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Global Announcement
|
(July 2008) (MS) Designate any post as global announcement, and display it above the forum index on the index page, complete with full user details etc. just like any normal post. For necessary announcements,can also be used for advertising etc.
(On my own forum it uses the consolidated topic review, topic preview , privmsg preview and viewtopic code to show any number of posts at any location)
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SoundManager
|
(May 2008) Will automatically add a play icon to any mp3 file in the current page.
For an example, check out the Yankadi site. Works fine with forum pages too, of course.
|
|
Drafts
|
(May 2008) Allows saving posts, pm's and emails as drafts and/or standard replies. Allows inserting standard replies into posts, pm's and emails
Read more...
|
| Message die email |
(May 2008) (MS) Sends an email to the forum admin if message_die is called with a general or critical error.
|
| eXtreme Hide |
(May 2008) (MS) eXtreme Hide mod
|
| eXtreme Format |
(May 2008) (MS) eXtreme Format mod
|
| Security question |
(April 2008) Free form security question for new registrations.
|
| Calendar |
(March 2008) (MS) Calendar with birthdays and events, email birthday reminders and email event reminders. Event details are topic properties, and include start and end date and time, repeat setting e.g. 'last Sunday of the month" and reminder time setting.
|
| Blog field |
(December 2007) (MS) Blog field (copy of web site field and web site buttons) added to profile, to small profile view page, to post details etc.
|
| Group memberlist |
(December 2007) (MS) The group pages have been updated and streamlined and the group memberlist is merged with the normal memberlist code, allowing extensive sorting and selecting on various fields. Mass emailing selected members is possible.
|
| Group supervisor |
(December 2007) (MS) The group supervisor has view-only access to the group memberlist and can mass email the group.
|
| Mass email |
(December 2007) (MS) Mass email page for admins, forum moderators and group administrators with extensive selection options and memberlist preview, and member addresslist download function.
|
| URL processing |
(December 2007) (MS) Improved URL recognition.
|
| subSilver |
(December 2007) (MS) Brought subSilver / subRuby / subEmerald more in line with the transparant theme
|
| Forum title as web link |
(December 2007) (MS) An existing older mod by http://www.oxpus.de/ that was adapted. Allows forum titles on the index to be web links instead of forums.
|
| Translate topic urls |
(October 2007) (MS) Translate topic urls linking to a topic on your own forum into the topic's title when the post is previewed or saved.
Download :: Discuss
|
| Login and jump to post |
(September 2007) (MS) If you follow a link to a post in a forum and you have to log in first, the direct jump to that post is lost. This mini-mod solves that problem.
Code and Discuss
|
|
Playing cards
|
(September 2007) (MS) A mod that translates 2-character playing card codes like [9d Ah Ts] into playing card images. Allows you to use for dice as well.
Download :: Discuss
|
|
Style dropdown
|
(August 2007) (MS) A style dropdown with 2 header and 4 paragraph styles, which allow you to style articles in accordance with the forum theme.
Download :: Discuss
|
|
On topic post count
|
(June 2007) (MS) Extra "on topic" flag with each forum, to be set in the ACP, and on-topic post count and percentage in the user profile page.
|
| Post edit all |
(April 2007)
(MS)
This mod gives the poster the power to allow anyone else to edit that post. This makes working together on a post, list, overview etc. easy.
Download :: Discuss
|
Topic
renew
|
(April 2007)
(MS)
The
mod will automatically close a topic, and open a new successor to the topic,
when a topic reaches X pages. This is to prevent topics becoming too long and
unwieldy. You can set the amount of pages to anything you like, the default
is 100 pages. You can adjust the default in code and completely skip the
Admin Control Panel section if you want.
Download :: Discuss
|
Email
notification
|
(April 2007)
(MS)
Message
of the post is included in the email notification only for guest-accessible
forums. Posts in restricted forums will show a message, not the post content.
(March 2005)
(MS)
Updated
the email notification and added user, subject, message and so on to the
notification.
|
Hide
forums
|
(August 2006)
(MS)
An
option on the index, that will show 3 options for each forum, hide, ignore
and normal. Click any of them to set the option.
Hidden
forums are not shown, and new posts are ignored.
Ignored
forums ARE shown but new posts are ignored. An ACP extension allows you to
configure this option for each forum, so users cannot hide or ignore certain
forums.
Works
together with Keep Unread.
|
Me
|
(May 2006)
(MS)
There
is a bbCode mod that replaces /me with the name of the poster. I don’t like
people talking about themselves in the third person. A word censor entry
won’t work, so I’ve hard-coded a replacement of /me by :: in functions.php
where the word censor list is retrieved.
/me
goes fishing is not replaced by Rob goes fishing but by :: goes fishing, where
:: is understood to be the marker for “thoughts”.
|
SQL
Statistics
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
Existing
mod, enhanced, that shows the SQL queries and the time they took at the
bottom of each page. A time can be set in the ACP where excess query
execution time should be marked. For development purposes.
|
Yesterday,
Today
|
Changes
in the display of dates from a date to yesterday and today, with time.
|
Enhanced
admin user list
|
Admin
enhancement
This
hack allows you to view all of your members and various information about
them in the admin control panel. From the list, you can perform various
actions on multiple users. These actions include delete, ban, add to group
and activate/de-activate.
Download
|
Custom
title
|
This
hack adds an additional field to a user's profile, known as the custom title
or rank. In order to facilitate the different options, there are three modes
of operation. You can replace the rank and image, just replace the rank or
just add an extra title.
In addition, several other options are configurable. For instance, you can
set titles to activate after a certain number of days, posts or both. In
addition, the maximum length is admin-configurable (up to 255 characters).
Finally, regardless of whether a user meets the above criteria for
activation, an admin may manually enable or disable a user's access to their
title.
The rank/title is displayed in a user's posts and also in their profile.
Download
|
Topic sort
|
(September 2005)
(MS)
The
mod allows sorting the list of topics in a forum by author, date, title etc.
The mod is not on the web anymore, I have a copy and have augmented it for
the Silver Circle forum.
Discuss
|
Add
field to user profile
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
This
is a tutorial that does not apply to the Silver Circle forum any longer. I
have rewritten the user profile code to allow for easier adding of fields to
the user profile, and have made my own tutorial for this. The problem with
adding fields to the original user profile is that they need to be
temporarily saved and restored when the user goes to the avatar gallery. This
adds a layer of complication.
Discuss
|
Deal
with spammers
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
Not
a mod but an overview of installed measures on the Silver Circle forum to
prevent spamming.
Discuss
|
Country
flags
|
(MS)
This
hack adds country flags to a user's posts and profile. Augmented to allow
selection of country and province flags. See also guest language.
Download
|
Guest
forum topics list
|
(MS)
This
is a micro-mod that is not installed on Silver Circle, a
quick fix if you want to give guests the option to view the list of topics in
a forum, but do not want them to read the actual topics themselves:
In
viewforum.php find
Code:
|
if ( !$is_auth['auth_read']
|| !$is_auth['auth_view'] )
|
and change
to
Code:
|
//MOD Allow guests to see
this forum page
//if ( !$is_auth['auth_read'] || !$is_auth['auth_view'] )
if ( !$is_auth['auth_view'] )
|
In the Admin control
panel, set the forum permissions for guests to VIEW but not READ.
Discuss
|
Weekly
maintenance
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
A
weekly executed php file with database maintenance routines to clean up
possible left over problems, visitor records, out of date favourites or topic
watches, user profiles and so on.
Discuss
|
Disclaimer
page
|
(MS)
Not
implemented, a mod idea on how to show a disclaimer html page to anyone who
enters the forum from outside the
forum (using REFERRER)
Discuss
|
Send
emails for ALL posts
|
(MS)
Not
implemented, a micro-mod to send email notification for ALL posts, not just
the first one, in a topic or forum you watch.
Discuss
|
MOD
Logbook
|
(December 2005)
(MS) Admin enhancement
Logbook
that keeps track of post changes and user profile changes.
Download :: Discuss
|
Link
link
|
(MS)
Changes
a long URL to the word “Link” in posts, to prevent breaking the forum
template.
Discuss
|
Admin
restrict IP
|
(November 2005)
(MS) Admin enhancement
Restrict
the admin pages to a hard-coded IP address, to avoid having to type in your
password every time you access the admin panel.
Discuss
|
Troll
|
(7 May 2006)
(MS) Admin enhancement
The
Troll Mod, allows you to deal with trolls. A major mod.
Discuss
|
Failed
login attempts
|
(17 Nov 2005)
(MS) Admin enhancement
This
will keep track of failed login attempts so you can inspect the table.
The
weekly maintenance page should remove old records.
Discuss
|
Edit
post time limit
|
(31 Oct 2005)
(MS)
Micro-mod
to limit editing of your posts to 14 days
Discuss
|
Ban
cookie
|
(30 Oct 2005)
(MS) Admin enhancement
Major
mod how to ban users with a cookie, so that even as guests or with a
different IP they are banned from the forum.
Discuss
|
PM
limit
|
(04 Sep 2005)
(MS)
Micro
mod on how to give mods and admins a higher PM limit.
Discuss
|
Flood
control
|
(17 Sep 2005)
(MS) Admin enhancement
Code
snippets and instructions implementing a series of flood control options to
prevent spamming or prevent users going overboard posting new topics and so
on.
Discuss
|
Avatars
Secret Gallery
|
(6 Sep 2005)
(MS) Admin enhancement
The
original mod idea was mine, 3Di was given the option to work it out and
publish it. Give admins a secret avatar gallery with special images. Not
implemented in Silver Circle.
Discuss
(23 Aug 2005)
(MS)
Developed
from Restrict avatar folder to MOD / ADMIN
Discuss
|
Keep
unread flags
|
(21 Jul 2005)
(MS)
THE
most major mod, co-published with asinshesq. Gives users and guests a memory
for unread topics across sessions. There have been many additional code
snippets to keep this mod working with other major installed mods, such as
subforums.
Discuss
|
Smiley
management
|
(16 Apr 2005)
(MS)
A
major mod that adds smiley management pages to the admin panel and to the
posting pages, so smileys can be neatly presented and catagorised etc. Offers
quick replacement of smiley pages for seasonal smileys, and theme-dependent
smiley pages.
Discuss
|
Introduction
post link
|
(4Jun2004) (MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=200611
This
mod adds a link to the users introduction topic in the users profile page.
|
Jump
to page mod
|
(30Jan2005)
(MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=260698
This
mod changes the pagination so a small field is included where you can type a
page number to jump to.
|
Minimum
posts before PM / Email is allowed
|
(26Jan2005 / 7Jun2006) (MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=259453
Forum
members need a minimum amount of posts (ACP panel setting) before they can PM
or Email other forum members. They can always reply to PM or Emails.
|
Summertime
mod
|
(27Mar2005)
(MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=276285
Allows
the admin to switch all users to a new time zone if the time zone was the
same as the old board time zone, when the board time zone is changed. I.e.
when summertime is set or re-set, all users can be done at the same time.
|
Search
partial display
|
(17Mar2005)
(MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=273267
A
mod to display partial messages better in search results, counting the true
text length, processing BBCode better etc.
|
Edit
last post
|
(20Feb2005)
(MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=265116
If
you edit the last post in a topic, the post time gets updated too. This means
that the post will once again be shown as a new post. This is handy for forum rules and other
one-post topics that are updated from time to time.
|
Language
flags (Guest language)
|
(6May2005)
(MS) http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=287497#p1561835
Show
flags on the index page so guests can select the forum interface language.
|
Countdown
[javascript]
|
(24Jan2005)
(MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1409056#p1409056
Javascript
message with countdown timer in index.tpl to count down to some event.
|
Restrict
username characters
|
(18Sep2005)
(MS) http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1772160#p1772160
Restrict
usernames to certain characters only
|
Hide
inactive users
|
(Jul2005)
(MS)
Inactive
users are hidden in the memberlist and on the index and index user count.
MOD/ADMIN sees them in memberlist and newest user, not in user count.
This
hides trolls, spammers etc. and new members who are not yet activated.
|
Posting
body marker
|
(28Apr2005)
(MS)
Open
Posting_body.tpl at #menu (the tools or the message preview) so no scrolling
is needed to edit and press OK.
|
Favourites
|
(25Apr2005)
(MS)
List
of favourites, properly done with add / remove, checkboxes etc. Favourites
are removed when topics are removed or moved to trash can, or users are
deleted.
|
Trashcan
|
Admin
enhancement (25Apr2005) (MS)
Create
a single forum and add that ID to the constants table.
Set
permissions for who can view, read, write, moderate and so on.
Any
__topic__ that is deleted (by anyone who is allowed to delete topics) will be
moved to the trash can instead, unless the current forum is the trash can
itself.
Individual
deleted posts are still really gone.
Removes
watches and favourites when topics are moved to trash can
|
Topic
watch and Forum watch
|
(25Apr2005)
(MS)
Forum
watch similar to topic watch.
|
Birthsign
|
(24
april 2005) (MS)
Add
user profile field that remembers the birth sign, allow user to select one. If
empty, calculation will be used. Calculation of birth sign based on date
only, can be wrong.
|
Move
post
|
Admin
enhancement (Mar2005) (MS)
Moderator
/ Admin: In the post edit screen allow typing in a new topic id to move a
post to another topic, rather than having to use split move merge. Allows
changing date and time too.
|
Message
die called twice
|
Admin
enhancement (20Apr2005)
Existing
mod installed.
|
User
post count resynchronise
|
Admin
enhancement (15Apr2005)
Existing
mod for admin. Layout changed slightly.
|
Moderate
users
|
Admin
enhancement (5Apr2005) (MS)
Large
mod that allows users to be set to “moderated” so their messages need
approval.
|
Posting
Showhide
|
(Mar2005)
Cookie
to keep option and poll panels in the posting page open or closed.
|
Merge
topics
|
Admin
enhancement (Mar2005) (MS)
Existing
mod, updated and augmented. When merging multiple topics, the oldest topic is
the default one to merg into.
|
User
register
|
(Mar2005)
(MS)
The
mail to the admin about new users has been augmented to show more details and
links.
|
Mailbox
combine
|
(Mar2005)
(MS)
Custom
mod that combines all mailboxes into a total count and percentage display.
No
more mail deletions ever. Instead, new mail reading / writing is blocked if
you're quotum is full, until you delete mails (possibly after forwarding
them). Moving mails to another box will not result in lost mails.
|
Mail
PM
|
(Jul2005)
(MS)
Forward
button to forward PM's to your own email address, backdated to PM date. You
can delete the mails afterwards if you wish. Added a link to forwarded mails
to write a PM to the person, instead of adding the email address visibly to
the forwarded mail.
|
FAQ
Editor
|
Admin
enhancement (Mar2005) (MS)
Existing
mod, but changed in places, preview panel & button added, and links to
placeholders in the FAQ itself made possible.
|
Admin
default style
|
Admin
enhancement (Mar2005) (MS)
Simple
way to give admin a single language and style. This prevents having to
create/update all templates admin sections
|
CC
Moderators
|
(Mar
2005) (MS)
Major
mod. When a user emails an Admin or moderator, the option is shown to send a
CC to all moderators. When a moderator or admin PM’s or Emails a user, a CC
can be sent to all other moderators too. A special topic is designated via
the ACP as the CC topic ( presumably a topic limited to moderators only) that
will receive these CC’s. If absent, CC’s will be mailed to moderators.
|
Moderator
bbcode
|
(Mar
2005) (MS)
Allows
creating a special [mod] ... [/mod] code that will show the message within a
quote-like layout with a special image and text. If user tries it, it is a
normal quote with "The moderator wrote:"
|
Editor
|
Javascript
editor code removed from template into include file, updated code and
resolved minor bugs.
|
Allow
view newest user
|
(Feb2005)
(MS)
Will
show newest normal-only member to users, newest overall normal/hidden/inactive
member to mod/admin
|
Email
Copy
|
(Feb
2005) (MS)
Mark
copy's of emails to yourself as such, with '[COPY] '
|
Total
posts
|
(Feb2005)
(MS)
Adjusted
total posts in index depending on which forums the user can see (auth)
Also
adjusted (with same auth_view restrictions) total messages posted during the
last 24 hours.
|
TAB
bbCode
|
Tab
bbCode added for indented paragraphs in posting.php
|
PM
notification
|
Add
author and subject to notification email.
|
User
email disabled
|
(Feb
2005) (MS)
Allows
user and admin to set email to en/disabled in the user profile, so no more
emails will be sent to user (about PM's or topics). The user will see a
message on login, and cannot post or write PM's until email is unblocked.
Presumably after solving problem!
Some
emails are allowed selectively because the admin must deal with bounces
manually, such as registration and welcome emails and so on.
|
Logo
with image map
|
Admin
enhancement
Added
image map to Amber & Oak logo to allow selective clicing on various areas.
|
Lost
Image Lost Smiley Lost Avatar
|
Shows
lost avatar image if no avatar is there, and lost_image image if post image /
smiley is missing.
|
Visitor
list
|
(MS)
This
mod gives an accurate overview over which members, and how many visitors,
have visited the forum in 24 hours (or any time you like). The list is pruned
every week using the Maintenance mod.
Visitors
are unique by IP, people who log in are not classed as visitors anymore.
|
Find
email
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
Adds
a search box / ok button to the bottom of the members page if you are admin or moderator. Allows you to enter
email address with wildcards, will show the first matching one in
viewprofile. A direct link in address bar will work too: http://www.silvercircle.org/forum/memberlist.php?field=email&text=*merlin*
|
Signature
|
(MS)
Limit
signature to 2 lines, no html no bbcode no smilies
|
Birthday
|
(MS)
Existing
mod, augmented. Especially the index page needed speeding up. Index page only
lists birthdays of people who have logged in during the past month, to
prevent “happy birthday” messages to people who don’t visit the forum any
more.
|
Zodiac
|
User
zodiac sign (live calculation)
|
Gender
|
Male
/ female in database
|
View
topic name while posting
|
Extra
link at top of posting_body.tpl with Index -> category -> forum ->
topic_you're_replying_to
|
BBCodes
and smilies use enhancement
|
Inserts
codes properly in the text at cursor location instead of at end of text.
|
Inbox
new window
|
Show
"Open inbox in new window" link in PM popup window
|
Last
visited board
|
(MS)
Last
visit was... entry in viewprofile
|
Images
maxsize
|
(MS)
Limit
image width to 550 pixels in viewtopic_body.tpl to avoid extreme widening of
posts
Javascript
call must be in Onload else IE doesn't execute it.
Does
display first, then resize. But it works
March
2005: added the same code to posting_topic_review.tpl
|
Weather
|
(MS)
Weather
effect mod
|
Index
speed
|
(MS)
Various
speed tricks to speed up the index, like reading the list of birthdays for
today and this week from storage, removing moderator list sql's, adding last
poster details to forum table and greatly simplifying the index SQL to speed
it up,
|
Fold
Index
|
(MS)
Allow
user to open/close panels on the index in the browser with javascript,
speeding up index browsing. Settings are remembered via cookie, so a link
like index.php?c=3 to select a category only works in a new browser session.
Cookie code is really small - see Cookie_documentation.txt in the / Mods done
folder
Updated
code to have more natural open/close clicks.
|
Remove
Moderators and Skip Moderators
|
Remove
lists of moderators and sql's from the index and viewforum.php. Part of the
Index speed mods
Admin
and mods not shown in bold or colour anywhere
|
Capitalization
|
Capitalise
the topic title properly
|
Avatar
resize
|
http://phpbbhacks.com/download/468
Resize
avatars that are too large (size details set when saving avatar in profile)
|
Merge
topic
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
Allow
merging of two or more topics. Completely overhauled myself
|
Page
load time
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
Show
page construction time at bottom of page for admin only
|
Recent
Unanswered list
|
(MS)
Topics
in the past 28 days with no answers
|
Recent
participation list
|
(MS)
Topics
you wrote in during the last 12 hours
|
Digest
|
(MS)
24-hour
digest: shows all messages of past 24 hours, sorted by topic, then time, as
viewtopic would show them
|
Recent
topics
|
(MS)
12-hour
Recent topics list including all possibly older unread topics.
|
Egosearchweek
|
(MS)
List
of topics you have participated in during last week
|
Quiet
ban
|
(MS)
Banned
people by default are shown a completely blank page as if the site cannot be
found and is still loading. Manually in database set flag to show the default
"you have been banned" message. The quiet mode allows
"banning" IP's of known trolls before they have joined your forum
and prevenst those IP's from guest-reading.
|
Avatar
used count
|
(MS)
Keep
tab on avatar use. Avatar in use then disallow choice. Avatar in semi-use
(user has not logged in for a month and made < 50 posts) then allow
choice. Speed code there.
|
Confirm
Mark Read
|
(MS)
Show
a confirmation message before marking a forum or all forums as read.
|
Watch
list
|
(MS)
List
of watched topics just like favorites
|
Admin
link
|
(MS)
Extra
button on header and footer to admin: if admin, you go to admin area, else
you get the email form to the admin so you can write them an email.
|
Avatar
select on register
|
Allows
picking an avatar when you register. Uses used_count as well and does not
display used avatars. Uses onkeyup to show avatar when browsing list with
cursor keys (onchange doesn't work in Firefox)
|
Human
date
|
A
drop-down list box for selecting date formats in profile etc
|
Text
size
|
(MS)
Percentage
selection or pixel difference for text size of the forum in profile
|
Memberlist
enhancements
|
(MS)
Allow
clicking on letter to select members with that letter only. Makes it possible
to find a member quickly in memberlist. Memberlist has since been updated to
allow this feature to work on location etc. as well.
Added
sex, zodiac, age to member list and option to sort on them.
|
Profile
link in avatar
|
Allows
clicking on avatar to show user profile
|
Quote
without write
|
(MS)
Allows
adding ":" to [quote="SomeText:"] which will suppress
adding "wrote" to "SomeText:"
|
Search
topic title only
|
Allow
searching in topic titles only
|
Image
bbCode
|
(MS)
Image
left and right, 3D border optional
|
HR
bbCode
|
(MS)
Horizontal
line bbCode
|
Posting
enhancements
|
(MS)
Van
Dale dictionary search button
Google
search button
Accented
letters insertion
Topic
review box also present when editing a post
|
Search
enhancement
|
(MS)
Added
page titles etc. for various searches like digests
|
Colour
page
|
Admin
enhancement
Allows
picking of colours for theme design
|
Prev
Next User
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
User
profile: previous and next user buttons for browsing
|
Edit
user
|
Admin
enhancement (MS)
Link
on user profile to edit user profile
|
See
invisible _users
|
Moderator
enhancement (MS)
Mods
and Admins can see hidden users
|
Split
topic
|
Moderator
enhancement (MS)
Replaces
the given minimalistic split-topic screen with a version of viewtopic that
has a check box at each post, and a moderator panel at the bottom. Also, the
first post here is the first post in viewtopic where you press the split topic link, and it shows
50 posts only. It uses viewtopic_body.tpl
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eXtreme
Styles
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Admin
enhancement
Style
addition
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Easymod
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Admin
enhancement
Mod
installation tool
Re-installed 2008, but many mods don't install on this board anymore
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Before
going live
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Prior
to may 2004 when the forum went live, a lot of development was done parallel
to the creation of the Transparent theme templates, of which Amber & Oak
is an example. Notable is the standardisation of quote and code boxes with
blank lines after it, making this match what you type in the edit box, and
making the edit box size and font match the post preview and topic review
area’s in the posting page.
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