Hey all, so here we go 10 years later we finally migrated the deprecated PunBB forum to NodeBB.

This forum is using markdown (but i think you can still use bbcode). The most important markdown to know is the ``` for denoting code. I think it would be good to use it when doing ascii art patches.

If you have any trouble registering (the answer is pd_ring BTW) you can contact me using this form:
http://www.workinprogress.ca/contact/

Losing links to the old forum is a disaster ... That was a huge resource. Why not "freeze" it but keep it available for searching and access via whatever URL's folks might have saved for themselves. I know I have a lot.

The new forum is super sexy. Nice one.

The new forum doesn't seem to like it when the word "table" is enclosed by square brackets (I.e. the ASCII representation of PD's table object). I guess it thinks it's BBCode? It chops off the rest of the post.

@emacpher said:

Losing links to the old forum is a disaster ... That was a huge resource. Why not "freeze" it but keep it available for searching and access via whatever URL's folks might have saved for themselves. I know I have a lot.

The old one is still browsable here :
http://puredata_bak.hurleur.com

@llorona said:

The new forum doesn't seem to like it when the word "table" is enclosed by square brackets (I.e. the ASCII representation of PD's table object). I guess it thinks it's BBCode? It chops off the rest of the post.

I think it would be a better practice to use code block for [objects]

[table]

[adc~]
|
[dac~]

Totally unexpected, but a great move indeed. Thanks to all who make this possible.

D.

@le-NEKO Would it be possible to fix posts from the old forum that contain [table] (sans markdown, of course) so they display correctly in the new forum? Right now, posts that contain this particular string are mangled and the threads don't make much sense, for example http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/7656/creating-a-sfxplayer-file-wav-and-making-it-have-arrays/8

Here's another example of a post that displays incorrectly: http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/5287/what-is-an-abstraction-and-why-use-0-1-etc

Though I don't think [table] is to blame here...

Also, the HTML entity &#8230 (ellipsis) is showing up escaped; not sure if this is a problem for any other entities.

Finally, the backup site at http://puredata_bak.hurleur.com/ is unavailable, showing an "Unable to insert into online list" error.

Very nice looking new forum! Gets me excited to see some new things happening in the PD realm!

hello,
it will be very useful if we can make a research inside the categories presented in the home page.
e.g. search for envgen in the tutorial page.

I didn't manage
thanks

@EEight said:

Sadly it was very difficult to keep the old links,

what about
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18643766/find-and-replace-specific-text-characters-across-a-document-with-js

@EEight Is there a specific reason that the forum is offline so often? This is by far the most unstable website i know. This error comes regularly and sometimes stays for a day or more:

Why?

@ingox Yep my bad, trying to keep it up and running all the time, but struggling with the disk space (so when it's down it's because my server is full). It's in my todo! Upgrade the solution and maybe even the server. I just need more time.

@EEight Ah, alright. Is there anything to help you with that?

It only took years, but I finally added storage on the server... so hopefully no more 502 Bad Gateway.
Cheers~