ok to test i just made a new account on my laptop and it doesn't seem to be nuked so i think maybe the issue is directly linked to my desktop computer's ip address. i don't have access to it rn to stress test though

There is Dark Mode extention for Firefox for example, and it even has "light mode" option it. Those who love light modes can use that, such as those who absolutely detest light mode due to light sensitivity can choose to have a dark mode extention.

Yeah, that would be my suggestion if someone wants a light mode. Multiple themes when people are going to go around using coloured fonts and stuff is just asking for trouble. Not a lot of trouble, tbh, but it still just shifts the burden of making sure people can read your posts around in weird ways.

i mean there's another site that has an optional theme similar to the guild so clearly we're doing something right here

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for me it's like if i make a new account it gets auto-nuked and the only way to bypass it is by using a vpn. i can't comment much on the discord since i've been in there a while and iirc i had to get an invite link from one of the mods to be able to join, and my nickname is still crocker which is a username from a couple years ago but i know there's been issues with the nickname system on there anyway. i haven't had any issues with cloudfare or captchas.

Hmm, thanks. I will replace the auto-nuke feature with something else. It does catch a lot of spammers but it catches too many good guys, and it's a horrible, confusing experience to find yourself nuked. There are plenty of other things I can try.

@Mae
I understand. Just to be clear, I'm not interested in adding more designs to the Guild. Though it would be nice if the Guild worked better with the built-in reader mode that browsers have. That's doable.

You and others make an interesting point that the more static the website is, the more expressive you can be with rich bbcode (if it were to exist) since neither you nor the bbcode need to generalize across different color palettes.

I do think bbcode extensions make sense in the near future.

I'd like to squeeze out a basic email notification system. Even a bare bones solution seems worth the squeeze since it helps bring people back to the site and hopefully boost interactions that they might not otherwise see.

I have a basic email verification system working on my laptop. Maybe the version 0 just gives notifications for new PMs and then we go from there.

(Nobody would be required to verify. You just have to if you want notifications.)

Email notifications would be awesome I have thaton another forum I frequent called Bay12.

@Mahz Btw Mahz, since you're doing upkeep on the guild, I do have some minor typos that could be addressed:

- In the VM section, if you send a VM, it displays 300 characters available. However, if you reply to a VM, it says you can type up to 3000. Of course, you still can't send anything *over* 300, so it's just an incorrect number being displayed.

- The tag for "Post-Apocalyptic" spells "disaster" as "distaster".

Maybe I could do something like this.

But I'll pick one notification type for my first draft. Maybe just new convos since it's straight forward and won't be very spammy.

@Mahz As a note from a 1x1 role-player, most of our RPs take place over PMs, so having emails for any "post" in that section would be a nice feature.

Thanks for all the other updates so far too!

@Mahz Don't know how doable it is, but could limit the emails to once every X period of time?

Might get a bit frustrating when anything moves quickly for a bit.

@Mahz As a note from a 1x1 role-player, most of our RPs take place over PMs, so having emails for any "post" in that section would be a nice feature.

This. I only 1x1 in PMs, and the lack of email notifications is rough. I'd love to get an email notification for any DM, not just new threads. :)

@Dagger @Raineh Daze @Hohum Sounds good. If anyone has strong opinions about this or if you can picture what you think would be the best solution for faster moving notifications like PM notifications, then that's ideal and please share. The more opinionated / confident, the better.

I don't use these features myself, so I'm stuck guessing at what people might want.

Anyways, I just tossed up a rough email verification system + a minimal email notification system. For now, the only email notifications available are for new private convos which isn't the most useful thing, but it's a place to start.

It's all on the edit-email form on your user profile: roleplayerguild.com/me/edit#email





As usual, it's a rough draft and I hope it doesn't crash and eat anyone's convo/PMs.

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So, how do PM notifications work?

1. I assume it doesn't make much sense to send email notifications when you're already browsing the site. That's something I should fix for the new-convo notifications. The Guild already considers you "away" if you haven't navigated anywhere on it for 15min. Maybe I should use that same logic for deciding when to start sending emails.

@Raineh Daze
>Don't know how doable it is, but could limit the emails to once every X period of time?

2. What do digests / summaries look like for PMs? For example while you were eating dinner, six new convos were started with you and twelve people sent you eighteen PMs. What does the digest look like, and when does it get sent?

I'll check out some other forums.

I'm not seeing the full ad problem on mobile anymore, so thank you for fixing it!

@Mahz

I'm not sure what the ideal is here, and I think everyone will want it to work a little bit differently. For example, I don't mind getting email notifications for DMs if I'm actively browsing the site, but I'm going to guess that some people would.

I think the other boards I'm on just send you the notifications whether or you're considered online or not.

I also don't have a preference whether or not the context of the DM is included in the email, but I could see people having an opinion here. Even on the boards that spit out the entire DM in the email, I still go read it on the board. LOL.

I personally don't get digests from any of the other boards I'm on, and I'm not sure if they're an option - I could see it being handy for thread play. Maybe make it an option to either do the individual emails or a digest hourly or something?

So, to reiterate, for me personally: Every DM gets an email.

I'm mostly just thinking out loud, though. XD I figure doing so can't hurt, right?

EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS, YES!!

Every PM getting an email is ideal. I don't want to be spamming refresh on the guild when I can just get a nice alert from my email that I have a new message. And having the contents of the message in the email, not just an alert that I have a message. Ideal, love it, chef's kiss.

TBH I'd like every subscribed thread to get an email notification too whenever there is a new post in the thread.

I really do not like the way this looks on my mobile I much prefer the desktop look so if you can add a feature that let's a user switch to that view I'd appreciate it because this orientation is way too small. @Mahz

Just toggle desktop view in your browser.

Wow I'm fucking stupid.

Hm, that option isn’t working on iOS Safari thus far.

@LegendBegins well I just needed to rub my brain cells together and look at the three dots on my browser on Android to see the Desktop view option

I think my main concerns is that "mobile view" has two menus that could just be one drop down menu + the profile link got changed to "You".