Posts by Dani

Huh??? Can you take a screenshot?

I think James is using the term "unskinned" loosely ... The site is currently unusable. There is no navigation, for example. The registration page is incomplete. No features currently work as intended. While the back-end PHP code might look impressive, absolutely nothing can be gained from looking at the front end as it currently stands.

Stay tuned for the new version of DaniWeb that is coming soon ... It will be MUCH faster, I promise.

Unfortunately this isn't something feasible in the near future. There are two ways to accomplish this. The first is with polling, which is where your web browsers pings the server every few seconds to see if there's new information. This is incredibly bandwidth-intensive, and it eats a lot of ram on the client side as well.

The second way is through using a Javascript-based server such as NodeJS, which works more on the concept of push technology than polling. This is the current modern approach. However, it requires a server-side JavaScript server (such as the increasingly popular NodeJS) and learning server-side JS.

We had a lot of server downtime this morning. :(

Hold your suggestions for just a bit longer :)

I'm currently working on recoding all of DaniWeb from scratch, and there's a complete freeze on the existing system right now.

You can't create a thread in a group. Members can simply join groups, that's the only functionality. I don't think you can delete a group that other people have joined.

Have you tried using Ctrl+F5 to do a hard page refresh?

jQuery is a javascript framework. It's written in javascript to add some additional functionality to make life easier for those who use it to write their JS.

jQuery *is* JavaScript ;)

You can alway add tags to your threads to classify them under multiple topics.

OK, you're good now :)

> How long does it take for sponsor rights to appear after donating anyway?
Up to an hour.

Hi ardav,

If you look at the PayPal screenshot you attached, although you paid twice, it also says "Payment Cancelled" twice.

My concern is that a "notify mods" button will be very over-utilized by people who want to get their threads noticed by the experts quicker and that sort of thing. I can see it being abused anytime anyone wants to get a moderator's instant attention.

It's impossible for you to still be logged in after deleting your cookies.

Logging out shouldn't affect your sponsorship privileges, though. Are you sure that the payment went through, because vBulletin doesn't show you as a paying sponsor.

Posting within forums relevant to your industry can be vital when first starting out because it helps you gain a name for yourself as a reputable and respected expert within the industry. The clout you can earn on industry forums follows you to your own website, and you gain invaluable allies and friends within your website's industry for years to come. THAT is the true value of forum posting.

Lots of people say that you gain invaluable backlinks from forums. I feel this is no longer the case. If you go out of your way to plug in your posts, you come off as a spammer. Most signature are nofollowed these days, and even the ones that aren't Google pretty much is aware they are forum signatures and doesn't give them much credit at all.

Probably just boost up the numbers, but I can't see how many of them actually actively read all of the tweets for the people they follow.

> Judging by the no. of posts in the php forum, it seems to have baffled almost everybody.

The bug only existed for about an hour. I'm sure you couldn't have come to any definitive conclusions based on posting activity in just the PHP forum ;)

Sorry, it's a bug. I set it up earlier today but it was only supposed to do that for newbie members. None of you guys should have been affected. Give me a few mins to fix it.

I didn't even know there were websites like that, limonzmm. Isn't there a standalone app called Twitter Adder or something like that? Then again, you can always grow the natural way ;)

Orrrr ... the monitoring software that is advertising with us right now :)

Install it and get a free DaniWeb tshirt => http://bit.ly/daniwebshirt

Yeah ... no one was watching the database :( Slave db server is still down but hoping to have it resolved as soon as James' flight lands and I pick him up from the airport and drag him over to my computer.

Yeah it shouldn't be off by more than 15 minutes for new items, instant for existing items.

I think it's an issue with your browser?

No, there isn't, sorry.

Why would we upload tutorials to Github and then have moderators manage them there? Why not just post the tutorials straight onto DaniWeb?

We cache the forum listing pages for guests who aren't logged in. Do you log out/log in?

Yeah, I posted in the Apple forums a little bit ago. Definitely sad news.

Currently exploring the practicality of shipping to outside the US. We will not be dealing with dropshippers -- We'll be doing all order processing and fulfillment in-house.

So if a poster have a link in his signature and the link is about laptop repair but he post something useful, that is not counted as spam. But if he posted something useless to the thread, that count as spam. Correct?

Yes. Although, the definition of "useless" can be very subjective, so it really needs to be very obvious that it was only posted to promote the signature.

Links in signature are always allowed unless they contain foul language, are illegal, etc. Only the actual post content qualifies for having moderator action taken upon it (including being called spam). However, as Julienne pointed out, actual post content can qualify as being spam if it is nonsensical, etc.

You currently earn reputation points for activities such as giving reputation and marking threads solved. An upcoming feature we're working on here in the office is creating a swag store where we'll be selling those tshirts with all the funny sayings on them, etc, to earn some extra revenue. We're also going to be coming up with the concept of "Dani Dollars" which can be earned through activity points and solving threads and other such means, and be redeemed in the store.

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I just tested it. (Check out the moderators' reported posts forum.) Links and yes, even smileys, automatically get converted.

If you just copy and paste a link, it should automatically convert to a hyperlink I believe. (Otherwise I guess you do need to wrap it in .)

This most likely won't happen because I don't see the benefit of all the additional resources to make it easy for smiley faces to go into the reporting feature. We already have a problem with members incorrectly using the feature by posting questions/spam in it. I think that a full wysiwyg editor here will just confuse matters further instead of being what it is -- which is just a quick and easy way for members to help police the site.

> You wouldn't be tinkering now , would you?
Oh just maybe ;) I'm sorry ... I didn't realize that the 'test' was public. But yeah, been tinkering alllll weekend long.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Twitter is more powerful than Facebook. It's more like comparing apples to oranges -- they each have their strengths and weaknesses. Twitter has a lot more noise, and you have to work a lot harder filtering through that noise. Facebook works better when you have photos you want to post and you want to form more of an inner-circle community. Twitter doesn't have that same sense of community that Facebook does. All that being said, we tend to get more benefit out of Twitter. Links within our tweets tend to travel further and more outside our community than Facebook shares do. While it's definitely just a stereotype, and probably not true anymore, Facebook also in my eyes caters to a slightly younger audience than Twitter.

Unfortunately, we had some database errors the other night. After spending quite awhile trying to figure it out myself, and then finally giving in and asking a MySQL consulting firm, the conclusion drawn was that the all-time list of activity points was too resource intensive to compute, and it actually nearly brought down the database when someone refreshed the page a bunch of times in a row (or so I think that's what happened). Additionally, it didn't make sense to cache it because it is only accessible from that one page that doesn't get enough traffic to make it worthwhile. Therefore, I had to replace all-time with week-long to make the MySQL table scan a bit more realistic.

/rant/ BTW, it's kind of obnoxious when people keep asking the same questions over and over again. Search before you post, folks ;) There are about a million threads on here asking what PR is. /end rant/

Yes, confirmed bug. And should be fixed now.

Cool. Yeah, there's a link to it from our homepage. :)

No one seems to have mentioned it yet so I guess I will ... Toolbar PR is not what it used to be, and is today rarely updated and not a true reflection of the internal PR that is used in the Google algorithm. It's for show only.

Link exchanges do very little for SEO nowadays, but it's good to get your feet wet with other sites in your industry. It gets your name out there a bit. Don't worry about Google toolbar PageRank: it's meaningless. Link to sites that have good, quality content your audience would be interested in.

Each individual page should only target one or two keywords. The keywords shouldn't be repeated in an unnatural way. They should be built naturally into the content.

Hi,

First of all, thank you soooo much for your support. However, I'm not so sure we have any tasks that can be outsourced. Our big ticket monthly expenses are our office rent, web hosting and marketing expenses, as opposed to employee salaries. I do all of the development work myself, so we don't have any programming expenses or the like.

However, if you can, please please donate for just a few dollars a month. It gives you an advertising-free DaniWeb (among other benefits), which incredibly speeds up the site. Plus, it's much more robust than hacky ad blockers.

Google PR, or PageRank, is a part of Google's ranking algorithm in which every individual page of a site is ranked (aka has its own Page Rank) based on how many other pages on the web link to it, and the authority of those pages (in other words, the quality and quantity of sites linking to each of them).

I think different things work differently for different people, based on the nature of the website. It *is* important to work on SEO daily, if that is a large part of your traffic. Long tail (ranking for millions of keywords that each don't get a lot of traffic) works better for some while short tail (ranking for a few keywords that each get a lot of traffic) works better for others.

DaniWeb focuses on long tail ... We get most of our traffic to individual forum thread pages.

That page no longer exists. The link to it is within a really old forum post from 2004. It really wasn't anything specific aside from basic vBulletin guidance.