Ignore Function

Back before the big update on VFDC, the ignore function worked both in threads AND shoutbox. Now, for some reason it only works in threads? Why? I don't want to see BBS's incoherent ramblings anymore and this ignore function is not doing it's original job.

Will this be fixed soon or will I be banned again because I explode on BBS? (it's going to happen eventually...)

 

Ok, I will just deal with it because I'm so good at that.

Whenever the developer decides to implement it, put it in please.

 

I whipped up a quick and simple amendment to TaigaChat (the Shoutbox) that sets the framework for ignoring members. My Javascript is quite rusty, and it's difficult for me to test anything without having access to the VFDC server, but here's the summary:

I added a function for deriving the username of the sender of a Shoutbox message from the TaigaChat server's 'templateHtml' json object. I string-split the HTML around the username because I'm sleepy and couldn't immediately figure out how to use JavaScript's regex to do what I wanted:

function getSender(json_templateHtml){
username = json_templateHtml.split("class\"username\" itemprop=\"name\">").split("<\/a>")[0];
return username;
}

From there, I modified function handleListResponse. On line 342 (I believe), this function checks the (sometimes empty) array of newly received messages and decides whether or not to print them to the chatbox. I added an extra condition to this decision utilizing function getSender: whether or not the sender of the message matches a string in an ignoredUsers array. Line 342 and down becomes:

if($("#"+$(this).attr("id")).length == 0 && ignoredUsers.indexOf(getSender(json.templateHtml)) == -1){
gotNew++;
if(!reverse)
$(this).attr("style", "visibility:hidden").addClass("taigachat_new").prependTo("#taigachat_box > ol");
else
$(this).attr("style", "visibility:hidden").addClass("taigachat_new").appendTo("#taigachat_box > ol");

}


VFDC would need a modification that stores ignored users in a cookie, and so taigachat.js could easily read that cookie into the ignoredUsers array at start-up. This would filter out the messages of ignored VFDC members in the Shoutbox.

Not that I expect for you to be especially interested, Myke, as I'm sure that you're a busy man, but, if you'd be interested in implementing something like this, please PM me, as I may be of some help.

-David