Forum maintenance

Post by **Keeper Dan** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:37 pm

I updated the forum software. I also added a couple of nifty features.
I added a hack that allowed input from a site like MUP and SoC to post automatically to their respective forums. Now when one of those sites is updated, and new post will populate by itself. :cthulhudance:

I also added a module that allows each forum to have its own RSS feed. If you use a reader, you can now have the conversations feed directly to it. It may not be used much, but it's still kinda nifty. I'm hoping it use it with a feature on the MUP home page that will show the latest posts.

Dr. Gerard · Post by **Dr. Gerard** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 8:56 pm

Keeper Dan wrote:I updated the forum software. I also added a couple of nifty features.
I added a hack that allowed input from a site like MUP and SoC to post automatically to their respective forums. Now when one of those sites is updated, and new post will populate by itself.

I also added a module that allows each forum to have its own RSS feed. If you use a reader, you can now have the conversations feed directly to it. It may not be used much, but it's still kinda nifty. I'm hoping it use it with a feature on the MUP home page that will show the latest posts.

Cool features, thanks!

TAK · Post by **TAK** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:44 pm

Aha, so that is what those were. It seems the MU one is kinda messed up, it didn't post the whole description. SoC one looks fine.

Post by **Keeper Dan** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:51 pm

That's what is coming from the feed on the website. I need to look into that and make sure it has the rest of the post content.
That's pretty minor considering that I just made two systems that aren't meant to play together occupy the same sandbox.

TAK · Post by **TAK** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:04 pm

True, but it's not much use if it doesn't post the whole thing, right?
Kinda like going to the sandbox without a shovel and a bucket, all the sand but nothing to play with

Post by **Keeper Dan** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:27 pm

It's not a big deal to tweak it after the auto-pop to make it look like the other posts.

Wordcraftian · Post by **Wordcraftian** » Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:34 pm

Any plans to incorporate Tapatalk for mobile devices in the near future?

Post by **Keeper Dan** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 1:04 am

I'm not familiar with that one. I'll look into it.

Can someone with a smart phone test out the QR code on the contact page? I don't have a phone that will read it. It should have all of the contact info contained in it.
http://www.mu-podcast.com/contact/

Wordcraftian · Post by **Wordcraftian** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 1:40 am

Keeper Dan wrote:I'm not familiar with that one. I'll look into it.

Can someone with a smart phone test out the QR code on the contact page? I don't have a phone that will read it. It should have all of the contact info contained in it.
http://www.mu-podcast.com/contact/

It's taking me to twitter, but says the page doesn't exist. Could be my phone though, it's an older Android.

Post by **Keeper Dan** » Sat Sep 01, 2012 3:05 am

Okay. I suspect that even though the site I used to create it looked like it was adding all of the contact info, it only added the one that was most recently added.
I'll keep looking into a way to use those things effectively.
If anyone else wants to try it, I'd like some more test samples.