this thread is dedicated to all the mods and hacks i have been doing and will do on the innocent source code of rslight, which is the easiest way to run a news server yet.

Mod "automatic redirect after posting":

insert
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=<?php echo $file_thread.'?group='.urlencode($returngroup[0]).'"' ?>
in line 191 in post.php
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anonymous wrote:

> this thread is dedicated to all the mods and hacks i have been doing and will do on the innocent source code of rslight, which is the easiest way to run a news server yet.

> Mod "automatic redirect after posting":

> insert
> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=<?php echo $file_thread.'?group='.urlencode($returngroup[0]).'"' ?>
> in line 191 in post.php

I will add this as an option in config for the next release of rslight.

Thanks for the mod!

Retro Guy

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Retro Guy wrote:

> anonymous wrote:

>> this thread is dedicated to all the mods and hacks i have been doing and will do on the innocent source code of rslight, which is the easiest way to run a news server yet.

>> Mod "automatic redirect after posting":

>> insert
>> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=<?php echo $file_thread.'?group='.urlencode($returngroup[0]).'"' ?>
>> in line 191 in post.php

> I will add this as an option in config for the next release of rslight.

> Thanks for the mod!

This mod has now been added for release 0.6.5d. It is configurable from the main config file.

Thanks again!

Retro Guy

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Posted on: Rocksolid Light
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why, thanks for this nice piece of software. i think you are very close to the stage where this is really plug'n'play (or maybe you are already there, i have to try the d version as well).
and for a newsserver, this really says something: i can well remember the countless hours i have spent trying to understand some weirdass doumentation from decades ago and screening logfiles for the installation and maintenance of inn2. all this will not be necessary anymore for new admins if they use rslight.
so this also increases the chance of ppl opening new nodes.
although in terms of redundancy we should be pretty well setup by now, huh ?
i mean, even if all of our servers would be permanently out for some reason, you could still rebuild everything using just one of the news servers carrying the groups (maybe except /test, i don't know if any server has really _all_ the groups).

Posted on def4

anon wrote:

> why, thanks for this nice piece of software. i think you are very close to the stage where this is really plug'n'play (or maybe you are already there, i have to try the d version as well).
> and for a newsserver, this really says something: i can well remember the countless hours i have spent trying to understand some weirdass doumentation from decades ago and screening logfiles for the installation and maintenance of inn2. all this will not be necessary anymore for new admins if they use rslight.
> so this also increases the chance of ppl opening new nodes.

Thank you for the kind words. Once thing I want to do eventually is to create a Debian package for it, making it as simple as possible to install. This won't be soon, but it is something I'd like to do eventually.

> although in terms of redundancy we should be pretty well setup by now, huh ?
> i mean, even if all of our servers would be permanently out for some reason, you could still rebuild everything using just one of the news servers carrying the groups (maybe except /test, i don't know if any server has really _all_ the groups).

I think the idea of permanenly losing messages in rocksolid.* is very slim at this point. I do maintain one separate backup (rocksolid0) who's only purpose is to keep an archive of the groups. It does nothing else. Of course the more newsservers that carry the hierarchy, the more redundancy. rslight, being a newsserver, can easily be used to repopulate another site that may have been lost. Much easier than applying a backup or export of forum software, you just connect to rslight and grab all the messages.

Quick question: Do we want a copy of the nntp server as a standalone? Right now it's a bit tied in to rslight, but that can be changed. Would this be of benefit? If so, it would take a bit of work, but it might be useful for other interfaces without the need to tie in so much of rslight.

Retro Guy

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Posted on: Rocksolid Light
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> Once thing I want to do eventually is to create a Debian package for it, making it as simple as possible to install.

That would be super easy for all debians. Is that complex to do ? I never did the exercise myself.

>Quick question: Do we want a copy of the nntp server as a standalone?

Right now I have no need for this, because I plan to keep rslight running on the tor side, and vichan on the same machine just for the i2p side.

Posted on def4

replace line 342 in post.php with

<textarea class="postbody" id="postbody" name="<?php echo md5($fieldencrypt."body")?>" style="width:650px;height:190px;" wrap="soft"><?php
Posted on def2.i2p

Anonymous wrote:

> replace line 342 in post.php with

> <textarea class="postbody" id="postbody" name="<?php echo md5($fieldencrypt."body")?>" style="width:650px;height:190px;" wrap="soft"><?php

The box size is set in css (style.css):

textarea.postbody {
background-color: var(--color-medium);
border: none;
color: var(--color-title);
height: calc(1em * 1.5 * 20);
width: calc(1em * 1.5 * 40);
}

And for mobile:

textarea.postbody {
height: calc(1em *1.5 * 10);
width: 100%;
}

Might be best to make the change there as rslight is (tries to be) responsive.

Retro Guy

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Posted on: Rocksolid Light
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guess i just have an outdated version, because putting these parameters gives a strange result (see pic). never mind the actual dimensions (i played around with these), but any change is for all elements.

after my mod in post.php (which is kind of crude, i will admit).

i mean before i changed any code.

Anonymous wrote:

> guess i just have an outdated version, because putting these parameters gives a strange result (see pic). never mind the actual dimensions (i played around with these), but any change is for all elements.

I'll add style.css to the rslight download dir, which maybe should have been in the 0.6.5d upgrade.

You may wish to compare with what you have. BTW the last number in the calc lines is meant to be number of characters in the css:

textarea.postbody {
background-color: var(--color-medium);
border: none;
color: var(--color-title);
height: calc(1em * 1.5 * 20);
width: calc(1em * 1.5 * 40);
}

When I changed it to this on a test site, I get the result (attached):

textarea.postbody {
background-color: var(--color-medium);
border: none;
color: var(--color-title);
height: calc(1em * 1.5 * 20);
width: calc(1em * 1.5 * 60);
}

Retro Guy