AtlasMod 2.0 Installed - See here for features

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AtlasMod 2.0

Features:

1. Save drafts of posts and personal messages

You can now save drafts of messages. A button labeled 'Save Draft' should be visible on post and PM pages. To view your current drafts, go to your profile and on the action links table, click the 'Atlas - Drafts' link. Alternatively, if you have enabled the enhanced post editor (read below), a list of drafts will show below the editor if you have any saved drafts for the board you are currently about to post on.

https://i.imgur.com/THYXTe5.png


2. Enhanced post editor

A rich text post editor has been added to the forum, which will allow you to view your post as it will appear (more or less), and toggle between text and display mode. This will allow you to craft rich, detailed posts faster. Click the link for an example of what this looks like.

https://i.imgur.com/cvow7pB.png

Go to your AtlasMod Profile Options to enable the new post editor


Note: For the time being, the social media bbcode buttons AND the saved drafts list will not appear on the old text editor page. You need to enable the new editor for it to show up


3. YouTube / Instagram / Facebook BBCodes

Atlas now supports bbcode for these popular services.


4. Recommended posts

This is a trial run of a like post feature. You may recommend a post, but there is no equivalent feature for not recommending. Total recommendations are not available for a user, so you may only see it on a per-post basis.

This general idea has been polarizing, so if the community ultimately does not want it after a month or so, it will be disabled.

https://i.imgur.com/545MW0v.png


5. Poll redesign / partisan vote data

Poll threads have been redesigned and new features have been included. Partisan data based on user avatars is now available, and the way multi-choice poll results are calculated has been changed. You may toggle between the old and new calculations by clicking a link that will appear on the bottom right corner of multi-choice polls.

https://i.imgur.com/q7q2Y2i.png


6. New features for Recent Posts

The recent post page can now has filters to narrow down the range of posts displayed. You may show recent posts from certain categories, certain boards and may also opt to only show posts from users on your buddy list.

View the Recent Posts page to use this new feature!


7. View threads created by a user

This complements the 'Show the last posts of this person.' feature on a user's profile page. You may now use an equivalent feature that shows their latest threads.


8. Quoted user ignore feature

The ignore feature has been enhanced yet again to allow redaction of quoted posts by users on your ignore list. This feature must be enabled on your Atlas Mod Profile Options page.

https://i.imgur.com/4V550mQ.png


9. Statistics page now shows total post/thread counts by year

Historical data now tallied for each year (except current one)


10. Atlasia Politician custom user group

Politicians of Atlasia will now have the opportunity to have a custom user group, which includes a different color in the online users list and different star images. The list of users in this group should be submitted to a Modadmin after each Atlasia election.

https://i.imgur.com/MpRGp4J.png



Other changes

* Dark-mode tweet setting available in AtlasMod Profile Options
* Threads over 5 pages long now require a moderator to delete
* Adding pictures to the gallery now requires you to choose a category before continuing
* New moderation features
* Signature character limit increased slightly to 550
* Maximum PM recipients increased to 8
* A couple new anti-spam features added to reduce clutter from spam bots
* Numerous optimizations to SMF and AtlasMod code, including an "Election Night Mode" feature
* Various bug fixes


Enjoy!


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* Threads over 5 pages long now require a moderator to delete

I am really not a fan of this idea, and I will suggest an alternative solution:

Threads can only be deleted if there is only a single post on the thread, and by the person who made that post. However, users who made the 1st post on the thread will have the ability to essentially delete their post without deleting the thread, in which case, the 2nd post on the thread becomes the 1st post, and whoever made that post becomes the new controller of the thread.

For whatever reason SMF was designed not to allow a person to just delete their first post and essentially hand over the thread to another person. I don't want to invest the time to work around that and re-design it.

Honestly this project should have been done months ago, but I've been perpetually busy or tired or whatever that I couldn't finish what was essentially a finished project since October or so. POINT being, I don't really have time to do this. I have so many other things I have to do, programming-wise.

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So after reviewing the new hyperlink tools, it is a bit difficult to navigate and change spelling mistakes mid-review. I’ll get used to it, but otherwise everything is pretty clear on what they mean by pictographs alone.

What do you mean?

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Ohh I see. Mobile would make it a little trickier. If it does get to be too annoying, you can always just use the old text editor. However you won't see what drafts you have saved right under the editor anymore nor the social media bbcode buttons.

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Ohh I see. Mobile would make it a little trickier. If it does get to be too annoying, you can always just use the old text editor. However you won't see what drafts you have saved right under the editor anymore nor the social media bbcode buttons.

How do I access it?

Just go to

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=atlasmod

and uncheck "Use advanced post editor"

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I may be okay with the updates if they don’t get rid of “Old Atlas”, like how there is still an “Old Reddit”.

Honestly, there is going to come a time where "old atlas" style really does have to go. This forum has to upgrade to the newest version at least by sometime in 2020, and Dave has already expressed a desire to do that. The newest version they are releasing sometime later this year is considerably different in design. I told Dave I'd like to create a theme to tries to stick to some of Atlas's quirks but it's impossible to avoid a big change. This forum software is really old as it is lol.

And I say this as someone who has poured an enormous amount of time and effort into upgrading this forum in bits and pieces with literally >10,000 lines of custom code. A lot of it will become redundant when the forum is upgraded, and much of it will need a lot of refactoring.

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Are you a CS Major

Minor in CS

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Wait, if we’re going to make the fantasylanders show up in a different color on the online list, is there any chance this can be done with Moderators so we could more easily see which mods were online?

I did ask Dave, I don't think he wanted to do that.

But there is this page I added:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=team

the link is at the bottom near the online list, next to the stats link

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I can't get it to go into Display Mode. I have "Source Mode" in the lower right corner, and if I hover, I get the tool tip.

In the extreme lower right, there are a couple of black lines. The cursor changes to Select (finger) if I point at it.

Also, if I do a Preview, I get Black on Charcoal, very hard (i.e. impossible) to read.

The preview thing is a known issue. It should be fixed by tomorrow or so.

Did you click the right button to get into display mode? It would be that document-icon button, next to the full screen + printer buttons.

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No I didn't click that button.

The tool tip is not at all obvious - I don't know if you can control that.

What is the target in the extreme lower right corner? I get an index cursor findex when I hover.

It's there so you can enlarge the editor by dragging it with your cursor

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I'm not entirely sure what this means.  I don't see either of these features when I am making posts -only Twitter.  

You're probably still using the old editor. Change it on your options page:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?action=profile;sa=atlasmod

"Use advanced post editor"


You don't need to use that editor to be able to use the bbcode, but it's the only editor that shows the actual buttons. Otherwise you just have to type it out, like [youtube]url[/youtube]

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Just curious, but does it work on other threads? Like if you start a new thread with the new post editor, can you type stuff/etc? Did it only not work when you quoted my post?

I noticed it bugged out when you quoted my post, but nothing else. That was because it was trying to parse the youtube bbcode example I put in there, and couldn't because the URL was invalid. The javascript error caused the rest of the editor code to malfunction. I need to fix that.

It should work fine on other threads though. If it doesn't, what happens? Can you take a screenshot?

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It still won't let me type anything, though I can quote other user's posts that I am replying to. 

Yea but in what context? Are you creating a new thread and trying to type something and it won't let you, or are you just quoting my post from this thread? It doesn't work in any other threads?

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Can you post a screenshot of what is going on when you try?