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Also, if anybody wants to tinker with the CSS to make the forum table look nice, by all means go ahead. --Algorithm (talk) 10:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

An Idea...

Warning: This is a bit long because when I give ideas I give implementation suggestions... so get some popcorn.

I've always found that pages like voting pages or the Village Dump are a bit hard to read... instead of whining about it heres a possibility(?):

This is just an idea on how to perhaps make the color of the post alternate with each new post by a user for easier readability. It may or may not work, given my rather limited knowledge of MediaWiki, but its a proposal none the less:

Is it possible to add a variable or a template (it gets inserted instead of being dynamic to the template), named, say... (Using {{PAGENAME}})

New forum layout/NEXTPOST

that accomplishes the following:

For every post in a forum topic, the new post is placed in a template ie:

New Post

{{Subst:BeginPost}}

Reply body goes here

{{Subst:EndPost}}

---

Where:

Contents of {{BeginPost}}

<div class="{{Subst:{{PAGENAME}}/NEXTPOST}}">

---

Contents of New forum layout/NEXTPOST

One

*** OR ***

Two

---

Contents of {{EndPost}}

</div>

---

• NEXTPOST, upon submission of a post, is replaced with Two if its current value is One, or One if its current value is Two
• Alternatively, you could just increment it, and have odd numbers be synonymous to One and even numbers Synonymous to two:
  • NEXTPOST % 2 = 0 ? 'Two' : 'One'

So that two classes, One and Two, are defined with backgrounds of different colors so you get an effect like:

OMG! I rox! -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 17:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

More like 'sux' -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 17:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

stfu, I pwn you n00b! Note: This text has been expanded to make it fit on more than one line for the purpose of viewing a multiple line comment, because most comments are written in a manner that they appear on more than one line.-- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 17:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

You both suck -- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 17:58, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

-- Village Idiot♠KUN Free Speech 18:00, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

IM ON THE OLDEST FORUM PAGE!! IM THE TRUE WINNER BOZOS!!! L10nM4st3r ^{ROAR at me!} / _{What my paws scratched} 09:11, 19 January 2024 (UTC)