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## DeveloperCountry code: blank.gif, country type: blank, valid: 11267Sticky

I've set up a bugtracker so that issues/bugs/feature requests can be consolidated into one place to make it easier to keep track of, rather than having to watch multiple threads. One of the nice things about BitBucket is that you don't need to have an account in order to add an issue. If you have a BitBucket account and want to post with that, that's up to you.

https://bitbucket.org/ponychan/ponychan-tinyboard/issues?status=new&status=open

Some things to keep in mind:
1. Make your issue submissions clear and concise.
2. If you need to submit a screenshot, the issue tracker has an option to upload files.
3. The issue tracker is only for actual issues/bugs/feature requests/etc. Any frivolous issues or shitposts will be deleted.
4. Also, this should be used only for issues with Ponychan's code/strucure, not ban requests and user complaints and whatnot. Keep that stuff on /site/.

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Nice.

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: blank.gif, country type: blank, valid: 11269

awesome

Chewy [Element Of Fortitude]!MUSIC.FbVYCountry code: blank.gif, country type: blank, valid: 11288

I posted something in it regarding the way webms currently work, not super important tho

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>>11288
You don't really need to notify me here, it has a comment system and I get updates by email.

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>>11292

oh, okay

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Hijiacking this for a post to respond to a technical suggestion in a locked thread.

>>11084
>hypothetical bot that links new threads, if possible as discussed earlier
Really late but that's trivially easy. Set up a Discord webhook, add a couple lines of code to thread generation to spin off an http request. I don't find that to be a useful channel, but it's trivial to set up.

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Deleting threads without any replies will cause the thread to actually be deleted.

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>>11505
<3

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>>11505

yay

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Just a quick note, Macil gave me the source code for Ponychan as it was before I started making changes to it, and it's been uploaded to BitBucket here. All issues added to the old issue tracking repo have been migrated to the new repo, and if you try to access the old repo, it will link you too the new one.

AnonymousCountry code: blank.gif, country type: blank, valid: 12380

hey could you remove the blotter/ticker/news links?

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>>12380
>>12380
>>12380
>>12380
>>12380

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hey astras still listed on the home page too, just FYI should update that

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>>12403
hmm so i notice the link to the 'official' discord has been removed from the home page, so obviously the home page has been update since this but he's still there. weird, man. weird.

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>>12403
That's because I'm still a mod, fam

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>>12411

Mod of what, though?

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>>12412
I'm both a general mod for the site and still specifically for rp.

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Hahahahahahahahahah

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>>12413

So is there even a point to Dom having his position?

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>>12417
You know the answer to that; the point is so that we have someone to do the actual work while he keeps the position.

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>>12421

I had kind of naively hoped that if I actually pointed it out, it might make Mikie or someone else go "wait a minute".

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>>12423
What else exactly needs to be said

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>>12423

Oh.

Well, to better clarify my statement:

Why exactly does a person who doesn't really do anything else for the site anymore still have an actual position on the moderation team?

Especially since the job he supposedly does have is being done by someone else - who at the very least, is more active than he is?

I mean, how did he even get this "honorary mod" position when he stepped down as admin? Whose idea was that?

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>>12426
consider who you want to be least chewed out by and which would have the best reasons to chew you out or be upset.

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>>12428
👍

if you need to know how to do the discord roles just ask

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>>12426
>>12428
>>12430
>>12431

Logically speaking, it is the smarter choice.

If he isn't gonna do anything with the job, then there's no point in him having it. And yeah, he won't be happy, but them's the breaks.

You made the right call.

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Add to that, Zeke's bug tracker thread is not the place for mod discussion.
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>>12434
>>12433
lmao fuck this.

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>>12433
>>12434
Well then.

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>>12433
>>12434

Jesus Christ.

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>>12437
ikr? the more things change the more they stay the same. still a joke.

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>>12491
/ef/ still isn't mentioned or described.

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>>12496
You're right. Apparently the front page board list and the navbar board list are two different lists and one of us forgot to update one of them. Should be fixed now.

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>>12497
Thank You.

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Webms with audio keep playing the audio after the webm is minimized

## ModCountry code: blank.gif, country type: blank, valid: 15435

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So I realize I've seriously neglected the bugtracker, and I apologize for that. From now on, I'm going (try to) be more active in that.

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Added somethin but didn't know how much using the tracker vs making a thread is on effectiveness

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>>15524
I'd rather have issues directly related to the appearance and/or function of the site kept to the issue tracker to make it easier for me to keep track of what's finished/still needs to be done and the priorities.

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>>15526
Gotcha. Arigatou.

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The spam filter is out of control.

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>>15660
wdym?

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>>15660
See: >>15664

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500 internal server error for like ten seconds around 4 Dec 2020 13:17 EST.

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>>15755
Are you still getting the error?

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>>15756
Nope, posted immediately after it resolved.
Thought I'd make you aware anyway, an admin team won't always see everything as it happens.

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>>15757
Alright, I think I found the error, but to be honest, I'm not really sure what exactly caused it. I don't recall seeing this before, so I'll leave it be for now, but if you run into it again, let me know.

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Also as it turns out, I'm a big dummy and forgot to re-enable the issue tracker on the repo, so if you run into an issue that's likely with the TinyBoard stuff itself (JavaScript, PHP, or HTML stuff, not nginx errors), you can use the link in the OP.

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Please do bring back /v/ or at least make a new video game related board, maybe two. Also, could you make the quick reply box and top page post area not have to be a choice of either one or the other. How about making it work a tad more like how 4chan, 7chan, and endchan do it? And how about thread statistics?

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>>17797
Regarding the board requests, this thread is supposed to be for technical issues, not board requests. I'm pretty sure I'm the only staff member who regularly watches this thread, so I'd make a separate thread about that.


>Also, could you make the quick reply box and top page post area not have to be a choice of either one or the other. How about making it work a tad more like how 4chan, 7chan, and endchan do it?
Yeah, I've been kinda considering that but I wasn't sure if anyone would even care.
>And how about thread statistics?
What specific statistics?
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Where's the upload max filesize listed?
Shouldn't that be visible somewhere?

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>>18240
its 8MB

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There are a few issues with the API that would be great to have resolved, as it kind of lags behind in comparison to other *chan software

For the 'thread' request type
- Flag (custom or country) is not present on boards that support it
- Image spoiler status is not present
- Image deletion status is not present (if it even exists; I don't know if posts can have an image marked as 'deleted' like how 4chan can)
- User IDs are not present (for example on >>>/site/)

For 'catalog':
- 'com' field is truncated. I understand that it's to reduce the size of the response but it means that filtering catalog threads with a text search is mostly broken
- No last_modified or last_bumped field, but it's not a massive issue since I'm determining it from the last_replies field

Otherwise I feel the API is more or less okay, and is more consistent than what vichan/lynxchan has. There are a couple of other wishes for additional properties that I have but they're a bit niche and probably not worth the effort

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>>18630
I didn't know anyone even used the API aside from the site itself and a few bots that I've made for it, but I'll see what I can do.
>- Flag (custom or country) is not present on boards that support it
Yeah, I added the flags and never got around to putting it in the API since it doesn't really affect the only things that use it on the site.
>- Image deletion status is not present (if it even exists; I don't know if posts can have an image marked as 'deleted' like how 4chan can)
Yes, we do have a "File deleted" box if the upload is deleted from the post, rather than just making it as if it never existed.
>- 'com' field is truncated. I understand that it's to reduce the size of the response but it means that filtering catalog threads with a text search is mostly broken
I never even noticed that tbh lol.
>- No last_modified or last_bumped field, but it's not a massive issue since I'm determining it from the last_replies field
Is that new? I'm not sure when api.php was first created, but some of the big names in imageboards like 8chan/kun, Bunkerchan (since shut down), etc didn't exist, it's based on the original 4chan JSON API.

I definitely appreciate the input, though I can't take credit for the base implementation. That was done by the old admin, Macil. If you have other critiques, go ahead and list them and I'll see what I can do to integrate them.

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Flags are fixed (in development, haven't pushed it yet), though because of the way I originally implemented it, it doesn't check if the board is a flag board so on non-flag boards, everything is just "blank", "No Country" for code and name respectively when you do an API request.

Also I don't know why json_encode() wants to encode numbers as strings by default, but I set it so that numbers are actually encoded in JSON as numbers.
I find myself resenting PHP more and more every time I use it. Its a mess, a giant ungodly mess with an inconsistent API (haystack then needle or needle then haystack?) and type safety is a joke.

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>>18631
>>18632
> I didn't know anyone even used the API aside from the site itself and a few bots that I've made for it, but I'll see what I can do.
I maintain a 4chan/altchan scraper and I got a request to support some MLP related imageboards, so that the guy can have a private archive

https://github.com/bbepis/Hayden/blob/master/Hayden/Api/PonychanApi.cs

> Is that new? I'm not sure when api.php was first created, but some of the big names in imageboards like 8chan/kun, Bunkerchan (since shut down), etc didn't exist, it's based on the original 4chan JSON API.

No idea how new it is, but it's in the catalog.json and threads.json endpoint for 4chan (see 'last_modified' for each thread object)
https://github.com/4chan/4chan-API/blob/master/pages/Catalog.md
https://a.4cdn.org/po/catalog.json

https://github.com/4chan/4chan-API/blob/master/pages/Threadlist.md
https://a.4cdn.org/po/threads.json

Exists on lynxchan too, but as a UTC time string (named 'lastBump')
https://8chan.moe/bane/catalog.json

> though because of the way I originally implemented it, it doesn't check if the board is a flag board so on non-flag boards, everything is just "blank", "No Country" for code and name respectively when you do an API request.

It's not much of an issue for me specifically, I don't check if the board supports flags but just push the property into the database row if it's there

> If you have other critiques, go ahead and list them and I'll see what I can do to integrate them.

Only thing is that having an additional property for sha256 instead of just md5 for images would be great, but it's very likely something that would be a shitload of effort for little gain

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>>18633
I'm not very familiar with C#, how strict is its JSON parsing? Looking at your first link, I see a bunch of `[JsonProperty("trip")]` lines, which I'm guessing are like the C# equivalent of structure tags in Go? Does it fail if there are any missing JSON fields?
>It's not much of an issue for me specifically, I don't check if the board supports flags but just push the property into the database row if it's there
I guess I could put some other stuff for board specific stuff when generating the API output, so it doesn't show fields with flag "info", if there aren't any actual flags on the board.
>Only thing is that having an additional property for sha256 instead of just md5 for images would be great, but it's very likely something that would be a shitload of effort for little gain
Yeah, that really doesn't sound like it's worth the trouble. I'm aware that the MD5 hashing algorithm has issues with collisions, but it seems unlikely that that would ever happen with two files that are accepted to the site (as opposed to for example "random" garbage bytecode that's tailored to cause a collision but would likely be rejected by the site for not being a valid image)
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>>18634
They're attributes provided by a third party JSON library. If the property is missing they'll be set to the default value (which is usuallly null or 0), so it's not an issue. I already check for that

I do have on question, what's the 'anonymous' property for? Is it indicating that a thread has forced anonynmity (i.e. no names/trips)

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>>18635
Sorry for the late reply, yes, it means that the thread has forced anon, IIRC it's set by putting #anon in the OP, in the same way {#mature} marks it as a mature thread (replace { and } with [ and ])

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<test
>test

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-(1) when there are no new posts

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>>18988
I'm aware of the issues with thread watching in the current code. The current thread watching code is completely out of whack, so that's been my main focus.

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>>18989
Has this been fixed up?

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>>19033
I've been busy with other things and IRL stuff but it is still in development.

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>>19035
Fair enough. I tell people that IRL comes first, and to expect that of others.

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