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Anurognathus

It appears that every so often I feel that the code for the site has got completely out of hand in it's complexity and inconsistency. Moving to object orientation hasn't seemed to help -- I'm still not up to the level of functionalty it was at before I started OOing everything, and I'm just as confused.

What to do now? Make flow charts! Yessiree.
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Someone that commented on my art on DA had this in their sig:

Father's Love Letter (English)

What I especially love is the music. It's so inspirational!

For those that have been wondering what's going on the with the art site, well, I took a break earlier this week to do some other stuff. The thing was driving me mad, and I wasn't sleeping properly (I had been working on it non-stop for a couple of months). Day before yesterday I decided the code was too much of a mess to continue as it was, so I' ( Read more... )

Added:

1. Featured artworks: in controlpanel=>Gallery Management

2. Delete artworks: in object=>delete object...

3. Bugfixes to the points system, plus point redistribution (so you won't run out).

4. Browsable watchlist: in watch=>my watchlist

I've also fixed the comment notification system (I hope), so check it out. Um, it would also be ( Read more... )

It's designed by software engineers, who think like software engineers. The most basic layout is so fucking difficult to do and fragile once it's done, I sometimes think the whole thing was just a way of getting at designers for monkeying with code.

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Now you've had a bit of a play around on the site, I'm sure you've all noticed that a lot of little stuff is kinda shabby (links, backslashes etc..), and also that a lot of the little niceties are missing. All that will be fixed/added relatively quickly, but is there anything BIG you want to see? Because it is easier to add stuff now than later.

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Okay, this is supposed to be how you get a parent comment:

SELECT
child.*,

parent_comment.*,
parent_user.*,
parent_userset.*,
parent_blog.*,
parent_object.*,
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I think I've made a big mistake with the stucture of the comments tables, which may mean tearing them down and starting again. I don't want to do it, but if I do have to, the sooner the better I guess.

Sorry, uploading wasn't working because I was phutzing around with the upload script to fix some bugs with flash I thought I'd figured out ages ago. Should work now.