Events

SpindleyQ's picture

Immediately after setting up the Community Chainwreck event, I thought to myself, is there any good reason why I shouldn't trust the Glorious Trainwrecks community to create sitewide events? Surely opening that option up would only increase the ease of creating collaborative projects (which I am massively in favour of)?

So, hey guys, you can post your own events to the site, now. Let me know if anything seems screwy.

SpindleyQ's picture

Oh, and I also added the

Oh, and I also added the ability for logged-in users to see each other's profiles, which I had no idea was off for non-admins until just now. I have no idea how you would actually find the private message function without this.

kirkjerk's picture

Prior to this you could go

Prior to this you could go to "My inbox" and then "Write a new message" and then enter the persons name.

What kind of notification of new msgs does the site provide, email and/or when you log in next?

SpindleyQ's picture

Hmm! It looks like you can

Hmm! It looks like you can get emailed when you get a PM, but the option is off by default! You can go into "My account -> Edit -> Private message settings" to turn it on. Otherwise it appears that the only notification is a little number next to the "My inbox" link.

I'll look into making each-message email notification the default.

SpindleyQ's picture

OK, it's the default now,

OK, it's the default now, but if you've edited your user profile at all since you signed up, it's probably turned off. I'd advise checking to make sure it's on, if you'd like it on!

agj's picture

That's pretty cool. Did you

That's pretty cool. Did you code the whole site yourself or did you use some CMS as its foundation?

SpindleyQ's picture

The site runs on Drupal,

The site runs on Drupal, which I've been, for the most part, pretty impressed and happy with. It's got all kinds of nice plugins which I can just drop in. The only coding I've really done for the site has been to add the special markup for linking wiki pages.