Mahz's Dev Journal

[Etcetera]

@Mahz

Also, it seems that if a post is hidden, the poster will still appear under the subscriptions page as "last post by" and that Last Unread button cannot be used. If you go to the page, the button is still there. I believe it's due to the hiding feature, but it's a glitch either way.

[Mahz]

@Etcetera Thanks, I'll look into it.

[Etcetera]

@Mahz

One more thing; hidden user posts also still appear in profile history.

EDIT: It appears that when a post is hidden, new posts that should go to the new page end up doing so without telling the forum to signal to the user to go to a new page. I.e. Posts appear on a page you're locked out of going to until you post something yourself and bump visible posts onto that new page.

In other words: Hidden post -> next post should go to new page -> new post goes to a new page but new page isn't accessible due to hidden post changing the internal page count -> stuck on last page until posts catch up to what the server expects.

[AlteredTundra]

@Mahz This is more of a curiosity-influenced question rather than a request-influenced one.

How difficult is it to code the feature that shows the total view count of a public thread?

[Mahz]

@Altered Tundra It's not hard. The forum doesn't track it at all right now, though. But it's also harder than one might think.

For performance, you would probably append a row to a `topic_views` table on every topic view. And then at some interval (like once every 15 min) you would count the `topic_views` for each topic, update the `topics` table to add to the view count of each topic, and then delete the counted rows from `topic_views`.

@Etcetera Thanks. Yeah, for performance, there are always X posts per page of a topic, even if some of them are hidden.

However, as you found out, the bug is that a hidden post can overflow onto its own page. Since nobody can see the hidden post, you essentially have a blank page or an inaccessible one.

The quickfix is probably to redirect back a page if the current page has no hidden posts.

[NuttsnBolts]

Had this when I clicked on the visitor messages tab. (Null posts per day)

[Mahz]

Just another failure of the visitor messages system.

[Vesuvius00]

@Mahz
So the ghost thing's being a little weird. I have 4 friends who are listed as being on 0-12 hours ago on the "My Friendships" page, but only two of them are showing up on the sidebar on the guild's homepage. I don't know if it's just that those two were on more recently than the other two and it's showing that, or if it's just being a little glitchy because it's new, but shouldn't all of the ghosts be showing on the sidebar if any of them are?

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

My post, and the posts of others, have failed to appear in one of our threads, but only in the OOC. Reloading and clicking the "Read unread posts" link doesn't load them either.

roleplayerguild.com/topics/75870-hero…

That's the thread, and I'll try to grab some screenshots of the issue.

Aaaaaand I have no idea how to get an image from my computer onto a post here.

Fun.

[NaraK]

@Mahz Found a really weird bug. All of the new posts in this thread are not being displayed, even though it shows that new posts are being made in My Subscriptions.

Edit: oop! Hi multi :D

[Mahz]

@NarayanK Lemme check it out.

[NuttsnBolts]

My post, and the posts of others, have failed to appear in one of our threads, but only in the OOC. Reloading and clicking the "Read unread posts" link doesn't load them either.

roleplayerguild.com/topics/75870-hero…

That's the thread, and I'll try to grab some screenshots of the issue.

Aaaaaand I have no idea how to get an image from my computer onto a post here.

Fun.

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/1377…

Edit: oh, onto the forum? Upload to imgur.

[Etcetera]

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

Use imgur and get the direct link. Post it here with an imbedded image.

[Mahz]

Okay, I think I figured out why this happens.

I changed the code yesterday so that, when a post is hidden, the topic recounts its post counts to ignore the newly hidden posts.

However, the pagination system expects hidden posts to be reflected in those counts because hidden posts actually take up a spot on the page.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I'll think of a fix.

(I temporarily turned off post hiding til I fix this to avoid further issues)

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

imgur.com/a/Uqup2

imgur.com/a/sly9g

Hope that works. Timestamps should show it

[Mahz]

I'll have to revert my patch from yesterday and then recount the post-counts for all topics to reconsider hidden posts so that pagination works again.

BRB

[Mahz]

Okay, I recounted the post-count on all topics to re-include hidden posts in their count.

I think it might have fixed the issues for now. Tho lemme know.

I'll keep post-deletion turned off til I figure out a game-plan.

[Mahz]

@Vesuvius00

The friendships sidebar on the homepage shows your 10 most recently online friends, and then it plucks the ghosts out of those 10 and groups them together.

So am I right in thinking that all of your friends on the homepage sidebar have logged in within 12 hours? That would push some ghosts onto the "View All" list.

Lemme know if I'm wrong. Cuz then it's a bug.

[Mahz]

Update

The convos page has been upgraded to show you which folders and which convos have unread PMs.



It's hard to test things on my empty local server, so lemme know if something seems off.

[Mahz]

I think I'm done for the day.

The next features I want to focus on:

1. Overhauling the search system
2. Email notifications