Fixed a bug in expire.php that did not remove the article info from the search overview. This led to finding search results that did not return an article. Should be fixed now.

Added link to search user in overboard listing (or view latest in a group).

Fixed a few little bugs and cleaned up Synchronet integration a bit more. Note: if you see 'inbox' in retrobbs, that's Synchronet with a bit of css. Mail is not a feature of rslight.

Retro Guy

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i'm a bit confused here, wasn't syncronet coded in ssjs ?

cheers

trw

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Anonymous wrote:

> i'm a bit confused here, wasn't syncronet coded in ssjs ?

Yes, Synchronet is ssjs. My main features to "support" Synchronet were to add a header that it can use to list who the message is "To", which is a common BBS feature, but not a Usenet feature really. Also, to log into Synchronet to post as the posing user, as Synchronet doesn't support one user posting with other usernames as most nntp servers do.

Synchronet provides executables to do things such as create users, which I use to do just that. The only code I've really changed is in displaying a user's mailbox. The css is simple, but I did make a few changes in the ssjs to add/remove things on the display, and also ended up providing a patch to Synchronet when I found an issue.

My next integration projects to Synchronet will require a bit more code, which is why I'd like to release rslight again first, before getting on to that. The recent changes have really been bug fixes that tend to be specific to integrating with Synchronet. There are a couple of more I want to handle before release, but not add features, just fix bugs.

Retro Guy

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Fixed a bug in head.inc that would allow certain config options to reset to main config file. Since you should be able to override main config with section config, this was not what I wanted. It's fixed now and will be in the next release.

The way it's meant to work, and does, is in /etc/rslight the main config file is:
rslight.inc.php

You can copy config options from that file to your <section> config, for example:
rocksolid.inc.php
and these will override rslight.inc.php.

Cleaned up case sensitivity on group names. Really they should all be lower case, but if you specifically want/need something different, rslight will convert incoming messages to match your system.

Changed the way the 'Quote' button works when replying to posts. Previously, if you hit it again, it would erase what you were writing, which is irritating. Now, the button should disappear if/after you hit it once. This is one of two places rslight uses javascript. The other is to try to display article times in your local time (whatever time your browser thinks it is). Neither of these features are critical, so javascript can be disabled and everything should work fine other than these two things.

Retro Guy

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Did some more work on 'Quote'. Spaced the buttons a bit farther apart, and changed 'Post' to 'Post Article', which makes the buttons different sizes and easier to differentiate.

Modified overboard.php to handle base64 encoded articles and still be able to display a snippet. (maybe just don't post base64 encoded articles)

Added two new commands to the nntp server:
DATE
XHDR

Date, because claws mail really likes to know the date (a lot). And claws mail also likes to read individual headers before downloading articles. Adding these two commands has allowed claws mail to work well with rslight nntp server. xhdr also supports displaying an article by message-id.

This also showed a bug in overview where it had too many spaces between references. Other readers handle this fine, but claws mail didn't like it and then could not thread the articles. This seems to be working now, but I'll keep testing it.

Retro Guy

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Quote seems to be working ok, so considering it done for now.

I have added account creation authentication by email (receive code, then enter it). This is really for clearnet users to avoid creating tons of accounts (it happens), and ties an account to an email address. This is very different from the purpose of rslight for tor/i2p users, but since most of my users are clearnet users, and of course some have decided it's an easy place to just create new addresses to troll, I have added this feature. It is a toggle in config, and can be enabled/disabled by what network the client is connecting from.

When you create an account on tor or i2p, the address is simply used in display of your posts. It just needs to be formatted as an email address. In rocksolid groups, and account is unecessary from any network.

I've added a config toggle to truncate display of email addresses in posts and overboard. This avoids email harvesting on the site, and adds a bit of privacy. If I need to address an issue, the email is of course still in the actual article, it's just not fully displayed on the site.

I still need to apply this to the thread list, which I will do tomorrow. It's just a new function that I now call when displaying 'From' info.

You can see the difference on rslight by looking at the Rocksolid section, which does not truncate the addresses, and the other sections which do.

Retro Guy

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Completed email verification functions to use an SMTP server instead of directly sending mail.

This allows it to be used from dynamic ips or where port 25 is blocked (and basically makes it more reliable).

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Fixed an issue in display of poster names in overboard due to a LF in user config file.

Found a bug in header.php that had the config dir hardcoded. That is now fixed to use config.

Found a major bug that caused every group to rebuild all its threads evertime the group was loaded. Took me a while to figure out why this was happening, but it's fixed now.

Now a group with 30,000 posts loads in a fraction of a second while previously it took way too long (10 seconds or even longer). Hopefully page loading is quick now, and overhead on the server is drastically reduced!

Added a motd (message of the day) feature. Just put the message in a text file (motd.txt) and it is displayed. If the file does not exist or is empty, nothing is displayed.

Retro Guy

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>I have added account creation authentication by email (receive code, then enter it).

Now that sounds really serious. Is a captcha not enough for this purpose (to disallow batch creation) ?

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Anonymous wrote:

>>I have added account creation authentication by email (receive code, then enter it).

> Now that sounds really serious. Is a captcha not enough for this purpose (to disallow batch creation) ?

It's really for clearnet users who like to troll and just constantly creating new accounts. At least this way they need to spend a minute creating a new email address also. They would easily deal with a captcha as it's a "real" person.

This does not apply to i2p or tor users, they just don't have their email address (that you just make up during registration) marked in their config as verified. I can send password reset, etc to a verified email address, so a bit more friendly features for clearnet users.

Posting in rocksolid.* doesn't even require an account, so I'm guessing most users would never see it or care, and it's also a toggle in config so other admins can just turn it off (it's off by default).

I'll admit that part of writing in the feature was because I thought it would be fun to write and make it work, and it was :) A lot of what rslight has become is what I feel like creating. I have my fun, and I put a switch for each in config to use it or not use it.

Also, Welcome back def2 and def4!

Retro Guy

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>>e13b0151b1443edc4f
>Posting in rocksolid.* doesn't even require an account,

Aha, so you did that mostly for the other groups. Yeah, I took a look at some of the small flamewars recently (after neodome posted about this), and some seem not so nice...lol

>Also, Welcome back def2 and def4!

Yeah, thanks.

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>>e13b0151b1443edc4f
>It's really for clearnet users who like to troll and just constantly creating new accounts

thats funny because this kind of behavior is associated with the darknet for many people. seems like tor users are more civilized ?

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Anonymous wrote:

>>>e13b0151b1443edc4f
>>Posting in rocksolid.* doesn't even require an account,

> Aha, so you did that mostly for the other groups. Yeah, I took a look at some of the small flamewars recently (after neodome posted about this), and some seem not so nice...lol

Yes. some people seem to enjoy just derailing threads/groups for fun, or just plain treat usenet as a place for graffiti practice. I just don't want to provide easy access for that, and most clearnet users who post on usenet in a beneficial way don't mind exposing an email address (that they've hopefully only created for usenet) being exposed.

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Anonymous wrote:

>>>e13b0151b1443edc4f
>>It's really for clearnet users who like to troll and just constantly creating new accounts

> thats funny because this kind of behavior is associated with the darknet for many people. seems like tor users are more civilized ?

What I mostly get from tor is drug and hacking spam, which is mostly blocked (some gets through of course). i2p hasn't been an issue at all for me.

I guess it's just mostly down to the number of users in each network. Clearnet obviously has the most by far, so a very small percentage being morons still has an effect.

Retro Guy

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