Insecta.pro and the entomological forum Integration

The structure of the "Community" section on the site is gradually changing to accept new topics from Molbiol. New but not yet active sections of the Insectforum are marked as "section in the process of setting up".

1. Today there is a mailing list for users of the entomological part of Molbiol, please pay attention to this letter (the sender of the letter will be Alexey Soldatov redactor@molbiol.ru), the subject line "Entomology Forum is being copied from Molbiol (Entomology Info) to Insecta Pro". 2. There was an error in the account synchronization system, which in some cases caused the site to swear at an empty last name field, although this field was filled in. The error has now been fixed. If you were unable to register or sync your accounts because of it, please try again now.

Gentlemen, please note that "synchronization" does not mean that you log in to Molbiol and Insecta using the same password. On Insecta, use the password for it (if you registered earlier, and now you only need to sync names on sites) or the new password that will be sent to your email after registration (if you didn't register earlier, but now you are registering/syncing using the link from the email).

In the process of adding information (topics and messages) from the entomological part of Molbiol on Insecta, "forum" functionality will be added to add links, images, and other similar things to messages. But if you see even now that something is critically missing in this part — do not hesitate to write in this topic.

Posted the first section of the forum. For this purpose, "Travel and Expedition Reports" was selected — it has few topics, but quite a lot of posts (more than 22,000), so you can check different publications. You can see what happened here: https://insecta.pro/community/c20. Comments: 1. This section on Insecta is already working, you can add messages to it. 2. Those who synced their accounts are shown with their real names and links to their personal pages, while those who didn't sync them are shown as nicknames without links. 3. Some recent messages may not be available — because data collection was not carried out "right now". But there are few such messages. Offhand — no more than ten. Things to think about: 1. Do I need a topicstart message on each page (or part of it)? 2. Do I need to automatically reduce images (clickable, so that you can increase them), especially large ones, the size of half a screen (or the size of a screen)? 3. Do you need emoticons in the form of pictures, whether they are too distracting and do not reduce the level of" seriousness " of the text? 4. Do not arrange quotes in some other way. And, for starters, should we increase the top indent for them (even if the user didn't do it)? 5. Do I need a left block for each message, where information about the author of the message and the time goes, and where you can add an avatar? Well, of course, any suggestions, bug reports and other impressions are welcome. PS. Don't forget that there is an alternative color scheme in your Insectaccount settings if you are not satisfied with the main one. If you are not satisfied with both, we will make an even more discolored version (almost gray) in the foreseeable future. PPS. I'll write about the form for uploading new messages and topics, as well as about "thank you" later.

The start message on each page has been removed. It will only be displayed on the first page. Images are shown in a reduced size. When hovering, they increase to the original value. A significant part of the images on the forum are quite suitable for publishing in the "Gallery". Therefore, in the near future, there is a plan to fix the simple display of images from the gallery in forum posts. Yes, "thank you" is displayed at the bottom right of the message.

All topics and messages have been moved to Insecta. The most recent ones may be left out.If you see that something of value is missing, please let us know. In the near future, a large cleaning of uploaded material from garbage is planned, transferring to the correct sections of those topics that were in the wrong ones on the forum, and so on.

Fixed a bug with missing quotes, optimized the display of images with molbiol (there was a conflict due to the fact that Insecta is on https, and molbiol is on http), including the display of emoticons. However, there is an idea to change the emoticons to text ones, so that the text is a little more serious.

I remind you that the opening of forum sections for unregistered users is gradual, after clearing the corresponding section at least once. All sections and topics are visible to users registered on Insecta even before they are cleared.