Ask an Admin, v2.

[Carlyle]

Oh, just remembered something not related to the current question that I've been meaning to ask about for a long time.

The roleplay search could use a way to toggle Full/Apply/Jump In RPs in the same way as tags can be toggled to search by. I feel like a interest check version, too, would be useful as well.

[LegendBegins]

@Kuro

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll add it to the list.

[LegendBegins]

In my version of the parser, if a user posts bad BBCode to the forum, it attempts to do error-correction, so any incorrect tags are automatically converted into the correct ones, and any missing tags are added to the end (it still displays the Some tags appear to be misaligned. error).

@LegendBegins

I've modified my version of the parser. Now, whenever a user inputs tags that don't match, it highlights them for the user, displays the Some tags appear to be misaligned. error, and keeps searching for the appropriate ending tag. So [b]Bad data[/i] Bad data 2[/b] would look like the following:

Error System

Does that align better with what you all might want from the BBCode checker?

For anyone who wants to help, I'm still accepting test data over PM, so feel free to message me terribly broken BBCode to try out.

[Jabberwocky]

Hi team! Have you guys ever noticed how the hr line goes ahead and shows up even though you wrap it in the code tags? Rude.

Example

Hello.[h3]Hello![/h3]

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[indent][h1]HELLO.[/h1][/indent]

I got around it by writing it like [hr ] but it's kind of annoying when you give your players a character sheet template with loads of line breaks. Most people aren't code savvy and it tends to break.

Is there any other way to fix this problem?

[LegendBegins]

@Jabberwocky

This should be fixed whenever the next update is pushed due to the new way single tags are processed. Until then, this should fix it for you!

[hr[i][/i]]

[mickilennial]

So, who wants to talk about those Cloudfare issues?

[Carlyle]

So, who wants to talk about those Cloudfare issues?

@Inkarnate

It was a cloudflare issue, not guild-specific.

[Syben]

@Ruby

Will you accept my apology for all the times I've been a little shit towards you?

[Parallel Hearts]

@LegendBegins

First of all, thank you for your work improving the Guild's features.

Now, considering that this next build is yet to go live, supposedly whenever Mahz is around again, would it be possible to add a feature to allow us to control the absolute position and size of an image similar to how it works in CSS code?

I noticed that you already added the option to justify the text, which is my biggest gripe with the Guild's design, because non-justified text hurts the eyes.

But after that, the lack of a way to control the position of an image, and make the text wrap around it organically instead of using jury rigged features like tables, is my next biggest issue because those are very basic things in almost any other forum.

Two more things as well.

Would a toggleable light mode for this site be possible? I know many people dislike the idea of light modes (even though I'm just asking for the option) but they really help make the content more readable under some kinds of lighting.

Also, some variation in the size of the fonts of the posts (like small, medium, and large would already be great), since using the browser zoom screws up with the site's layout, especially on smaller screens. Any accessibility features are great in my opinion.

The last thing I can remember is also something that some might consider controversial but a way to keep the sidebar, and other toggleable sections of the front page, collapsed permanently (perhaps through browser cookies) would be greatly appreciated. It's very annoying to have to manually collapse it every time I enter the site again.

I hope I'm not asking too much. Thanks again.

[LegendBegins]

@Parallel Hearts

I've been talking with Mahz about the update and it should be coming soon™. The next update is going to be mostly bug fixes and repairing existing features that are broken (in order to bring the new BBCode system to the same place as the existing one before adding new tags), and the update after that should contain several new requested features.

Controlling the size of an image should be easy enough if it's capped to the max width of the forum. I'll add it to the list and play with it a bit. I've gotten a few requests for text wrap around images, so I'll see if it's something I can do without too much pain. What did you have in mind for controlling an image's position?

The site doesn't have the darkest of dark modes, but I'll look into it. I might need a CSS guru to help me with that one.

I would love alternate sizes, along with a mobile mode if it can look good.

What accessibility features would you like? There's a tag for adding image descriptions, if users choose to use that feature.

Sidebar needs a lot of work overall. All suggestions are appreciated

[Parallel Hearts]

@LegendBegins

Thanks for your answer.

Anyway, the idea I had was just based on other forums where using CSS/HTML-like code in the posts is a possibility. I have a very specific forum in mind for the best example I know of this, but I don't know if it's right to name them here. I think there's way too much functionality there (some of which are superfluous but always good) but the ones relating to image control (and maybe tables and tabs) are the ones that truly matter to write posts that are visually pleasant.

I could just send you the name over a PM if you want. It's far from me to ask for the Guild to port over all the features from another site because, for once I don't know if it's even technically viable, and second I really like the simplicity from this forum. I just think that being able to wrap text around images, justify text, tables that don't suck, and maybe... maybe tabs, would elevate the quality of this site to a whole other level.

At any rate, the image positioning/text wrapping is just based on basic CSS and HTML codes like this: https://www.sleewee.com/wrap-text-images-css/ and this https://www.sleewee.com/wrap-text-images-html/. whichever way works best with the Guild's BBCode would be nice.

As for accessibility features I didn't know about the alternate text tag. That's actually pretty great. I think that the only thing the site needs that a modern browser can't provide is really alternate font sizes (because it breaks the guild layout). At least, I can't think of anything else. Maybe other people could come up with more suggestions but given that modern browsers come with things like TTS, color blindness modes, etc. I don't think there's much to implement here that wouldn't be superfluous.

Yeah... I can't really think of much else that you haven't covered yet. I'm really excited for when these changes will be implemented.

[LegendBegins]

@Parallel Hearts

You're more than welcome to post an image of the feature you're looking for that I can reference (or PM it to me) to add to my to-do list. Tables should be completely fixed™ in the next update, so that issue is taken care of. Tabs seem to be a tough feature, so I'm still looking into them.

Another accessibility feature I forgot to mention is black-and-white profile picture mode, which can be enabled in the settings. I'll see what I can do about alternate page sizes—that's going to take a lot of testing.