Mahz's Dev Journal

[Dark Cloud]

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I do like the idea but design stuff is really hard and takes a lot of time and thought. We're stuck with this design for maybe forever.

@Mahz

Why fix what ain't broke eh?

[Kuro]

pls no alternate theme options for guild

@nodogs

I'd be fine with alternate theme options. It'd be just like old school forums. The only thing I'd ask for is that the current theme/layout of RPG stay as the default version.

[Raineh Daze]

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I'd be fine with alternate theme options. It'd be just like old school forums. The only thing I'd ask for is that the current theme/layout of RPG stay as the default version.

@Kuro

Ah, but the issue is when people with alternate themes start doing stuff with coloured text or images lacking transparency. Everyone starts working from opposite baselines etc.

[skidcrow]

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Ah, but the issue is when people with alternate themes start doing stuff with coloured text or images lacking transparency. Everyone starts working from opposite baselines etc.

@Raineh Daze

yup, just like how different browsers (chromium vs firefox) have different effects regarding table width and the little lines that appear in empty rows

[Dark Cloud]

Someone I was talking to made the odd suggestion that the old guild chat be brought back, dunno why really. Maybe cause most of us don't even use the guild discord, or rather in public. 🤷‍♂️

Thinking about it...That would be horribly archaic.

[NuttsnBolts]

Someone I was talking to made the odd suggestion that the old guild chat be brought back, dunno why really. Maybe cause most of us don't even use the guild discord, or rather in public. 🤷‍♂️

Thinking about it...That would be horribly archaic.

@Dark Cloud

It is another case of moderation where if a mod wasn't active some weirdness could happen. Technically... It still exists

[Kuro]

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Ah, but the issue is when people with alternate themes start doing stuff with coloured text or images lacking transparency. Everyone starts working from opposite baselines etc.

@Raineh Daze

Fair, though there is still no reason that the guild at the bare minimum can't have a dark and light theme. There was someone earlier on the site who mentioned they couldn't see gray/dark themes all that well and was asking for a light theme to use. I would rather them and anyone else with the same issue be comfortable over aesthetic usage, especially when you can literally just hit the RAW button and read text that way if it proves difficult to read.

Someone I was talking to made the odd suggestion that the old guild chat be brought back, dunno why really. Maybe cause most of us don't even use the guild discord, or rather in public. 🤷‍♂️

Thinking about it...That would be horribly archaic.

@Dark Cloud

Absolutely not, IMO. The guild discord is already a mess just from a user perspective and it ultimately distracts from the site. Our off-topic/discussion sections are practically dead at this point because hardly anyone even bothers to use them. We don't need them to be completely dead.

[Mahz]

The Discord link at the top of the Guild broke due to changes at Discord.

Something with Discord changed and now my bot doesn't have permission to use the `modifyGuildMember(id, { nick, roles })` command anymore. I couldn't figure out a real fix, but the button should at least redirect you to the Discord server even if it fails.

I'm pretty sure the button correctly adds you to the Discord server the first time around. It's just the using it after that won't correctly update your username.

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I'm going to show historical usernames on the user profile. It's necessary for all sorts of reasons (moderation, community).

For example, I had no idea that @nodogs was a Guild legend until I clicked one of your old mentions and it went to your profile.

Edit: Alright, this change is now live.

[skidcrow]

I'm going to show historical usernames on the user profile. It's necessary for all sorts of reasons (moderation, community).

For example, I had no idea that @nodogs was a Guild legend until I clicked [@Grimhildr] in some ancient thread.

Edit: Alright, this change is now live.

@Mahz

i don't know what you're talking about

[NuttsnBolts]

Now we can see all the cringe past usernames.

[Kuro]

I'm going to show historical usernames on the user profile. It's necessary for all sorts of reasons (moderation, community).

@Mahz

Not really feeling this one, chief, for reasons I'd rather not address publicly. The Staff are more than aware why, though.

[skidcrow]

i think a decent solution would be making past usernames visible to staff only for moderation purposes

also cause there's weird gendered baggage attached to one of my old usernames that i'm not fond of being reminded of

[Ti]

There is Dark Mode extention for Firefox for example, and it even has "light mode" option it. Those who love light modes can use that, such as those who absolutely detest light mode due to light sensitivity can choose to have a dark mode extention.

[Mahz]

Hmm, I see.

What I could also do is just show name changes within the last year and then only list any older name changes to staff (for moderation purposes).

Edit: Done.

Oh, just read your previous post. I wrote the same exact thing as you.

[skidcrow]

Oh, just read your previous post. I wrote the same exact thing as you.

@Mahz

hey i'm not saying i'm open to co-admin but i'm open to co-admin

[Mahz]

I'd like to squeeze out a basic email notification system. Even a bare bones solution seems worth the squeeze since it helps bring people back to the site and hopefully boost interactions that they might not otherwise see.

I have a basic email verification system working on my laptop. Maybe the version 0 just gives notifications for new PMs and then we go from there.

(Nobody would be required to verify. You just have to if you want notifications.)

[skidcrow]

yeah atm anyone can just sign up with a fake email that doesn't exist and they only ever need an email for password recovery purposes

also i am very curious about how ips work on here because i obviously have a very storied history with nuked accounts here and still have issues regarding accessing the discord and technically still being ip-banned, even though i'm living somewhere different now and accessing the site from a new device on a new network

[Mahz]

@nodogs Can you be more specific about what you are running into?

Some possibilities I can think of:

- Auto-nuking is something that happens to only brand new accounts, and iirc it is based on IP address, so using a VPN or posting from Ukraine can trigger it.

- The /discord link is buggy since Discord changed their system within the past year. It's not trying to keep you out, it's just not working very well.

- The Guild is served behind a service called Cloudflare which does sometimes force you to fill out a captcha. I don't think I have that feature turned on, but I'd like to know which of these you might be referring to.

[skidcrow]

@nodogs Can you be more specific about what you are running into?

Some possibilities I can think of:

- Auto-nuking is something that happens to only brand new accounts, and iirc it is based on IP address, so using a VPN or posting from Ukraine can trigger it.

- The /discord link is buggy since Discord changed their system within the past year. It's not trying to keep you out, it's just not working very well.

- The Guild is served behind a service called Cloudflare which does sometimes force you to fill out a captcha. I don't think I have that feature turned on, but I'd like to know which of these you might be referring to.

@Mahz

for me it's like if i make a new account it gets auto-nuked and the only way to bypass it is by using a vpn. i can't comment much on the discord since i've been in there a while and iirc i had to get an invite link from one of the mods to be able to join, and my nickname is still crocker which is a username from a couple years ago but i know there's been issues with the nickname system on there anyway. i haven't had any issues with cloudfare or captchas.

[Mae]

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I disagree with this assessment.

There is nothing ugly about taxi cab yellow. Nor is there anything nauseating about gray. Nor is there anything offensive about combining the two. Nor is there anything wrong with things being the same.

I for one deem the color scheme just fine as it is and find its consistency quite comforting.

@rush99999

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This. Aside from the simplisticity of the guild, the "dark theme" that RPG has is always a draw to the site IMO. Much easier on the eyes than, say, RPN's clashing blue and white.

@Kuro

agreed please god do not change the guild’s color scheme

@stone

I would vote to keep the Guild style as it currently is. The reason I'm a barnacle on this site for all these years is knowing that there's a reliable consistent baseline style everyone sees. I've never stuck around on other sites, primarily because it's literally not possible to create a consistent style for a RP if there's multiple themes individuals can pick from. This might sound silly, but if a player is put off my RP recruitment thread because it looks eyebleedingly bad on their theme, there's no way to correct that without it being potentially eyebleedingly bad for someone else. Thus lowering the amount of compatible players who might be interested, for artificial reasons. It's more customisable for individuals with the downside of potentially decreasing players connecting to RPs.

I can understand a light theme for those who need it though.

Anyway other then that my outlandish wishlist for Santa Claus is fill colours for tables or the ability to change the line colours in tables. It may be unnecessarily difficult or impossible to implement though