Almost there

Now that I'm basically done I can tell you why the site went dark for a couple days.

I've converted Prometheus 6 from the Drupal4Blogger fork (that was based on version 4.4) to Drupal version 4.5. This puts me back with the main development branch. I've added some pretty funky capabilities…the selfish stuff includes scheduling posts for publication and unpublication, and more file and image handling capabilities, like file attachments to posts.

Registered users will notice a new menu entry: view inbox. That's for private messages to other registered users. They can also subscribe to posts, to get email when there's a change or comment (still have to come here to read it though). Each post and comment has a link to PM the author.

Registered users will also see a new members link takes you to a list of members (of course). Clicking the username takes you to the user's profile and a link to PM the user. Registered users can also upload a 100x100 pixel avatar. Check your user profiles, I think you'll find some interesting options there.

Best, since this is all standard Drupal stuff I am technically capable of tying into several site networking possibilities.

P6 isn't officially back because there's still some tweaking to do…with this theme, links in tables are currently invisible, extended text fields may still need some cleanup, most of the user profile fields are private (but I think it will stay that way—with the understanding that as the system operator I see ALL of it). And I haven't tested all of it, either…in particular, the private messages I've just lauded haven't been used even once (I suck at dropping hints, so I guess I should let you know that's a hint). And since I've imported all the old posts I've dropped the old MT archives…Google will just have to live with it, is all.

And when all this is done (Monday is still the deadline) configuring The Niggerati Network is next. It's running the same code with the same options, plus one more: users blogs (or diaries or whatever) will be activated. Probably a forum as well, because user bloggers will be vetted to some degree by the community—I still have to work out the details on that. Forums would be a lot looser, in that any registered user can start a topic.

Posted by Prometheus 6 on November 7, 2004 - 9:02am :: Tech
 
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Great job, P. Nice new features (might be good to throw in a permanent link somewhere that talks about the benefits of "membership"). FWIW, I'm soo glad you got rid of that glowing head thing. Man, was that thing frickin annoying. I dig the content here, but aesthetics count a fair bit for me, too. Count on memer to be Captain Triflin ;-)

Posted by  memer (not verified) on November 8, 2004 - 2:56pm.

Don't be dissing my glowing head, son. It will show up as my avatar in the comments soon.

I think you were the one looking for wysiwyg editing, right? Well, we have enough capabilities now...though I'm still not sure about how the new editor interacts with the built-in text filters and such. Still more tuning to do, and you have no idea how nuts it makes me to do it on a live site.

Posted by  Prometheus 6 on November 8, 2004 - 3:08pm.

Glowing head avatar, eh? *shrugs* Well, good thing content is still king :P

I truly dig the wysiwyg action, but i was the one suggesting you try a live, real-time preview feature like at Shelley Powers' place (Burningbird) if you really want to stretch drupal.

I hear you re the live testing stuff. No worries (see second sentence).

~M

p.s. as long as we're bugtesting here, I don't think the "insert web link" feature is operational yet (leastways not with Firefox?). Can't insert a link by hand, either (as you can see)?

Posted by  memer (not verified) on November 8, 2004 - 11:59pm.

Argh. None of the dialogs work.

Workaround is the toolbar button with the angle brackets [<>]. It toggles between wysiwyg and raw HTML modes.

Posted by  Prometheus 6 on November 9, 2004 - 12:33am.