Wow, I cannot remember this forum ever being this quiet. Nobody has hackers/spammers, nobody has any other problems, nobody has any mods they want developed. Either everyone quit running forums, they are all on vacation, or Snitz has finally become absolutely perfect.

they are probably on holiday

I check in every day. I truly want to implement the mod package you designed, Carefree, but I'm skeered ... My forum is so modded ... even within the mods in some cases. I'm afraid I'll have a mess on my hands. Last I checked, the package was in it's 2nd beta phase? I will probably venture into the unknown one of these days. There are a lot of reasons I want it ... ease of turning mods on and off, latest code, and it helps me get rid of some mods I no longer use in my forums.

I am still finding and fixing occasional bugs in it, Rich. No dedicated beta testers, as far as I know. I had it online for awhile for certain testers to use one of our servers, but during my last 120 days in cardiac care, everything was shut down. I'll replace the copy on Google drive some day soon.

January, I'm still in hibernation till at least April :-)

Anyone can help me with my "Posts to you mod"...
If I ever start on it.. I look and get stuck trying to figure out what I want

I check in daily to see if there are any "purple thingys" but there haven't been many recently.

Originally posted by golfmann
Anyone can help me with my "Posts to you mod"...
If I ever start on it.. I look and get stuck trying to figure out what I want

Hard to help develop it without an idea of the goals....

Originally posted by Doug G
I check in daily to see if there are any "purple thingys" but there haven't been many recently.

Same. No purple thingys. HuwR soon lay us off. Will have to find another way to support my family of gadgets.

Goals you say?
ok, here's what I have as an idea (so far)
Something like this appears in the header when a member comes on and has replies to their posts:

[IMG]http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg60/golfmann/icon_posts2u.gif[/IMG]
AND when they click on this there will be a page listing said posts. Also some sort of way to either eliminate them when read and opened, OR the drop down list for time frames, or both.
I also thought of trying to shoehorn a way for replying to OTHER replies by member name and have a REPLIES to you gif as well. NOT threaded replies, just a ticker for the replies gif and list of replies (with jump to, of course)
WAY over my pay grade to create the db files, cookies, etc. and make it all work, but it would be nice AND is a number #1 reason people leave my site over the years. They say it's hard to follow....
I have attempted to use other pages and customize for this but I keep getting stuck and quit.
Imagine that lol

OK, color me confused. "Posts to you"? How would someone get posts addressed to him/her? Replies to posts someone has made, that's easy. Creating a quantity counter and/or a scrolling ticker with topic titles linked to the posts, no problem. Eliminating read topics from the ticker, again, no problem.

Replies to someone's posts WOULD be the posts to you... (calling replies or add on comments as posts)

Dedicated REPLIES to a person by name is the rub... lol

I'd do ok with replies to a poster and forget the rest without much provocation...
but it all does explain why I've put it off for a Looooong time

I check in frequently but it has been very quiet of late

If you're bored Carefree you could always look at the 'Like' mod that several people have asked for

Dedicated REPLIES to a person by name is the rub.

See the FAO Forum mod, that's what it's for. How about private messaging? Wouldn't that handle dedicated "posts to you"? You might also consider the "monitor subjects" mod. It wouldn't be limited to a single forum (like the FAO mod), but could be modified to work off user names in any topic/reply subject line and incorporated into this.

Yea, I've looked into both but dropped it after confusing myself real well on how to do it all and not be private.
Thanks anyway.. I can live with the way this is another 10 years or so and do fine.

Every time these kind of posts are posted (nothing to do, where is everyone?, oh so quiet), it always end up with persons giving Carefree something to do. lol Instead of persons just posting what they have been up to. hehehe

Originally posted by Davio
Every time these kind of posts are posted (nothing to do, where is everyone?, oh so quiet), it always end up with persons giving Carefree something to do. lol Instead of persons just posting what they have been up to. hehehe

Just to keep Davio happy , I am still working on the .Net version, I have spent the last month or so using someone's existing forum/database (a modded Snitz) so I can iron out installation/upgrade issues.
I have a couple of things left on my fix list and then will redo the upgrade to make sure I got everything.

Originally posted by Davio
Every time these kind of posts are posted (nothing to do, where is everyone?, oh so quiet), it always end up with persons giving Carefree something to do. lol Instead of persons just posting what they have been up to. hehehe

What a coincidence. Since my wife used to do exactly the same thing, someone might think I was married to all these people. We have a lot of forum owners who aren't programmers, but that's OK. This kind of support is one of the reasons why Snitz remains in use after 15 years.

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I would recommend moving Golfmann's concept post (and replies to it) to the Add-On/Without Code forum. On the subject of mods, I was browsing in one of the PHP boards' mod list and discovered that the "Winner of the Summer of Mods Competition" was a simple search by topic title which even the default Snitz installation includes. Here's one for programming bugs (e.g. this particular forum that I WILL write. It adds the ability to quickly add changes to topic titles. When programming bugs are fixed, it would add either (1) "- SOLVED" or "- INCORPORATED" (when the fix is changed in the download code) following the existing topic title. Other than that one, though, I don't have any pending. So I'll work on Golfmann's mod when I need a break from working on my EBook and Movies collections.
As for the "Like" mod, Webbo, I started working on that some time ago but can't remember where I put the code. Among other symptoms, the brain disease I'm afflicted with causes dementia like Alzheimer's, and I have literally tens of thousands of DVDs and more than 30 multi-terabyte hard drives, so finding lost projects is a HUGE task.

No problem Carefree, take your time, tomorrow will do

joking apart, you do a really fine job as it is <kudos>

OK - I wrote the title changing mod for the modular forum. I'll convert it to the normal Snitz if anyone's interested.