"Safe For Work" board styling/options ?

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:15 pm

(Viewing the website from home is fine, but....)

Is there some profile option to disable the display of board members' signatures, and also avatars?

The reason I ask is twofold. Firstly, I don't care about, for example, "who someone's favorite manga character is", et cetera, and actually find such signature images highly irritating. Secondly and more importantly, I'm at work, mostly, when I browse the Transfans forum, and the less conspicuous the site, the better. The same goes for the banner at the top of the site with Optimus beaming down from the top-left corner. A profile option to change these aspects of the forum would be welcomed.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:22 pm

if your using Firefox as your browser you can block all images from any site.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:36 pm

Dead Head wrote:Is there some profile option to disable the display of board members' signatures, and also avatars?

Not in phpBB 2.0.x, unfortunately. phpBB 3.0.0 (recently replacing the phpBB 2.2 dev branch) will have this functionality, but isn't due until mid- next year.

I think would be be possible to hack a theme with none of the graphics, sigs, etc. I'll give it a go later if I get chance, but expect it to break if the main theme gets modified for any reason.

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:36 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:if your using Firefox as your browser you can block all images from any site.

I thought this would be one of the responses. Blocking images is impractical as I use the web for work too, and as such require images to be shown.

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:38 pm

Denyer wrote:I think would be be possible to hack a theme with none of the graphics, sigs, etc. I'll give it a go later if I get chance, but expect it to break if the main theme gets modified for any reason.

Excellent, Denyer. I look forward to it.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:45 pm

Dead Head wrote:
Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:if your using Firefox as your browser you can block all images from any site.
I thought this would be one of the responses. Blocking images is impractical as I use the web for work too, and as such require images to be shown.

you cant tell firefox to block images from just transfans.net - not all web sites.

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:00 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:you cant tell firefox to block images from just transfans.net - not all web sites.

Unfortunately my work system is a lock-down Solaris 8 box, running Netscape 4.79.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:19 pm

Just one small caveat: if a 'subSilverSFW' style appears in your Profile options, DON'T SELECT IT UNTIL I'VE CONFIRMED IN THIS TOPIC THAT IT'S SAFE TO DO SO. Otherwise you may find yourself unable to view the forum at all.

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:41 pm

Dead Head wrote:running Netscape 4.79.

I'm surprised it renders the site at all; 4.xx has a nasty tendency to choke on stylesheets.

Anyway, the SFW theme seems to work and is there.

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:53 pm

Denyer wrote:I'm surprised it renders the site at all; 4.xx has a nasty tendency to choke on stylesheets.

4.79 'works', albeit the forum is constantly shunted to the down and to righthand side of the browser window.

Denyer wrote:Anyway, the SFW theme seems to work and is there.

It works very well. Thank you!

Post by **Denyer** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:15 pm

This certainly makes me realise how ridiculously large some people's sigs are...

I've done something about the mass of smilies in the posting window; can't do anything about images inlined into posts, I'm afraid.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:36 pm

how about using a text only browser like Lynx?
doesn't solaris come with that by default?
it's a real throw-back

Dead Head · Post by **Dead Head** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:56 pm

Legion wrote:how about using a text only browser like Lynx?
doesn't solaris come with that by default?
it's a real throw-back

Oh believe me, I've mastered the art of using both Links and Lynx in a terminal window, but it's really a last resort as they lack numerous features to be able to successfully use them on many websites.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:52 am

this is perfect, Denyer! Now I don't have to look over my shoulder each time I browse the forum at work. :-)

*kiss*

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:56 am

how about people WORK at work rather than play online?

sorry.. manual labor jealousy lol

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:02 am

how about a short teatime break when you check your email and look at the forum?

people with computers do work at work too. At least you don't have the square-eyes from watching your screen all day

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:23 am

NO BREAKS.. WORK!

Post by **Best First** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:12 am

hah. this s is genius. good skills.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 1:09 pm

This is great! Good work.

I miss Prime in the corner but I'll see him when I get home.

Much less conspicuous.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:13 pm

My JVP came into our store one day and walked up to my KM and said "Mike, I need to talk to you." Mikes response "Not time to talk, time to work." It has kind of rubbed off on me a little. I still try to say things like "Hey, lets speed it up so we can get home." or "Come on ya'll you're doing great, don't drop the ball now."

But sometimes it comes out as "OI! GET BACK TO WORK BEFORE I BREAK MY SIZE 13 1/2 SHOE OFF IN YOUR *** !"

But thats only when people are being stubborn or purposely taking thier time to milk the clock.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:26 pm

I like this one quite a bit. I mean, I don't necessarily have to see all of those signature images every single time either.

How about getting rid of the email buttons and such? And smilies?

Well not the smilies maybe.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:25 am

Optimus Prime Rib wrote:"Hey, lets speed it up so we can get home."

like time is going to appear to be going quicker when doing work instead of goofing off?

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:27 am

oh it does there.. it does..

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:40 am

Dylan wrote:How about getting rid of the email buttons and such?

I've done this for a small forum I'm running myself elsewhere (not TF stuff, just preparing for a summer language camp) and the way phpBB creates output in its core files that isn't easily accessible through the templates is a pain. There's a lot of abstraction due to language packs, etc.

We could cheat and simply replace the images with images of text if enough people want. Or cut the pictorial icons out of the images. That wouldn't take long...

Emoticon images are all handled centrally, though, not per style/template.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:21 am

I think this is enough to be honest.

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:28 am

Roger that, Denyer, I've looked into those templates / language packs myself once, and it seems phpBB is getting overweight and complex.

miniBB is fun!

But yeah, good job on this one, I use it as standard now too.

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