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The comments area for news items has been tweaked a bit. I'd wanted to make it more imaginative for a while, and make it look like a physical device. The idea probably stemmed from my fondness of Y2K PDAs and handhelds. I wanted it to be something like the Ericsson concept phone from the 2001 Tomb Raider movie. When I saw that at the cinema, that always struck me as the perfect PDA phone. The big-enough touch display and physical navigation buttons would make it very usable. Meanwhile, the sharkfin antenna that came on the Ericsson T28s and the ergonomic, ruggedised body gave it a lot of practical charm. This phone was a shrunk-down concept based on Ericsson's Diana prototype: PDA-phone ‘Pamela’ & ‘Diana’ | First Communicator Platform – Ericssoners Ericsson knew where the market was going. A lot of Pocket-PC phones vaguely similar to this were made later by different manufacturers. But the market wasn't ready in 2000/2001, immediately after which, Ericsson became Sony Ericsson, which immediately torpedoed its Scandinavian design ethos. Anyway, the bezel surrounding the display of the Tomb Raider phone is too big and the comment field would have to be made too small, if I were to use that as a template. I remembered that the game 2007 STALKER has a PDA where you manage your mission objectives. This thing looks nice and rugged and in-line with what Star Fleet would have. The botnets are keeping the forum nice and busy. There is a new extension in development called AnubisBB, which does look to be actively supported. People who have tried it reported that it works outright, which is more than can be said for cloudflare. With cloudflare, they seem to want users to stay hooked on their service, so it seems to help 'manage' the symptoms but not actually cure the problem. Comments
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