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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Applauds(Cures) and Smites(Curses) icons
« on: March 01, 2003, 02:51:00 AM »Just out of curiosity, how long is the trial period for the feature going to last?
I have no idea, sorry.
The reason we have no idea is because this system is as new to us as it is to you. When we officially launched dsboards.com a year ago today (Yay! Happy Birthday to us!! - But I digress... ) we'd had more than a month to familiarize ourselves with the system, make changes and add features before anyone else had a chance to use anything. However, with this change to YaBB SE, we didn't have the luxury of time to learn because the change was thrust upon us by our host. SP was Perl based, a computer language that I knew. SE is PHP/MySQL based, a language and database that I know very little about. Since launching this version a little less than two weeks ago, I've gotten several books on the subject, and the good thing is that PHP is very similar to Perl and other computer languages that I'm very familair with - but it also has it's differences. And until I'm able to get up to speed, I'm not going to be able to tweak the system like I was able to with the SP version. You all just have to be patient because, believe me, no wants me to be as proficient with PHP as I was with Perl than I do.
That having been said, though, I was able to change a few things about the Karma feature that the forum's preferences and settings allows us to change. Instead of displaying both totals, now it displays the difference between the two. In other words, rather than showing +20/-12, it shows 8. And I've also changed applaud/smite to cure/curse, which is probably more befitting DS. But that's about as much as I can do at this time...