced 600-pixel-wide system currently in use.
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
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Meddle not in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!
(-=\V/=-)
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"Keep on Trekking"
-D. Kelly
Other than that, The stuff I've already heard about/rumors will do just nicely.
Purple monkey dishwasher.
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"No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and have lived to tell about it." Sideshow Bob
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Death before Dishonor!
However Dishonor has
quite a disputed defintion.
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Frank's Home Page
John Linnell: "You know, we actually know the next song we're going to play. We're talking about some personal stuff that concerns just me and John. I realize that this probably isn't the time or the place."
John Flansburgh: "We can finish this conversation in the car."
How about some more emoticons?
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"Who wouldn't be the one you love
Who wouldn't stand inside your love." - Stand Inside Your Love, The Smashing Pumpkins
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"Keep on Trekking"
-D. Kelly
There will be more emoticons (the default UBB ones and the Baloo/RW/TSN/whomever ones)
Purple monkey dishwasher - can't guarantee that.
In reality, it will be more boxy, but it doesn't look it. (You'll see what I mean later)
The last-posted-by bits will be included, as well as private messaging.
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
I want the rainbow smiley! If I ask the board Admin, can we include it? :-)
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"You say don't fear your dreams, it's easier than it seems.
You say you'd never let me fall, from hopes so high.
But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie." - Fiona Apple
The only thing I want from Flare II is Flare II itself!
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"I'm green! I'm olive! I'm chartreuse!
I'd love to stay one color, but what's the use?"
- Zorak, Bad Bug, Cartoon Planet.
In the words of my master, Gary Busey; Plain and simple!
Shockwave-fx is also highly hated from my POV, what with all those corny buttons and levers flying around, locking into place and beeping whilst the flashing messages spurt out clich�s about how good the site is!!!
But that's no problem for now since there's no chance of anyone incorporating "Shockwave" in the UBB anytime soon, so I'll calm down now, breathe into paper bag, have some frozen yoghurt.
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-It's a free society, except there's nothing free,
there's no guarantees y'know, you're on your own.
It's like, "law of the jungle"!
-Keva Rosenberg
Also, Charles doesn't do anything with shockwave, and never creates anything tacky, so you don't need to be scared about that.
I'm helping with the design, too..... and I don't design anything that looks silly.
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"You say don't fear your dreams, it's easier than it seems.
You say you'd never let me fall, from hopes so high.
But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie." - Fiona Apple
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"Hello and welcome to 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter - just like a condom to a Trekkie." - Drew Carey, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
I can stand the extra-wide table boxes caused by a large image, but overly-wide boxes caused by a 3-yards-long URL, however interesting, bug the @#$% out of me.
Other than that, I have the utmost confidence that F-II will be just fine.
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"The difference between involved and committed? Look at a plate of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed."
-- Me
http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/
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"No children have ever meddled with the Republican Party and have lived to tell about it." Sideshow Bob
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Harold: "You're missing the point!"
Red: "Well, I don't like points."
-The Red Green Show
[This message has been edited by TSN (edited May 07, 2000).]
I just couldn't think of anything witty... hang on I'll change it now, but don't expect anything too... something... Andrew
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"Who wouldn't be the one you love
Who wouldn't stand inside your love." - Stand Inside Your Love, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Liam: Can't guarantee that.
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
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Well I'm a Bada$$ cowboy living in a cowboy day wicky-wicky-wak yo yo bang bang
me and Artemus Clydefrog go save Selma Hayek from the big metal spider
Wicky-wicky-wak wicky-wicky-wicky-wak
Bada$$ cowboy from the West Si-yiide
Yup, Ben you are definitly insane. 
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"You say don't fear your dreams, it's easier than it seems.
You say you'd never let me fall, from hopes so high.
But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie." - Fiona Apple
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
Keep It Simple Stupid!
Don't let the SciFiArt-Forum effect strike here (a ridiculous amount of sub-, sub-sub- and sub-sub-subforumcategories where you can't find anything)
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"When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators, Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life."
-- Management slogan, Ridcully-style (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent, Discworld)
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Prakesh's Star Trek Site
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No I'm Spartacus!
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
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7 alarm clock: "Do not touch me."
Dilbert: "Then how do I turn you off?"
7: "Believe me, I am plenty turned off."
UBBW: We've heard you've seen the board at SFA. What's you take on their "fluff," as Mr Capps has referred to it?
T_T: I think that place has always taken undue pride in every basement-dwelling would-be-Picasso that's registered at their site. The drawing of attention to their member count, the slapping on the back of the newest member, the continued references to their monthly hits. But to write everything they've done with their bulletin board off as excessive is a bit strong.
UBBW: Such as?
T_T: The who's online feature might come in handy once in a while around here. And I'd probably use private messages rather than emailing forumites.
UBBW: As a moderator, is there anything you think UBB's ought to have?
T_T: Auto-archiving. My fingers are so dead after moving a month's worth of Flameboard posts that I'd strangle Charles with them if they could move. But I've heard throught the grapvine that's he's procured the mysterious technology to implement this and is merely waiting until everything else for Flare2 is ready to go. Aesthically speaking, I'd like to simplify the moderating interface a lot. I'd have a simple "moderate" button on the bottom of each topic page which would bring up a pop-up box into which I'd punch in my username and password and submit. It would then display a unified little panel where I could lock, delete, move or archive the thread in question.
UBBW: Wow, you've given this some serious thought.
T_T: I've gone so far as to bug Charles to get rid of the little red X's in the first post of each thread because they serve as whole-thread-deleters and not single-post-deleters, which means they commit the cardinal sin of "appearing to be the same but not being the same." He had the audacity to tell me it couldn't be done. Hah!
UBBW: Well, isn't Charles meant to be know his stuff
T_T: He does, for the most part. I.. don't know if I should tell you this, though... he's struggled for years with style. I mean, at one point he was considering replacing icons with pastel multicolor <h6> text links. Agh! He may be a Sheep god, but he still shouldn't forsake the lowly icon.
UBBW: So, icons in Flare2?
T_T: Of course. Icons are the highest form of art.
UBBW: Speaking of style, what's you position on the controversial organic/boxy debate
T_T: Well, I'll obviously have to side against Frank. Organic all the way.
UBBW: Any other changes that come to mind?
T_T: I'd overhaul the thread date display thing. It doesn't jibe with the forum thread listing page splitting system.
UBBW: Huh?
T_T: Every thread in the forum that hasn't been archived should by default be displayed, just stuck a few pages back. You should be able to set from what date range threads appear on the first page of threads, but all the others should just have 50 or so all the way back to the point where they hit the archive.
UBBW: I think we got that.
T_T: I'd also like to add that if forums will continually shed threads to an auto-archiver, a thread count on the front page doesn't have much of a point.
UBBW: So, what exactly do you look for in a good-looking UBB?
T_T: How different it is from an unmodified UBB. The old logo to top-left, links & title to top-right formula is so ofer-done that the farther a forum gets from it, the better. That doesn't mean going to background images and over-complex icons.
UBBW: Again with the icons, eh?
T_T: (laughing) Yeah... I do have a bit of a thing for them, don't I?
Next week, UBB Weekly interviews Daryus Aden on implementing curry into UBB interfaces.
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The above post was mulled-over, composed, and posted during time Tom would have better spent on his plethora of homework and homework-related exercises. Now don't you feel special?
[This message has been edited by The_Tom (edited May 13, 2000).]
[This message has been edited by The_Tom (edited May 13, 2000).]
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You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend far too much time reading this sort of trash.
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Admin at the trekbbs.com
Omega: While technically possible, I don't know how I'd go about doing that in a way that you'd actually enjoy using... *LOL*
TLE: I'm working on that, actually.... (Not as part of the UBB, though)
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
I wouldn't know the first place to look to get the codes for all of TLE's colours (other than Editing his post, obviously!). I recall the number of attempts I had to do to make my status line Red.
SEE!?!
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Remember December '59
The howling wind and the driving rain,
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.
[This message has been edited by Gaseous Anomaly (edited May 14, 2000).]
I remember hearing at some point that the DS9 forum would disappear with the implementation of Flare 2. Still planned?
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The above post was mulled-over, composed, and posted during time Tom would have better spent on his plethora of homework and homework-related exercises. Now don't you feel special?
This is the list of UBB code.
HTML is also available for use, which is, I believe, how the color change is created.
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"You say don't fear your dreams, it's easier than it seems.
You say you'd never let me fall, from hopes so high.
But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie." - Fiona Apple
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"Blind faith is the crutch of fools"
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Remember December '59
The howling wind and the driving rain,
Remember the gallant men who drowned
On the lifeboat, Mona was her name.
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"Keep on Trekking"
-D. Kelly
[This message has been edited by Fabrux (edited May 15, 2000).]
I have this problem where I post replies in threads and then forget the name of the thread or forum I posted in. I would find it useful if there was a link on the page which would, when clicked on, would bring up a pop-up window (like the one to view someone's profile) with a list of the threads I last posted in, plus perhaps whether or not they had been replied to recently.
Did someone bring this up already? Wait, don't bother answering that, I'll probably have forgotten I even posted here within the next hour.
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"Try not.
Do.
Or Do not.
There is no try."
-Yoda, Jedi Master.
You need to know HTML to do most of that stuff.
www.htmlgoodies.com (or maybe it's .net? )
Have fun!
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"You say don't fear your dreams, it's easier than it seems.
You say you'd never let me fall, from hopes so high.
But never is a promise, and you can't afford to lie." - Fiona Apple
BTW: If you want to see how it was written like this, click on the edit button of my post.
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Admin at the TrekBBS.com
[This message has been edited by TLE (edited May 20, 2000).]
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"My Name is Elmer Fudd, Millionaire. I own a Mansion and a Yacht."
Psychiatrist: "Again."
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Mr. Burns: Remember, you must find the jade monkey before the next full moon...
Smithers: Uh, sir, we found the jade monkey. It was in the glove box.
Mr. Burns: And the ice scraper? And the maps?
Smithers: Yes.
Mr. Burns: Excellent. Everything's falling into place...
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Admin at the TrekBBS.com
Andrew
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"Who wouldn't be the one you love
Who wouldn't stand inside your love." - Stand Inside Your Love, The Smashing Pumpkins
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Well I'm a Bada$$ cowboy living in a cowboy day wicky-wicky-wak yo yo bang bang
me and Artemus Clydefrog go save Selma Hayek from the big metal spider
Wicky-wicky-wak wicky-wicky-wicky-wak
Bada$$ cowboy from the West Si-yiide
Timo: "Now look here at the apparent lack of any warp nacelle housing on the underside of this pseudowarp culture production. Pure 22nd century..." *circles*
Aban: "Now now Timo, you can't be serious there is clearly a 20 cochrane subspace compression wave emanating from the aft section of this tube grill..." *underlines*
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"chocolate cherries allamanda" - Datura, Tori Amos
Something I'd like to see in a new Flare:
Some type of multiple signature system that lets you save more than one signature and then have the ablility to choose your siganture when posting. Also a randomizer with that would be nice, but that's icing on the cake.
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"Do you want to be President?"
"Yes."
"Put you hand on the book and say 'I do'."
"I do."
"Good, done. Let's eat!"
- G'kar and Sheridan, Babylon 5.