Mahz

Adios.

See ya, mate. Thanks for all the help over the years.

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Back to tackle some admin duties. Stand by as I catch up with PMs and this thread.

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Huh... Looks like my logout issue has corrected itself with some Firefox update. That, or it was some odd fluke, and it'll be back the next time around. Remains to be seen.

@Shienvien

great news. hopefully it really was just a patch-level fluke because after scrutinizing that code a dozen times over the year, i've officially run out of ideas.

I noticed something that may need to be addressed on a thread management level.

In the roleplay discussion area there was a thread with the lovely title of "**** you" and I am proud to see that the mods addressed it so that it was removed and blocked from the members sights, however the link for the thread's existance remained on the front page of the site as it was the last thread to be posted in.

@NuttsnBolts

Thanks.

I need to automate the demotion of hidden threads, but it was 1/100th of the work to just create a "Refresh Forum" button for mods to manually click after hiding a thread. And even if the mod remembers to click the button, it won't actually be updated on the homepage until the cache cycles which I believe is every 60 seconds or so.

In other news, I'm doing playing some guild catch-up today on my PMs and other duties. Hopefully I get to deploy some code improvements, too.

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My free-time right now is still severely limited while I'm trying to focus on some other responsibilities I have in the cold, hard, real world, and I've only been able to work maybe 3 days on the guild over the past 60 days.

@Mahz Would it be possible to have a "Create First Post" option for GMs in RP threads? Push a button, fill out your post, and it's auotmatically the first post of IC/OOC/Character (whatever's desired) section?

@Ruby

Yeah, this is a cool feature that's actually pretty straightforward for me to build. It's one of the top 5 features on my priority list and will function kind of like an optional "0th post" on each tab so it integrates well with the current system without changing much.

@Mahz Just checking up to see where on the list the arena ranking list was, the addition we talked about so I can see everyone who is listed, instead of the top five(short of hunting for everyone and hovering over their W-L-Ds

@Rilla

Thanks for the reminder. I created an official issue for it: github.com/danneu/guild/issues/79.

Something I've noticed with Edits.

If a thread post is edited, a time stamp for "last edited" is placed on the top of the post, however in PM messages the time stamp doesn't exist. Should it?

@NuttsnBolts

Wow, good catch. Yeah, I can confirm that editing a PM doesn't actually reveal anywhere that it's been edited much less when. Created an issue: github.com/danneu/guild/issues/80

I have the same problem with selectively dismissing several notifications at once. It seems like your only options are all or just one.

@Hank

Yeah, ideally at the very least you could rapid-fire the X buttons, but it's built so primitively right now that you have to endure a full-page refresh for every X. :(

I'm figuring out when I can take a 1-month break to focus on the guild. Though I bet the first week of that will be spent just catching up on PMs.

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@LegendBegins Usher them into this thread next time so I can feel the entirety of Guild UX pain.

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@Shienvien Yeah, exactly. I'm working down the list of elusive bugs I've been able to conjure up from the pits of browser bug trackers that are still marked as unresolved/semi-resolved issues on some OS/version combinations.

Some day!

Just to re-up my intel, is this is only an issue on your Firefox 38 on [desktop] Linux device?

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@LegendBegins Another idea for compromise is to put a max-height on quotes and have them scroll if the quote height exceeds it.

It's not something I think is necessary for a desktop/laptop-sized viewport, but maybe it would improve the experience for some mobile users. It's something I'd consider making a configurable option:

Scroll quotes when they become too tall: 

	[ ] yes
	[x] no (default)

This isn't something I've ever heard someone complain about before, though.