We're working on it.

@Luzion
you can not make database change to hide staff members. the database only will say if someone is staff or not. the code decides what is shown. and we can see the code!

why are you against adding that? do you have hidden staff now?

@Anonymous #91D3

@Luzion
you can not make database change to hide staff members.

Well then I am misinformed


@Anonymous #91D3

@Luzion

why are you against adding that?

I did not say that I was against adding it. I said we may or may not. And that it wasn't truly transparent.


@Anonymous #91D3

@Luzion
do you have hidden staff now?

We have inactive mods that are hidden.

@Luzion

We have inactive mods that are hidden.

do they still have staff powers? even if they are not modding can they still see ip addresses and anonymous user names?

if so, can we have their names for transparency? and why not remove the staff role until they come back?

@Anonymous #91D3

@Luzion

We have inactive mods that are hidden.

do they still have staff powers? even if they are not modding can they still see ip addresses and anonymous user names?

yes. Read the code, thats how it works.


@Anonymous #91D3

@Luzion



if so, can we have their names for transparency?

their names are bob and bill, "just trust me on this one bro please"


@Anonymous #91D3

@Luzion

and why not remove the staff role until they come back?

There really isnt any particular reason that comes to mind for or against. And even if I did, without implementing the code change you mentioned, you'd never know.

@Luzion
you answered all my questions. thank you. happy new year!

@Anonymous #91D3
And to you as well!

I don't know where else to ask (and I feel that making an "ask staff" type thread myself isn't proper), but how is badge switching handled at the moment?

@Havoc
As it stands now, when a user reaches the badge limit and qualifies for more badges than the limit, they can go into the badge requests thread and indicate which badges they would like to have displayed in their profile.

Or if requesting a badge but already at the limit, mods will clarify and ask which badge they want displayed

@Havoc
Manually, largely. You'd have to ask staff for most badges if you want them. Whether or not you qualify is another thing entirely.

@Luzion
@Napsack
Thanks.

Going to try and push an update in prep for our new server.

I'm sure you guys have seen the ad to BUY MY SERVER, that particular unit is a unit I bought a few months ago before realizing it wouldn't do exactly what I was trying to get it to do: 4x NVMe expansion via PCI-e add-on cards. Otherwise it's near perfect.

Hopefully this update works and I don't urinate all over the tags again.

If I somehow do manage to break something, I have backups but it may take a bit to revert. Use this thread to report new bugs or broken shit that I may or may not be able to immediately patch.

Hope everyone has a fantastic night / day.

When's this happening?

@ZizzyDizzyMC
Is there an estimate how long the maintenance will last?

@TheGamerPainter
About 3 hours ago.


@AdudefromCHL95
About 3 hours.

I don't mind the maintenance itself, but I am bothered that I keep getting logged out whenever it is completed.

Did you guys mean to switch the site's verification over from the old custom verification to hCaptcha or was that a mistake when copying over changes to Philomena's code?

If it was intentional, it's broken at the moment. The verification is spitting back, "The site key for this hCaptcha is incorrect."

@Anonymous #D36A
Thanks, intentional but unintended to be broken.

Will look at it.

We appear to now have that cancerous 30 second cooldown on comments.

Everything should work now.

@ZizzyDizzyMC
Yeah,it should. But we don't live in Shouldland.

It's a line from American Dad. My family loves to quote that line.

You didn't tell us we would have to re log in…

@Anonymous #9C03
This wasn't a thing I was expecting to happen. Sorry.

Tomorrow and the next day should bring more updates and then I'll begin work on trying to migrate a small backend piece, practice migration if you will.

@Dex Stewart
Shouldland is better than Wontland.

Everything seems to be centre-aligned when not logged in.

@Fleur de Lis
Derpi changed their default layout to centred back during the drama and if I were to hazard a guess, we're only just now inheriting that (fucking stupid) change from them due to our update.