• DDAreaChooser glitch

    From Nightfox@1:103/705 to poindexter FORTRAN on Wed Dec 17 12:42:17 2025
    Re: DDAreaChooser glitch
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Wed Dec 17 2025 07:45 am

    I decided to add Araknet back to my BBS. I created the message section, then imported the areas via a .NA file. The areas imported just fine, but when I looked at them in the BBS, there was the message section I created called ARAKNET. Inside of that was another section called Araknet. Inside that section were all of the areas I'd created.

    Odd.

    I tried adding them manually, the same thing happened.

    I noticed that the .NA file description was

    "Araknet: Area Description"

    and that the area description on the BBS was

    "Area Description"

    That doesn't sound like a bug, that sounds like sub-board collapsing. Do you have that enabled? Normally that's disabled by default.. In your DDMsgAreaChooser.cfg (or .example.cfg), check whether the useSubCollapsing is true or false.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to nelgin on Wed Dec 17 12:55:20 2025
    Re: Re: DDAreaChooser glitch
    By: nelgin to All on Wed Dec 17 2025 10:28 am

    It's not a glitch. It's a feature.

    In DDMsgAreaChooser.cfg

    ; Whether or not to enable name collapsing. For ; example, for groups or sub-boards in a group starting with ; common text and a separator (specified below), the ; common text will be the only one displayed, and when ; the user selects it, a 3rd tier with the sub-boards ; after the separator will be shown
    useSubCollapsing=false

    Normally that's disabled by default, so it's odd that he's seeing that. Unless perhaps it was turned on at one point and forgotten about.

    Nightfox

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