Mahz's Dev Journal

The warning was there in the preview, I just missed it

[Ellri]

There's too many out there who don't bother to click preview before posting. After all, who actually believe they themselves could possibly make a mistake?

[Robeatics]

Just had an idea. How does anyone feel about continuing on with tagging threads and let us tag posts that we can filter out of threads, such as only wanting to look at one user's posts or posts tagged with a specific character? If people don't want to use it they don't have to, it would just be available.

There's too many out there who don't bother to click preview before posting. After all, who actually believe they themselves could possibly make a mistake?

@Ellri

How dare you suggest such treachery! Make a mistake?! I defy you sir to find a single occasion of such! [/InternetToughGuy]

[BingTheWing]

I was wondering, @Mahz, you know what would make me go here more? A SEARCH ENGINE! It's a great idea, honestly. And sort of the reason why Iwaku is becoming a threat. Some other people may have mentioned this, but I wanted to express my support on this matter.

[LegendBegins]

I was wondering, @Mahz, you know what would make me go here more? A SEARCH ENGINE! It's a great idea, honestly. And sort of the reason why Iwaku is becoming a threat. Some other people may have mentioned this, but I wanted to express my support on this matter.

@BingTheWing

That was one of the primary reasons tags were developed. A search function is very much in progress.

[Ellri]

<Snipped quote by Ellri> How dare you suggest such treachery! Make a mistake?! I defy you sir to find a single occasion of such! [/InternetToughGuy]

@TheMaster99

Pretty sure you forgot to input the [InternetToughGuy] tag. We'd put a proper grin in here, but couldn't find one we liked.

[LetterA]

yo, question, can there be a "back to top" button??

[Mahz]

[b]Looks [i]like BBcodes still don't like tags being mixed together.[/b][/i]

@Ellri

I think the current parser handles it better: it just passes invalid BBCode through un-rendered. It lets you perceive your mistakes. It's tempting to try and spot the auto-reconciliation algorithm that works in this trivial case, outputting this: [b]Looks[/b] [i][b]like BBcodes still don't like tags being mixed together.[/b][/i] But from my experience, directly messing with user-input causes much more headache than it ever solves. I think the solution is to point these issues out in the BBCode error system. Make it awesome. Highlight lines in a faint red when they have problems, and highlight the problem tag in a more powerful red. Show line-numbers and refer to them in the error output. Make each error clickable so that it auto-scrolls you to the problem site. Instead of hinting that "some tags may be aligned", enumerate them and the actual lines they're on. Hard to imagine how amazing the guild will be the day I can justify building such a hard, polished, and technically-advanced feature.

[Mahz]

@LetterA: It exists at the end of all the posts: In the more mobile-friendly revision I'm working on, I'd like to make Top/Bottom buttons that actually scroll with you or something. Kinda like how this mobile-friendly Xenforo theme does it: http://www.artodia.com/xfdemo/27/ It would assist with the issue where you want to go back a page to read the last post and arduously scroll to the bottom every time.

[ravenDivinity]

@LetterA: It exists at the end of all the posts: In the more mobile-friendly revision I'm working on, I'd like to make Top/Bottom buttons that actually scroll with you or something. Kinda like how this mobile-friendly Xenforo theme does it: http://www.artodia.com/xfdemo/27/ It would assist with the issue where you want to go back a page to read the last post and arduously scroll to the bottom every time.

@Mahz

"Look, mom, I'm on TV!" But that sounds nice. Maybe the current link to the top of the page could be a little more pronounced, perhaps in the same scheme as the other buttons on the site?

[LetterA]

@Mahz Yeah, i meant one that scrolled with you but a top+bottom scrolling is rad too!! thank youu <:

[Mahz]

I was wondering, @Mahz, you know what would make me go here more? A SEARCH ENGINE! It's a great idea, honestly. And sort of the reason why Iwaku is becoming a threat. Some other people may have mentioned this, but I wanted to express my support on this matter.

@BingTheWing

Yeah, we need one. It's one of those core/necessary features I'll be implementing within these first few months since the relaunch. This weekend I'm working on another core/necessary feature: making the guild more tolerable in mobile browsers (30% of our users). It just takes me while because I can only knock out one big feature each week on the weekend (my only free time). Aside: I know what you meant, but watch out calling other sites "threats". The roleplaying community as a whole isn't really big enough for communities to act like factions in war. The ideal is that there are many communities to choose from, each with its own flavor, atmosphere, and administrative approach. (Of course, no-search-function is not one of my planned "unique flavors" for the guild. )

[Mahz]

Here's some of my progress on the roleplay-list view for mobile-sized devices: - I took @clark's advice and inlined the join-status next to the tabs and also to switched the color of "Full" away from red since it's really the green "open" statuses I want to emphasize. - People often said that the "Latest post" links were hard to click, so I turned them into buttons. Still working on all the views. I'll push it up soon. My goal is to get it "good enough" and push it up so that small tweaks/polish don't hold me up for eternity.

[Ellri]

(Of course, no-search-function is not one of my planned "unique flavors" for the guild. )

@Mahz

Of course not. If it had been planned, it wouldn't have been implemented already.

[LegendBegins]

Here's some of my progress on the roleplay-list view for mobile-sized devices: - I took @clark's advice and inlined the join-status next to the tabs and also to switched the color of "Full" away from red since it's really the green "open" statuses I want to emphasize. - People often said that the "Latest post" links were hard to click, so I turned them into buttons. Still working on all the views. I'll push it up soon. My goal is to get it "good enough" and push it up so that small tweaks/polish don't hold me up for eternity.

@Mahz

Could we implement those buttons on the subscription page as well?

[LegendBegins]

Edit: Double post.

[Mahz]

<Snipped quote by Mahz> Could we implement those buttons on the subscription page as well?

@LegendBegins

Yeah, all the latest-post links were converted to buttons. As for those concerned about the post userbit on small devices, I made a lot of progress compacting it: (At least, that's as far as I could take it without rewriting more code than I have the stomach to do right now) Gonna do one more pass through my updates on my local machine and then push it up to the server.

[Mahz]

@Shienvien: I implemented a "force-device-width" toggle on the user-edit page. It will be on by default when I push the changes, but you'll be able to opt out of the forced width that way. The guild currently has no forced width, but the mobile-friendly changes require me to turn it on. This will allow users to opt out of it since I'm sure my changes will make the guild worse for some smartphone/tablet users until it gets better. For anyone curious, the force-device-width directive I'm referring to is this bit of HTML: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> More info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag

[The Slenderman]

Not sure this is the right place but how about a feature that lets you see who is/has visited your Profile