New RubyFlow.com Features
New stuff.. 1) You can now view a “leaderboard” of RubyFlow members - yes, this was requested and I thought it was fun. - 2) The posting interface is much, much improved. - 3) Beta support for search, via /search/[query] - also, each search has an RSS you can subscribe to if you want filtered news! - 4) Lots of minor tweaks, improved HTML sanitizing, stuff like that. Thoughts? Love the new features? Hate the new features? Got some ideas of your own? Leave a comment! (And, at the same time, work your way up the leaderboard - lol!
If you’re reading this via RSS, please come visit the main site and check out the overall improvements.
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Just testing comments still work, lol ;-)
Nice work. I imagine the leaderboard will be good motivation to comment more.
Hey, at least it worked for me ;)
Ooh, you’re not even on the leaderboard yet, so it might be, lol :)
Another new feature.. you’ll see certain keywords linked in a very faint way to searches for that keyword, allowing you to drill in on related stories.
Nice to hear, i would suggest to enhance the website theme also.
Very nice work! Why does the leaderboard start on zero btw?
And we need something to kill the spam… What about being able to flag as spam? So if more than x flags it, only the title + a no-follow link to the page are visible until a moderator can delete it or mark it as non-spam?
Of course, that mean we need some moderators… Maybe the leaderboard is the to find them? :-)
Oh, and is the source available some place?
The search feature is really usefull.
Thanks for implementing it.
+1 for Judofyr’s counter spam ideas.
+1 for the spam idea.
Another thing that’s worked exceptionally well for my blog (as in: no spam since I added it), but that may or may not work so well here depending on whether it’s humans or bots doing the spamming, was to use javascript to write out a hidden form field. It’s split over two lines so that stupid regexp based forms parsers don’t find it. It’s caught close to 10K comment spam attempts so far (I log everything and periodically to a quick scan to look for false positives). The downside is it required people to have javascript on to be able to comment.
+1 for spam flagging as well.
Also, editing and deleting both comments and article posts would also be useful.
I have an idea. Please do not show literal html escape sequences in comments. :)
I switched the HTML sanitization over to a different system and thought I’d caught everything, but possibly not. I can’t see any literal HTML escape sequences in this post, but if you could point any out, I shall take a look :)
What a surprise. Had to run up a Windows VM for something and it seems IE is the only main browser that is showing APOS entities all over the place - lol. After Googling, it seems this is a common IE issue, so I will try and gsub them all to numeric entities instead which IE is happy with.
All fixed now. Intriguingly this is perhaps one of those rare cases where IE is actually following the standard too strictly ;-)
judofyr: I think zero is kinda cute given the array reference :) Besides, I want someone who’s not me to be “number one” and since I’m always posting here, I might as well just be zero.
RubyFlow now lets you edit your own posts! :-)
Still thinking on the spam issue. Flagging probably makes sense and/or bringing on some moderators from the community.
Source will not be available in the short term. I am trying to tidy it up more now, though, so some sort of release may occur in the future.
Nice to see this site getting better! I’ve always liked the simplicity of it, and some pretty great links show up each day.
@Peter: Flagging might help with spam, but it will still show up in RSS probably.
foz: It generally shouldn’t. The main RSS feed (and Twitter) only gets posts from logged in users and users I have personally “approved” (usually just anyone who posts one or two “good” posts). So I don’t think spam has ever made it into the RSS feed - at least, not in the last couple of months since I introduced the approval process :)
Hot! I love the new style. :D Maybe not allow new people to post at all without approval? The spam is rare, but I have a feeling it’s gonna be crazy soon.
I like the updated style and the new features, especially editing your own posts - I always notice a typo after I’ve posted on stuff like this.
By the way, how do you decide what gets in the RSS feed - is it the leaderboard ranking?
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