Mahz's Dev Journal

[Mahz]

@mahz.@TheMaster99's trophy thing does not look too good on Android tablet. It extends roughly 8 characters into the post.

We'd provide a screenshot, but not going to dig up an uploader till we're back home.

@Ellri

Thanks. I forgot to integrate it into the collapse point for tablet-sized devices.

[Ellri]

Suspected it was something like that.

[Rilla]

Mahz did you get my PM from ages ago as it concerns the arena?

[Mahz]

Mahz did you get my PM from ages ago as it concerns the arena?

@Rilla

Thanks for letting me know. Just responded.

Rilla's got it right. If yall are ever waiting on a PM response from me, just bump the convo or poke me on the forums. I feel like I'm always five pages behind my inbox.

[Cyrania]

Are you thinking of adding a way to search for specific role-plays instead of searching for posts? I'm one who doesn't want to go through all the pages of RPs to look for the types I might like to join and therefore keeps pressing the search button thinking I can enter the keyword and those type of role-plays would show up, but instead get every comment that has that keyword in it.

[Rilla]

And thus, I've replied. xD

[Shienvien]

Are you thinking of adding a way to search for specific role-plays instead of searching for posts? I'm one who doesn't want to go through all the pages of RPs to look for the types I might like to join and therefore keeps pressing the search button thinking I can enter the keyword and those type of role-plays would show up, but instead get every comment that has that keyword in it.

This is an intended feature(TM).

[Mahz]

Are you thinking of adding a way to search for specific role-plays instead of searching for posts? I'm one who doesn't want to go through all the pages of RPs to look for the types I might like to join and therefore keeps pressing the search button thinking I can enter the keyword and those type of role-plays would show up, but instead get every comment that has that keyword in it.

@Cyrania

Yeah, it's really time for me to bring the search feature up to the next rung, isn't it?

That would vastly improve the site for many people. Thanks, I've just promoted search-enhancements to my #2 spot and demoted PM-management features since they're really just nice-to-haves compared to this.

Other things on my plate:

- My current task right now is shoring up the contest + trophy systems by providing @mdk and @Terminal some basic management tools.
- Another priority after speaking with @Rilla is to build some tools for the Arena that gives it enough structure to evolve into something more interesting.

This year I'm all about tools and structure.

[Captain Jordan]

This year I'm all about tools and structure.

@Mahz

[Ellri]

People have consistently been confused by the tag regulations on tags, @Mahz. So the description text on the tag system could use expansion or clarification.

[Mahz]

People have consistently been confused by the tag regulations on tags, @Mahz. So the description text on the tag system could use expansion or clarification.

@Ellri

What problems are people having?

Reading the code, the forum simply validates that you've chosen 1-5 tags. Is that what you're talking about?

Edit: Oh, right: [url=]http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2813202[/url]

I'll implement some client-side validation so you don't need to round-trip all the way to the server just to find out you chose one too many tags. Duh.

[SilverRain]

@Shienvien@LegendBegins

Ah, so I got the tail end - got it. I live in Australia where my timezone is usually inverted, so just though it was a strange time for a DDOS. It all makes sense now.

Also, a wild Programmin' thread appears. :)

[url=]http://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/2813202[/url]

@Mahz

Sick BBcode, bro.

[Ellri]

the error with the tag system is a bit more complex.
The label says this:
up to five tags

But through testing any analysis, we've come to understand its a bit more restricted than that:
one, two or all of these: casual/free/advanced
Up to three genre tags
One of these: Small GroupLarge Group

Can you confirm, @Mahz?

oh, and the shiny frame on TheMaster99 is too wide on Win7 firefox too, but not as problematic as it was on tablet. maybe shrinking the font a bit will solve the issue?

[Mahz]

He'll just have to deactivate it or decide to impose his sick green frame upon the weak tablet users until I have the energy to fix it. I'm just going to reduce the effect... sometime.

I don't think the code works like that, but I'll check. The validation isn't that complex.

[Ellri]

heh, no worries. its positioned under text, so its possible to read everything.

@Ellri Odd, looks fine in win8 firefox, and that's with a terrible laptop resolution (on a desktop. Not my choice). Not sure what could be different between the win7 and win8 versions.

[Ellri]

Nor are we.

We'd not be surprised if it'll be different again on our own win7 computer.

On the last post, the "N" in "Not sure" was on top of the upper right corner of the green thingamajig, @TheMaster99.

[LegendBegins]

The border actually seems to be fixed on my iPhone 5. The text was misaligned yesterday, but seems to be lining up properly today.

[Ellri]

it does not appear to be fixed on our tablet, so that only confuses things, we suspect.