I'm glad you pointed that out, I hadn't even paid attention to the Report option.  I'd be happy to help deal with abuse type reports, but those are probably few and far between compared to elevating topics.  Frankly I suck at deciding what's topic-worthy... but I'll serve (badly) if called.

Actually, while I'm still cussing BBSCode and getting used to this format, it seems to be working fairly well.  My overexposure to the latest regurgitastic layout of Cruel makes me really appreciate being able to pick my own skins.

George Orr wrote:

I like the front page, mainly because the "masthead" picture (the one that always stays at the top) does a fine job of camouflaging the actual content

That image location is up for grabs, too. Nominations gleefully accepted.

I didn't know we could recommend links for the front page.  I'm about to "report" that "talent show far, far away" video.  That is absolute torture.

Yuh, I was the 'Matt Drudge' who called it that. Any admin can post to the front page. And George? Are you cereal? Is your brain oatmeal mush? It is Friday night.

Agree with Ops.  Something that looks more like an Excel Spreadsheet or SQL Database would be ideal...

I was delighted to find that H-S dot org flies in under the radar of my employers' "no fun allowed" filters. Cruel was totally blocked as "tasteless" - an apt description, of course. However, most of the links posted here are blocked, so the overall situation at work has changed little for me. And the front page appearance matters little when the links are of the type we love and cherish. You'll get busted sooner or later - some day you won't manage to alt-tab quite fast enough.

Another voice from the past, hadn't noticed you here freud.  A fairly large contingent of the old crowd have shown up, I'm hoping they'll be convinced to stay. 

You're right of course, eventually this domain will be blacklisted, but in the meantime, we have an unsubpoenaed space to dance in.

Roger_That wrote:

That's what IP Tunneling is for.

Mmmm, tunneling.

While you're tinkering with the site, it could use description tags in the headers so you get a steady stream of fresh meat from search engines.

Look at how High Street looks to Google right now:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:hig … w&filter=0

If you can mess with the templates, put a description tag in the headers with the first 120 or so characters of a topic. This topic would have this description:

<meta name="description" content="Click any topic here and you notice a Report option. I'm on the receiving end of those at the moment and I'm torn; should they randomly afflict ANY admin?" />

Also, I'd take the subtitle out of the page title and move High Street to the end:

<title>Front Page - High Street</title>

rcade wrote:

If you can mess with the templates, put a description tag in the headers with the first 120 or so characters of a topic.

Thanks, I've puzzled over this but still don't know which way to jump. PunBB does next to nothing with templates. I can generate a sitemap and a static page for Google to crawl, though.

rcade wrote:

Looks like the change requires some PHP hacking:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=17181

Damn and thanks. That was painless and I scrolled right past it yesterday. My vicar insisted sooner or later I'd go blind.

opsec wrote:

Frankly I suck at deciding what's topic-worthy... but I'll serve (badly) if called.

The evidence proves you wrong.

That's wonderful.

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rcade wrote:

I'm seeing this in the header ...

<pun_include "meta.php">

... instead of the output. I looked around for a cause and couldn't find one.

It choked on several earlier hacks, not least of which was RSS syndication. Can't have that, eh?

Guess it'll have to wait.