Okay, [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/search]/search[/url] is finally back and it's paginated this time.

I'm definitely pushing my database to the limit on that one. If I have to take it down again for performance issues, I'll find a database actually optimized for search.

[hr]Within the last 10 pages, I discussed some experiments I was doing to evaluate potential improvements to our current BBCode editor.

For fun, here's a buggy prototype I threw together a month ago: http://guilded.surge.sh/

[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/quq37nq1583x0lf/nfkhjao8.png[/img]

The editor itself would need a lot of work. But what's more interesting is what's going on in the boxes below the editor (if you click the link). 

I wrote the start of a transformer from the editor's internal data representation (the last box) into HTML (the top box). I also made progress on transforming the editor's data into BBCode. If I can implement the reverse, a transformer from BBCode -> editor state, then I think I could implement an improved editor alongside the Guild's current editor with a button that lets you switch between them on the fly.

Don't be too hard on it, though. It's just something I hacked together. Prob did the first 1% of it. :lol

It would take some serious dev muscle to finish that project, so it's on the long-term track, but I figured I'd share some progress in the spirit of the dev journal.

[hr]Gonna shift focus back to this thread now.