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The little dot that shows that a user is online is a great feature. I just responded to a question from a user who was flagged as online. I thought it would be a nice feature that if a user is online when someone posts to his/her thread that there …
It's been a long time coming, but @mentions are finally here! If you @mention another member who had posted in the thread (e.g. if you're responding to them or commenting on their post) then they will get alerted *and* the mention will link to all of the posts the person …
Probably pretty late to the party, but you now cannot register a new username that is the same as an existing one other than spaces. For example, if someone already has the username 'Reverend Jim', you cannot register 'ReverendJim'. Previously, only exact match usernames were checked. However, to avoid confusion, …
Playing with ChatGPT to organize our tags has sent me down a rabbit hole. I definitely think I'm going to get a lot of flack for this, but I'm experimenting with adding AI Overviews to forum threads (beneath the first post, above replies). Don't be caught off-guard if you spot …
As you may recall, I've been working on cleaning up tags for quite some time now. A few years, actually. That project is nearing its end, and so I just want to remind everyone of our [tagging guidelines](https://www.daniweb.com/welcome/tagging) that have been in place for a couple of years now. You …
Hi Everyone - Just wanted to post here that Dani is MIA for a little bit, she's keeping an eye on DaniWeb via her phone, but is away from her computer. I'm sure she'll be back at it soon!
DaniWeb will be switching to new servers later today, and there is planned downtime of a couple of hours. Unfortunately, I don't have an easy way of putting the site into read-only mode. What will most likely happen is that we might lose a few hours of database content.
I've found myself on the "Endorse Members" page: 
Just a little notification that our markdown parser is now in strict mode. That means that, when posting headings, there has to be a space after the initial hash symbol. In other words: #This won't work # This will work Hopefully it will stop everyone who doesn't properly indent their …
The DaniWeb member list has been recently reintroduced, and with some additional featuers to boot ... For the last handful of years, it was only available as a bare bones moderators-only tool. I've added a bunch of filtering and sorting onto it, and you can now access it via the …
Lots of CSS changes over the past two days (clear your browser cache to experience them!) and a new homepage to boot. Whatcha think of the homepage changes? Does it do a good job explaining what DaniWeb is all about?
Someone had posted recently (can't find the thread right now, I think it might have been via private message) asking for the ability to mark topics read through the cog dropdown when viewing the list of topics. If you clear your browser cache to freshen the javascript files, then you …
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Member profiles now have a new statistic that measures impact. It counts how many people the user has reached. It should be noted that we just started calculating this number earlier this year, so at this time, the highest number is roughly one million.
Last week, we've had the most number of new member signups, excluding members who have been banned, for the first time in over a year! Good job, everybody :)
I've noted how the home page seems sparse but why is that lone upvote there at all? It's not that interesting and there's no way to dismiss it or fill the page with what I choose. See attached screen. NOPE. The image upload looks broken. I'll try Imgur and it's …
Huge congrats Dani, the new DaniWeb is not only looking slick and on-trend but actually *feeling* so much better to use, more powerful and more professional. I'm loving it so far! A BIG thank you from me for all the hard work you've put into this.
I've been following this whole 'Bloody Dazah' debate for a while, and have largely resisted from commenting as I was struggling to have anything positive to say. However, having now had a long chat with Dani about Dazah and DaniWeb I have to admit that I've changed my mind with …
Sorry for the downtime earlier today ... I'm working behind the scenes on merging all of Dazah functionality *into* DaniWeb. This means starting out by getting them both on the exact same infrastructure. Dazah has a lot of security benefits over DaniWeb, so I'm currently working on doing a lot …
To reduce the amount of threads/posts from new members that are here only to post (pointless) threads or posts just to have their signature with spammy URLs underneath it, is it not an idea that the 'Post signature' functionality is only available if a member have posted already a certain …
Hi, I once tried dazah. I could login into my old account on daniweb. But once I tried after a while I couldn't, even when I used forgot password. I was expecting that i would be given a link to change my password which didn't happen. I had to register …
PM notifications are now handled by Dazah. This means the notifications themselves will be originating from Dazah instead of from DaniWeb. The benefit of this is that you can go into your Dazah settings and configure whether you would like to receive instant notifications, a daily digest, or suppress notifications. …
I have made more than a few proposals for the general future of DaniWeb over the time but here is a really small and easy to implement suggestion. Today I replied to a question from a person that I have the opinion that doesn't really need to get answers but …
I am sure that members of DaniWeb will join me in congratulating [rproffitt](https://www.daniweb.com/members/280178/rproffitt) on his promotion to moderator with immediate effect. While Robert may be a new moderating face to DaniWeb members, not only will you know him from his many contributions to our discussions here but what you might …
It would appear that too many notifications are added to the feed for certain events, making it difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. Take the example of this annoying spammer creating a post:  Aside from the fact he's a waste of oxygen, that's more than one …
Hi, Unfortunately all of the Dazah integration stuff with DaniWeb is taking *much* longer than anticipated. I'm still working to try to get it out for you guys, but it's just taking a really long time. That being said, now that the concept of a Dazah login has kind of …
Hi folks, Right after setting up my account on DW, I edited my profile and specified a username (to INSPIREDNZ). It said the username was changed. I then noticed that on my first post my username was something else (jonathan_17). Thinking my username change perhaps didn't go through, I attempted …
Thought I'd share a shortcut with you. You've probably seen Tampermonkey (or Greasemonkey) before. This one adds my favourite shortcuts to the DW nav:  Here's the easy script: // ==UserScript== // @name DIAFOL_BAR // @include https://www.daniweb.com/* // @require http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js // @grant GM_addStyle // ==/UserScript== $("nav .navbar-nav").append ( '<li><a …
Hey everyone, Sorry that private messaging is still down. It's one of the main features that is being implemented through Dazah. Unfortunately, it wasn't until sticking it into a production environment when I realized that its performance is subpar and the algorithms need a major overhaul. That's what I've been …
Well ... We've launched. All new code. From the ground up. Every line rewritten by yours truly. It's a bit buggy here right now, but please just give me a day or so to clear everything up.
This is an important notification that DaniWeb is in the process of being upgraded, and will most likely be down and/or in read-only mode for the remainder of th is evening. When it comes back up, it *may* be buggy ... we'll see. I've rewritten every single line of code …
Hi everyone, As many of you know, a couple of weeks ago, I began working on a new side project, https://www.dazah.com ... After taking about two weeks, focusing all my efforts on coding and launching it, I've now resumed my focus on DaniWeb. For the past couple of days, I …
Noticed that Moderator badge has been dropped. I don't really care about the others, but the Mod badge was useful if I had to put my Mod hat on. Now I'm a grumpy git just pretending to be a Mod. OK it's there if you're a thread starter, but not …
I was just in the Hardware & Softwre Chat. Here are a few lines Mon 1:31 pm savedlema I see Reverend Jim here...you have answered so much of my difficult questions on VB.NET...Thank you so much. Mon 2:04 pm savedlema nobody is here..time expired? Mon 11:06 am DaveAmour Hi Mon …
I know the site switched to a tag system, and while I personally don't care for it, I like the community too much to find an alternative. Since I really only post to a single "tag" group, is it possible for people to have a favorite tags list we can …
For as long as DaniWeb allows us to edit posts, can we also edit the title, move the thread and remove the post (if we magically found our answers on 69th page of Google)? This would help stopping in forcing me to report my own topic to edit title or …
I really appreciate your work. I am here after a long time as I get bed rest. But after watching the new updates on here. I just say "WOW"... Nice, proceed the new updates as you did :)
I notice that the forum list (e.g. PHP) is not updating consistently today. I posted a reply in one thread, and deleted one in another, but the main PHP page is not showing those updates? Did something change? https://www.daniweb.com/web-development/php/threads/498436/order-by-with-numbers-countdown I replied, but the OP is still showing as last replier. …
Hi Dani. I was wondering is it possible to add a feature where when there is a watched article update(s) on top on the menus where it say (Watched) have some sort of notification similar to received mails. I noticed the requirement of this feature after I wasn't able to …
We just migrated to all new servers!! Yay! Please be sure to let me know if *anything* isn't working right, or seems off, ...
I noticed in the bottom left side of this site, it shows a little avatar. It has my username, and 100% feedback. Additionally, it shows the original avatar I had when I created my account. Soon after I joined the site though, I updated my avatar. Will that litle image …
We are currently in the process of migrating onto all new server architecture. Tonight, at approximately 9 pm EST, we will be putting the database into read-only mode while we migrate the database to its new home. Just a heads up :)
so, those of you with points probably never try this, close your account on DaniWeb. Well, you can't. I have tried in vain for 5 years to cancel. I have tried to find any cancel link that works, any button, any combination of tasks, but nope. the emails keep coming. …
First of all I'd like to say great work on the addition of drafting articles before commiting to editorial however one question. The last two samples I published (Removed tick from "This is a working draft") seems to make the pending article unaccessible, I recently found out that the articles …
I accidentally clicked on: Click here to no longer receive any community emails from DaniWeb. In an email I received. How can I undo this? Is it the checkbox in edit profile - Receive Occasional Community-related Email? Thanks
I was writing a post and included list (made manually not by clicking list-icon. Upon sending my post, my manually-made list was magically changed into bulleted list and font was changed (to smaller one). These are changes which I didnt want. How to revert them? And where the hell is …
When you are composing msg and you hit enter key to go to next/new line, the editor does not scroll and last line is hidden behind the bottom strap. On enter it should scroll so you could see cursor. Its quite annoying tbh. BTW - bottom strap should be placed …
I keep getting email invites to join live webchats on here. I'd love to come, but the invitation is sent on the same day that the event is happening, with no specific time, so I almost always miss them. email screencap: http://gyazo.com/b28a9d1a21f7b9d084c7e55b4bd801da.png
Hello guys! I have an idea for daniweb that can get it more users. I know it's a fun forum, but there also is stack overflow. Which is very popular. But what if, we used the github API so that we can have collaborated projects on the forum. I posted …
I've upgraded the Markdown editor that we use to the latest version. Please let me know if anything isn't working.
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