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  • Re: alternatives to GG and NovaBBS

    From Colin Macleod@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 21 18:37:24 2024
    XPost: rec.puzzles.crosswords

    HenHanna@gmail.com (HenHanna) posted:

    https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper has most of the screen WHITE, like Window's classic Theme.

    instead, i want to use a Dark Theme or something like [High Contrast Black]--white letters on black background.

    Hi, this is my site, so "by popular demand" I've just hacked up a basic "dark mode",
    with a checkbox on the login screen to enable it.

    Actually I'm now planning to do a complete rewrite of the user interface. I wrote it using CloudTk
    (Tcl/Tk over a VNC connection), which I had used for a previous project. It's good for interactive
    graphical applications, but for something which is all just text it seems overkill. Also I was
    finding it quite difficult to get it to behave sensibly on mobile devices. So now my plan is to
    redo the user interface with plain html. The logic behind that will still be implemented in Tcl.

    One difference from RSLight (which NovaBBS uses) is that I don't store articles long-term on my
    server, I just pull them on-demand from eternal-september.org and cache them temporarily. This
    means I don't have storage constraints, so you can access any groups that E-S carries, which is
    pretty much everything apart from the binary stuff.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Thu Feb 22 09:46:25 2024
    XPost: rec.puzzles.crosswords

    On 2/21/24 13:32, HenHanna wrote:
    Colin Macleod wrote:

    HenHanna@gmail.com (HenHanna) posted:

        https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper   has most of the screen
    WHITE,   like Window's classic Theme.

     instead, i want to use a Dark Theme or something like [High Contrast
    Black]--white letters on black background.

    Hi, this is my site, so "by popular demand" I've just hacked up a
    basic "dark mode",
    with a checkbox on the login screen to enable it.


           Yes...  it looks nicer now...



         i'd want newer  threads  on top  ---
           can i make this default in TB  ?    (Ascending ,  Descending) ?

    I'm pretty sure you have to set that on every ng but yeah. Just click on
    the date tab
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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Fri Apr 19 04:19:26 2024
    XPost: rec.puzzles.crosswords

    HenHanna wrote:

    Colin Macleod wrote:

    HenHanna wrote

    https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper has most of the screen WHITE, like Window's classic Theme.

    instead, i want to use a Dark Theme or something like [High Contrast Black]--white letters on black background.

    Hi, this is my site, so "by popular demand" I've just hacked up a basic "dark mode",
    with a checkbox on the login screen to enable it.



    https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper


    1. i'd want newer threads on top ---


    2. in Rec.Puzzles i can't see any new Posts of the past year.

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  • From Colin Macleod@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 19 06:45:44 2024
    HenHanna <HenHanna@dev.null> posted:

    https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper


    1. i'd want newer threads on top ---


    I will look at adding an option for that.

    2. in Rec.Puzzles i can't see any new Posts of the past year.

    It's getting stuck on a post which includes "<SCRIPT>" in the subject,
    so what follows gets interpreted as javascript. That's a nasty security
    hole which I need to fix.

    Thanks for the feedback.

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  • From Colin Macleod@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 19 09:18:06 2024
    Colin Macleod <user7@cmacleod.me.uk.invalid> posted:

    2. in Rec.Puzzles i can't see any new Posts of the past year.

    It's getting stuck on a post which includes "<SCRIPT>" in the subject,
    so what follows gets interpreted as javascript. That's a nasty security
    hole which I need to fix.

    I believe I've fixed that problem now.

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