Mahz

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This is more of a power-user feature, but you can see a list of any unsubmitted post drafts saved in your browser at the bottom of the Guild:



I had this turned on only for myself, but I realized it would be useful for everyone.

Sometimes I'll forget about a post I'd half-written, and this widget reminds me about it and lets me pick up where I left off.

You can click a draft to go to the thread it's saved for, and the reply box should populate with your progress.

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@HeySeuss @BrokenPromise I got the "Any" vs "All" switch working on roleplayerguild.com/roleplays.



@Ellri A "Not" filter is a good idea but involves too much labor to be a priority.

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@Ellri I think I need to figure out a longer-term plan for the tag system before I venture too far into niche tags.

For example, maybe a middle ground is for people to choose the "Fandom" tag and then flesh it out with an extra custom tag that I mentioned above.

Allowing people to pencil in custom tags lets me absorb popular tags that people actually want to use which is a better way to populate the tag system.

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@BrokenPromise @HeySeuss Agreed, I'd like to offer an "AND" filter instead of just the current "OR" filter.

Not sure how to implement that off the top of my head, though.

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Update: roleplayerguild.com/roleplays is now paginated

@KoL I added "Horror". Yeah, PM searching is on the horizon.

@Inkarnate I added "Western".

New rule: when suggesting a new tag, you have to also supply me with a description for it which appears when you hover the label.

Now that I got the /roleplays page started, I need to think of a better solution for tags.

I might add 2-3 custom tag fields so that you can pencil in your own extra tags, and then I can absorb and replace the popular custom tags with real tags.

i.e. I need to find a trade-off between custom tags and the ability for people to filter by tags.

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@Ellri I haven't implemented pagination yet so it just shows 20 topics for now. This is just a stopping point for tonight.

I'm not sure how you got an error. I can't reproduce it.

Unfortunately, my logging service wasn't logging errors just then (had to upgrade my account), so I can't investigate the cause.

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@Ellri Tag limit bumped from 5 to 7.

Test out roleplayerguild.com/roleplays.

I need to add some more tags from the suggestions list.

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I've started experimenting with a merged roleplayerguild.com/roleplays view that lets you filter roleplays by tags and sort them by either the latest post or roleplay creation.



It's missing some stuff like pagination and filter options (like join-status).

Also, interest checks will eventually get the same treatment.

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@Jerkchicken Various measures have already been taken over the last couple weeks I've been improving the Guild.

For example, nuked spam topics are far less likely to show up on the homepage and sidebar. And new users are submitted to the moderator Discord channel for review.

There's more work to be done, but it's getting better every week.

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@NuttsnBolts Yeah, the Guild has some confusing and ugly error pages if you're logged out that I need to fix.

I'll make improvements to the ghost / friendslist intersection, but right now I'm trying to release a /search overhaul.

For the few people that read my dev journal: Do yall have any examples of the most frequent searches you do or would do if the Guild supported it?

I'm also working on a simple tag search.