Mahz

This is just here because the site told me so.

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Are you talking about the message above the "Bio" on your profile?

To prevent spam, the forum now requires you to have an avatar before you can edit your bio. I should've limited it so that it only requires this of new users, though.

I'm guessing that's what you're talking about.

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@Altered Tundra It's not hard. The forum doesn't track it at all right now, though. But it's also harder than one might think.

For performance, you would probably append a row to a `topic_views` table on every topic view. And then at some interval (like once every 15 min) you would count the `topic_views` for each topic, update the `topics` table to add to the view count of each topic, and then delete the counted rows from `topic_views`.

@Etcetera Thanks. Yeah, for performance, there are always X posts per page of a topic, even if some of them are hidden.

However, as you found out, the bug is that a hidden post can overflow onto its own page. Since nobody can see the hidden post, you essentially have a blank page or an inaccessible one.

The quickfix is probably to redirect back a page if the current page has no hidden posts.

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@Etcetera Thanks, I'll look into it.

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@Etcetera I increased it to 1 hour since I announced the feature.

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@JBRam2002 k, lemme see what I can do.

Edit: Think I fixed it.

wasted my suggestion...

Yesterday I added the feature to delete your own posts if they are <1 hour old.

I'm also interested in letting people delete their own topic/roleplay if nobody else has posted it in.

Beyond that, deletion is pretty rare.

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@The Spectre Yeah, I'd like to add more BBCode like fonts which people frequently ask about.

I'd also like to find a better BBCode editor.

My editor really sucks, I had to code it myself in my free time. It's surprisingly hard to find a good off-the-shelf BBCode editor. It seems like all the commercial forums like Xenforo put hundreds of salaried man-hours into their own editor and then never share their work.

I'm never sure if it's smarter to dump another 20 hours into the Guild's current editor or invest it in a new editor. It's a weak part of the Guild for anyone that likes to format their posts and I wish it was better. -_-

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The unames and timestamps should now stagger on smaller widths: