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Title: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Claof on 2016-09-08 17:47:44
Is there a way to have a certain signature on a specific date? Like, it makes my signature "Put the Clay On!" or whatever only on a specific date? If so, how would I do this?
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Wolfwood on 2016-09-08 17:49:11
You would have to change your signature on that specific day you want it changed.  There is no way to automate it. 
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Darrin on 2016-09-08 17:50:35
No.  You have to manually change it yourself.  Good idea though.

I'm going to move this to the appropriate board.  "General Community" is for sneezing topics. 
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Death Blossom on 2016-09-08 18:04:24
General community is for sneeze topics? Since when?

Also, that would be interesting, but how many people would actually use it?
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: 1234 on 2016-09-08 19:02:12
*goes to check* Pretty much since forever. ;)

*raises hand* Could use that. Don't know about the others, but could use that. ;D
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: RainySunshine on 2016-09-08 20:34:14
General Community as always been for sneezing.  Hence the "Community" added to it.  It is code word for our fetish, and has been used to help mask this site and make it look nondescript to the outside looker.

There are many sites I wish that had automation you could set up to release things.  That would be cool.
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Claof on 2016-09-08 22:10:42
There are many sites I wish that had automation you could set up to release things.  That would be cool.

It's disappointing many sites don't have the option to set up a date specific automation for stuff. This is all it really takes (http://pastebin.com/qHAWg9v5) to test for a specific date (in this case, January 31st, [any year])
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Death Blossom on 2016-09-09 05:23:59
But we discuss non fetish things in community, don't we?
Since lounge and general got meshed together.

And eh, maybe it's cuz many people wouldn't use it. I don't know. I just think why not change it yourself if you really want it to change.
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Darrin on 2016-09-09 10:48:39
But we discuss non fetish things in community, don't we?
Since lounge and general got meshed together.

You can discuss whatever you want in the topics, but "General Community" is different then "General."  Community is our tag line for the sneeze fetish or fetishes in general.  So General Community is the sneeze fetish board.  Even all the topics show that. 
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Darrin on 2016-09-09 10:49:11
There are many sites I wish that had automation you could set up to release things.  That would be cool.

It's disappointing many sites don't have the option to set up a date specific automation for stuff. This is all it really takes (http://pastebin.com/qHAWg9v5) to test for a specific date (in this case, January 31st, [any year])

Well, if our site has an add-on for it, we could very well give it a go. 
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: yasl on 2016-09-14 08:25:21
There are many sites I wish that had automation you could set up to release things.  That would be cool.

It's disappointing many sites don't have the option to set up a date specific automation for stuff. This is all it really takes (http://pastebin.com/qHAWg9v5) to test for a specific date (in this case, January 31st, [any year])

That would mean permitting users to run Javascript in the context of the site.  This would break any and all site security, and is the very definition of the common and dangerous "XSS" vulnerability.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_%28XSS%29

If any site is letting you embed arbitrary Javascript in user-submitted content, that's a serious security vulnerability and you should report it to the site owners ;)
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Death Blossom on 2016-09-14 09:39:48
Wow! Who knew! That's spoopy.
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Anyponedrawn on 2016-09-14 11:16:35
Yeaaaah, lets not do that. 
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Claof on 2016-09-14 16:42:14
There are many sites I wish that had automation you could set up to release things.  That would be cool.

It's disappointing many sites don't have the option to set up a date specific automation for stuff. This is all it really takes (http://pastebin.com/qHAWg9v5) to test for a specific date (in this case, January 31st, [any year])

That would mean permitting users to run Javascript in the context of the site.  This would break any and all site security, and is the very definition of the common and dangerous "XSS" vulnerability.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_%28XSS%29

If any site is letting you embed arbitrary Javascript in user-submitted content, that's a serious security vulnerability and you should report it to the site owners ;)

Huh. I guess I learned something today :P
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: 1234 on 2016-09-14 16:45:23
Too bad. It seemed like a good idea. Oh well... ::)
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Silverwing on 2016-09-15 11:18:18
So how do some websites allow that without people completely damaging them? 
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: yasl on 2016-09-15 15:01:20
Depends on how they do it.  Probably not by permitting embedded Javascript.  Do you have an example that I could examine?
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: RainySunshine on 2016-09-15 15:05:41
Depends on how they do it.  Probably not by permitting embedded Javascript.  Do you have an example that I could examine?

An example I can think of is on Tumblr, you can "Schedule" the exact time your posts are posted. 
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Death Blossom on 2016-09-15 15:34:19
And everyone knows Tumblr is cancer.
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: yasl on 2016-09-16 02:02:16
Ah.  An explicit way of telling the website you want to schedule something is fine, the problem is specifically embedding user-supplied Javascript (or other code).

Of course, the problem with an explicit scheduling mechanism is that, as the app developer or website runner, you have to code the feature...
Title: Re: Date specific signatures?
Post by: Anyponedrawn on 2016-09-16 12:08:58
Thank you for explaining this things in the simplest terms possible.  They are almost making sense to me. ;)