Mahz's Dev Journal

[XSilentWingsX]

Hello @Mahz! I've really been loving the updates and new features that have been added, but I just wanted to give a suggestion concerning PM conversations. I thought it might be nice to have the ability to change the titles of PM convos and delete old, inactive ones. You may already have some of this in the works and I know you're busy with a bunch of updates already, but I thought I'd throw in my opinion. Thanks.

[LegendBegins]

Hello @Mahz! I've really been loving the updates and new features that have been added, but I just wanted to give a suggestion concerning PM conversations. I thought it might be nice to have the ability to change the titles of PM convos and delete old, inactive ones. You may already have some of this in the works and I know you're busy with a bunch of updates already, but I thought I'd throw in my opinion. Thanks.

@XSilentWingsX

The ability to delete private messages is already on the list of upcoming features.

[Ellri]

@Mahz
Is it feasible to make it so that notifications created in edited posts... notify?
Example 1:
User A wants to notify users B through F.
User A composes post, but accidentally misspells user D's name, causing notifications to break.
User A edits the post upon discovering the error, but the notification isn't sent because its not a new post.

Example 2:
User A wants to notify users B through F.
User A composes post, but accidentally forgets to add user F to it.
User A edits the post upon discovering the error, but the notification isn't sent because its not a new post.

[Mahz]

@Ellri Thanks, there's even an open issue for that: github.com/danneu/guild/issues/40

Though I just fleshed out a nice solution and tacked it on to the issue, so there's that. Progress.

[Ellri]

heh. Thats what we get for not checking the github, @Mahz... Progress.

[LegendBegins]

@Mahz
Will the data testing server compile now?

[LegendBegins]

EDIT: Double post.

[Mahz]

The Github issues are mostly for me. I don't expect anyone to visit them or feel like they must check them before making a suggestion.

[Ellri]

Another thought: On the RPGN: how about a new field in the front page display about RPGN that says who posted last? Maybe that'll get it more attention?

Also, would it be feasible to give it a bit of an image the way the RPGC stuff gets small images? The RPGN project used to be far more obvious before and deserves to be so again.

[Mahz]

@LegendBegins

It should. But ensure that you have some version of Postgres 9.4 installed.

Also, how did you manage to double-post? Your posts are two minutes apart. What happened? Did you click "Post Reply", nothing seemed to happen for two minutes, so you clicked "Post Reply" again? Trying to figure out how to gracefully prevent double-posts.

[Mahz]

Another thought: On the RPGN: how about a new field in the front page display about RPGN that says who posted last? Maybe that'll get it more attention?

Also, would it be feasible to give it a bit of an image the way the RPGC stuff gets small images? The RPGN project used to be far more obvious before and deserves to be so again.

@Ellri

Good suggestions. I'll play with that right now.

Update: Alright, hacked something slightly better together:

[LegendBegins]

@Mahz
That was just a wifi error on my end. My router enjoys giving me DNS errors so I have to get up to reset it, and resetting it likely caused it to send the request again. On a similar note, if there is a browser or internet issue as you are posting, or if you click post when there is no internet, refreshing on the "failed" page leads you to an error page. It would be much more convenient if it led to the last thread page you were on.

[Shienvien]

...Why did most of the sidebar suddenly migrate to under the forums? Only the RPGN and RPGC boxes are still where they should be.

[Mahz]

@Shienvien: github.com/danneu/guild/commit/8818fd8..

[Ellri]

The RPGN upgrade looks excellent, @Mahz.

[Hank]

Mobile-friendliness for chat
I spent all my time trying to figure out a good way to test my local development site from my iPhone. Sorry @Hank. I have some ideas of how I can address the issues, but I didn't have time to validate them.

@Mahz

[SilverRain]

Saving drafts of posts
This is a feature I got to 90% completion *last* weekend but totally forgot about until last night. Along with subscription notifications, finishing this feature is my goal for this coming weekend. Once finished, I think it will be an amazing experience for people to submit a post, encounter an error (internet dead, server rebooting, etc), visit the thread a few hours later, and find that their post is 100% intact ready to be resubmitted.

So those are my plans for next weekend. I'm looking forward to these upcoming features!

@Mahz

Speaking of drafts, it just so happens that last night I had a dream about making a RP post on here. The server disconnected, but I was relieved to find it was still there when the page reloaded. I saw this grey message box with black text and border saying something like "Reloading your post...". Coincidence? Is the intention to have a floating grey message box? Because if so... like wow.

[Shienvien]

I saw this grey message box saying something like "Reloading your post...". Coincidence? Is the intention to have a floating grey message box? Because if so... like wow.

@SilverRain

Well ... considering the speed at which text generally gets fetched from local (or even other) storage, floating boxes would be very superfluous indeed.

(Curse me and my materialistic practical mind.)

...Mahz, don't even consider adding floating grey boxes just for the sake of it now. We already got greyscale avatars.

[Blizz]

What's the VM count thingy?

@Blizz It counts VMs, as the name suggests.