It should no longer be possible to alter your post count by specifying extra fields in the font override box. (I'm fairly impressed Nort figured that out.)

Passwords must now be typed twice to set them to a new value. (Beware—a username change can succeed even if a password change fails.)

Avatars are associated with username.

This might cause problems? See the test thread in a few minutes if it's not fixed by then — I think this will work...

how come changing options doesn't propagate them back to old posts

p suspicious imho

Location data is per-post, I think.

Good luck with the test thread thing, that was substantially weirder than I thought it'd be

edit: also
23:20 < Nortaneous> hm so there's no maximum username length limit and if your username is longer than the post box is wide your posts don't show up at all
23:20 < Nortaneous> but i guess that falls under assume users won't intentionally break shit

(I changed my name to something very long, that's how I noticed the avatar bug)

edit: To try to list what I found over in the test thread:
There's a distinction between original and current username. In the 'most recent' box on the front page, blog posts are displayed as being by #{original_username} and forum posts are displayed as being by #{current_username}.
Avatars are associated with original username, not current username.
I don't quite understand this one, but: say you register an account with the original username foo, and then change it to bar — so its current username is bar. Then you register another account and give it the name foo — it'll go through, sort of, but it'll act weird in the ways I described there: you can't have a profile (even though profiles appear to be associated with current username — if you try to make one, it complains of a collision) or an avatar (nothing shows up at all, not even the default avatar box), but you can edit posts. I'm not sure if you can change your settings and so on — I didn't prod at it much. Anyway, you take the new foo account and change its username to baz, and then its original username becomes baz — and then you can change its (current, but not original) username back to foo, with all the behavior expected from the two points above. (It'll take on the avatar associated with the original username foo and its forum posts [but not its blog posts] will show up as being by foo.)

Yep, you've got it all correct. Good catch on the username limit—I think it's something extreme like 255 characters. Profile pages are associated with users by using ID numbers (it's a special field on the user account); right now they only update their titles (to match your name) when you edit them.

I'm surprised the front page is actually inconsistent in which it uses though—will need to work on that.

Also still working on the post rank stuff.

quoting Pthagnar:

how come changing options doesn't propagate them back to old posts

p suspicious imho

This is so your location info stays accurate while travelling... even if borders change. I figured this community would appreciate that feature more than most others.

what kind of rank is ius migrationis

also might i suggest

if(theme == "aristocrat") ranks = list("villein", "burgher", "mayor", "baron", "count", "earl", "duke", "prince", "monarch", "emperor");

if(theme == "scholar") ranks = list("pupil", "undergraduate", "graduand", "bachelor", "postgraduate", "doctor candidatus", "doctor", "postdoc", "professor", "grand academician");

also

if(theme == "ecclesiastical") ranks = list("layman", "reader", "deacon", "priest", "monsignor", "bishop", "archbishop", "cardinal", "patriarch", "pope");
if(theme == "chinesearistocrat") ranks = list("fan", "nong", "zhang", "nan", "zi", "hou", "bo","gong", "wang", "tianzi");
or if u prefer
if(theme == "chinesearistocrat") ranks = list("番", "農", "長", "男", "子", "侯", "伯", "伯", "王", "天子");

NE: also a button to suppress emoticons would be gr8

Added [no_emote].

"ius migrationis" is sort of like permission to immigrate, isn't it?

I already went ahead and did the aristocrats and scholars; the scale is binary logarithmic (with the first rank at 8 I think?) so there's a lot of emphasis on having a lot of very lousy low tiers. Definitely will add the other two.

well, i got gong wrong anyway

also i think 'alienus' would fit better. i don't know if that's what romans called foreign residents but if it's good enough for america...

postcount is stuck.

or maybe it reset when i edited my profile?

Could that be because I have IPv6?

EDIT: Ah, yes, when I use my uni's VPN, it lets me choose between "Germany" and "Marburg, Germany".

quoting kodé:

or maybe it reset when i edited my profile?

Neither should happen. I might turn the Super Inefficient Perpetual Post Count Calculation Magic back on, though, just to force Nort into a post count disarmament treaty.

quoting Jipí:

Could that be because I have IPv6?

EDIT: Ah, yes, when I use my uni's VPN, it lets me choose between "Germany" and "Marburg, Germany".

Agh! I'm not sure how to deal with that. I'll see if there's some voodoo somewhere.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1162675/geolocation-with-ipv6 – any help?

Yes and no. Mostly no:

Also, there exists many databases of geolocation for IPv4 and, to my knowledge, none for IPv6. You will have to do everything yourself.

To summary: more work than you apparently believe.

Maybe in a century or two. For the time being I'll just make the default value "The Distant Future," since precious few people actually have IPv6.

When was that written, though? Just googling for "ipv6 geolocation" turns up a few results of sites that offer it.

EDIT: It was written on "Jul 23 '09 at 11:22," so no surprise there.

The GeoLite databases might suffice; at the moment I'm using a less-than-speedy web API call.

Avatars are now stored by user ID number, not username. (Sorry, Ness, for the re-download.) User profiles will now update to match your name when you visit the front page, so that should minimize (although not completely prevent) discordance.

...also I am not in Etobicoke; I have no idea why my workplace would show up like that. Grumble.

if i went to france today (possible but unlikely), if i posted would it automatically switch to saying i am in france?