Page banners and other things of interest.

POSTED BY: HAKEN
UPDATED: Thursday, October 28, 2010 15:36
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THEHAPPYTRADER

Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:57 AM

I tried that on firefox and internet explorer and still got the error message. Oh, and I'm posting this from 2.0.

PHOENIXROSE

Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:01 AM

It directs to the error page after "update avatar image."

...Also after "save profile" if I try to just do that.

Just because something can't be explained doesn't mean it becomes yours.

TWO

Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:05 AM

In Internet Explorer & Firefox and fff.net 2.0, I browse for a picture, click "update avatar image", and get an error.

Then I try to report the error from fff.net 2.0 and get an error.

So then I give up and go over to fff.net 1.0 to post this.

The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

TWO

Thursday, October 21, 2010 6:29 AM

Haken wrote, "It was the right decision to load a different banner with each page."

two writes, "Use a simpler algorithm to pick the next banner. I never see even half of the 42 banners. I keep getting the same small subset of banners. Could solve that by rolling all the individual banners into one gigantic gif. What we need is 54 banners - one for every card in a deck plus two jokers."

And the neat part is that I posted this from fff.net 2.0 without an error. How did that happen? And why is there no list of emoticons over at 2.0 ?
The vomit one is very classy. Lots of movement.

HAKEN

Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:27 PM

Okay, took me a while to figure out what was different between what I was doing and what each of you were doing that would trigger the error. The reason for the error is due to you all having HTML code in some of your profile fields. This is probably also the reason some of you can't post.

I have a temporary fix in place that will allow you to update the avatar on the FFF.NET 2.0 side, unfortunately it'll ruin things for you all on the 1.0 side. So probably not a good idea to use it at this time unless you want to forgo all those HTML hacks that are in your profile.

I should have a more permanent solution up in a day or two that'll likely require you to re-enter what you have for the 2.0 site without the HTML tags while still keeping everything you have for the 1.0 site.

As for the banners, the problem was that the algorithm was too simplistic and therefore did not offer good randomness. I have since switched to a more sophisticated algorithm (Mersenne Twister). We'll see how that works out for our needs.

Anyway, more to come.

TWO

Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:35 PM

Changed my Avatar without an error message and posted this response on fff.net 2.0 Now if we can get that list of emoticons added. . .

[quote=Haken]As for the banners, the problem was that the algorithm was too simplistic and therefore did not offer good randomness. I have since switched to a more sophisticated algorithm (Mersenne Twister). We'll see how that works out for our needs.

It's not fixed, yet. I'm still seeing repeats after only 9 banners. The dining table of Serenity keeps reappearing too often.

THEHAPPYTRADER

Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:26 PM

Sweet I got an avatar now. It made the words in my little bio look funny, but if I took out ( )'s, contractions and the like it looked fine. Also, I'm posting from 2.0.

HAKEN

Friday, October 22, 2010 12:38 AM

Quote:
It's not fixed, yet. I'm still seeing repeats after only 9 banners. The dining table of Serenity keeps reappearing too often.

That's the normal distribution and the more frequent appearing ones are probably the mean. There's really no way to get around that except for the site to keep track of the ones you've seen and not repeat any until all the banners have been viewed. It's not that difficult to implement, but seems like a waste of resources since the index value will have to be stored as a cookie on the browser end or as a value in the database on the server end.

I have a couple of other things I can try. One is time based where I take the second that the page loads and MOD it with the number of banners, but I'm sure over time, we'll end up with the same normal distribution problem. Just can't really get away from it when we go the random route.

KWICKO

Friday, October 22, 2010 1:27 AM

Interfacing with Safari and Snow Leopard seem a bit iffy. I get the notifications, but when I click on the link, it doesn't log me in, but rather gives me a runtime error.

Seems to work fine with Firefox and Chrome, though. [/shrug]

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KWICKO

Friday, October 22, 2010 1:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by THEHAPPYTRADER:
Sweet I got an avatar now. It made the words in my little bio look funny, but if I took out ( )'s, contractions and the like it looked fine. Also, I'm posting from 2.0.

No, you don't. The avatar, I mean. Unless your avatar is supposed to be a small blue box with a question mark in it, in which case you have a shiny new avatar!

The modern definition of "socialist" is anyone who's winning an argument against a tea-bagger.

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Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.

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