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SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - Legacy Interface Discussion (2004-2011) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wlcnyc who wrote (304)	4/28/2004 1:20:54 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6035

The system currently tracks when the admin has made an alias change and the new system will soon track when a user has made an alias change. Right now, all alias changes there are temporary. They'll be wiped out on the next import from the production site. The site will eventually include previous aliases in searches on members. Neither site can currently do that. The production site will only find someone if they've posted (no such limitation on the new site) and if their alias has changed, the production site doesn't catch changes made past a date we haven't figured out yet. The Dev site currently searches on current alias. I expect to have search include previous aliases before the Dev site becomes the production site. Currently, I'm buttoning up some minor last-minute things before starting in on the routines that update and insert into the database, such as message-posting, adding bookmarks/peoplemarks, etc. The new webserver is still at the office and I don't know the current status of it. I thought it wasn't quite ready, but the consultant called me yesterday and told me that it is. I'll try it out next week and if it's ready, we'll take it to the ISP and install it. I'm still trying to get insert/update routines ready to roll by the time the new webserver is installed, or shortly after. There's still a huge to-do list, including, but not limited to, the following: 1. Handling of premium vs non-premium members when it comes to displaying ads and having certain features available. 2. Getting rid of banner ads and instead using the 336x280 intramessage ads like iHub uses, text-link ads at the tops of pages, and 160x600 towers on the right side of every screen. I'll also allow all premium members to toggle on/off any and all ad types on most pages. The Quotes pages will always have ads, regardless of account type because of the cost of that page. As will some other non-message pages. 3. Determining subject ownership to enable Subject modification and management. 4. Considerable tweaking to the message-display functions. There's currently no handling of "weird" characters (characters higher than ASCII 127). I think CHR(0) is also a problem I'm seeing. 5. Adding and removing Bookmarks and PeopleMarks. 6. Posting public and private messages. 7. Editing of public messages. 8. New account registration, including selection of an Alias that's not the same as your loginID. I've always had a huge problem with this site using your loginID as your alias and not giving you a way to make it otherwise short of admin involvement. That pretty much sums up the list of things I want to have finished before it becomes the production site. That'll leave some features not available immediately (Preview/Spellcheck is one of them) but being worked on, and some features included that the production site doesn't currently have.