Sphene Community Tools

Yes, that's exactly it. No trace of the post on the boards, except by admins.

Thanks so much, Herbert! I've been extremely busy so I haven't been able to check in here for a while. I appreciate your efforts very much, however.

Our client really likes the sphene forum functionality. I'll be able to give you a link to the site in a few days when the forums are fully functioning. In order to get that going they've requested a few more features. Here's the list:

* edit post needs to be time limited to 15 mins
* email me should not be defaulted
* jump to functionality (template tag that gets cat list)
* hidden posts elements are still viewable when logged out

The first two are behaviour changes that do make sense (to me, anyway ).

The user shouldn't be allowed to go back at any time and edit their own posts. That could cause real problems with future references to the post. We need to limit the time that the user can go back and edit their post to 10 minutes.

Also, the system defaults to true for "Notify me by email on new posts in this thread." if the user hasn't specified in his/her profile. They would like it to default to false.

The third requires a bit of explanation. The client would like a dropdown list of all categories and the ability to jump to any other category from a thread. All that would require is a template tag that provides a list of all categories in the system. The rest is template work. This is a "normal" forum feature. In other words, it's found on many forum apps.

And the fourth also needs explaining. When the client requested the post hiding functionality they failed to mention that they wanted the entire post to disappear and only be visible to admins. Again, all we really need is for it to add a "hidden" class or something so that we can check it in the template and act accordingly.

We're trying to avoid modifying your codebase so that we can stay up-to-date with your trunk. Otherwise we would make some of these changes ourselves. Thanks a lot for helping us out, Herbert!

This is a VERY large site I'm working on. Currently there are almost 220,000 users. The site requires Akami caching just to keep up with demand. This may end up being the highest profile Django site in existence! Cool, huh?

Ah! That would explain it then. Whew! I thoght I was going crazy. Thanks.

Did the new paging functionality require changes to the database?

Hey, what's the best way to manipulate the user profiles from another app? We need to insert existing information from the old site (avatar, signature) but some of the fields in your profile, like signature, seem to be added as custom fields. So we have to look up the field, then get the data for that field?

It does.

Just so you know, when the email gets sent out to notify someone of new posts, the link now loooks like this:

http://sct.sphene.net/board/thread/368/?page= 

Note the "page=" part...

Yay! Thanks so much! I don't care of it doesn't look good yet. I just can't see the client liking threads with 500 posts on one page.

Thanks for thinking about it, anyway! I just need a simple flag, so I'll still see if it's easy to hack in for our immediate use. Then, if you do implement a proper solution I'll switch over to it.