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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:51:18 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #198; add a media player to the podcast pages.
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:30:36 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #197; add a badge for photo of the day; forgot to add the camera icon.
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:29:27 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #197; add a badge for photo of the day.
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:08:05 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #193; reduce news query counts by grabbing tags and comment counts in bulk. Increased news items per page from 5 to 10.
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:26:00 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #196; add status messages in the admin after approving news and links.
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:59:16 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #195; don't escape text in plain text emails.
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:39:17 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing grammar in a comment only.
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:27:10 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #192; cache some forum stats and have them be computed outside of the request/response cycle. Update the template tag to just read the cache.
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:49:21 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #186; after upgrading to Django 1.3, can remove the kludge on the cycle tag in the forums topic.html template.
Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:15:34 +0000 Brian Neal Another try at #191 after getting some good advice in a django-users thread.
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:02:44 +0000 Brian Neal For #178; using the queued_search app to update the search index. Installed redis and dependencies.
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:44:06 +0000 Brian Neal Another tweak to the forum feeds query; see #191.
Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:39:52 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #175; add an auto-subscribe and auto-favorite forum topic feature. Added 2 flags to the user profile. Added 2 functions that are called on the post post-save signal that auto-favorite and auto-subscribe the post creator if they have requested this service.
Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:23:29 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #190; calendar admin always reports 1 event being approved.
Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:03:51 +0000 Brian Neal For #191; r410 is wrong: it is returning the wrong posts. Rework. MySQL is not using an index on our query, and it is taking 10+ seconds. Replace this slow query with a loop that loops over the public forums, then sorts and returns the posts.
Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:52:41 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #191; terrible performance on the combined forums RSS feed query. Use an .extra() clause to force the WHERE on a query to use the primary key.
Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:20:23 +0000 Brian Neal Revert r323. Send out forum topic subscription emails as people post. Don't limit them.
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:13:38 +0000 Brian Neal For #187; tune forums RSS settings. Set TTL to 1 hour; return 30 forum posts instead of 10; cache feed for 15 minutes instead of an hour.
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:49:10 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #188; improve number of SQL queries for mark all forums read and add the button on the view topics with unread posts view.
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:19:45 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #189; 500 error when deleting forum topic subscription.
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:39:24 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #185; add a global forums catchup button.
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:50:13 +0000 Brian Neal Humanize the forum stats by adding the intcomma filter.
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:03:07 +0000 Brian Neal Adding a solid-background css class. Making the news stories use it to block out the rays.
Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:49:41 +0000 Brian Neal Added logic to the forums javascript that adds the proper CSS class (odd or even) to a new post.
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:31:30 +0000 Brian Neal Trying a tweak to put background colors on posts in topics. Forgot to commit the css changes.
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:30:50 +0000 Brian Neal Trying a tweak to put background colors on posts in topics.
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:16:56 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #156; improve upon the work done in r397. Use the forum last visit record if there is no topic last visit record.
Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:50:33 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #184; fix typo in date template filter string that is causing the wrong date to be displayed on the max users online statistic.
Mon, 07 Mar 2011 01:22:49 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #156. Making it possible to goto the first unread post in a thread. Made the 'New' icon a link; when displayed on a topic, takes you to the first unread post.
Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:50:10 +0000 Brian Neal Improved the IRC view and block to point to instructions on how to get started with IRC.
Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:51:15 +0000 Brian Neal Added raw_id_fields for submitter on news stories and pending stories.
Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:23:09 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #181; delete PM's if we can. Add ability for a sender to take back a PM if they delete it before it has been read.
Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:40:50 +0000 Brian Neal Adding some try/except around some key points in the code to protect against some IntegrityErrors. We log when these happens but otherwise keep going. Tickets: #160 and #169.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:29:12 +0000 Brian Neal Updated the markdown help template for the new strikethrough and newline handling.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 21:00:00 +0000 Brian Neal For #176; cache the output of the latest poll block template tag.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:54:26 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #176; add a side block for current polls.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 19:40:31 +0000 Brian Neal To support #174; add a link to a store flat page on the base template.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:17:43 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #181; flagged comments need raw_id_fields for the user and comment foreign keys.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:11:22 +0000 Brian Neal Minor cosmetic tweaks; center text in IRC block. Add a break after avatar on shout history view.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 04:03:30 +0000 Brian Neal Following up on #168; redo some code to make it more DRY. Added a function on the profile to reset the text fields.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:43:32 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #170; clean old user and anonymous last visit records.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 03:23:29 +0000 Brian Neal Changes to oembed to support vimeo.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:30:53 +0000 Brian Neal Trying to fix #180 again. Changed the syntax for strikethrough to 3 dashes to make it less harder to do accidently.
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:00:13 +0000 Brian Neal Fixed #158; Wrote a script to replace text in forum posts. Used it to fix up the beta.surfguitar101.com/media/ problem that came up during the initial conversion to the new site.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:50:07 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #172; add a forums jump box.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:41:49 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #155; adding some links to the mp3 comps in the base template.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:10:37 +0000 Brian Neal Fix 180; Add strikethrough capability to markdown via an extension. Also control in SVN the extensions we are using.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:34:43 +0000 Brian Neal Remove YouTube's web beacon.
Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:34:21 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #179; provide links to sender & receiver profiles when viewing private messages. Also provided a legend on the inbox to state what bold and italic message titles mean.
Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:00:15 +0000 Brian Neal Trying out a markdown extension to hopefully fix #166.
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:16:19 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #163; make plain links linkable in Markdown. Use an extension found here: https://github.com/r0wb0t/markdown-urlize.
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:51:00 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #167: broken images on markdown cheat sheet.
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:47:15 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #173; display donors in order by date, ascending on the main view.
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:34:57 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #171; forums weren't assigning badge ownership correctly when pre-fetching data.
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:18:28 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #168; when nailing a spammer, clear their profile text fields. Guard against topics and forums that don't exist when deleting posts in the signal handler. Make the forum stats template tag only display the latest active users.
Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:11:32 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #165: add a way to filter users in the admin by join date; add an admin action to approve a pending user; added a honeypot type field to the registration form.
Mon, 28 Feb 2011 03:53:04 +0000 Brian Neal As part of #165 add a security question to the registration form.
Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:58:38 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #164; have the calendar display times in the user's time zone. If the user isn't logged in, just use US/Pacific. Default the calendar mode to agenda mode.
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:58:48 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #162; make username larger in forum posts.
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:12:18 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #157; added goto the top of page intra-page links on forums and yahoo group templates.
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:58:49 +0000 Brian Neal Moved the social block up higher, just below the main nav.
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 01:03:17 +0000 Brian Neal Created a social side block so we can remove the obtrusive twitter bulletin.
Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:28:20 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #153. Update verbiage on the donations thanks template to meet Paypal guidelines for making it a auto-return page.
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:27:49 +0000 Brian Neal Adding the sg101 IRC bot code to SVN. This code is pretty rough and needs love, but it gets the job done (one of my first Python apps). This fixes #150.
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:50:59 +0000 Brian Neal Fix typo that referred to non-existant setting MAX_AVATAR_SIZE.
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:46:28 +0000 Brian Neal Working around a strange CSS problem when bulletins are active. This should probably be investigated later. rollout
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:09:22 +0000 Brian Neal Tweak tinyMCE config so it doesn't change URLs into relative URLs.
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:52:22 +0000 Brian Neal Adding a robots.txt file.
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:28:22 +0000 Brian Neal Adding a script I had to write on the fly to filter out posts from the posts csv file that had no parent topics. MyISAM let me get away with that, but InnoDB won't.
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:03:08 +0000 Brian Neal Import from future with_statement for Python 2.5 in import_old_links and podcasts scripts.
Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:23:42 +0000 Brian Neal Added credit to Abe & Fady for testing on the colophon. Adjusted copyright on base.html.
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:01:18 +0000 Brian Neal Committing DreadInBabylon's default avatar.
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:45:50 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #152; POTD was saving thumbnail every night and making tons of thumbnail directories all over. Also added thumbnail images in the admin.
Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:40:18 +0000 Brian Neal Various small changes to reduce database hits.
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:40:29 +0000 Brian Neal Some optimizations to reduce database query times.
Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:11:26 +0000 Brian Neal Modified the implementation of the avatar tag to look for an attribute 'user_profile' on the user object. If present, this is assumed to be the profile. This improves the performance of the member list and some forum views.
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:12:06 +0000 Brian Neal Adjusting the auto-complete to only require 1 character minimum before querying, and return 15 results instead of 10.
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:09:56 +0000 Brian Neal New scheme for serving media files in debug mode after updating django trunk.
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:52:27 +0000 Brian Neal Turning the django debug toolbar on again after updating django trunk.
Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:31:54 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #149; adding the ygroup application: an archive of the old Yahoo Group messages.
Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:37:17 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #148; Django now requires AJAX posts to present the CSRF token. Added code suggested by Django docs to shoutbox.js. Since shoutbox.js is on every page, it should cover all cases.
Wed, 09 Feb 2011 01:28:36 +0000 Brian Neal Fix bad grammar in comment.
Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:53:10 +0000 Brian Neal Removed a raise of CommandError, which was left over from when this code started life as a Django management command.
Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:42:04 +0000 Brian Neal Added a tool to translate the old Yahoo Group posts from JSON to CSV suitable for mysqlimport.
Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:46:52 +0000 Brian Neal Fix a bug where you'd get an error when trying to delete a forum thread (topic does not exist). Apparently when you call topic.delete() the posts would get deleted, but the signal handler for each one would run, and it would try to update the topic's post count or something, but the topic was gone? Reworked the code a bit and explicitly delete the posts first. I also added a sync() call on the parent forum since post counts were not getting adjusted.
Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:37:17 +0000 Brian Neal Updating home page text for #147. Several other minor tweaks; adding favicon.ico.
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:02:32 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #144; integrate with new Django logging support. Also added unit tests for Donations app.
Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:39:55 +0000 Brian Neal Oops, r336 was not right; I forgot to save the file before committing. Fixing that.
Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:34:36 +0000 Brian Neal The home page was taking 27 seconds to load; 99% of the time was being spent in the new_posts template tag query. Reworked it a bit to be much more sane.
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:00:16 +0000 Brian Neal For #142; remove some unused media directories.
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:56:10 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #142; cut over to the django.contrib.staticfiles app.
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:40:14 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #146; use new class-based generic views as function-based generic views are now deprecated.
Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:03:48 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing 145; New url tag behavior (forwards compatibility) in Django 1.3.
Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:00:59 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #143; update to new cache settings.
Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:06:40 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #141; cache badge ownership to reduce database hits when browsing forum topics.
Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:18:26 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #97; adding a management command to remove old forum and topic last visit records.
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:55:37 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #109; make forum links more prominent by underlining them by default.
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:29:00 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #110; Removed the prompts for alt text & titles from img and link buttons in the markitup editor. This was confusing users.
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:11:50 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #123; removed the H1-H6 buttons from the markitup editor.
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:48:42 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #7. Adding a fixture for an about flatpage.
Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:27:37 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #10; Adding a colophon flatpage.
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:27:42 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #140; limit topic notification emails to at most 1 per day, or more if the user visits the topic.
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:04:44 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #135; adjusted cache timeout value to 60 seconds.
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:22:21 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #134: put private message text in notification email.
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:33:21 +0000 Brian Neal Fix #139; when editing a user's post, the post author's signature should appear with the post, not the user (moderator) making the edit).
Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:16:08 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #137; added a 'time-ago' timestamp to the template tags that display the latest web links and downloads.
Sun, 09 Jan 2011 20:53:00 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #138. Shoutbox scroller breaks down if there aren't at least 2 things to scroll. Added some dummy shouts on the client side if the shout database is empty.
Sat, 08 Jan 2011 22:04:54 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #133; add the ability to edit a topic's title when you edit the first post in that topic.
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:09:35 +0000 Brian Neal Changes / scripts to import forums. Other tweaks and moving other import scripts to the legacy application.
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 04:56:53 +0000 Brian Neal Fixed a bug where if you tried to delete a topic the new last post might be in that topic, so a cascading delete would occur and the forum would get deleted.
Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:20:30 +0000 Brian Neal Added a legacy management command to import old news comments.
Fri, 24 Dec 2010 20:45:33 +0000 Brian Neal Added a legacy command to import old news stories.
Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:28:58 +0000 Brian Neal Adding a legacy app to contain management commands to convert the old data to the new database format. This first commit has the import_old_users command.
Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:36:53 +0000 Brian Neal Fix regexes for usernames in various urls.py files to match valid Django usernames
Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:58:58 +0000 Brian Neal Adding all the smilies from the old site as extra smilies
Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:42:45 +0000 Brian Neal Fix typo in oembed/views.py. Added oembed provider fixture.
Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:19:46 +0000 Brian Neal For #95. You can now make posts with no text in the body if you have attachments. And now if you create a new topic with an attachment, and the POST fails (say you forgot the topic title), we will now re-attach attachments. Also fixed a bug in the smiley code that would arise if it was asked to markup an empty string.
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:39:35 +0000 Brian Neal This is a first rough commit for #95, adding the ability to embed YouTube videos in forum posts. Some more polish and testing needs to happen at this point. I wanted to get all these changes off my hard drive and into the repository.
Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:01:29 +0000 Brian Neal Forgot to add this file in last revision (r305).
Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:57:58 +0000 Brian Neal Fixing #125. Developed a forums navigation template tag to consistently display forum navigation.