Captain Jordan

Mahz's Dev Journal

What are yall's main uses for a search feature, like what are the kinds of searches you find yourself doing/wanting the most? I'd like to prioritize the features yall want and perhaps yall have use-cases I haven't thought of.

One thing I'd like is a quick way to see my own posts in a topic:



(That link would essentially be a shortcut to a search for all posts by user "Mahz" with a filter of topic_id = 42)

@Mahz

Searching the entire site, searching a selection (a+) of boards (like if I was trying to find that one Star Wars RPG from ages ago, I would confine my search to the Casual or Advanced boards since I couldn't remember which one it was), searching within a topic in general and searching for a specific user.

Mahz's Dev Journal

This weekend I'd like to implement a big feature. So far I'm thinking it'll be full-text search functionality.

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I see. I'll experiment with full whitespace preservation to see how it impacts how most people expect BBCode lists to work. For example, people often use newlines to organize/space-out their BBCode markup and don't intend for them to create extraneous newlines in the resulting post.

Worst case scenario, if I don't think it's a good default setting, I'll make it an opt-in/advanced feature: [list=preserve] or something like that where prefix/suffix newlines are not trimmed off.

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More robust (less likely to break in the future) work-arounds would be:

- Use a new list for every bullet point.
- Use [indent] + your own bullet character.

Ellri, instead of using noparse + color, you can use [code].

@Mahz

What about fixing the tabindex problem with the post box?

Mahz's Dev Journal

...Again, we don't really have multi-field forms over here. Tab did exactly nothing for me until now (didn't try with thread creation, maybe it does something when there is a title field and text field). As it is? It is basically useless unless it is tab character.

@Shienvien

It works for jumping from post box to post reply button. I navigate my browser with the keyboard quite a bit, and tab is an invaluable tool. It's also critical for mobility-impaired users, and also possibly for those on a console and other non-traditional systems.

Mahz's Dev Journal

<Snipped quote> Not on all systems... And we don't really have many multi-field forms here to begin with.

@Shienvien

But it's expected behavior on a browser. Barely any browser-based form respects tab as an indent character. Accessibility for keyboard navigation, IMHO, is more important than a one-touch spacing key. If it's available via shift+tab or through manual whitespace, that should be an acceptable solution for a feature that is rarely used outside of document creation.

EDIT: @Mahz, do pasted tabs (from Word or otherwise) render properly? This may be another workaround.

Is 12 to young to start roleplaying?

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If it's a sexual roleplay? Don't join until you're 18. As said earlier, laws exist, so that's just a bad idea. If it needs you to be mature enough for the topic, then just be mature enough for the topic. The latter shouldn't have any kind of age even mentioned, because maturity has nothing to do with age.

@Keyguyperson

That wasn't the question. The question was about a roleplay which requires their players to be age 18 or older. I'm not sure we should be encouraging players to disregard the rules set out by GMs. Doing so is disrespectful to the GM, the fellow players (who are following the rules) and to roleplay as a whole.

Disagree with a rule? Okay, no problem. Everyone's welcome to their opinion.
Request a GM changes a rule? Sure, if you think you've got a reasonable request.
Completely disregard the rule and encourage others to do so? No, no, and did I mention no?

Is 12 to young to start roleplaying?

As for joining 18+ roleplays? If you're as mature as an 18 year old, then I would consider it okay. Of course, you should always respect the wishes of other roleplayers. If they don't want you in their 18+ roleplay, then you probably shouldn't join.

@Keyguyperson

Do you consider requiring someone to be 18 to join the roleplay as a "we don't want players under 18" statement? Or do you feel that GMs must specifically say "get out" to someone they suspect is underage.

Is 12 to young to start roleplaying?

Devourer of Love: *When I first started RPing, we'd post in this format*

@DevourerofLove

Ugh. I used script style exactly once. And it was awful. I'm so glad it's practically extinct nowadays.

Mahz's Dev Journal

I made an effort to implement tabs and preserve all whitespace.

@Mahz

Well, crap. Now that makes it impossible to tab to the post buttons. Can you make the editor respond to shift-tab to add a tab space? Tab is more appropriately reserved for keyboard navigation of webpages.

Is 12 to young to start roleplaying?

for a child to get into tabletops, the DM has to be pretty good. and perhaps the mechanics simplified a bit. like everyone skipping certain fields.

@Ellri

TT's aren't just Dungeons and Dragons anymore. There's plenty of games out there, even some made for kids. A guy I know even made his own system for his kids, and published it online.

Mahz's Dev Journal

<Snipped quote by Teknonick> Unfortunately that would introduce a lot of problems for not much gain. I think the solution is just better BBCode. Perhaps [list=nostyle] or something to create lists without bullets?

@Mahz

That's a brilliant idea.