2. "RE: Any Way We Can Get A Modern Responsive UI For OKP?" In response to Reply # 0
>surely the forum software makes a skin just a lil more >friendly to mobile devices right? lol.
The software powering this forum has been dead for many years. I doubt "responsive UI" was even a concept whenever it was last updated.
I don't know the inner workings of DCForum, but I imagine there's a way to modify the templates to update the HTML and CSS to something more modern and agreeable for smaller devices.
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6. "What you're requesting isn't impossible..." In response to Reply # 0
..but not likely anytime soon.
Improvements are clearly needed for all thinks OKP-related. Unfortunately, there are other concerns to be addressed as well and all of it will take time.
9. "this shit might be off next week lol, the boards are just a small part....." In response to Reply # 0
of the okayplayer.com website that most of the people currently in charge barely care about, its almost become more of a liability than an asset, hence the ads we get bombarded with all over our screens
10. "I feel like its time..i'm ok if it goes away" In response to Reply # 9
It was a thing that had its time.
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11. "Nahhh it's certainly changed a lot, and isn't as fastpaced as it once wa..." In response to Reply # 10 Thu Jan-06-22 04:01 PM by Brew
But I for one don't know how I could live without it. Not only does it offer a much needed distraction from work-related spreadsheets and reports, but more importantly it's a *productive* distraction from work; I learn a LOT from you all/this board ... news, information, perspective, insight, personal anecdotes, etc. ... stuff that I wouldn't know where to find anywhere else. Certainly not fucking Twitter lol.
And all of the above is in addition to the music and other cultural stuff I learn from spending time on these boards with all of you. We all obviously share a lot of common interests (and political/moral ideologies) and that's something I'm not sure I could really replicate elsewhere .. at least not to the degree that I find it here.
All of that's very "me me me" but I have to assume I'm not alone.
Like Reeq, I'd gladly throw some money in to update the UI so we can keep this thing going and update it for modern times. I'd miss it too much to see it go.
16. "I don't see why we gotta get gloom and doom about this place" In response to Reply # 11
I don't have insight into the inner workings of the site, but the message boards seemingly exist off in a largely inoffensive corner of this spot. It's not like we're particularly expensive to maintain or are becoming a "problem" for the Mothership. We can keep bumping along until become just decide to stop posting.
23. "i think you misinterpreted me." In response to Reply # 21
i was talking about migrating to *different* software. like from wordpress to drupal.
but lets be honest...you dont even need to change the backend software wholesale when you can just update the frontend templates html/css (with something like bootstrap for example).
we are not talking about performance or eol security upgrades or something like that. we are just talking about a different ui/design for a more comfortable presentation to visitors.
i know you know its not as difficult as its being made out to be.
36. "it adds to the "third place" feeling for sure" In response to Reply # 18 Tue Jan-11-22 01:48 PM by bearfield
i honestly hate it here most of the time and even won't bother posting or replying bc i might get replied to by some lonely misanthropic sociopath in OKS or the lesson. but i keep coming back and lurking so there is definitely a pull to this place — mostly driven by familiarity — and the outdated tech is defnitely part of that familiarity
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You can use them to see the stylesheet applied using a desktop browser.
1. Create a bookmark with the bookmarklet text as the URL. It starts with javascript: rather than https: 2. Navigate to a forum or topic on the board. 3. Click the bookmark with the custom javascript in it.
This will fetch the CSS from GitHub and append it as a style element in the head.
I wanted to see how far I could get with just CSS, and now I know.
The limitation I'm hitting is the table of contents and nested comments. The indentation is handled with literal whitespace like non-breaking spaces, which CSS doesn't have much control over.
A possible solution would be more JavaScript to produce a character count that let's the CSS know how much indentation to apply. I'm not sure I can make it terse enough to fit it in a bookmarklet.
44. "RE: I started working on it for fun" In response to Reply # 38 Mon Jan-24-22 02:23 PM by dustin
This is dope.
Since this forum runs on dead software (DCForum), probably the best route to a mobile-friendly layout would be new CSS (like this) and maybe even mangling the HTML itself. I know Triptych (also a software dev and longtime OKP) started some code long ago to parse OKP thread HTML: https://github.com/djtriptych/okp-threadparser
I would be down to help out if you keep working on this! Maybe it could evolve into a browser extension.
56. "RE: I like that this looks like I am working on a spreedsheet at work. " In response to Reply # 47
I once forgot to minimize my screen when my boss came around my desk. He said what he needed to tell me and left without commenting on my screen. I only realized once he left that I was on the boards and he did not think anything of it.
My coworkers sometimes come to my desk while I'm here and think I am working on some boring shit, they show zero interest on what is on the screen.
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