Author Topic: Report any bugs or problems with new site here! (Read 6481 times)

Matthew · « **Reply #30 on:** March 21, 2017, 04:30:29 PM »

Quote from: Against the Heresies on March 21, 2017, 04:09:49 PM

You can adjust "Time Offset" in your profile: Modify Profile => Look and Layout

I fixed it.

If you changed your time offset, you better change it back. I figured out the problem.

(I zeroed out everyone's PERSONAL time offset, including mine, and then fixed the timezone on the server. Everything should work now.)
Anyone who lives overseas can do as you say and change their time offset, so everything appears as local time for them.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #31 on:** March 21, 2017, 05:00:15 PM »

Quote from: Ascetik link=topic=44127.msg544696#msg544696 date=1490057996 ("Report any bugs (...)" #30: Mar 20, 2017,at 08:59:56 PM)

No, you're totally 100% wrong.

Uh, huh. Methinks ‘Ascetik’ is an early-30-something who's afflicted by chronic recentism. An affliction that's exhibited so often, e.g., in on-line articles about computing technology in Wikipedia.

Well, [Expletives deleted]! It's a rare educated person who understands the genuine meaning of "literal" or "decimate"[×] anymore, either.

That written, let's quit cluttering the central bug-reporting topic set up by Matthew himself, and move this, um, exchange of definitions over to a new topic I've already posted in the "Computers and Technology" (sub)forum[Δ].

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Note ×: So the ignorant provoke people with knowledge of Latin to gnash their teeth when hearing the oxymoron "completely decimate". When indulging in such errors, self-professed "traditional Catholics" ought not be allowed any excuse at all, because they ought to know or learn simple Latin. They ain't having to wrestle with deponent verbs, subjunctive mood, or ablative-of-the-w.t.f.(tm)[‡].

Note Δ: <https://www.cathinfo.com/computers-and-technology/cracker-vs-hacker/msg544840/#msg544840>

Note ‡: Trademark for "ablative-of-the-w.t.f." asserted today by ‘AlligatorDicax’. The sometimes-recognizable trademark symbol might be most commonly plucked from a low-rez glyph provided by nonISO code 153 in Windows-1252.

Matthew · « **Reply #32 on:** March 21, 2017, 11:19:27 PM »

Well, Mithrandylan, I took care of your request now.

The "recent posts" section still deals in recent posts, but I basically turned it into RECENT TOPICS.

What I did was make sure that any topic would only appear ONCE in the list. It tries to get 15 topics total, but if there were a ton of activity on a handful of threads, the size of the list could theoretically be less than 15. I could easily fix that, though.

For now it's much more useful. Like you said: topics, rather than posts. One busy topic won't take over the whole list now.

UPDATE: I also put in a new feature -- hover over the topic, and you can read the whole thing in the "pop up text" that appears. The old site had that feature, I think.

Lighthouse · « **Reply #33 on:** March 21, 2017, 11:38:46 PM »

Two questions from an admitted amateur on the computer scene.

I liked the old feature of showing who had signed in recently, but the feature on the new board where it announces each thread I'm on...not so much. I know one could track this in a roundabout way on the old software, but this leaves me rather itchy. Not a huge deal though.

My other minor dissatisfaction is font characters. That crazy tech ampersand symbol drives me up the wall. Have I got something set wrongly?

Matthew · « **Reply #34 on:** March 22, 2017, 12:44:34 AM »

Ok, I fixed both of those problems.

You're right; displaying who is interested in which particular topics is going a bit too far, in terms of giving up privacy.

And I'm surprised no one else complained about the font. I just changed it to the old classic "Arial" which is very clean, easy to read, and I think that's what the old CI used.

Everything is on the up & up -- including the ampersand character!

Note: You will need to clear your browser cache to see the font changes. I HIGHLY recommend this. The new font is much better!

Croix de Fer · « **Reply #35 on:** March 22, 2017, 06:43:49 AM »

My avatar is missing.

EDIT: Nevermind, I just re-uploaded it.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #36 on:** March 22, 2017, 11:33:39 AM »

Quote from: Lighthouse (#33 on Mar. 21, 2017, at 11:38:46 PM)

My other minor dissatisfaction is font characters. That crazy tech ampersand symbol drives me up the wall. Have I got something set wrongly?"}

I still had an earlier-rendered page from this topic in my cache, so I could look at the symbol being denigrated: It's many centuries removed from "crazy tech" in our modern sense. The ampersand is an early space-saving ligature[†] of "ε" and "t", or "ε" and "τ". The glyph might be most easily approximated herein by tightly kerning Greek epsilon with "t" or tau (but I can't make "εt" tight enough). It's really the common Latin word "et". It should be welcomed here! I'm shocked--just shocked, I tell you!--that it would be the target of a complaint on a traditional Catholic Web site.

Quote from: Matthew link=topic=44127.msg544944#msg544944 date=1490161474 (#34 on Mar. 22, 2017, at 12:44:34 AM)

I'm surprised no one else complained about the font. I just changed it to the old classic "Arial" which is very clean, easy to read [...]. Everything is on the up & up -- including the ampersand character!

Arrrgh! It's exactly the Arial font that drives me up the wall like no other font in widespread use [×]. Notably when displaying URLs (especially those containing some base-64 encoding), foreign words or names, and arbitrary user-ids, because it fails to distinguish "I" vs. "l" (i.e.: upper-case-I vs. lower-case-L). And because default kerning in some browsers or on some sites can make the common pair "r" and "n" ("rn") become practically indistinguishable from a single "m"; also the less common doubled "v" ("vv") practically indistinguishable from "w").

So I'm a big fan of serif fonts for body text (and URLs). De gustibus non disputandum. Especially vs. a Web-site owner-webmaster. Sigh.

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Note ×: Except for Helvetica, of which Arial is nearly a duplicate. Both are quite worthwhile for headlines, for which they're punchy and attention-getting (e.g., "POPE QUITS!"), are reasonably compact horizontally, and have horizontally condensed variants available.

Derek · « **Reply #37 on:** March 22, 2017, 01:07:34 PM »

Quote from: Ascetik on March 20, 2017, 08:09:07 PM

Before I even reply, I think you're interpreting this as more hostile than it meant to come off. With that caveat:

I never boasted. I said I could easily get all the messages, and what I meant by that was if I did a MiTM attack I could get them all, all specifically referring to once I start the MiTM I could get all the pm's/credentials I want. If I could get into the db the jig is essentially up then, but yes, like you said, that is more difficult. I agree and any reasonable security professional would.

If you want to bet money I'm sure with enough time I could take down the entire site, but I'm not interested in that. But if you really want to see if I can I'd be more than happy to.

They're not private insofar as they're client side being passed to the server on an un-encrypted connection, that's what I meant by them not being private.

You know part of hacking reconnaissance, it's the first level before enumeration, and all the info you've given me and on this thread makes it that much easier for me, just FYI.

My goal has been achieved though, and it was never intended to be malicious in the first place, but to emphasize that security is important and I'm glad you got the certificate.

A couple of years ago when the "Resistance" was kicking off a group of us got together to determine how we could grab member details from the various forums (the now defunct Ignis Ardens, CathInfo & ABLF). We developed a method to get, among other things, the IP addresses of members - actually quite clever - and matched them up to email address and hence people. Went on for over 12 months and we produced a spreadsheet with all the details which was passed to Fr. Rostand and the General HQ.
Quite interesting to see some of the "traddy" browsing habits, to a point in fact where IPs became almost irrelevant. We were able to track them viewing forums even if they had no account. Fun times.

Meg · « **Reply #38 on:** March 22, 2017, 01:27:49 PM »

Quote from: Derek on March 22, 2017, 01:07:34 PM

A couple of years ago when the "Resistance" was kicking off a group of us got together to determine how we could grab member details from the various forums (the now defunct Ignis Ardens, CathInfo & ABLF). We developed a method to get, among other things, the IP addresses of members - actually quite clever - and matched them up to email address and hence people. Went on for over 12 months and we produced a spreadsheet with all the details which was passed to Fr. Rostand and the General HQ.
Quite interesting to see some of the "traddy" browsing habits, to a point in fact where IPs became almost irrelevant. We were able to track them viewing forums even if they had no account. Fun times.

Why did you do such a thing? What was your motivation?

MaterDominici · « **Reply #39 on:** March 22, 2017, 01:58:18 PM »

Quote from: Derek on March 22, 2017, 01:07:34 PM

A couple of years ago when the "Resistance" was kicking off a group of us got together to determine how we could grab member details from the various forums (the now defunct Ignis Ardens, CathInfo & ABLF). We developed a method to get, among other things, the IP addresses of members - actually quite clever - and matched them up to email address and hence people. Went on for over 12 months and we produced a spreadsheet with all the details which was passed to Fr. Rostand and the General HQ.
Quite interesting to see some of the "traddy" browsing habits, to a point in fact where IPs became almost irrelevant. We were able to track them viewing forums even if they had no account. Fun times.

I remember that. You had the owner of ABL forum listed as "Susan" which I thought was a real hoot. He's apparently very good at keeping information about himself private.

Matthew · « **Reply #40 on:** March 22, 2017, 04:36:03 PM »

Derek,

Yes, my wife and I still have a copy of that spreadsheet.

You have CentroAmerica listed as a Mexican -- even though he's an American expat living in South America (geography note: Mexico is not part of South America).

So I hate to interrupt your self-stroking session, but you all weren't nearly as clever as you thought you were.

Also, whatever information you gleaned came from either:

A) The other 2 forums you mentioned, or
B) Public posts made on CathInfo -- people signing their names at the bottom of their posts, publicly associating themselves with various chapels in the United States, etc. It doesn't take rocket science to uncover the location and/or identity of such persons!

Matthew · « **Reply #41 on:** March 22, 2017, 04:43:24 PM »

Another note:

So in 2012, the Resistance was busy standing up for the True Faith, fighting the compromises they discovered in the SSPX, opposing Bishop Fellay's pride and ambition once it became public, and generally being heroic good guys....

...meanwhile, Fr. Rostand, you, and your "buddies" were playing NSA trying to violate people's privacy, uncover identities (so they could be bullied and manipulated, of course), hack into Resistance websites, and obsessively stalk the main players (who stood up and risked everything for the sake of Tradition and the fight against Vatican II), and generally acting like Freemasonic puppet masters operating behind the scenes, under cover of darkness.

One of these sounds like how saints behave, and the other sounds like how the devil's henchmen operate. I leave the reader to figure out which is which.

Lighthouse · « **Reply #42 on:** March 22, 2017, 04:53:49 PM »

Garamond? Georgia?

Cantarella · « **Reply #43 on:** March 23, 2017, 05:25:16 AM »

I am unable to see the new CI on my phone. It tells me the connection is not private, that attackers could steal information from this page.

Any suggestions?

Jovita · « **Reply #44 on:** March 23, 2017, 08:42:25 AM »

Same as Cantarella here. Yesterday it was just in the initial sign on, today its after every single page refreshment whatever you call it. It gets annoying. I am on an Android tablet using chrome. I will try clearing stuff and try again.

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