TheMaster99

The School in the Woods - Mystery/Fantasy Roleplay

Kyle Messor Kyle continued his laps (making sure to carefully push Jamie off balance whenever they crossed paths) and greeted each teammate as they arrived. As he rounded the final corner of his final lap, the coach walked onto the field. "Excellent! Eager for the start of the season I see," the coach praised, speaking to both Kyle and Jamie. As he turned to the rest of the team, the enthusiastic expression faded from his face. "As for the rest of you... perhaps if you put half as much effort in as these two, then perhaps you'd benefit from it." Kyle smirked at Jamie, never one to miss out on a good telling off from the coach. Speaking to everyone now, the coach directed, "Right then, let's get to work!" One long, tiring practice session later, Kyle left the field visibly displeased. I'm never going to hear the end of that damn goal, he grumbled to himself. Despite the confidence he had shown when he challenged Jamie before practice, during the final seconds of the scrimmage he managed to score on him with an incredibly precise curved shot – Kyle had it covered, then it appeared to just curve hard into the far corner. That's just how it works though, Kyle assured himself, as it slows down the curve on the ball makes a stronger effect, and Jamie was decidedly lucky that it happened as it did. Still grumbling internally, Kyle took another quick shower then headed down to breakfast. As he got his food, he considered where he'd sit. He normally sits with the rest of the team, but sometimes sits alone. The thought of Jamie relentlessly taunting him for the entire duration of breakfast convinced him to sit alone, so he sat down at a table that was next to where Jamie's roommate – what was his name; James, I think? – and began eating his food. Hopefully, Jamie would sit either with the team or with James, but not him.

Mahz's Dev Journal

http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/19063-precipice-of-war-there-be-spaniards-in-my-coffee/ic?page=4#post-1272608 The link you were using is trying to read postid 1272608, on page 1 (since none is specified). This post doesn't exist on that page, thus it doesn't scroll to it. Somehow you managed to get a link that didn't have the ?page=4 - I'm not sure how, because the link button works perfectly fine for me.

Mahz's Dev Journal

The Guild already supports high res image embedding. What prevents using the same concept for profile pictures, and then have the server scale it down, and perform all the necessary alternations (such as the displayed resolution, as you mentioned)? For instance, is there anything that would make it impossible for the server to take these image URls, make the alterations server-wise, as if it were a local file, and display the altered output?

@LegendBegins

I'm fairly sure the guild doesn't actually store any images, it just points to where an image file is stored (I believe this is how websites work – I don't work on web much (read: the guild is the first real web coding I've done), so I'm not certain on that.) so it can't do anything to the image.

@TheMaster99

I'm aware that it doesn't store them, but it is completely possible to edit them. You just run the image through a "filter" of sorts before output, and it displays it according to the commands. For example, Mahz has a hack that alters profile pics images larger than 150 X 150 to attempt to display them correctly. You're correct that it doesn't do anything to the image itself, but it can change the display.

@LegendBegins

PHP has a couple modules for this, GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick. I think Node.js has a library that will interface with the PHP modules to do this. So long as the two (PHP and Node.js modules) are installed, then it's probably just a matter of taking the time, reading the documentation, and doing it. Someone with the javascript skills and wherewithal could probably write a patch and submit a pull request if they really wanted it done quickly.

@Captain Jordan

Once I've finished my computer repairs, I may go ahead and have a crack at it myself.

@LegendBegins

I'm 99% sure that PHP isn't used at all on the guild, so you'll probably have to find a purely node.js way to do it.

Mahz's Dev Journal

The Guild already supports high res image embedding. What prevents using the same concept for profile pictures, and then have the server scale it down, and perform all the necessary alternations (such as the displayed resolution, as you mentioned)? For instance, is there anything that would make it impossible for the server to take these image URls, make the alterations server-wise, as if it were a local file, and display the altered output?

@LegendBegins

I'm fairly sure the guild doesn't actually store any images, it just points to where an image file is stored (I believe this is how websites work – I don't work on web much (read: the guild is the first real web coding I've done), so I'm not certain on that.) so it can't do anything to the image.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Hey-yo, would there be some way to fix thread URLs for when you change the topic title? Or do some redirect thing? One thing me and my friends like or try to do is do post catalogs as we RP. That way we have a index of posts and brief descriptions of what was going on in that, with a link back to that post. However with title changes this has broken and every time I change the thread title we need to go through and fix our cataloging. I like the ability to change titles, brings back for me the era of goofy sub-titles. But it busts the way we link things.

@Dinh AaronMk

Changing the title shouldn't break links. All that matters in the link is the topicid (for example, 75056 for this topic). The title is added in after, and has no impact on the resulting page. Compare: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/75056-mahzs-dev-journal http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/75056 http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/75056-internet-tough-guy-was-here

Hello and Happy Valentine's Day!

• I live in the south so I've never seen snow before. And really want to.

-Ali

@MysteriousAlix

Coming from a New Yorker, trust me – you don't ever want to see snow. Snow is an evil, evil thing Welcome to the guild!

@TheMaster99

are you from buffalo? ah snow and cold. hell does have perks, no snow

@Dead Girl

No, not Buffalo. I'm about an hour west of Syracuse.

Hello and Happy Valentine's Day!

• I live in the south so I've never seen snow before. And really want to.

-Ali

@MysteriousAlix

Coming from a New Yorker, trust me – you don't ever want to see snow. Snow is an evil, evil thing Welcome to the guild!

Mahz's Dev Journal

Sure is. Thanks, @TheMaster99.

@Hank

You're welcome! I'm just happy to help with a site I enjoy, and the experience + addition to my portfolio doesn't hurt either

Mahz's Dev Journal

How hard would it be to integrate a tabs table? I think one of the attractive things about roleplay is formatting options for our information posts, or even IC posts where multiple characters are taking place down different paths. Something like: [tabs][tab1=Character One] <blah blah blah, IC stuff> [tab2=Character Two] <etc.> [tab3=Character Three] <misc.> [/tabs] How possible would that be?

@Aeonumbra

That was actually implemented at first, but disabled due to bugs. It will make a return, I believe.

The Triwizard Champions

Having already entered the castle, Alice was oblivious to what was happening outside. The Beauxbatons students filed into the dining room quietly, standing at their chairs but not sitting – they would let their guests sit first, for even if they had terrible manners, as is the case for the Hogwarts party, as hosts the Beauxbatons students were honor-bound to be respectful. "Les étudiants d'Hogwarts, ils sont terribles! Ils ne sauraient pas bonnes manières si elle frappés à la face!¹" Alice said coldly, turning to her friend Danielle, who was standing next to her. "Donnes-leur une chance, Alice! Ils peuvent n'être pas aussi mauvaise qu'ils semblent!²" Danielle scolded, albeit with a smile on her face. In response, Alice rolled her eyes, smiling. "Bien sûr! C'est très probable.³" They laughed, and turned to the door where their guests would be entering in any moment.

1. "The Hogwarts students, they're terrible! They wouldn't know good manners if it hit them in the face!" 2. "Give them a chance, Alice! They may not be as bad as they seem!" 3. "Of course! That is very likely."