Bandcamp just keeps getting better and better.

I just keep on expecting that high E to break. I mean jeeze, that's gotta be really tightly-wound...

Yeah there’s a bunch of amazon sellers who inflate their inventory listings for various reasons and they mostly do it by choosing random low-volume items from the catalog and putting on a ridiculous markup so nobody will want to buy it from them. It’s part of how they game the system, since it both ...

For what it's worth I wrote an updated version of this yesterday: https://beesbuzz.biz/articles/1579-Inde ... 19-edition

It's pretty much the same as back in 2015, except now Amazon has changed the name of Createspace to Amazon Manufacturing on Demand.

You get some pretty interesting tonality.

I went to a party where people were mostly playing the new Smash Bros and I smoked way too much weed. Today I was feeling ill for some reason and did basically nothing but wallow.

Yeah I had set the 'song fight' home symbol to link to songfight.org on purpose just because I don't think the forum link at the top is the most obvious thing. For that matter I actually preferred the UX of the forums image linking to the forums, but whatever. I am pretty sure that the old breadcrum...

Ah, turns out that the way phpBB handles avatar images has changed at some point and so what I thought was a permissions issue wasn't a problem at all. Except for it being sort of a problem in phpBB's overly-complex "design," but whatever.

The breadcrumb links haven't changed at all in the upgrade , but I misremembered where the forum logo is supposed to link to (since it says FORUMS on it). I've restored things to how they were. Huh, no, from archive.org it looks like the 'home' link on the breadcrumb actually did link to the forum,...

Howdy. A few weeks ago I gave up on the freelancer life and got a full time job at an HIV research lab, helping them to make their software not so terrible. It is challenging. Also had some really bad holiday-related blowups with my parents. So this Christmas wasn’t a very good one for me. But I’ll ...

Anyway they released a bug fix for a bug fix which I’ve installed and smoke tested, let me know if something else broke etc

From my log reports there seem to be problems with avatars. I’ll try to fix it sometime this weekend.

Unfortunately I can’t easily see who actually did change their avatar, so if you’ve tried uploading a new one and it’s not working, please post in this thread! Thanks.

My Favorite Monster
Habit-Forming Perennials
Polymerase Chain Retraction

nope, oh well

I'm having a jam session at my home recording studio tomorrow and I might be able to convince my friends to do something terrible for this fight.

okay I am really disliking all of the themes I've installed so far. If anyone finds a theme they like (that is phpBB 3.2 compatible) please let me know and I'll see about installing it.

Unfortunately the old default theme never got updated for 3.2, which is why I didn't just install that one. :/

This Pile Of Disgusting Hacks That We Are Stuck With

okay I finally found the permissions editor, and holy hell is it obnoxious now also wtf I am a forum admin with full admin permissions and yet I still can't actually do admin things on this particular subforum wtf phpBB ugh i hate you so much Okay I think things are fixed, permissions-wise. If you'...

okay I finally found the permissions editor, and holy hell is it obnoxious now

also wtf I am a forum admin with full admin permissions and yet I still can't actually do admin things on this particular subforum wtf phpBB ugh i hate you so much

Yeah there’s a bunch of weirdness with the permissions on this particular subforum and I can’t figure out where to fix it. One of the missing permissions seems to be “post bbcode.” But only for some people. phpBB certainly is a wonderland, and updating it is one of those damned-if-you-do, damned-if-...

I would unsticky this thread seeing as how this feature hasn't existed for years but for some reason phpBB isn't giving me the option to. WTF?

EDIT: so I just edited the database directly

anyway in addition to hopefully fewer massive security holes and all new exciting bugs to contend with, phpBB 3.2 finally adds built-in support for Atom feeds, which is great for those of us who still use feed readers.