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HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - Raion - 09-18-2020

Hey guys, 

If you're reading this, it means you either saw the thread or got our mass mail. I got this idea years back, but thanks to our ever-clever developer Adrian, he managed to get us set up with this awesome new feature. 

Let me explain what it is. If you visit forums.irixnet.org on an old SGI, it's a painful experience. You can login and post, but stuff looks bad. It's not a fun experience, I say that as someone whose attempted it. Now, if you visit http://forums.irixnet.org/classic ...  Scream  what's that? There's a super basic HTML version??? 

That's right, this is a lesser-featured version of the forum for users to participate in. In the same vein as the Gmail basic HTML version, this is basically a hook into the forum that allows very basic usage. 

Now, obviously, not everyone wants to use this. You need to enable it. 

To do so, go into UserCP, click "Edit Profile" and set the Radio button to "Yes". 

   

Once you have it on, you'll see you can use PMs, and manage/reply to forum topics. MyCode should work as well. 

We will be adding optional CSS and a guide eventually so people can "Skin" it so to speak. 

My thanks to the community for your kind support. 

We had several options that were floated. Someone suggested like SGUG we should do NNTP - I'm mostly opposed to this because that's before most of us' time, and it's a protocol that has security and usability concerns. HTTP really doesn't. 

What's the roadmap? Besides CSS and bug squashing (I need your guys help) I would also like to get feedback on features that we could use. Please be realistic, this is not a full featured forum-lite, it's a stripped down version.

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - soviet - 09-18-2020

Cool this awesome, gonna try it on netscape Biggrin.

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - Raion - 09-18-2020

It should work on Mozilla at least. Netscape may not appreciate the modern redirect techniques.

It's far from "complete" and I'm looking for people to offer suggestions to make it even better!

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - ghost180sx - 09-18-2020

Epic! Love this feature. I enabled it immediately.

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - Raion - 09-18-2020

Glad to hear guys. The code will be released FOSS soonish, once I finish all of the documentation and clean up the code a little. Once we're there, anyone who decides to run MyBB will have this ability to run it. We need advice for features and stuff, as well. We're a bit limited on some things we can offer right now, but for the future 100% I want to add more features.

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - Raion - 09-21-2020

Smol update. CSS added for experimental purposes. I'm currently testing.

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - Raion - 09-21-2020

Aand we're open on Gitea: http://gitea.irixce.org/IRIXNetwork-WebDev/mybb-http-gateway

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - jirka - 09-21-2020

(09-18-2020, 05:33 AM)Raion Wrote:  Hey guys, 

If you're reading this, it means you either saw the thread or got our mass mail. I got this idea years back, but thanks to our ever-clever developer Adrian, he managed to get us set up with this awesome new feature. 

This is awesome! Many, many thanks!
(09-18-2020, 04:20 PM)Raion Wrote:  It should work on Mozilla at least. Netscape may not appreciate the modern redirect techniques.

Yes, my Firefox 3 on IRIX works perfectly with it. Of course, the Netscape 4.8 does not.
In the Firefox I can see some images and some not but I'm not sore if it's problem of the proxy of of the Firefox..

I would like to have the "New Posts" and "Today's Posts" here. Probably a Search feature might be beneficial. But that's probably all what I need to to be absolutely happy.

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - Raion - 09-21-2020

For right now I'm not able to add further features to it because this cost me a lot of money to work with a hired dev.

Ideally I want to add more features to it, give it more functionality. But it'll take me a lot of time unless we get a lot of funding, or have developers willing to help with this project further.

I'm receptive to trying to get this working on Netscape. I want to add profiles, I want to improve image scaling and a bunch of other things that are here but I can't do this by myself. Defaultrouteuk paid for this and I am eternally grateful he was willing to foot this bill.

Further development will take more time. If anybody else has suggestions feel free to continue offering them and I am really happy that I was able to work on such a thing.

RE: HTTP Gateway for IRIXNet Forums now active - Raion - 09-22-2020

Hmm, okay, after reviewing:

The issue with Netscape not logging in is because it doesn't appear to like the JS used for login. I don't see a lot of ways around the JS used on the login page however. If someone wants to take a crack on it, I'm not opposed, but we need to keep that part secured for safety reasons.