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Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: May 31st, 2021, 10:14 pm
by dvgrn
Null wrote: May 31st, 2021, 9:51 pm
Were there any [difficulties] when integrating Paul Callahan's LifePage
that can be avoided in advance by careful planning from a content provider?
Like choosing some specific database etc.
I did most of the conversion work for
Paul Callahan's Life pages, so I can probably answer this.
There
would have been some serious difficulties with hosting Paul Callahan's pages on conwaylife.com, because the original pages used a Java applet no longer supported by any modern browsers.
Luckily, thanks to Chris Rowett, LifeViewer made a very good drop-in replacement. Pretty much all that was needed was a lot of careful regexp search-and-replaces, if I remember right.
Other than that detail, Paul Callahan's pages, like many other Life-related websites published in the 1990s and early 2000s, are just a large set of interlinked HTML files. That's a fine format for anything that might belong in
conwaylife.com/ref/.
As soon as any kind of server-side scripting or database support is needed, things get a lot more complicated -- the hosting for conwaylife.com is fairly limited (as a fair exchange for not costing an arm and a leg).
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 1st, 2021, 9:47 am
by Null
dvgrn wrote: May 31st, 2021, 10:14 pm
Thank you for your reply! I guess I'll make something and worry about this then ;)
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 3rd, 2021, 2:25 pm
by ihatecorderships
Is there a wiki page where I can experiment on how to edit? Like how to add categories, how to add links, how to display lifeviewer things, etc...
Also, shouldn't this thread be pinned to the top of the Website Discussion forum like the basic question threads and the OCA questions thread?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 3rd, 2021, 2:27 pm
by cgoler2
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 20th, 2021, 2:43 pm
by Hunt_Morris
it's quite a simple design, not very attractive
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 20th, 2021, 8:47 pm
by yujh
Hunt_Morris wrote: June 20th, 2021, 2:43 pm
it's quite a simple design, not very attractive
What? It's mainly for academic uses, why attractive?
Thothelesl wrote: June 20th, 2021, 2:43 pm
What builder is the site made in?
The forums? just
phpbb I think
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 23rd, 2021, 6:58 pm
by yujh
Is there even a way to stop the forums noticing me if it’s the one who’s on my foe list posting? These are really annoying(sometimes)
Also correction to my report: it’s years old, and the thing must be discovered since the mtcc habit of Moosey
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 24th, 2021, 5:04 am
by ColorfulGabrielsp138
What proportion of usernames contain pattern names or rule names (approximately)?
Is Golly available on GitHub?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 24th, 2021, 8:19 am
by yujh
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 24th, 2021, 9:16 am
by dvgrn
Golly is available via git, but is hosted on SourceForge (
https://sourceforge.net/p/golly/code/ci/master/tree/ ).
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 25th, 2021, 8:52 am
by ColorfulGabrielsp138
What's the difference between "ignore list" and "foe list"?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 25th, 2021, 9:00 am
by yujh
ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote: June 25th, 2021, 8:52 am
What's the difference between "ignore list" and "foe list"?
They’re the same thing
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 26th, 2021, 3:26 pm
by MathAndCode
I found two reactions that could potential yield glider syntheses.
Code: Select all
x = 43, y = 14, rule = B3/S23
31bo2$31bo$9bobo20bo5bobo$12bo20b2o3b2o$10bo24bo3bo$8b2o2bo22bo$32b3o
4bob2o$8bo30b2obo$6bobo22bo$6b3o30b3o$2bo36bo2bo$ob2o5b3o29b2o$2bo!
Should they go in the still life synthesis thread, or is that only for completed syntheses, and if the latter is true, where should they go?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 26th, 2021, 5:24 pm
by Aleph
MathAndCode wrote: June 26th, 2021, 3:26 pm
I found two reactions that could potential yield glider syntheses.
Does this help?
Code: Select all
x = 12, y = 15, rule = B3/S23
3bo$2bo$2b3o2$o$bo5bobo$2b2o3b2o$4bo3bo$4bo$b3o4bob2o$8b2obo$o$8b3o$8b
o2bo$10b2o!
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: June 26th, 2021, 5:47 pm
by MathAndCode
wwei47 wrote: June 26th, 2021, 5:24 pmDoes this help?
Code: Select all
x = 12, y = 15, rule = B3/S23
3bo$2bo$2b3o2$o$bo5bobo$2b2o3b2o$4bo3bo$4bo$b3o4bob2o$8b2obo$o$8b3o$8b
o2bo$10b2o!
Whoops; I must have accidentally deleted a dot.
Code: Select all
x = 12, y = 13, rule = B3/S23
obo2$o$bo5bobo$2b2o3b2o$4bo3bo$4bo$b3o4bob2o$8b2obo$o$8b3o$8bo2bo$10b2o!
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 2:07 am
by Citation needed
What should I do in order to be a moderator or administrator? Should I become a human first?
By the way, please read my forum signature carefully.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 2:35 am
by yujh
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 2:07 am
What should I do in order to be a moderator or administrator? Should I become a human first?
By the way, please read my forum signature carefully.
You can’t be a moderator even if you are the president of the USA(jk)!
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 5:12 am
by ColorfulGabrielsp138
yujh wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 2:35 am
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 2:07 am
What should I do in order to be a moderator or administrator? Should I become a human first?
By the way, please read my forum signature carefully.
You can’t be a moderator even if you are the president of the USA(
jk)!
Just kidding?
(Sorry, I was already subscribed to this thread)
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 5:50 am
by yujh
ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 5:12 am
yujh wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 2:35 am
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 2:07 am
What should I do in order to be a moderator or administrator? Should I become a human first?
By the way, please read my forum signature carefully.
You can’t be a moderator even if you are the president of the USA(
jk)!
Just kidding?
(Sorry, I was already subscribed to this thread)
(please don't subscribe this thread because you will probably not able to answer questions like our dear moderators)
(Sorry for posting 'trash')
There're plentiful things to do for a mod and we, just some ordinary people who made a little or no efforts to the website or CAs (including programs, e.g. golly cata lv) do not need to be mods. We cannot help others out or solve problems correctly and we might mislead others or start some unnecessary arguments. Btw, I suggest that children under 18 can't be mods even if they made some (3,1)c/8 ships
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 8:48 am
by Citation needed
yujh wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 5:50 am
ColorfulGabrielsp138 wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 5:12 am
yujh wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 2:35 am
You can’t be a moderator even if you are the president of the USA(
jk)!
Just kidding?
(Sorry, I was already subscribed to this thread)
(please don't subscribe this thread because you will probably not able to answer questions like our dear moderators)
(Sorry for posting 'trash')
There're plentiful things to do for a mod and we, just some ordinary people who made a little or no efforts to the website or CAs (including programs, e.g. golly cata lv) do not need to be mods. We cannot help others out or solve problems correctly and we might mislead others or start some unnecessary arguments. Btw, I suggest that children under 18 can't be mods even if they made some (3,1)c/8 ships
MathAndCode suggested something called "Sandbox moderator". Can I be one instead?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 9:44 am
by dvgrn
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 8:48 am
MathAndCode suggested something called "Sandbox moderator". Can I be one instead?
Sure! But Sandbox moderators don't get granted any special abilities beyond those of normal users, they just get to wear a hat that says "Official Sandbox Moderator". And because they are now Sandbox moderators and have to be on their best behavior, they have to issue
fewer reports and requests for other people to change their behavior than they did before.
To misquote Douglas Adams slightly, "Anyone who actually wants to be a forum moderator should on no account be allowed to do the job". The job of moderator is a thankless task that you tend to fall into accidentally, after a few years of doing miscellaneous useful things around the place.
Eventually you work on a legitimately useful project that needs moderator permissions to complete ... at which point Nathaniel, rather than do the work himself, assigns you moderator permissions so you can finish your own darn project.
The "policing" aspect of moderators' job mostly amounts to banning spammers and very rarely sending warnings out to people who are breaking rules. Anyone who wants to become a moderator to do that aspect of the job will tend to be viewed with extreme suspicion: power corrupts, and people who actually
want power have an unfortunate tendency to over-use it.
These five paragraphs represent only my own personal opinion, and should on no account be construed to convey the opinions of other forum moderators or of the conwaylife.com forums in general.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 7:21 pm
by Citation needed
dvgrn wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 9:44 am
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 8:48 am
MathAndCode suggested something called "Sandbox moderator". Can I be one instead?
Do I have to be a human being first?
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 22nd, 2021, 7:36 pm
by bubblegum
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 7:21 pm
Do I have to be a human being first?
What are you, then? because I find it unlikely that a bot or an animal would be capable of posting with such mildly entertaining disquality as your posts. (Although spinach could be a candidate.)
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 23rd, 2021, 2:48 am
by Citation needed
bubblegum wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 7:36 pm
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 7:21 pm
Do I have to be a human being first?
What are you, then? because I find it unlikely that a bot or an animal would be capable of posting with such mildly entertaining disquality as your posts. (Although spinach could be a candidate.)
You know, I spent months reading LifeWiki.
Before I joined, I didn't even know what a glider is.
I don't even own any email address, so I had to borrow one from ColorfulGabrielsp138.
And, you know, LifeWiki didn't mention trolls, so I still don't know what a troll is.
Re: Thread for your website-related questions
Posted: July 23rd, 2021, 5:33 am
by ColorfulGabrielsp138
Citation needed wrote: July 22nd, 2021, 2:07 am
What should I do in order to be a moderator or administrator? Should I become a human first?
You seem to be already
a moderator.