I tend to be MIA when I get involved with the nuts and bolts of things.
But I wanted to check in. I'm sorry to hear about 18hammers and the tree. That really sucks.
So what is going on with the nuts and bolts of the Diner?
The diner has been separate from my own website, but since it moved here six months ago the diner has been hosted at the same web address chasingthesquirrel as my own page. They are in the same place.
Recently I peeked under the hood and replaced the You Tube embed plug in ransomware code we had here with my own plug in. That is why the button next to 'Mona' in the editor bar is different. I now control the embed code
. In doing I learned how this software is put together and how I can integrate the Diner with my own web page. I have started to do this.The Diner itself does not see much change and won't. Only one list has changed so far. Guests can't view the Who's Online list at the bottom of the index page. Never could. I think users can. I can for sure as one of the two chief bottle washers here. It is a great way to watch the deep state watch us.
Could the FBI claim to be in Singapore?
If someone views my page, the visit in the Forum Who's Online list now shows them with a link back to my page. Just like when a viewer visits a topic here. A link back to the board and topic currently viewed by a user has always been generated. But since a visit to my home page now reports as a visit to the forum more users are seen. Users there and here are now one and the same.
Conversely a tracking globe in my sidebar on my home page is being modified to show a ping whenever someone visits here. This task is harder and will take a few days. I have to understand what I did five years ago first.
A visitor here will appear on my tracking globe as a yellow dot about a hundred miles wide centered on the spot a user connection CLAIMS to be when I am finished. The ALLEGED city and country to match the dot will appear in the below list. As of this writing the globe and list do not show visits to the forum. Only visits to the home page are shown.
Fancy, but what does this have to do with me you may ask?
I am already able to see if a visitor on my home page is logged on to the Diner. This lets me replace the home grown log on capacity I wrote for my home page, which nobody ever uses, with the Diner user base because I know visitor online status.
Users registered at the Diner are also members at K-Dogs Excellent Adventures now. Members will be one and the same in both places. Registration will only happen here and my home grown registration software vanishes like tears in rain.
There are things on my page that only members on my page can do, but for now I have to write hooks to knit the software together to integrate the Doomstead user base.
This is all being done without changing any core Diner files or the Diner DB. The forum software has been written so someone who knows the fuck what they are doing can modify things without losing the ability to upgrade to the most recent forum software, (which we did last month :) ).
Changes I make here I make as add-on mods and changes to our Doomstead theme. It is all neat and clean and upgrades won't break things.
When I have integrated my home page hooks with the Diner I will change the link to RE's coffee fund in the upper right corner to point at my home page. A matching link to the Diner on my home page already exists, and is much improved at RE's suggestion.
But I won't put the link here until my change in user base on my home page is finished. I will do my registered user bennies change on the home page first.
A coffee fund link is already on my home page. It will be modified to mention RE when the link changes.
I hope 18hammer's health gets better soon.