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by jimmygoon
Sat Dec 08, 2007 3:52 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Suspecting GOLD Very Soon...
Replies: 332
Views: 439373

Re: Suspecting GOLD Very Soon...

The sad/funny thing is, over a year ago, I told my friend "Oh, it will be soon. It will come out soon and we can start up the forum again".

Hum...
by jimmygoon
Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:12 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Search Bot Functionality
Replies: 12
Views: 17103

Re: Search Bot Functionality

Well, bots have less access than guests by default and get a stripped down version of the page. I don't really see a problem. You can also specify the IPs for bots in the ACP, if you really want to make it impossible. I don't see the point, though. http://shcommunity.mickens.us Try it as a guest, t...
by jimmygoon
Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:01 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Search Bot Functionality
Replies: 12
Views: 17103

Re: Search Bot Functionality

Hm, give it a try: http://www.avivadirectory.com/bethebot/

It works, sadly...
by jimmygoon
Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:41 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Search Bot Functionality
Replies: 12
Views: 17103

Re: Search Bot Functionality

This was on the front page of digg....

http://quicksilverscreen.com/ipb/index. ... opic=29115

concerning no?
by jimmygoon
Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:52 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: the phpbb 3 Text Editor !!
Replies: 7
Views: 13728

Re: the phpbb 3 Text Editor !!

some of the astonishing features that I would like the developers to add is ajax feature in the editor so instead of the mess of bbcode we get the what i see is what i get , and that can remove the preview process of the current editor , and it will make the process of posting a lot easier and grac...
by jimmygoon
Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:13 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Search Bot Functionality
Replies: 12
Views: 17103

Re: Search Bot Functionality

the_dan wrote:As opposed to just looking at Google's cache?
That's why I'm a bit confused. I did NOT specify somewhere that I wanted to LET google's search engine be able to see more than anonymous individuals (at least intentionally)... what is the default behavior in this/these circumstances?
by jimmygoon
Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:59 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Search Bot Functionality
Replies: 12
Views: 17103

Re: Search Bot Functionality

No. Googlebot has more access to my forums than my "guest" user does... and I would rather not have someone fake their UA string to appear as Googlebot and have read access...
by jimmygoon
Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:16 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Search Bot Functionality
Replies: 12
Views: 17103

Search Bot Functionality

I hope that this is within the right scope for discussion here: (Roughly) how does the Search Bot functionality work? Please just tell me that there are more assurances than simply checking the User Agent string... Does it do some reverse DNS checking... and is that still secure as well? Sorry for t...
by jimmygoon
Wed May 23, 2007 12:02 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Topic deletion
Replies: 25
Views: 29444

Re: Topic deletion

I'm no expert with the phpbb3 backend, but would it really be much harder than simply adding a new status to the first post in the topic. Did you read the topic? No, it would not be hard, what makes you think it is? Several solutions have been discussed in this very topic. ahh man this i get the fe...
by jimmygoon
Tue May 22, 2007 9:43 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Topic deletion
Replies: 25
Views: 29444

Re: Topic deletion

I'm no expert with the phpbb3 backend, but would it really be much harder than simply adding a new status to the first post in the topic. Currently there are drafts and published pieces, why not just "deleted" as a status -- they only show up when a user with proper permissions loads the t...