LegendBegins

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@Mahz
One issue that I have seen nobody report is that if you receive an error when you try to post (e.g. you lost internet connection in the middle of it) and you go back a page, all of the information will be there, but the post button will be nonfunctional; it forces you to copy the post, refresh the page, and try again. I've only had a lost connection on mobile (my PC uses Ethernet so it does not drop connections), so I do not know if it affects both platforms.

As for building a sense of community, I believe that a feature that distinguishes the Guild from other roleplaying sites would increase the sense of pride that participants have. I believe that an idea you suggested long ago would be a perfect example of a unique feature: the ability to easily switch between characters or accounts without logging out. I have seen no websites deploy this feature at all.

Myriad Reality

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Technically, it's "Texas Steakhouse and Saloon." There are Roadhouses and Outbacks here too though, the former I wasn't aware of.

@Heroic

Try it sometime. The bread is the best.

For the record, we don't have saloons.

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@Mahz
Everything appears to be working as usual; there were some players wondering where their great and glorious benevolent dictator for life had gone amongst those months, but it seems that the only immediate changes would be general tuneups across the Guild.

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@Shienvien if it is that "myriad reality" RP in his post history, it has 66k IC posts.

@Ellri

It is.

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You're planning to back up ooc too? Or is it an RP dating back to the Old guild, @LegendBegins?

@Ellri

I'd like to back up both, if possible. The RP dates OldGuild, and is three years old.

<Snipped quote by LegendBegins> Whoa. I am going to assume most of those are OoC posts (unless we're speaking free RP, which could feasibly reach tens of thousands of posts within a couple of years)...

I believe Mahz intended to make posts-per-page customizable at some point. I don't think displaying them all on one page is viable, though - simply because some part of the system or another might simply keel over trying to spit out that number of posts at once. Especially if a number of users are trying to do something like that concurrently.

I could technically see an export function which puts out mostly just the text info and usernames, though, about two hundred posts at a time or so (track would be kept). I made something vaguely similar for a database, once (as rolling the entire backup up in one go was physically impossible). If people won't abuse it, we should be fine.

@Shienvien

Actually, the OOC is another 2309 pages. We're in Casual, but we've done it for three years and are all on for most of the day. With all the time we've invested, you can see why I would like to back it up.

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<Snipped quote by LegendBegins> Right-click -> save web page as makes a HTML pull. Works well enough for backups. Has to be repeated for every page, though.

@Shienvien

That's the issue. As of now, our RP has 3325 pages.

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Could there be a method implemented to allow every page/post in a thread to be saved? Even if it's a hacked in solution to allow all posts to be displayed on an (extremely long) page, wouldn't something to archive a thread be possible?

Myriad Reality

Hai.

@Extra

WOAH. HellooOOooo~

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@LegendBegins, I think we might be needing a post edit history for that. I don't believe Mahz has implemented that yet. Once he does, that should probably be simple. For damage which has already been done, though, you may be out of luck. Possibly, Mahz could delve into the backups and see if he can get you something, although that might be more effort than Mahz has time to do. If you're super lucky it might be on one of those internet archives, or in your cache if you have a large enough cache.

This is all my opinion, though. Nothing official.

@BBeast

On the bright side, we use quotes, so his entire post history exists. However, it would be convenient if it were to be restored; I believe I remember some sort of rollback system, but it's possible I am misremembering.

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@Mahz

Also, I've come across a form a thread vandalism for the most dedicated trolls that I've outlined here. In keeping the Guild a troll-free, well oiled machine, is there a simple moderator tool to combat this?