Etherpad is great. @Mahz did you hear it's now in Sandstorm.io?

Haha that's how I heard about it. Until then I'd only heard of EtherPad from people on the Guild using it off-site. I assumed it was some proprietary but freemium SaaS. When I saw it on Sandstorm (well, which I saw on HN), it blew my mind that it is open-source with a simple API. I could immediately see how I'd integrate it after skimming through its docs. Has session support and everything to integrate into the guild's system.

Mahz are you telling me you could implement a multi-person Etherpad into the actual RPGuild website

I think he is

@LegendBegins and @Mahz if you/general public do prefer it at the bottom, that's cool with me. I just thought not scrolling to the bottom may save people some trouble. Though now that we've got it implemented, will we in time, be able to see "Last Seen" as what thread or page they're looking at, as opposed to just being online? And a quick question about the Etherpad, will GMs be able to turn it on/off at will? I think the last time the site tried to have a live feed of people posting (or I'm making things up because I'm old and tired right now?) it created a ton of lag. If there are say 50 Etherpads in use (which is a low number compared to the hundreds of active RPs going on) wouldn't things begin to get glitchy or slow? It's a cool concept for quick chit chat but I'd rather not risk any lagging page loads or server overload. If it won't, I say go for it. :3

For no real reason except curiousity, @Mahz, what is the status on a potential facelift for the guild? I know it's completely unneeded, but I just like to derp around with the idea

@Mahz, I noticed the ↑ Top link is actually a full-width div. I just mention this because sometimes I click under the posts to re-focus the window, and found myself launched up to the top of the page. It might be better for the bottom of topics to be more compacted by reducing the click area of the ↑ Top link to a smaller space (or to the text itself), and perhaps moving some other elements in the center space to the right of it.

For no real reason except curiousity, @Mahz, what is the status on a potential facelift for the guild? I know it's completely unneeded, but I just like to derp around with the idea

I'd only be able to pull off an ambitious facelift if an entire cohesive design was entirely stubbed out for me to just copy/implement. Or if I just chimped the cross-product of multiple designs that we liked. But in the short run, I think we'd get better bang for the buck making some incremental improvements to the current theme. For one, the shades of grays don't match. Help.

Please keep in mind that the Guild is Mahz's full time job and any suggestions and requests you have must be addressed by him immediately. If not, complain vocally.

Minor gripe: profile URLs no longer contain our user ID? Damn you, Mahz. How am I supposed to boast about being the 14th registered user now? Minor suggestion: make the notification counter (not the bell icon itself) a different colour. Something brighter. Blue, perhaps? _{yes i'm taking a page from facebook's design ethos, sue me}

Minor gripe: profile URLs no longer contain our user ID? Damn you, Mahz. How am I supposed to boast about being the 14th registered user now? Minor suggestion: make the notification counter (not the bell icon itself) a different colour. Something brighter. Blue, perhaps? _{yes i'm taking a page from facebook's design ethos, sue me}

Gold or red would look better, IMHO.

The exact colour doesn't really matter to me. I only mentioned blue because it's used sparsely in the Guild's colour scheme (reply and preview buttons, notably) and, as such, stands out more. Facebook does the same thing with red, which is used exclusively for notifications. ... so red is probably a better choice. What am I saying?

Hey Mahz I have a question. Will you be readding in the youtube video link format?