Mahz

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@Webmaster No, I def agree with you.

It's a quick but ugly trade-off I made to fit the checkbox into the grid layout without having to rewrite the layout.

Unfortunately, UI development is the slowest part of the Guild, so I try to aim for "meh, good enough" for the sake of getting anything done.

The Guild would probably be able to keep a UI developer busy full-time for years.

One good quality of the grid layout is that it collapses into something decent on small devices:



I'd like to try to turn mobile-device support back on in the near future to see if anything has improved.

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@Etcetera Okay, I hid the help text to try to reclaim some vertical space.

You said the formatting is screwed up though. Can you gimme a screenshot or something?

Here's what it looks like for me:



I had to change the grid layout of the panel to fit the checkbox alongside each row.

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@Etcetera Thanks, looking into it.

Good point about the instructional text. I'll hide it by default or shrink it.

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I pushed up an experimental notification system for when someone posts in one of your subscribed topics / roleplays.

You'll notice you can now archive subscriptions: roleplayerguild.com/me/subscriptions

- Regular subscriptions will notify you when someone posts in them.
- Archived subscriptions do not notify you. They're more like bookmarks, topics / roleplays you want to keep on your "favorites" list but you don't necessarily wanna know when they receive updates.

Special thanks to @Ellri for what I think was a simple implementation idea.

If you encounter issues, lemme know.

Queen of Sparta has arrived

Welcome

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Something is locking up the database, so excuse any issues.

Edit: I may have to temporarily disable /search until I can fix an catastrophic issue.

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@Ellri I'm playing with the /me/subscriptions/archive idea right now.

Maybe I can get some notifications working soon for subscriptions.

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Oh yeah, the textfield paginator has been added to the show-convo view (PMs) like it exists on the show-topic view.

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Interestingly, I was working on this back on the vBulletin version of the Guild. Found this rough draft in my archive.



The simplest v1.0 solution might be to just let players submit a Join Request that GMs/Co-GMs accept.

For example, maybe you submit a Join Request when you submit your character sheet, and then GMs accept your request.

I've always wanted to have some sort of Roleplays <-> Participants link on the Guild which lets me build interesting things. One example that yall brought up is the ability to notify all the active participants of a roleplay.

The first challenge is to come up with a system that people are actually incentivized to use because it's useful.

If you have a roleplay with four players and only one person bothered to "join" it, then it doesn't really do anyone any good.

But it would also be a mistake to impose too much just-cuz rigidity on the freeform-by-design nature of the Guild.

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@Lady Amalthea I'll bump it up to 10 on next server deploy.

@JBRam2002 The Guild probably needs a way for people to officially join/leave a roleplay. That way [@everyone] would ping the straight-forward list of participants. Kinda like a convo.