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@Noxious Good idea! I'll try to get that working when I add the [font] tag that people have been requesting.

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@Ellri Yeah, I'd like the chatlog to emulate chat more closely. Just can't justify the effort right now. For now it's essentially just a textfile dump like you'd get from an IRC client dump.

@Mahz On your VM wall, i can't see the white OP text on the blue corner ribbon of your first post. I'm currently posting from mobile, but can still see the OP text on this thread's post corners. I'll see if I can post a screenshot.

@SilverRain

I actually just left the ribbon blank. Didn't know what to put there. The ribbon is supposed to represent the person who owns the wall that the VM is posted on.

"Wallmaster"?

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Also, it might be a good feature to be able to edit the VMs in case of an unfortunate silly mistake.

@Kirra

Agreed. Just ran out of steam.

Will there be the option to hide/delete a VM that you don't want seen? Or will it still be beat to leave that to a mod?

@NuttsnBolts

Yeah, I don't have a problem with that. Though to limit its destructiveness I'd put a time window on the delete function.

Are the trophies meant to be for rare challenges or something more like achievements/collectibles? I had a look at my trophies tab, and it feels a bit empty - like a trophy shelf without trophies. If we're going for an achievements system, maybe we can have a 'gag' trophy like 'The Placeholder' for not yet having earned one? Just a thought :).

@SilverRain

I also need to create and link to a page that actually explains what the trophy system is. That system still needs a lot of polish.

I'm thinking of creating a couple beginner trophies that I can also use to onboard new members.

For example, maybe a trophy for creating your introductory topic in the Introduce Yourself forum. Of course, I'd retroactively award any trophies I create.

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@Kirra Good catch. Looks like only the default profile view has the info to know if you're someone's friend or not. I'll push that info into the other tabs too.

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Latest Update

To wrap my head back around my own notifications system, I hacked together a Visitor Message system and added a "Visitor Messages" tab to your profile.

A Visitor Message (VM) is simple a message that you can post directly on someone's profile. It's less "intimate" than a private message and anyone can comment on a VM.

Here's a link to my VMs: roleplayerguild.com/users/mahz/vms#tabs



Issues:

- Lacks a lot of polish, it's quite fugly.
- You only receive notifications for new VMs on your wall and replies to VMs on your wall.
- Eventually it will be the default profile tab.
- I can can eventually unify the status-message and visitor-message system. For instance, when you post a VM on your own wall, that should be a status-message. This would let me clean up some redundant UI.
- TODO: The system should notify you when someone replies to a VM you posted on someone else's wall.
- TODO: The system should notify you when someone replies to a VM that you've replied to on someone else's wall.

Lemme know about bugs.

Donations.

I have no plans to accept yall's hard-earned money right now.

Since the guild is self-sufficient from its ad revenue, I think the next milestone is for the revenue to increase to the point that I can afford more and more time to work on it part-time instead of relying 100% on my hobby free-time.

I think there may be some sort of donation system that can be done so that, for example, donating gives you additional privileges over some duration. But the guild's software would need to be much more mature before I'd even begin considering something like that.

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Is a viewable chat log on the plans for the weekend, @Mahz?

And excellent on the parser fix plan.

@Ellri

Just deployed a basic chatlog browser: roleplayerguild.com/chatlogs

Created a quick way to permalink to a specific line:



For example, roleplayerguild.com/chatlogs/2015-07-1..

Also, /me should now support all cases after you refresh chat.

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I don't even know why I've received half the likes I have accumulated. Now imagine accumulating dislikes you wouldn't know why you received. Would most people rather be liked and not know why, or disliked and not know why?

@Shienvien

Yeah, being able to browse a list of those posts was in the plans. #someday

@Mahz: We be requestin' a small tweak to the /me parser.
Right now it only triggers on uncapitalised form. do you think you could add in triggers for these versions too, to make it more robust?
/ME
/Me
/mE (for sake of having all options covered)

@Ellri

Oh, right, the parser should be case insensitive. #willfix

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If some little shit wants to dislike something you're saying, they'll have to bothered enough to write out a reply.

Salut, Hallo, Privyet, and Hello!

@PerseusArchean Welcome