Mahz's Dev Journal

[Mahz]

@Mahz Will the new secure line help with the spambot infestation? That meaning make it so that we no longer have one.

@Altered Tundra

No, but I deployed an anti-spambot measure during the update that seems to be working.

[skidcrow]

@Mahz i dunno if it's fixable (or even anything with the code), but i've noticed that since one of my posts has been deleted/hidden, all the posts that came before it don't appear on my profile.

[Mahz]

@Grimhildr Oh thanks. I'll look into it right now.

[skidcrow]

@Grimhildr Oh thanks. I'll look into it right now.

@Mahz

all hail based god mahz

no problem.

[ClocktowerEchos]

@Mahz Thank you for the new OCC/IC/Chars jump-to links in the Subs menu! \•u•/

[Mahz]

@Grimhildr I improved it a lil bit. You should be able to paginate thru hidden posts now.

[skidcrow]

@Grimhildr I improved it a lil bit. You should be able to paginate thru hidden posts now.

@Mahz

they have returned! all hail mahz!

[Dion]

@Mahz an idea that just came to me was a badge system. We already have custom titles, but what about allowing people to create groups and letting people join those (invite based, public groups, private groups). You can then upload an avatar for that group and a miniature version could be displayed on your posts under your avatar, maybe next to the 'bio, 2hrs ago' buttons?

Not crucial to the guild but I feel it'd be pretty cool.

[Ellri]

Sounds like a pretty complex thing to code in, @Buddha. How would such a system handle people being part of multiple groups? would they all show? Only one?

[Dion]

@Ellri Only one. You select which one out of all your groups in your profile. Or you select none and don't show any. Think steam groups on steam.

[LegendBegins]

I made some changes to force the Guild to be served over SSL (HTTPS):



Hopefully nobody has any issues.

@Mahz

I love seeing that beautiful green s there. But there go all of my insecure login demos.

[Shienvien]

Shall I give you a few more examples, LegendBegins?

Otherwise, Shien approves of the s.

[Ellri]

Probably simplest with only showing one yes, @Buddha.

Granted, if there's one system that would've been wonderful to see coded in, we'd say the enhanced tag system (as discussed here). Unfortunately, that system is a pretty massive thing, so should probably come after a number of the simpler things people desire (like splitting interest checks for mature 1x1 RPs from other 1x1 RPs).

A simpler thing that might also help the fairly large 1x1 community on the guild is to let people make PMs with IC/OoC/CS tabs in them.

but we suppose the stability and security of the guild should have top priority for @mahz.

[Mahz]

I was reminded how crappy the visitor message system is, so I finally implemented the ability to delete visitor messages.

Didn't test it too thoroughly, but you should be able to delete any VM you've made. And you can delete any VM on your wall except those made by staff.

And if you delete a top-level VM, all of its children are deleted as well.

I still need to change it so that you can see more than the latest 30 VMs on someone's wall though. Pretty lame. You also still can't edit VMs. Nor can you view all the VMs you've left on other walls.

[Genkai]

@Mahz Thank you for the new OCC/IC/Chars jump-to links in the Subs menu! \•u•/

@ClocktowerEchos

Yeah they look great!

[Mao Mao]

@Mahz, how about deleting private messages? Is it harder to do? By the way, thank you for adding a way to delete visitor messages!

[LegendBegins]

@Shienvien

Heh, a perfect world is one in which I have no examples.

[skidcrow]

@Mahz an idea that just came to me was a badge system. We already have custom titles, but what about allowing people to create groups and letting people join those (invite based, public groups, private groups). You can then upload an avatar for that group and a miniature version could be displayed on your posts under your avatar, maybe next to the 'bio, 2hrs ago' buttons?

Not crucial to the guild but I feel it'd be pretty cool.

@Buddha

you steam-group wanting motherfucker.

I was reminded how crappy the visitor message system is, so I finally implemented the ability to delete visitor messages.

Didn't test it too thoroughly, but you should be able to delete any VM you've made. And you can delete any VM on your wall except those made by staff.

And if you delete a top-level VM, all of its children are deleted as well.

I still need to change it so that you can see more than the latest 30 VMs on someone's wall though. Pretty lame. You also still can't edit VMs. Nor can you view all the VMs you've left on other walls.

@Mahz

god bless. now i can delete those shitstorms of the past.

also, uh, i dunno if it's just on my end, but the page being secured is very hit or miss.

for instance, i was just looking at my subscriptions and it was secure, but upon coming here it's insecure:

[Dion]

@Grimhildr seconded, this page isn't secured for me. It seems to be just the mainpage?

[Mahz]

@Grimhildr Yeah, the problem is that since people can embed arbitrary image URLs, those images may be served over cleartext and you get a "mixed content" warning.

My reverse proxy rewrites a lot of URLs from http:// -> https:// using the HTTPS Everywhere database, and it does a good job, but it doesn't get everything since not every server supports ssl.

One solution would be to transform BBCode [IMG] URLs so that they proxy through the Guild.

@The Spectre I want to implement PM/convo deletion soon.