Better [code]-bbc in the forum

Hello,

this is a suggestion to the forum administrators. i would like to see some improved colour highlighting to the

 [ \code ] bbc.
it's already there but there are lots of bugs in it. I'm sure that i don't need to post examples. You've all seen them before.

another neat feature "line numbers" would be cool, too.

edit: i didn't searched the hell out of me finding a suggestion to the forum like this, so sorry if it's already posted.
edit2: i hope it's okay to send suggestions to the forum in here :S

~InDieTasten

Nah. IP board isn't flexible enough.

Can't you guys add some custom CSS?

remiX, on 08 April 2013 - 08:16 AM said:

Can't you guys add some custom CSS?

if they could change the CSS then I'm sure they could change the 'prettify' to be a different language.

Cloudy, on 08 April 2013 - 07:01 AM said:

Nah. IP board isn't flexible enough.

everything of IPB is awesome, just the unflexibility in the details is pretty sad :(/>

InDieTasten, on 10 April 2013 - 03:32 AM said:

everything of IPB is awesome

Its really not… there are much better pieces of forum software out there. IP.Board (well this version at least) is riddled with bugs an inflexibility.

theoriginalbit, on 10 April 2013 - 03:44 AM said:

there are much better pieces of forum software out there

i don't know any…

InDieTasten, on 10 April 2013 - 04:45 AM said:

theoriginalbit, on 10 April 2013 - 03:44 AM said:

there are much better pieces of forum software out there

i don't know any…

By far the best one is XenForo, but that one costs $99 a year I believe.

Dlcruz129, on 10 April 2013 - 05:18 AM said:

InDieTasten, on 10 April 2013 - 04:45 AM said:

theoriginalbit, on 10 April 2013 - 03:44 AM said:

there are much better pieces of forum software out there

i don't know any…

By far the best one is XenForo, but that one costs $99 a year I believe.

ah, ok. but isn't the income from the footer ad enough to afford this cost? and is it even needed. here are so many programers. they could cooperate and create a special forum software just for this. and i'm sure they would do this for free or a rank in the future forum. another way is to collect money for this. every year they could do an event where people donate to the forum to keep it existant. but things start to get a little off-topic i guess.

~InDieTasten

InDieTasten, on 13 April 2013 - 05:37 AM said:

Dlcruz129, on 10 April 2013 - 05:18 AM said:

InDieTasten, on 10 April 2013 - 04:45 AM said:

theoriginalbit, on 10 April 2013 - 03:44 AM said:

there are much better pieces of forum software out there

i don't know any…

By far the best one is XenForo, but that one costs $99 a year I believe.

ah, ok. but isn't the income from the footer ad enough to afford this cost? and is it even needed. here are so many programers. they could cooperate and create a special forum software just for this. and i'm sure they would do this for free or a rank in the future forum. another way is to collect money for this. every year they could do an event where people donate to the forum to keep it existant. but things start to get a little off-topic i guess.

~InDieTasten

I don't know, maybe. But Dan/Cloudy need to pay for web hosting and other stuff, so let's not pressure them to spend money.

wut i just realized there's an ad at the bottom :P/>

superaxander, on 13 April 2013 - 09:27 PM said:

wut i just realized there's an ad at the bottom :P/>

:P/> I bet it gets tons of clicks.

oeed, on 13 April 2013 - 11:06 PM said:

superaxander, on 13 April 2013 - 09:27 PM said:

wut i just realized there's an ad at the bottom :P/>

:P/> I bet it gets tons of clicks.

Exactly. Dan and Cloudy probably get no money from it. (I believe you only get paid if someone clicks the ad, but I'm not sure.)

Dlcruz129, on 14 April 2013 - 07:23 AM said:

Exactly. Dan and Cloudy probably get no money from it. (I believe you only get paid if someone clicks the ad, but I'm not sure.)

maybe. i mean they could generate more money for it with adds. maybe one over the header. adfly-links for downloads or forwarding to linked websites in the forum. but i don't think they need to pay for forum software. i mean here are actually a lot of web developer aren't they. I'm sure they could find some guys with the skills to program a forum software. i know that it could take for ever but when they get a special rank and or other credits here they would do it. i'm just not sure how long it takes to create one. maybe 6-8 months. maybe 12 months when they have not always time to work on it? i don't know.

InDieTasten, on 15 April 2013 - 12:59 PM said:

Dlcruz129, on 14 April 2013 - 07:23 AM said:

Exactly. Dan and Cloudy probably get no money from it. (I believe you only get paid if someone clicks the ad, but I'm not sure.)

maybe. i mean they could generate more money for it with adds. maybe one over the header. adfly-links for downloads or forwarding to linked websites in the forum. but i don't think they need to pay for forum software. i mean here are actually a lot of web developer aren't they. I'm sure they could find some guys with the skills to program a forum software. i know that it could take for ever but when they get a special rank and or other credits here they would do it. i'm just not sure how long it takes to create one. maybe 6-8 months. maybe 12 months when they have not always time to work on it? i don't know.

Making forum software is easy depending on the features. For pretty good software it could take 1-2 weeks easily. It doesn't take long at all. But they probably want it professionally done and not made by a couple people sitting in their basements with only the dim light of their computer screen on their faces.

We won't be using a home-baked forum product, should we ever change. We are not having a repeat of NDF-OS, CCYoutube or Thunderhawk, all of which had some serious security holes which weren't considered. As has been said in this thread already, IP.Board is not flexible enough. I can poke around the BBCode but changing them will likely break the forums or older posts in unpredictable ways.

In short – be grateful you have working BBCode. It's not going to change.