Project BGF (BG New UI + Bucket)

[Ragns]

For those that didn't notice, BG Bucket has been progressively infecting other parts of BG. Since the whole vBulletin dev team ragequit 15 years ago, and I'm tired of backporting everything, I might as well remake everything from scratch.

So far we have:
- BG Bucket (duh): https://www.bluegartr.com/bucket
- Registration: https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-register (it now filters about 90% of the bots.)
- Blogs: https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-blog (only mods can post, but any user can comment.)
- Who Is Online: https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-online (mods will see more private information.)
- Memberlist: https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-memberlist
- Search: https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-search (About eleventy billion times faster. Sections mean the most top forum category.)
- Private Messages: https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-private (mostly to test the new editor before breaking everything)

All this will allow us to handle thousands of bots more easily and install 20+ skins.

TLDR: This is the thread to send suggestions, bug reports, or any complaints about anything related to the new interface or BG Bucket.

New editor used in the blogs so far:

Spoiler: show

[Cantih]

Well THAT explains things, I was wondering wtf happened to the memberlist when I looked at it the other week.

Not IMPORTANT, but the old memberlist had a functionality that let you sort the whole thing by postcount.

[Ragns]

Not IMPORTANT, but the old memberlist had a functionality that let you sort the whole thing by postcount.

Fixed.

[Kaisha]

- Search: https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-search (About eleventy billion times faster. Sections mean the most top forum category.)

Wtf even was it that was making search so god damn slow originally? Is it just the sheer size/age of this forum (plus whatever legacy hacks/fixes along the way due to server migrations and other things) and what vBulletin was meant to work against?

In any case, with the new search, I'm not seeing a way to search for posts by a given username? Eg. Looking for a reply of mine in a given thread. It prompts to put something in the keyword field.

[6souls]

Search is working for you? It's been giving me the message that it's been disabled.

[Ragns]

- Fixed search by username + thread without keyword.
- Fixed a crash when searching by title (I suppose that's the problem 6souls had?)

Wtf even was it that was making search so god damn slow originally? Is it just the sheer size/age of this forum (plus whatever legacy hacks/fixes along the way due to server migrations and other things) and what vBulletin was meant to work against?

With vBulletin 4, their dev team tried to make their homemade search engine which didn't scale well beyond a million post. Most sane people would use a dictionary table instead.

[6souls]

Searching by thread title is disabled until you make a another search first. The search is back to sending results from the entire forum instead of just the section you're searching in.

[Ragns]

Searching by thread title is disabled until you make a another search first. The search is back to sending results from the entire forum instead of just the section you're searching in.

I tried to explain some unusual behaviors in more detail on the search page.

TLDR: some parts of the search act weird because it conflicts with the old search.

[Ragns]

Private Messages now uses the new UI and editor (oh gawd I hope it won't break too many things)

https://www.bluegartr.com/bg-private

Also I'm still optimising the search as I find bottlenecks.