Mahz's Dev Journal

[Mahz]

My users are my intellisense. They're always first to find my syntax errors and misspelled methods, and they even do it in production.

Thanks team!

I don't even like it for making sure everything is spelt correctly, I like it so that I can type much less

For example, I can type Sys>enter>enter>enter instead of System.out.println and get the same thing. 6 keypresses vs 18 is quite a difference.

[BBeast]

Will a Friendship tab/box also be added to our profiles?

[LegendBegins]

I don't even like it for making sure everything is spelt correctly, I like it so that I can type much less

For example, I can type Sys>enter>enter>enter instead of System.out.println and get the same thing. 6 keypresses vs 18 is quite a difference.

@TheMaster99

I like writing out my words, unless I have a lot of them on the clipboard; I feel closer to and more involved with my code. Just weird habits of mine.

[Mahz]

I don't even like it for making sure everything is spelt correctly, I like it so that I can type much less

For example, I can type Sys>enter>enter>enter instead of System.out.println and get the same thing. 6 keypresses vs 18 is quite a difference.

@TheMaster99

I get even better savings just using a sane language.

j/k. :(

[Mahz]

Will a Friendship tab/box also be added to our profiles?

@BBeast

Sure, though what did you have in mind for its contents?

The sidebar only shows up to 10 friends. Once I create a dedicated friends page for managing your friendships, I'll add a "View More" link to the bottom of that sidebar that takes you there.

I'm also going to recreate the Stalker Feed that the vBulletin guild had where you can see a feed of your friends' activity. We gave it a lot of shit back then because it was weirdly public (other people could see your personalized Stalker Feed), but it's a heavily requested feature. It allows you to add all the people you care about to your friends list and then periodically check the feed to see if there's any shenanigans waiting for you.

[Ellri]

@Mahz That did the trick.

[BBeast]

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Sure, though what did you have in mind for its contents?

@Mahz

The same thing as on the main page, probably extended, but where other people can see it too. Although the 'stalker feed' idea seems interesting too.

[Mahz]

I have a basic post autosave/draft system working on my computer.

- I use your browser's LocalStorage system (100% offline) so that the draft of a post will persist through server errors. In other words, the posts are stored in your browser, not on the server.
- Most browsers have 5mb of LocalStorage capacity which is quite a lot. For comparison, the guild's max post length is 0.15mb. So a modern browser can store 33 max-length posts until it runs out of space.

This is how it works so far:

- When you land on a page with a post editor (new roleplay, new topic, new reply), the forum will check your browser's LocalStorage to see if it has a draft saved for this topic. If it does, then it simply loads the draft into the editor and then focuses the editor so that you know something happened. From there, you can continue working on it or submit it as usual.
- Once you start typing in an editor, the editor will begin saving your draft to LocalStorage every 20 seconds.
- Whenever you successfully submit a post to the server, your browser will automatically delete the backing draft in your browser. This doesn't happen until your browser actually gets confirmation from the server.
- The browser will expel drafts from its LocalStorage once they are 6 hours old to avoid accumulation.
- I've added a /drafts URL to the guild that you can visit to manually sift through any drafts your browser has saved.

The end result of this system is that the forum will seem to magically remember your unsubmitted posts for up to 6 hours since your last modification to each post. Whether your browser crashes or the guild crashes or your laptop runs out of battery, your progress will be preserved.

I hope.

[AlteredTundra]

@MahzThat's a really good new feature to have methinks. I know a lot of people were wanting this type of feature since the guild often crashes(not so much now, but last year defo). So, this is a great addition Mahz. :)

Also, about the friend thing. I just noticed that there's an option to befriend members. I'm assuming this is just the first step of the whole stalker wall/friends list feature that will be implemented soonish.(?)

[Mahz]

@Ellri @Mentions should now inject at cursor.

Can you confirm that it works for you?

Be on the lookout for any new bugs though. Every time I even open the file that contains the hack that is my custom BBCode editor, something breaks.

[Ellri]

We are checking that, @Mahz. It looks good and is confirmed.

heh.

[The Grey Warden]

I am getting a white background, is that normal?

[Ellri]

it is not, @The Grey Warden.

[Mahz]

@The Grey Warden Have you tried forcing a cache reload in your browser?

refreshyourcache.com/en/cache

[The Grey Warden]

I haven't.

Well, it fix a while ago when I erase my computer's history.

[Shienvien]

"mos" is the standard abbreviation, though now that you point it out, it's starting to look funny to me as well.

I am more used to the single-letter abbreviations myself... I have only seen "hr" of those abbreviations around on frequent basis, really.

Like @Ellri's annoyance with the @Mention system.

And Shien's completely unrelated issues with the @Mention system. :-P

- The browser will expel drafts from its LocalStorage once they are 6 hours old to avoid accumulation.

What about users who occasionally leave a page open for three days and expect it to still be there through browser restarts and what not? Never mind me unless I raise alarm, though - as long as your system for remembering posts doesn't interfere with my system for remembering posts (which literally brings back snippets from over a year ago in case I left any hanging without posting them) we're all good.

[NuttsnBolts]

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Sure, though what did you have in mind for its contents?

The sidebar only shows up to 10 friends. Once I create a dedicated friends page for managing your friendships, I'll add a "View More" link to the bottom of that sidebar that takes you there.

I'm also going to recreate the Stalker Feed that the vBulletin guild had where you can see a feed of your friends' activity. We gave it a lot of shit back then because it was weirdly public (other people could see your personalized Stalker Feed), but it's a heavily requested feature. It allows you to add all the people you care about to your friends list and then periodically check the feed to see if there's any shenanigans waiting for you.

@Mahz

Just thinking out aloud here.

The friends feature could also use part of that RSVP idea a few of us were discussing in another thread so that when you look at your friends list, it may show details on what RPs you both are currently in or interested in.

Branching off from that, and with the eventual addition of more RP tags, it might also be able to show what RP genres you are your friends have in common so if you wish to start an RP with someone you know, you can see straight away who likes what genres the most. Admittedly that may not work too well until many more tags are introduced in order to broaden the selection pool, or, it could count up what RPs you have entered (eg: 3x Sci-Fi, 2x Fantasy) and then display the top one, two or three.

Just thoughts to see how it can be a more personalised feature, rather than a generic 'contacts' list.

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With Stalkers, would it be possible to turn that off but not necessarily go into Appear Offline mode?

[Rilla]

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It's visible on hover:



Had to shrink it so it wasn't so imposing.

@Mahz

Got it.

Next time you work on the Arena, can you add a way to increase/decrease the win point count(in case of multiman matches)

[Ellri]

Found a small bug.

using middle-click on the Private convos part of "Home / Private Convos" at the top when in the New conversation window gives an output of a classic white tab with the text "Method Not Allowed".