Posts by Telesphoreo

As far as I can see the logo and branding is still the same. The screenshot you posted looks awful. I'm pretty sure they're going to announce something big on their birthday which is upcoming. It looks like a corporate decision to make the app more inclusive or something

Edit: it also looks like they're getting rid of Wumpus as well

@wild1145#17489 you're again missing the point. the quote came from the panel thread and anyone can find it. my point is that if you're going to claim to be more knowledgeable than me and then let people who you don't know well at all be dev then what's the point in claiming you're more knowledgeable than me. that's literally like me giving people access to my server on the basis they know how to ssh in not if they're a trustworthy person who can keep themselves and the data on the server safe

@wild1145#17456 not my point. if you're gonna say i don't know anything about cyber security and then you hire a bunch of devs who have access to a near identical clone of the main server then clearly the credentials you said you had aren't really justifying anything lol

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Then quite frankly that shows how little you understand cyber security and an approach to risk. It is an attack vector, same as SSH, same as SFTP, same as the bot's. They're all viable attack vectors, and it's about managing that risk in a sane and sensible way. The panel introduces a lot more risk than anything we've done before, with a net gain of zero, so it feels like a pretty poor setup...

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TF still gets hacked without a panel 😱😱. But I thought you had the credentials and were better than everyone else.

What a joke

@StevenNL2000#16691 I think it should be its not it's idk if you can change that but that's a typo

make sure you're not in space then try again

can we agree not to bring ridiculous threads like these when we switch forums for the 92nd time

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Sooo I'm looking at pfSense and the Netgate SG-2100 looks good. https://shop.netgate.com/products/2100-base-pfsense

Was watching a video and it looks like it seems like it'll work across the network with the vlan ids. Only thing I'm concerned about is whether it'll be able to handle or properly route traffic on my two switches connected by a fiber line.

So basically some of you know I have a UniFi setup. It's a USG connected to a USW-8-150W which is connected to a few APs, my computer, and a raspberry pi.

So I think my USG is failing. There is a loud noise coming from the router. It also almost smells like something inside burned but I don't see any visible damage. I'm really sick of Ubiquiti and don't want to spend a cent more on any of their products. I theoretically could buy a Dream Machine Pro as a replacement for $400 and throw my cloud key out the garbage. But I was hoping either Steven or wild would know better. I'm confused because wouldn't I need a UniFi router to use my UniFi access points and switches? I'd rather buy something like Aruba or pfSense, but I have no idea if or how any of it would work with UniFi. How would the router know how to communicate with my access points? I'm really confused on how this works and UniFi seems to just sync everything together. This is the second day in a row that the internet has been dying and I suspect the router because a direct connection from the wall works fine. Any suggestions are appreciated, or even just an explanation on how a different router would work with UniFi. Kind of desperate because stuff takes forever to ship here and if the router dies we can't go a week without the internet. Thanks

@wild1145#16519 The dashboard functionality seems broken then. If you click on any of the tabs it will bring you back to the dashboard. However, if you're on the forums tab already and you click the logo, you will be taken to the list of boards. Regardless, it seems as if you have a much more sane approach to the transition than Seth did. I was the one who initially setup Flarum in pure hatred to MyBB. I really like Flarum, but I was only trying to show how the forums could have theoretically looked. I never fully intended for Seth to use it, or for you to set it up again. I really just made a temporary beta, and of course that temporary beta became our permanent solution. Would have tried Discourse except for the ridiculous requirements and prerequisites.

Anyway, paging videogamesm12 now: The quotes on the page look a lot better. However, it's still hard to tell when a post ends. This seems to be a consequence of the background image having darker spots than others.

The normal theme has blur for each post and no blur for the padding. Yours has blur for the entire thing and a line to separate posts. Not sure how you wanna fix that, but seeing a clear distinction between posts is harder on your theme than the default. Some visual tweaks need to be made to quoting also. Yours is definitely better than Wild's for small screens. The sidebar on the side is just badly designed and your posts go to the end of the page. The default theme seems to be boxed in to a fixed width. It's a double edged sword because do you box it and have something that's good for big screens, or unbox it and it be better for small screens. It's similar to the crappy GitHub redesign. You know how if you have an ultrawide monitor and the sidebar is so far away from the rest of everything else?

Speaking of, we should probably take a page out of ProBoards and automatically only quote the previous two quotes on the third one and so on. When you let the quote go on and on you get this eyesore

@wild1145#16459 Blame the theme all you want, but it's evident that Video is much more interested in improving his.
The dashboard is the default view every time you go to the page. You have to explicitly click on the forum tab or unread posts to actually get to the forum.
As for the articles, seems like unnecessary bloat? Wouldn't announcement threads serve the same purpose? I could see it functioning as a crappy Wiki substitute, but in that case why not just spin up MediaWiki and use that? Not saying we want to have a Wiki all of a sudden but thats a theoretical use.

And finally, wasn't trying to bring up the ProBoards vs Flarum vs WoltLabs argument, just a nice way to close the thread. Yeah its probably not fit for the community honestly, but I think the design is sleek and probably one of the best ones I've seen. I mean, just look at phpBB. I think Flarum had one of the best mobile experiences for a forum and you shouldn't be quick to dismiss the end user design because you didn't like it's lack of features.
As for ProBoards, v6 is extremely sleek. The only reason those glitches have happened is after Seth nuked the forum. Had he not, it would still be functional. Besides, they went against their rules to restore their forum and it's not a normal thing they do. ProBoards v5 (and still even v6 to some extent) literally load on anything no matter how crap of a signal you get, which is really nice. Obviously we can't go back in time and creating a new ProBoards forum would be kind of backwards, ProBoards did have its advantages.
Ultimately, I'm trying to look at thing on an objective scale compared to my feelings based on how much I like the software. I hope you won't pull off a Seth and actually take those things into consideration.

@videogamesm12#16432 no, because I still don't like it on desktop. That's just me, so I would split them in two. Plus if you keep them in the same theme, you'll pull off a windows 10 and gradually down the line things will be inconsistent

@videogamesm12#16430 I think it would benefit mobile more than desktop. I think that in theory a blurred theme would work decently on a good monitor. It's really bad to look at on mobile (especially when it's bright outside). Flarum's mobile theme is frankly unbeatable (except to ProBoards, and that's because it hardly requires any data to load the full forum).

Also, I have no idea if this is temporary, but the forums are frankly ridiculously slow. The Flarum being slow was finally fixed recently for me. It feels like the WoltLab forums have the same long delays and loading times. The only different is that instead of Flarum displaying a loading wheel, it's the browsers loading page. It could just be temporary, but that problem is back again.

Another suggestion is to have automatic timezone detection. It should automatically have the right timezone, that seems like pretty basic functionality.

@Shdwo#16428 I disagree that "Flarum is shit at everything else", but I definitely agree that we should have a clean theme similar to Flarum. I think with some polishing, Video's theme could be fine for those who prefer it. But I don't like it, and I think there will be a lot of people in the same boat, just a plain theme would be really nice.

Honestly I think the new theme looks pretty bad. I wish the posts appeared on a solid background compared to having a blur over an image (similar how to MyBB, Flarum, and ProBoards have all had their themes).

The default WoltLab theme looks miles better. That would actually be tolerable if it had a dark version. Also, why is the padding so big?

I mean, I think this padding or font can be a little smaller

In terms of improvement for Video's theme, why is it so bad?

You can barely see any distinction between the quotes except for the text being spaced. Also it's really hard to tell if a thread is selected. You have to click on the title of the thread as well. On Flarum, you can click anywhere on the line of the thread and it'll bring you there. I think that's a genuine functionality improvement that should be implemented on WoltLab.

Other improvements are to put the sidebar at the top of the page with the user info and fix the padding

What's the point of a dashboard if you can't customize it? Shouldn't you be able to add or remove what you want to your dashboard? Seems kind of useless if not and in my opinion the boards should be at the homepage of the forum.

I also don't understand why the categories tab on the articles page has to take it up and then there be dead space under it. The comment section feels crammed.

Also, I think the padding for discussions is pretty big. If there was a normal theme instead of a blur on an image, we could have lines to separate threads.

I think the background not only looks bad especially with that image, but if it was a normal solid color, you could have lines separate it and not have such big padding. I mean, if you look at iMessage or WhatsApp which has "bubbles" like the forum, they aren't even padded as big as they are on this forum.

Also, what's up with uploading images? Why do we need to put a source and a link? Isn't that the same thing?

The final two things are I think there should be an option to let us have a smaller profile picture sidebar view. Feels like the avatar is too big which makes the rest of the sidebar too big. And finally, I think that the logo is too big. On a laptop, the logo seems to take up most of the screen. On Flarum, the title is small enough that you can still get a glimpse if a lot has happened since you last saw the forum. I mean, just look at how much space is being used on WoltLab compared to Flarum

I personally don't like the new forums. I feel like Flarum had a really good design, but doesn't have a great suite of features or permission system. ProBoards had both a great design and a lot of features, but we've already had this argument a million times. So, I hope that these suggestions are considered and we don't have another MyBB forum.

I'm not that surprised that it still works. I'm pretty sure Java 8 has always had XP support to some degree

To both above ^

I was thinking that but I'm not sure what system allows for that. I've only had experience with Arlo and Digital Watchdog. Arlo is wireless which I don't want. Digital Watchdog (at least the box I'm familiar with) only connects to the DVR. I'm not sure what system can find other camera on the LAN. I'm pretty sure UniFi Protect does but from what I've read it's unreliable and lacking of features. I'll have to find a system that has that feature then, thanks

So I have a question about UniFi switching that I can't really put into words. I kind of want to emulate a patch panel with my switch. So here's the problem. I have Switch 1 which is at our house. There is a fiber link underground which gets converted to Ethernet and that plugs into Switch 2.

Let's say I buy some PoE cameras. Normally, you could just run an Ethernet cable back to the server room and connect it to the switch or the patch panel and then the switch. This would work for one house, but what if I want to get cameras out where Switch 2 is? The distance between the fiber cable and where the cameras would be is around 300ft. This is too long for any Ethernet cable and it would be kind of stupid to run one that long anyway.

So my question is this. Is there any way to essentially route my network like this:
I plug a security camera into Switch 2 port 2. That gets passed back to Switch 1 port 7 where the DVR is. I can then plug in a cable from Switch 1 port 7 to the DVR and then DVR thinks it's getting the connection right from the camera.

These are the options I have for configuring the switches

If I switch it to mirroring (which is what I think I need) it asks for a mirroring port. But I would want that from Switch 2, not a different port on Switch 1. Am I just out of luck?

Thanks