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00:02 trom_ what is special_tiles {}, advanced\optional ?
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01:22 kurtzmusch anyone figured out what is the problem with the forum?
01:22 VanessaE minetest staff are already on it
01:23 VanessaE short answer: it's b0rk3d.
01:23 robdrake did outside vandals bork it?
01:23 VanessaE no
01:23 robdrake k
01:39 robdrake night all
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03:04 YuGiOhJCJ hello, do you also have problem to display this website? https://forum.minetest.net/
03:05 YuGiOhJCJ I am waiting since several minutes
03:06 YuGiOhJCJ "Connecting to forum.minetest.net..."
03:06 YuGiOhJCJ in the status bar
03:06 NathanS21_ Yes, the site is down right now.
03:06 YuGiOhJCJ oh
03:07 NathanS21_ Has been most of the day.
03:07 NathanS21_ admins know about it, probably working on it.
03:15 YuGiOhJCJ oh yes, it is written in the topic of this channel "Forums and wikis are down, patience please"
03:15 YuGiOhJCJ sorry, I had to read that before asking
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05:16 oil_boi Is the forum down
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07:10 trom_ what is emerged_area() ?
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08:53 ANAND trom_: Is this what you're referring to? https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/e32a630937de69454c741e93979a7889fcddc7a9/doc/lua_api.txt#L3049
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08:54 trom_ ANAND: yes, but I still mess with it
08:55 trom_ vm need more pictures )
08:58 ANAND If you're having issues with the return value, use print(dump(vm:get_emerged_area()))
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12:29 robdrake sorry to bother you all, but I need the names of the wooden shovel, wooden axe, and apple please
12:30 robdrake *Itemstrings, I think is the term
12:31 rubenwardy default:shovel_wood  default:pick_wood   default:apple
12:31 ANAND default:axe_wood, not pick_wood :P
12:32 rubenwardy oh, read question wrong
12:32 robdrake thanks to you both
12:32 robdrake and rubenwardy thank your for your online minetest modding book
12:33 rubenwardy yw
12:41 ANAND That book helped me a lot too when I first entered the Minetest modding scene
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12:45 robdrake working on server, then back to relearning lua
12:46 robdrake then work on Yet Another Hostile Mobs Mod (YAHMM)
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12:54 Niwla23 hello
12:56 Niwla23 query %s
12:57 robdrake typos fixed in the kit mod
12:57 Niwla23 How to reset the window in hexchat?
12:57 robdrake unfortunately you have to define the kits in init.lua
12:58 robdrake idk, I may do a pull request and see if I can get them read from a directory
12:58 robdrake in the future
13:05 Niwla23 when will the forum be back????
13:09 rubenwardy read the topic
13:09 rubenwardy "Forums and wikis are down, patience please"
13:10 Niwla23 whats the problem with them? has the hoster server problems?
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15:41 robdrake sorry to bug the channel again, I know defalut:apple is for the fruit, but was is the name of the apple tree sapling? I've tried default:apple_tree_sapling, and default:apple_sapling
15:42 VanessaE default:sapling I think?
15:42 robdrake let me see, and thank you
15:42 VanessaE mtg's apple trees are just "default" trees with altered descriptions.
15:42 VanessaE (peronally I always thought they were some kind of beech-apple hybrid :P )
15:43 robdrake yep VanessaE, thank you again
15:43 VanessaE yw.
15:44 VanessaE that reminds me, I'll need to add something to moretrees to fix the "default" tree descriptions, as moretrees has real apple trees, with proper size and with blossoms :)
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16:21 lllI1I > did outside vandals bork it?
16:21 lllI1I who would do such a thing
16:28 robdrake lllI1I: script kiddies, ie skiddos
16:29 lllI1I why would they target minetest though
16:29 robdrake idk
16:29 robdrake it was just a question of mine, the problems with the forums and wikis weren't caused by script kiddies
16:30 robdrake internal mistake, I guess
16:30 robdrake or, hardware failure is another guess
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16:31 lllI1I was expecting like a cabal of mojang's going around killing the comptetition
16:32 lllI1I especially the good ones like minetest
16:32 lllI1I glad to know that's not the case (this time)
16:32 VanessaE but no, it has nothing to do with malicious parties.
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16:36 ShadMOrdre Any news regarding the forums?
16:37 tacotexmex Though it seemingly has nothing to do with this specific outage, running phpBB in this decade means you’re kind of asking to be hacked. ;P
16:37 sofar server just failed, nothing malicious
16:37 sofar people are working to get it back online and restore it
16:38 VanessaE sofar: well, unless the hosting provider counts as malicious, given the nature of the failure and their failure to anticipate and plan for it :)
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16:46 lllI1I give the site to me I'll host it
16:46 lllI1I in my basement
16:50 * twoelk considers extending LAN to his basement
16:51 lllI1I am in rural america tho so you'd have downtime still
16:51 lllI1I the plus side being that when the power comes back on I just need to turn it back on
16:51 clavi sofar: was it on a dedicated hardware box?
16:51 lllI1I like go down and push button and it's back
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17:12 p_gimeno does anyone know how to solve a circular dependency between farming_redo and stairs?
17:12 p_gimeno 2019-04-30 19:11:09: ERROR[Main]: mod "farming" has unsatisfied dependencies:  "stairs"
17:12 p_gimeno 2019-04-30 19:11:09: ERROR[Main]: mod "stairs" has unsatisfied dependencies:  "farming"
17:13 rubenwardy update both
17:13 rubenwardy make sure you're using the correct repo for farming redo
17:15 p_gimeno thanks, looking
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17:20 tacotexmex VanessaE: Are there any plans to migrate forum eventually? I’m thinking that the window is closing for the possibility of exporting data from phpBB into other newer software as phpBB is sunsetting.
17:21 Fairion what would we migrate to?
17:21 clavi please not discourse
17:22 clavi anything but this bloated whitespace wasteland
17:22 VanessaE the forum is broken right now, as to where and what it'll be migrated to, if anything new, idk.
17:23 Fairion I would be happy to work on setting up new forums
17:23 Fairion spectrum?
17:24 Fairion flarum? https://vanillaforums.com/en/software/?
17:24 clavi for the love of god something that works without 10 different javascripts
17:25 sofar not the right time to make a decision (no problem discussing it, though)
17:25 Fairion Sofar: What format would be better?
17:26 p_gimeno MyBB FTW
17:26 clavi tacotexmex: where did you read that phpBB is "sunsetting"?
17:27 sofar Fairion: I'm just saying that with the forums down, the priority is bringing them back up first
17:27 clavi agreed
17:27 Fairion oh. true.
17:27 sofar migrating to another forum software is not something anyone is going to sink time into :)
17:27 sofar however, it's entirely OK to come up with a plan for the future that the community supports :)
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17:28 nimbius minetest server is down
17:28 nimbius again
17:28 sofar especially if people can come up with a migration plan from phpbb to $future_forum_software
17:28 nimbius is there a regular status update mailing list or something i can subscribe to?
17:28 sofar nimbius: first, read irc logs, then decide whether repeating is useful :)
17:28 nimbius sofar: thank you
17:28 nimbius but ive no log of the channel im not in :(
17:29 sofar read /topic
17:29 clavi phpBB is actively developed fwiw https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb/graphs/commit-activity
17:29 sofar read it .. slowly
17:29 nimbius sofar: sorry.  its bonkers frustrating trying to play this game without a wiki :(
17:29 Fairion it wouldn't hurt to have a nicer looking forum, though
17:30 nimbius Im sure good work is being done.
17:30 nimbius is the wiki present on github? can i host it?
17:30 clavi I'm sure you can style phpBB too
17:31 Fairion you can. I don't know why we don't, but I can't seem to get phpbb working on my machine.
17:31 Fairion So, I can't test it
17:31 clavi probably because devs care more about code than how the forum looks
17:31 clavi but sure, it could be improved
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17:32 Fairion rubenwardy: There was some talk on discord a while ago about re-styling the forums. Does that still stand?
17:33 rubenwardy I'm not able to make such a change
17:33 rubenwardy and the only person who can is currently busy getting it back online
17:33 Fairion oh. okay.
17:33 clavi https://www.phpbb.com/styles/
17:35 clavi maybe another thing to think about in the future is reducing MT's bus factor
17:35 clavi (how many people can get hit by a bus before the project fails)
17:35 p_gimeno MyBB can import phpBB FWIW. And phpBB really really sucks.
17:36 rubenwardy clavi: increasing it, hopefully
17:36 clavi well, of course :D
17:36 Fairion sucks how so?
17:37 p_gimeno phpBB session handling kicks you out without a reason, it clobbers URLs with session keys, it does not allow ignoring threads, it doesn't allow (last time I checked) to configure custom BBcode to have more effects... it's just way, way out of date, and being actively developed does not solve that
17:38 Fairion true
17:38 Fairion it wouldn't hurt to migrate
17:38 p_gimeno I've administered MyBB and it's a breeze
17:39 rubenwardy what about simple machiens?
17:39 p_gimeno it perhaps may err on the side of having too many configuration options
17:42 Fairion my issue with the current setup is that it looks very tacky. It makes minetest seem like a side-project and not a legit game.
17:42 Fairion imho
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17:45 VanessaE well we could always go back to punbb ;)
17:45 * VanessaE hides
17:46 Fairion I wasn't there back then...
17:46 VanessaE it... was a strange time in minetest :P
17:46 VanessaE I forget now why we moved to phpbb
17:47 clavi maybe cause it's abandonware?
17:49 VanessaE maybe.
17:50 p_gimeno VanessaE: what's the current pipeworks repo? is it gitlab/VanessaE or github/minetest-mods? (sorry can't look it up in the forum)
17:50 VanessaE gitlab.
17:50 Fairion I feel like minetest development is so diplomatic that things move very slowly...
17:51 kurtzmusch why are we considering moving? i dont really understand how something spontaneously breaks like this ...
17:51 VanessaE p_gimeno: https://gitlab.com/VanessaE/pipeworks
17:52 VanessaE kurtzmusch: well no one of authority said anything about migrating, but given the nature of the failure, .. eh, who knows what'll happen
17:53 Fairion what's the best way to help with minetest-game?
17:53 VanessaE fork and make PRs :)
17:53 Fairion There are so many just sitting there- how do I know it'll even be merged?
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17:54 Fairion 19
17:54 kurtzmusch the best way is to create your own game from scratch lel
17:55 p_gimeno VanessaE: thanks, it turns out pipeworks needs a dependency on screwdriver, it crashed on me when it wasn't available
17:55 clavi there was a forum post that said you can help by testing the PRs yourself and giving feedback
17:55 kurtzmusch there is no single vision of what mtg should be so theres not even a realable way to tell what whings will be merged
17:55 p_gimeno VanessaE: I could submit a PR but right now I'm in the middle of configuring a server, could you?
17:55 tacotexmex What kurtzmusch said
17:56 kurtzmusch my spelling is deteriorating
17:56 Fairion hmm. that's not good for development ;)
17:57 VanessaE p_gimeno: you mean pipeworks needs the screwdriver in the depends.txt then?
17:57 p_gimeno VanessaE: https://gitlab.com/VanessaE/pipeworks/blob/master/devices.lua#L167
17:57 p_gimeno yes
17:57 VanessaE sure.
17:57 p_gimeno thanks!
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18:00 VanessaE done.
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18:02 p_gimeno thanks. Also homedecor/itemframes calls the global, so I guess it should be listed as optional dependency.
18:02 p_gimeno (sorry, I'm still going through the logs and finding stuff as I go)
18:03 VanessaE I'll fiddle with that one later.
18:04 p_gimeno ok, that was all. And thanks.
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18:24 p_gimeno how do you set creative mode for a world without the UI?
18:24 p_gimeno ah I think I see the answer, sorry. It's a setting in world.mt
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18:55 nimbius is there a root-cause for the outage?
18:56 clavi yes
18:56 nimbius what was it?
18:56 clavi there is a cause for everything in life
18:56 clavi "server failure"
18:56 nimbius the site is hosted on pages, or so i thought?
18:57 clavi no
18:57 nimbius https://github.com/minetest/minetest.github.io
18:58 p_gimeno VanessaE: the hotbar mod has a couple of bugs, where should I send them? to dreambuilder, or is there an upstream somewhere?
18:58 VanessaE what bugs?
18:58 VanessaE https://gitlab.com/VanessaE/dreambuilder_hotbar
18:59 VanessaE (note the mod name changed today)
18:59 p_gimeno let me check the current version first to see if they're fixed... basically e.g. /hotbar 20 crashes
18:59 VanessaE I fixed that bug already.
18:59 clavi oh, so it is
19:00 clavi looks like just the site code is on github
19:00 clavi not actually hosted by github pages
19:00 p_gimeno ah yes, it's fixed, thanks. The other problem is already fixed, namely a global that should be local.
19:00 rubenwardy nimbius: the main site is hosted on GitHub pages which is why it's still available
19:01 VanessaE in other news: I've done a round of updates of my mods on contentdb, including publishing Dreambuilder there finally :)
19:01 rubenwardy The outage is because the VPS service provider had a technical fault which corrupted the system
19:01 clavi I see
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19:22 nimbius rubenwardy: thank you for the clarification.
19:23 nimbius will the content be made available for mirroring in the future?
19:23 nimbius maybe a magnet link or something with the essentials would be nice
19:24 rubenwardy we have weekly backups
19:27 clavi that's good to hear
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19:39 tacotexmex clavi: What forum software built with a modern stack doesn’t use JS? Do you know of one?
19:40 clavi no, but I don't place too much value on what is considered "modern" at the moment
19:41 clavi I'm not against JS entirely, just against overuse of it
19:41 clavi like a site staying blank if you don't allow 3rd party JS
19:45 Calinou it's possible to have a fully-functional JS-based UI with only first-party resources
19:45 Calinou in fact, it's becoming the recommended approach in many cases
19:45 Calinou (if you don't pay for bandwidth, especially :P)
19:45 sfan5 the question is whether the site should work without js
19:46 est31 discourse is js based
19:46 est31 I had the "pleasure" of using it
19:46 est31 you can't even ctrl-f through a topic
19:47 est31 the creators had the bright idea of redirecting you to their built in search
19:47 est31 which of COURSE does not allow searching inside posts
19:47 VanessaE a wild est31 appears! :)
19:47 clavi yes, that's what these kinds of sites like to do
19:47 est31 hello VanessaE
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19:47 clavi hijacking your scroll function and adding a "better" scrolling "experience" is also a classic
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19:49 est31 yes, another thing that discourse is doing
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19:50 est31 they say it's modern but for me it's just broken in so many ways
19:50 clavi "modern" sites also often have a "modern" design with means everything is white or at most a very faint shade of pastel
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19:50 clavi no visual separation between elements
19:51 clavi https://i.imgur.com/bZuyzQj.png
19:51 clavi it's hard to tell where one post ends and the next one begins
19:51 clavi they're separated by frickin 1px wide light-grey lines
19:58 kurtzmusch imo js is only usefull for loading parts of a page async in response to something, everything else is bloat and css got covered. infinite scrolling is trash
19:59 clavi oh man infinite scrolling
19:59 clavi >don't know where on the page you are
19:59 clavi >don't know how many items there are left
19:59 clavi yes I love it /s
19:59 kurtzmusch thats the most obscure, backwards design ever and it pops out everywhere
20:01 rubenwardy I really don't like infinite scrolling for stuff like that, it doesn't work
20:01 rubenwardy forums need deterministic paging
20:01 rubenwardy it's not a social media feed
20:01 clavi agreed
20:01 clavi it works for a twitter/mastodon feed
20:02 rubenwardy yeah
20:02 rubenwardy <3 mastodon
20:02 rubenwardy https://fosstodon.org/@rubenwardy   and   https://fosstodon.org/@Minetest    btw
20:03 tacotexmex Regarding possible forum software migration I’m not looking to start flamewars, stir up controversy or similar. I just notice that with a piece of software as old as phpBB comes as old problems (the weekly viagra phishing posts, the post once - subscribe forever feature, the absent mobile support, the ancient UX patterns). Knowing these common problems as a former phpBB admin myself (migrated 8 years ago), I know that
20:03 tacotexmex the moderation can be much less daunting and user experience much improved with more recent software. The goal here is to aid MT staff in reducing workload and to increase community participation, nothing else.
20:03 rubenwardy some JS is good
20:03 sfan5 i'm sure upgrading to a newer phpbb version would already help
20:03 rubenwardy ContentDB uses some JS
20:03 rubenwardy that too
20:03 rubenwardy and themes make a load of difference
20:04 rubenwardy just disabling that annoying message page would be good
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20:04 tacotexmex sfan5: Why? It’s still built with principles and conventions from 15 yrs ago.
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20:05 sfan5 maybe they fixed some annoyances in a newer version, who knows
20:06 tacotexmex Even if they wanted to, they got their own (huge) technical debt against them.
20:08 Niwla23 https://web.archive.org/web/20190321143231/https://forum.minetest.net/
20:10 clavi rubenwardy: thanks, didn't know MT had a fediverse presence
20:10 tacotexmex And it’s more than a few annoyances imo, it’s equally the issue that web applications has gone through at least a few paradigms since phpBBs haydays. Users expect excellent, contemporary UX.
20:11 Stormwynd Celeron55 said "I hate phpBB, I hope you do too. It's a ridiculous clusterfuck hallmark of everything that is wrong in the PHP culture." - https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&amp;t=12611&amp;sid=3a3380825577626a7e94b2a6172f63d3
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20:12 rubenwardy lool
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20:12 rubenwardy nice forum link
20:12 Niwla23 lol, good to give a FORUM link if everythings down
20:13 Niwla23 https://web.archive.org/web/20170704105527/https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&amp;t=12611&amp;sid=47de31b595687d4f021b3ea78bd125e9
20:13 Niwla23 this link works
20:13 Niwla23 why are we using phpBB then?
20:13 tacotexmex Stormwynd: Well, he said it best. ^_^
20:13 Stormwynd Ha, I copied it from @Niwala23's webarchive link but it converted it to a non-webarchive link
20:14 clavi are other php-based boards better?
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20:14 clavi I never ran a forum so I have no idea about their technical merits
20:15 Niwla23 but the archive is just a static copy of the forum also search function does not work :(
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20:15 Niwla23 phpBB takes 2 minutes to install for a noob like me if you have phpmyadmin
20:15 clavi the only thing I notice is that php boards "just work" while js things annoy me
20:16 Niwla23 whats about nodejs?
20:16 Niwla23 i really like contentdb
20:16 rubenwardy ContentDB is Python/Flask
20:16 Niwla23 oh, ok
20:16 Niwla23 https://content.minetest.net/threads/43/
20:17 Niwla23 this looks nice
20:17 tacotexmex clavi: what about non-php boards don’t ”just work” for you?
20:18 Niwla23 a good forum software should be also mobile-first
20:18 rubenwardy PHP things tend to depend on one kind of setup
20:18 rubenwardy MySQL / Apache / etc
20:18 clavi tacotexmex: they try to be too smart which makes them get in the way more often than not
20:18 rubenwardy whereas JS stuff may support differing databases and use better practices like migrations
20:18 clavi see above for e.g. infinite scrolling
20:18 clavi also JS boards and bad "modern" design seem to be inseparably linked
20:18 rubenwardy I guarantee that deploying Symphony would be worse than NodeJS apps
20:19 rubenwardy probably
20:19 tacotexmex ¯_(ツ)_/¯
20:19 rubenwardy you dropped this: \
20:19 Niwla23 https://www.woltlab.com/?l=2
20:20 Niwla23 is there something like this in open source?
20:20 tacotexmex rubenwardy: thnx! \
20:23 Niwla23 https://tellform.com/
20:23 Niwla23 what do you think of this
20:24 tacotexmex In the end, if a language or a software design convention is abandoned by the broader community that supports it, it will only be a matter of time until that project is on life support. So running a community forum for years takes some pragmatism. For instance, I may not even like Discourse, but since I know its business model (it’s still open source at the same time), the great and large community around it and its
20:24 tacotexmex merits of stability and support, I’d bet on Discourse any day before putting my fate in the hands of one or two happy core developers with sparetime resources.
20:27 clavi Niwla23: this must be some joke https://i.imgur.com/MuuHHwS.png
20:27 lllI1I where is the lua API available not on the wiki
20:28 clavi it's like they designed it to be hard to read on purpose
20:29 rubenwardy lllI1I: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt
20:29 rubenwardy the reference
20:29 rubenwardy or  https://minetest.gitlab.io/minetest/
20:29 rubenwardy (this is official ^)
20:30 lllI1I rubenwardy: big thanks
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20:33 Niwla23 oh, foun it on alternatives page, thought it was the login lol
20:35 Niwla23 clavi
20:35 clavi yes
20:36 Niwla23 just wanted to ping you for my above message
20:36 clavi somebody must've confused form with forum
20:37 Niwla23 like me xd
20:37 clavi oh :D
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20:40 BuckarooBanzai night all, good luck with the wiki/forum restore :D
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20:41 lllI1I is time_from_last_punch only available in entities' on_punch functions or do nodes have a way to get that too
20:43 lllI1I I've resorted to storing a timestamp in the metadata under "modname:last_hit_by" .. playername
20:43 tacotexmex lllI1I: entity only, iirc. You have to add such feature to node defs yourself.
20:43 lllI1I hoping there's an easier way
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20:44 tacotexmex Your solution isn’t bad imo
20:44 lllI1I so long as I mark it private so it's not updated constantly sending network packets
20:45 Fairion niwla: what about vanillaforums or mybb
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20:46 tacotexmex lllI1I: Ah, there’s that. How is it marked private?
20:47 lllI1I meta:mark_as_private("modname:last_hit_by_" .. playername)
20:48 lllI1I which is better I wonder, private or public by default
20:48 tacotexmex Cool. I’m very unfamiliar with meta attributes.
20:49 clavi Fairion: vanillaforums looks similar to discourse
20:49 clavi I'm comparing some myself right now
20:49 Fairion and therefore...
20:49 Fairion I've been offline btw. I read up on irc.minetest.net
20:50 clavi vanillaforums has pagination at least
20:53 tacotexmex Fairion: MyBB is as old as phpBB +2 yrs. Vanilla seems healthier but is more of a B2B product nowadays.
20:53 clavi yeah they advertise the paid version heavily on their site
20:53 lllI1I I read that as beer-to-beer
20:54 lllI1I I'm not familiar with that acronym
20:54 Fairion business to business
20:54 Fairion according to google :)
20:54 tacotexmex clavi: Vanilla has little to do with Discourse imo. UX patterns differ quite alot.
20:55 Fairion what's wrong with discourse again (not to start an argument)
20:55 clavi - no pagination
20:55 Fairion oh
20:55 clavi - hard to navigate
20:55 clavi - hijacks browser functions
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20:56 tacotexmex … and it’s still 13 yrs old.
20:56 clavi discourse?
20:56 Fairion so? wine gets better with age, my friend
20:56 Fairion ;)
20:57 tacotexmex If only :D
20:57 lllI1I how old is WINE again
20:57 tacotexmex It’s like 25? Good piece of software.
20:57 Fairion oh, not that type of wine lol. Alcoholic wine
20:58 tacotexmex Ancient
20:59 tacotexmex clavi: Have you tried nodeBB? It’s snappy as hell.
20:59 Fairion so, vanilla seems okay. The theme could be better but whatever.
21:03 clavi tacotexmex: it is fast, but the design is awful
21:04 tacotexmex If phpBB (2000) was generation 1 in forum software (it’s not, but let’s pretend), Vanilla (2006) was generation 2. For reference, iPhone was released in 2008 iirc. That means past generations wasn’t even built with mobile in mind as a core principle. Discourse and NodeBB is generation 3 but Discourse will survive much longer.
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21:05 tacotexmex clavi: By design, do you really mean looks?
21:05 clavi no
21:05 Ruslan1 Anyone know what happened to Minetest forum
21:06 est31 tacotexmex: I think mobile as core principle is the problem
21:06 est31 it's putting mobile above desktop
21:06 est31 and has tons of broken functionality
21:07 est31 like hijacked browser functions
21:07 est31 why do browsers allow web sites to hijack ctrl f anyway
21:07 tacotexmex est31: NodeBB, Discourse, what?
21:07 est31 Discourse
21:07 Ruslan1 Anyone know what happened to Minetest forum
21:07 Ruslan1 ?
21:07 est31 Ruslan1: they are down no idea why tho
21:08 tacotexmex That’s one feature, which can be turned off.
21:08 Ruslan1 Rip
21:08 est31 tacotexmex: tell me how
21:08 clavi tacotexmex: bethesda's version of nodeBB looks okay but it still suffers from being JS-based https://bethesda.net/community/
21:09 clavi e.g. the site changes as you scroll through it
21:09 tacotexmex est31: I’ll look into it when I’m not on mobile. Mobile which btw surpassed desktop traffic worldwide last year.
21:09 est31 sure, more people are on mobile than on desktop
21:10 est31 still, desktop gives you a better experience
21:10 est31 if I just compare the crappy keyboard that my phone has with any computer keyboard
21:10 clavi some statistics from MT forums would be interesting
21:10 clavi mobile vs. desktop
21:12 tacotexmex ”still, desktop gives you a better experience” Well yes, that will always be true with phpBB. ;)
21:12 est31 it's true with most software
21:12 Fairion ^^
21:12 est31 except for software that makes the desktop suck as much as mobile
21:12 Fairion nvm
21:13 Fairion some software is really well built on mobile
21:13 est31 and that isn't bad
21:13 est31 but often "well built on mobile" means "sucks on desktop"
21:13 tacotexmex That’s one opinion.
21:13 est31 which discourse does
21:13 Fairion cmon, it's not that bad
21:13 est31 I loathe it every time I have to use it sorry
21:14 est31 phpbb is much better
21:14 est31 again, so many features failing to work
21:14 Fairion I wish I could use markdown, though
21:14 est31 I have a fast internet connection
21:14 est31 I have a fast computer
21:14 tacotexmex Desktop Discourse is pretty desktop-y imo, not like horrible Material Design based stuff.
21:14 est31 I can just downloadthe entire thread
21:14 est31 nooo discourse makes me scroll through manually
21:15 Fairion oh, I can hear that as an issue
21:15 Fairion nobody has said anything bad about vanilla.
21:15 lllI1I we should make our own forum software
21:15 lllI1I in minetest
21:15 Fairion good luck
21:15 clavi embed the forums in MT client
21:16 lllI1I use formspecs for everything
21:16 clavi someone got chromium to work inside it so why not :3
21:16 Fairion nightmare
21:16 lllI1I that's impressive
21:16 tacotexmex On the other hand, MT is a global community with people on quite sucky uplinks. Discourse app downloads to your browser once, then fetches only pure data.
21:18 tacotexmex est31: what are those failing features?
21:18 Fairion Personally, I think the theme is the biggest issue at hand. And the easiest to fix.
21:19 est31 and phpbb doesnt do all of that it just sends data in the first place
21:20 tacotexmex The theme is the least of an issue, it’s quite ok. A theme change doesn’t fix Viagra spam or lifetime thread subscriptions.
21:20 Calinou rubenwardy: I can't see how deploying a Symfony app would be worse than Node.js
21:20 Fairion a core dev has been spotted!
21:21 clavi couldn't the spam be easily fixed by adding a (self-hosted!) captcha on registration?
21:21 tacotexmex est31: phpBB doesn’t cache itself as an application in your browser, it needs to send the whole page each load.
21:22 est31 and the whole page is not a big fat app
21:22 est31 I dont get how you sell that as an advantage of discourse
21:22 est31 it's in fact a big disadvantage
21:22 tacotexmex Sure, yeah.
21:22 est31 forum software doesn't need to be an "app". It can just be html made on the server side sent to clients
21:23 est31 it's not live chat
21:23 tacotexmex I agree, it doesn’t have to.
21:25 tacotexmex In the case of the MT forum bandwidth can’t be that big of an issue either.
21:25 est31 and every get request to discourse actually DOES send the entire page to clients
21:25 est31 it's not a single page application
21:25 est31 so it is doing strictly more than phpbb
21:26 tacotexmex Higher bandwidth then phpBB then?
21:26 est31 probably yeah
21:26 est31 but I'm too tired now to do a fine grained comparison
21:26 est31 gotta go to bed
21:26 Fairion Calinou: Can we change the phpBB theme to something more modern once the forums are back? I can't see why it would hurt, and it would look more legit. Additionally, I don't believe that it is too difficult.
21:27 Calinou I don't have control over it, also, there aren't a whole lot of good/modern and free phpBB themes out there
21:27 Calinou the closest I know is http://comboot.io/
21:27 Fairion I found one, hold on
21:28 Fairion https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/style/digi/demo/3.2#
21:28 clavi maybe updating phpbb also helps if the new version is supposedly  more responsive as someone said
21:28 clavi Fairion: modern site design that doesn't require JS for the navbar?
21:29 clavi what is this sorcery
21:29 clavi :)
21:29 tacotexmex est31: ”Discourse is essentially a SPA (see http://try.discourse.org/) and designed to be public-facing. It does a good job at providing a very bare, lightweight interface for people with JavaScript disabled and, I'm assuming, for web crawlers.”
21:29 Fairion oh, comboot is so relieving
21:29 Fairion I think I'm in love
21:30 rubenwardy My experience of symphony was pretty painful
21:30 tacotexmex <est31 "probably yeah"> est31: Alright, g’night!
21:30 Fairion "I don't have control over it" who does?
21:30 Calinou rubenwardy: version 4 is pretty alright in my experience
21:31 Calinou Fairion: that's not "modern" in my book :P
21:31 Calinou it spans the whole display, which means it's way too wide on large monitors like mine
21:31 Calinou (2560×1440)
21:31 Fairion it's better than what we have now...
21:31 Calinou the current forum.minetest.net theme does it better
21:31 Calinou it limits itself to a reasonable width
21:32 tacotexmex Agreed. Also, you can’t make a donkey into a horse.
21:32 Fairion The current theme looks outdated to me
21:33 Fairion I agree that digi isn't good. Comboot is better. the current theme is better than comboot?
21:33 tacotexmex It’s the platform that’s outdated. Believe me, I’ve had my fair share of trying to refresh a phpBB instance, it’s like putting makeup on a pig.
21:35 Fairion tacotexmex: One issue at a time
21:37 lllI1I I haven't used the forums much but the theme was okay in my IMO from what I can remember
21:38 tacotexmex In this case, no, why bother. C55 already hate phpBB so why pester him with a request that would only confuse users while not bringing any new or improved actual forum features.
21:39 Fairion oh. look is my main concern. changing the software would fix that, I think. If he's convinced, why not just do it?
21:39 Fairion "forum.minetest.netceleron55ThemeContact a moderator for concerns about content (Use "report this post" if possible)"
21:39 Fairion (from minetest.net/get_involved)
21:43 tacotexmex Structure, design patterns and extensibility are mine. :)
21:43 Fairion I gtg
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22:21 Wuzzy minetest.net is dead :(
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22:23 twoelk allready for more than a day it seems
22:23 Calinou the website seems to load here
22:24 Warmute nope not in here, hmm
22:26 rubenwardy Wuzzy: the VPS service provider had a technical fault which corrupted the system
22:26 Wuzzy omg
22:26 rubenwardy the main website is still online because it's on Github pages
22:26 rubenwardy the server list and CDB are still online because they're hosted be sfan and me
22:27 Wuzzy nope. can't connect to minetest.net
22:27 rubenwardy there are backups
22:27 rubenwardy minetest.net loads here, probably a DNS issue
22:27 rubenwardy make sure you use www.minetest.net
22:27 Wuzzy -_- lol ok haha
22:27 Wuzzy yeah the www. works
22:28 rubenwardy c55 is in the process of setting up the machine again, should be online again within a few days
22:28 Warmute protocol version mismatch. server supports protocol versions between 24 and 35 we only support version 37
22:28 Warmute ?
22:29 rubenwardy Warmute: server is out of date
22:29 Warmute surprise
22:29 rubenwardy you can install a 0.4.x client alongside your 5.0 client
22:29 Warmute that kid was never the brightest bulb in the box
22:29 rubenwardy or pester the server to update
22:29 Warmute nah it's all g
22:30 Ruslan1 Hi rubenwardy
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22:30 rubenwardy hey Ruslan1
22:31 Ruslan1 Do you know what happened to Minetest forum
22:31 rubenwardy Ruslan1: read the chat
22:31 rubenwardy I said it 3 minutes ago
22:32 Ruslan1 Will Minetest forum come back
22:33 rubenwardy yes
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22:44 lllI1I does sound_play have to be called once for each player to which the sound is meant to be played or will a table do
22:45 lllI1I e.g. a team alert
22:53 sofar the spec is complete
22:54 sofar you can play in a location, or to a specific player in a location, or to all players (I think)
22:54 sofar you can't play sounds to 3 players in one call
22:54 sofar you'd have to call it 3x
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23:12 lllI1I thanks I figured
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23:26 robdrake anyone know what layer More Ores, I think, zinc can be found, or a website with the answer?
23:26 makayabou Please tell me if I understood well: I want to change all nodes in an area of the map to is_ground_content = true. It is better not use VoxelManip as 1/ because I have to call minetest.swap_node on each node i won't gain speed with VoxelManip , 2/ I will modify not only the nodes inside my area, but also nodes around area but inside VoxelManip . Right ?
23:28 makayabou robdrake: you mean at what depth you can find zinc?
23:28 robdrake yes please
23:28 robdrake checking the more ores github  repository
23:29 makayabou yes
23:29 robdrake no luck
23:31 makayabou im looking into it too
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23:32 robdrake my players are also asking me
23:34 makayabou https://github.com/minetest-mods/moreores/blob/master/_config.txt
23:34 makayabou not all the answer though
23:35 makayabou zinc is not in moreores but in technic
23:35 robdrake oh technic
23:35 makayabou !mod technic
23:35 MinetestBot makayabou: Technic [technic] by RealBadAngel - https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?t=2538
23:36 makayabou https://github.com/minetest-mods/technic
23:37 makayabou in oregen.lua, l.21 & l.81
23:37 makayabou /technic_worldgen/oregen.lua
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23:40 robdrake I looked at technic/manual.md
23:40 robdrake thank you for the technic hint
23:40 makayabou you're welcome
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