@JBRam2002 The character tab is, of course, just a series of forum posts. It would take some creativity on my part to think of a way to hack a character system on top of that, but it's something I'd like to revisit. I'm still working through the list of features a lot of people asked for on my recent feedback form.

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I'm finishing up two features right now.

Feature #1: the Guild is going to start tracking post edit history.



Each time you edit a post, a revision is created.

This feature is a necessary precursor to the following system that allows GMs/Co-GMs to edit the same posts. That way there's an audit trail and a way to revert bad edits (whether due to vandalism or accident).

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This enables feature #2: the "0th Post" system.

The 0th post is an optional post that GMs can create on each roleplay tab. It displays before all the other posts, and all GMs / Co-GMs can edit it. Useful for collaborating on rules, character templates, world exposition, whatever.

Here's the UI that I've got working so far:





That "Revs: 8" on the 0th post is indicating that there have been 8 revisions made to the post. GMs can click it to see and manage the post's revisions.

I also want to increase the Co-GM limit from 2 since now Co-GMs can actually do something.

how many co-gms does it take to change a lightbulb

@Mahz My suggestion would do nothing more than insert a link to the post where the character sheet is held. The GM could assign such links as they see fit. Implementing anything further would likely take quite a bit of effort, but a system like this seems to me to be little more than inserting a couple of URLs (I'm not a website coder, so I could totally be wrong). As a really rough mockup:

@Mahz

I would like to propose a topic of the week for the guild. It can be serious sometimes, and other, just something goofy for the members to talk about. I say topic of the week, as I think that a 'Topic of the Day' would get over looked, as the posts would go to fast. Plus a week will give plenty of people time to joke, debate and express their opinions on the subject. Serious topics would include how to handle a certain situation as a GM, non serious topics would be 'Pants vs. Trousers, such as a particular person suggested on the Discord chat. Maybe not that silly, but perhaps you see where I'm going with this?

@Mahz

I like that idea for Oth posts. However, isn't there a way to have them appear on top of every page in their respective section in a thread (IC/OOC/CS)? The ability for GMs and Co-GMs to collaborate on them is nice, but more often than not people don't care to dig all the way back to the even the previous page, much less the first, in search of anything in a thread.

Having a sort of announcement board on always on top of every page a player opens would be wonderful to remember people of important things, like OOC rules and IC quests/missions, etc.

@KoL

Unless it was hidden in a nice little button, I can't imagine that people would want to see the same wall of text every time they visit the thread.

@KoL

Unless it was hidden in a nice little button, I can't imagine that people would want to see the same wall of text every time they visit the thread.

Actually, that's a pretty good consideration.

It is also far easier to go to page one of any thread now, @KoL. If you look on the subscriptions page, there's that little thing below RP title with:
93 IC, 1464 OOC, 21 Char

clicking the respective tab title there brings you automatically to page 1 of that tab.

Okay, I deployed the first iteration of the post revision + 0th post system.

I created a test roleplay here: roleplayerguild.com/topics/163811-mah…

It's not very pretty, but it's a start.

It has some issues:

- There's no indication that a tab has a 0th post unless you manually click the tab to check the first page.
- For technical reasons, the 0th post doesn't increment the post-count on the tab.
- It's not obvious what the 0th post is unless you've read my dev journal. It kinda looks like a post that somehow bugged and didn't load the user sidebar. I need to add a lil guide, bring back the FAQ, and make it look a bit better.

Features:

- All GMs/Co-GMs should be able to edit the 0th post, hide it, and unhide it.
- When a 0th post has been edited at least once, you should see a link to the revision history page next to the edit timestamp. In this screenshot, "Revs: 2" is a hyperlink that you can click:

- The revision history UI is very preliminary and crude, but I'd like to enhance it with some nice features like being able to compare two revisions like you can on wikipedia.

Contact me on Discord if you're having issues. I'll be refining it in future iterations.

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@GreenGrenade ayy, we'll know the last time each other were last online now. :D

Ayyyyyy

@Mahz
When creating a new roleplay will you have to create a first post before you can access the 0th post?

@Mahz I've noticed a bug. Where the user information appears on the left hand side of a post, if that user doesn't have a status it instead shows a Status icon which, when moused over, displays a blank status dated 47 years ago.

@BBeast Thanks.

@NuttsnBolts Yeah, for now. Eventually it makes sense to allow you to create a 0th post when starting a roleplay.

@BBeast Eyup, I was going to post the same thing, I took a picture of it and everything.

It'll be fixed on next deploy.

Edit: Fixed

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Is there a current way to delete posts?

Very slight annoyance with the 0th post system. Personally I really only want a 0th post in the OOC tab for my Co-GMs and don't need one in the IC tab but it seems to have to create one in the IC before anywhere else. Otherwise it's a nice little system.

I'm not sure what you are experiencing. I don't require a 0th post in any tab.

My example roleplay has a 0th post in the OOC and CHAR tabs but *not* the IC tab: roleplayerguild.com/topics/163811-mah…

@Rob Unfortunately I recently had to remove the ability to delete your own posts since the pagination system isn't smart enough to handle the holes left behind.

If you need a post deleted, you can request it in the help subforum.

Hopefully it's something I can figure out soon.

excellent. Already started testing the 0th post system.

@Mahz It seemed like pikcha thread was locked but that wasn't the case.

After Mag Lev posted in it, I could suddenly post in it again. Figured that the problem was resolved but should shoot you a message anyway (and better do it here than discord I imagine).