On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 at 13:11:22 UTC, Profile Anaysis
wrote:
The web interface could use a little work!
1. Tabs - I know that tabs are designed to move to different
elements but you can override the default behavior and make
life quite a bit easier for most people(since most people have
access to a mouse).
That would be a regression in accessibility. At least, I use tabs
to navigate website forms.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3362/capturing-tab-key-in-text-box
This solution is an ugly kludge. Sorry, but I will not be
implementing this. I would suggest against using tabs in Internet
messages anyway, as the way they are displayed highly depends on
the user agent.
Instead, put some elements on the page, a few buttons that say
things like "fix me" which will reduce the quote like it
normally does, but does not require a page reload(which can be
a few seconds sometimes and sometimes the site goes down in the
middle).
Page load times should be almost always instant. Unfortunately,
the server the forum is running on has been experiencing high
load lately, due to it also hosting some D CI systems. I'm
looking into this.
Also, the captcha could be added the first time if it is
required instead of requiring another page load for it to pop
up.
Whether or not a CAPTCHA challenge should be displayed cannot be
determined before the user submits their post.
3. D code highlighting!
Some Markdown formatting is planned for the next major update.
Oh, and this post: "Your post contains a suspicious keyword or
character sequence. Please solve a CAPTCHA to continue."
Did I say a nasty word somewhere? Is someone gonna wash my
mouth out with soap?
The suspicious character sequence in your post was:
[Url]http://forum.dlang.org/newpost/general[/Url]
This syntax does nothing on these forums, but many spammers
attempt to use it anyway when spamming links to their websites.
For this reason, it always triggers a CAPTCHA.
Also, If I get the captcha and get the answer wrong, I get a
loop:
Your last post was less than 15 seconds ago. Please wait a few
seconds before trying again.
This should now be improved.
Seems like if one does a valid captcha it should reset and
allow the next post to go through without issue.
No, because then someone could write a solver for the CAPTCHAs,
and be able to flood the forum without any rate restrictions.
