Yays! I can use on my main computer again, thank you!

> Both of those work on the dev guild, BingTheWing. They'll be implemented with the BBcode upgrade. > > Oh, and mahz... > > The thingamajig counting all posts on the guild is static, not updating with new posts. Yeah, in the effort to write the most performant query, I asked the database to approximate the counts of users, topics, and posts. Unfortunately it looks like the database doesn't frequently update its approximation. I'll have to write it differently.

There's a bug where topic titles longer than 50 chars will silently fail in most cases. No error message or anything. I've fixed it, but I won't deploy all the enqueued updates to the server until this weekend. Those updates include BBCode.

Is there going to be an option to look through the users again? It helps when trying to find people from the previous guild :) Thanks, -Addy

> Is there going to be an option to look through the users again? It helps when trying to find people from the previous guild :) > > Thanks, > > -Addy Yeah, that's an easy feature that I'd forgotten about. I'll add that to my short-term TODO list. Maybe I can sneak it in this weekend.

Any chance of getting a ‘subscribed’ marker so we can easily spot threads we’re following in the main forum? That would be fantastic.

> Any chance of getting a ‘subscribed’ marker so we can easily spot threads we’re following in the main forum? That would be fantastic. I tried implementing it one evening to see how the naive solution performed, but it turned a 10 millisecond query into a 500 millisecond query to get that subscription data in the same query it fetched the paginated topics. Too slow. So unfortunately I couldn't just deploy a quick patch like I'd hoped. It's kind of like adding back the lil green dot next to topics you've posted in -- I'll probably have to burn a Saturday to implement them in one fell swoop. It's worth it. I just have to see what my priority list looks like after a couple weeks when BBCode and notifications are implemented.

Oof! Okay, no worries. :) I'll hang tight.

Mahz. When will you add the ability for the moderators to actually delete posts? Hiding them is better than nothing, but it does mess up posts-per-page. Or at least it did in the past.

Something I would like to see- a low priority feature, of course- is the ability to edit thread titles without having to grab a moderator. It would help for adding/removing tags to the thread title, such as `Open` , `Accepting` , `New` , etc. No rush, for you're already busy, but it is something I would like to have some time.

I'm on mobile and has it been figured out why the site keeps logging me out so much?

> Mahz. When will you add the ability for the moderators to actually delete posts? Hiding them is better than nothing, but it does mess up posts-per-page. Or at least it did in the past. One of the key performance upgrades I implemented during the rewrite is that each post in a topic has a `post.idx` (post "index"), a number that starts at 0 and is incremented every time a post of the same post-type (IC, OOC, CHAR) in a topic is created. That way, if you go to `?page=10`, then I'm just executing the super-fast database query of "find posts in this topic with idx 100-109". To implement a true "Delete", I need to add a trigger when a post is deleted that decrements the idx of all the posts in the topic that come after it. Not hard, just unfortunately removes it from "quick patch" territory. I've added it to my TODO list. I'm settling into a pattern of addressing quick patches during the week and then tackling big features on the weekend. So at least one server deploy each week. I look forward to see what else I can fit in this weekend aside from BBCode. > Something I would like to see- a low priority feature, of course- is the ability to edit thread titles without having to grab a moderator. It would help for adding/removing tags to the thread title, such as `Open` , `Accepting` , `New` , etc. No rush, for you're already busy, but it is something I would like to have some time. Good point, that's pretty essential. Added to my short-term TODO. > I'm on mobile and has it been figured out why the site keeps logging me out so much? Thanks for the report. Thought I fixed this for everyone. Basically, when you login, it creates a cookie in your browser that lasts 1 day or 1 year (depending on if Remember Me is checked). I doubt any mobile browsers let you debug your cookies, but here's what that looks like in Chrome:  What browser are you using on mobile? I'll see if I can reproduce it.

Chrome, I have Remember Me checked, should I uncheck it?

> Chrome, I have Remember Me checked, should I uncheck it? Hmm. Can you give it a shot and let me know if your session doesn't last for one day? I'll play with Chrome on my phone and see if I have a similar issue.

For your devotion to improving RPG, I show you this:  (credit: xkcd)

Ahh... That explains why delete is slower to come. Quick question on that... If a thread has twenty-four posts, of which numbers sixteen through eighteen are hidden, how many will be on page one, and how many will be on page two? Will it move posts twenty-one through twenty-three to page one? Or will page one only contain seventeen posts? If it moves them, will it automatically go to page two when Posted is above twenty, despite those posts not actually being onpage two anymore?

> Ahh... That explains why delete is slower to come. Quick question on that... If a thread has twenty-four posts, of which numbers sixteen through eighteen are hidden, how many will be on page one, and how many will be on page two? Will it move posts twenty-one through twenty-three to page one? Or will page one only contain seventeen posts? > > If it moves them, will it automatically go to page two when Posted is above twenty, despite those posts not actually being onpage two anymore? If there are 20 posts per page, then post1-post20 (20 posts) will be on the first page and post21-post24 (4 posts) will be on the second page. Hidden or not. However, mods/users will be able to delete instead of just hide. Deleting will update pagination so that there are still 20 posts per page. If I keep "Hide" around, then it'll be for the niche case where a post needs to be made invisible to users but visible to mods and the user that made the post. Like perhaps the post is going to be discussed in a report before it's deleted. In which case I'd rather hidden posts be rendered as "Post Hidden" rather than not rendering at all. Something like that, at least. I'm pretty sensitive about deletion in general, so it's not a trivial feature for me.

understandable, and good. It was a mess in the previous guild iteration with it moving posts about between pages when posts that normally belonged to page n+1 were moved to n+0 because some posts on n+0 were invisible. in the extreme case that 20 posts in a row should be hidden, will the pagination be able to handle that, or will there be a single, blank page people have to skip past? (or a pageful of "post hidden"'s?) Deletion shouldn't be a feature that is used too quickly. Oh, and one other thing... minor one... Is there a visible moderator list somewhere? or is it just in some topic somewhere in the news section?

The [New User's Guide](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/4958/posts/ooc), [Waring of Trolls](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/17891/posts/ooc) thread and the [Fundamental Rules of the Guild](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/531/posts/ooc) has a list of the staff but there is no distinct list off on its own.

> understandable, and good. > > It was a mess in the previous guild iteration with it moving posts about between pages when posts that normally belonged to page n+1 were moved to n+0 because some posts on n+0 were invisible. > > in the extreme case that 20 posts in a row should be hidden, will the pagination be able to handle that, or will there be a single, blank page people have to skip past? (or a pageful of "post hidden"'s?) > > Deletion shouldn't be a feature that is used too quickly. > > Oh, and one other thing... minor one... Is there a visible moderator list somewhere? or is it just in some topic somewhere in the news section? Yeah, will just display a page full of "Post Hidden". In the rare event that it happens, then it's probably going to provide context for the posts that follow. Outright trash posts will just be deleted. Nothing worth touching. I'll add a moderator list right now. Update: <https://github.com/danneu/guild/commit/346e1509401c9ee6cb901a9cc303d019e5a267b5> - "Staff" will appear as a link in the global header after the deploy this weekend.