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Standard RSR5 code repository

Hi I am trying to find a code repository of strictly standard RSR5 open source applications for use with testing an interpreter I am working on. Is there are such repository out there?

Can't search for C#, F#, etc.

The search engine can't handle the # character. Maybe there is an escape character, but in that case I don't know about it.

Forum "Unread Posts" bug

This will probably not happen too often, but scottmcl's threads seem to have a habit of going over 200 replies (;-)), and thus requiring multiple pages of HTML to display. When you click on 'next page', new replies do not have the * dot.

This is a bug related to a context between pagination settings and visiting a thread. The software assumes if you view a thread, then only the most recent * are unmarked on the next view. It does not take into account pagination.

Spam filters

Accounts spamming many stories with posts containing exactly the same URLs, such as the recent Yeezy shoes spam, are very easy to filter. Is this really so hard to do with the current Drupal set-up?

Steve Kemp has an XML-RPC-based, centralised comment spam detection service that works very well for the Debian sites. Could that be used here?

Cf. old discussions on dealing with spam?, which has Ehud's objection to filters; and SPAM reports, which describes the Anton spam-monitoring daemon. It's been a year since the last site discussion topic dealing with spam, so the topic might be due for revisiting.

broken - iPhone PL lockdown

The "iPhone PL lockdown" topic is listed in active forum topics, but when clicked I get "Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page."

Edit: changed title to not conflict with the actual topic.

jsMath support?

Hi,

Would it be possible to add support for jsMath to the LtU install? It would be nice to be able to put some \Gamma, \tau and \vdash into posts and comments....

Two new tags

1) "Composition Systems"

-- I want to post a front-page story, and the best tag for it isn't available.

2) "Internet-Scale Programming"

-- becoming popular in ICSE, and PLT researchers also seem interested in this, perhaps if only for $$ funding.

see history of things i started (vs. commented on)?

i'm looking for an old discussion but can't find it, i think i could better find it if i could restrict results by the name of the starter of the topic. but i don't see a way to do that?

indentation yet again?

is there any thought about how to replace the currently too-much-indenting style ui with something more friendly to long discussions?

the "unread" marker issue

i figure this has come up before, but i'd like to note that it is frustrating to reply to something on a page and lose all of the *** reminders of what i haven't read on that page.

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