Hi Mahz , I'm just your everyday roleplayer enjoying the beautiful changes to the site ,but something's been bothering me and I just wanted to tell you. When I post I can't go back and edit it also when I try to click "reply" my screen goes back to the main menu of the site or scroll back to the top. Im using my phone by the way. I read that you are working on mobile combatibility , so I'm sure you'll get to it when you can. I'm just giving you a heads up and from what I read you have a lot of speggethi on your plate so take your time you don't have to rush to my aid as soon as possible.

> Hi Mahz , I'm just your everyday roleplayer enjoying the beautiful changes to the site ,but something's been bothering me and I just wanted to tell you. When I post I can't go back and edit it also when I try to click "reply" my screen goes back to the main menu of the site or scroll back to the top. Im using my phone by the way. I read that you are working on mobile combatibility , so I'm sure you'll get to it when you can. I'm just giving you a heads up and from what I read you have a lot of speggethi on your plate so take your time you don't have to rush to my aid as soon as possible. That kind of stuff is heavy on the Javascript. Which is always a gamble since some mobile browsers have poor support for Javascript. I'll try to figure it out. Do you know if you have issues with this kind of interactive stuff on any other site? Maybe I just need to show an unfancy form for people on such devices. Thanks for letting me know that it's an issue.

It would seem signature images are no longer scaled-to-fit and now appear more-or-less size, with scroll bars to compensate for this size. I guess this means most of my 100+ images in my rotator can be viewed at full size, but I am finding the scroll bars distracting to say the least.

But... The new hider and spoiler tags. What are they? Also why this script? I know Rich Text Format is far better, was there some kind of limitation? Other than maybe learning to get it up, but yeah...

Hey Mahz, I dunno if you have heard this yet, but many people would like a notification to show "x amount of new PMs" I think it'd be easier for us to know instead of constantly having to check our PM box. Thanks man, good work on the new site.

> But... The new hider and spoiler tags. What are they? > > Also why this script? I know Rich Text Format is far better, was there some kind of limitation? Other than maybe learning to get it up, but yeah... I still have to port the hider tags to javascript. The hider tags you see on old posts/sigs were just ported over from the old system. Not sure what you mean by "script", but the reason I rewrote the guild was to address the scaling issues. That's why there aren't many feature changes (and it's lacking most of them) -- I rewrote it in a new language and didn't have time to port over the old code. But now that the guild is stable, I'll go and bring back those familiar features back over. > It would seem signature images are no longer scaled-to-fit and now appear more-or-less size, with scroll bars to compensate for this size. > > I guess this means most of my 100+ images in my rotator can be viewed at full size, but I am finding the scroll bars distracting to say the least. The max-width scaling is actually a problem because people would unknowingly embed wallpaper-sized images and massive gifs into the sig, draining 10mb of data every time someone saw one of their posts. The scrollbars are intentionally ugly. Your sig needs to be over 300px tall for the scrollbars to appear. Soon there will be hider tags which allow users to keep their sigs compact. > Hey Mahz, I dunno if you have heard this yet, but many people would like a notification to show "x amount of new PMs" I think it'd be easier for us to know instead of constantly having to check our PM box. > > Thanks man, good work on the new site. Yeah, I've been thinking about ways to implement an unread system with performance in mind. Just showing total PM count was always just a better-than-nothing hack.

*Am I doing something wrong with the italics thingymagig? If I put a space in my paragraph it makes the italics disappear all together? I'm really happy for the new changes to the guild but I admit that I'm a little overwhelmed with them!*

True, good luck on that man. It's crazy now for me to look at all the PMs I've sent. I've sent a little under 3,330 PMs.

> *Am I doing something wrong with the italics thingymagig? If I put a space in my paragraph it makes the italics disappear all together? I'm really happy for the new changes to the guild but I admit that I'm a little overwhelmed with them!* I guess it makes sense for the parser to assume that *this. Was not intended to be the start of a multiline italicization that ends here*. BBCode is what allows multiline stuff because it's a better assumption that `[i]` on one line matches an `[/i]` on the other. It's one of the reasons I like both Markdown and BBCode - I'd rather write `*hello*` instead of `[i]hello[/i]` in most cases. So it'll be nice to have BBCode back to support more formatting options.

> I'm enjoying the new update! This definitely looks so awesome! My one erk is the way to get to a thread from the subscriptions page. That is slightly annoying especially when I'm normally on a Ipad. Can you elaborate? > I find that the only problem I've really had so far was figuring out the reworking of images. I was a little confuzzled for a while, but I've managed to get a few images properly worked out. Just thought I should let ya know. Yeah, the editor makes image-embedding more complicated than necessary. The syntax is just ``. Though weirder than just `[img=http://example.com/flower.png]` (how it used to be) which is syntax that will return soon. I'm going to bed for the night. Haven't slept since I took the server down last night to migrate. ^^

Will you ever get around to making a on site dice roller? As that would be super to go along with the character sheet tabs in making everything compact and within easy reach

> > *Am I doing something wrong with the italics thingymagig? If I put a space in my paragraph it makes the italics disappear all together? I'm really happy for the new changes to the guild but I admit that I'm a little overwhelmed with them!* > > I guess it makes sense for the parser to assume that *this. > > Was not intended to be the start of a multiline italicization that ends here*. > > BBCode is what allows multiline stuff because it's a better assumption that `[i]` on one line matches an `[/i]` on the other. It's one of the reasons I like both Markdown and BBCode - I'd rather write `*hello*` instead of `[i]hello[/i]` in most cases. So it'll be nice to have BBCode back to support more formatting options. *Thanks Mahz! Take care and good night.*

Excellent. I hope to be able to use hiders again fairly soon or the near future.

You're doing an excellent job Mahz. Thank you for all of your hard work. Everything you do for us is appreciated. :) If I knew where you lived, I would make you some chocolate chip cookies.

Everything is looking good Mahz. Can't wait to see what else you got planned.

One thing I would like to see re-implemented is putting the thread title in the webpage title. It is difficult to handle multiple open tabs if I can't identify them. Simply the title 'Roleplayer Guild' on every page is not very specific or helpful. Thank you for your efforts

Total PM count is broken for me - it is displayed as 81, when in fact it is nearing 200. Still impossible to access the site via roleplayerguild.com; all cached information has been cleared a couple of times, so this shouldn't be an issue. Do I understand correctly that BBCode/HTML-style tags are going to be brought back? The current system is rather wonky, to say the least (especially for a person who tends to use punctuation rather liberally, especially in OoC posts). Besides, Markdown is *not* unambiguously interpreted. (And hey, why is stuff between two asterixes italicized? Most other places that consider this to be text formatting - say, almost anything Google-related - bolds the text in between instead. And plenty of people I know use this format to signify actions or sounds...) - And if there is one principle I want my text formatting to follow, then it is absolute unambiguity. I don't want to discover that my post has ended up looking weird due to my punctuation habits being interpreted as formatting or the interpretation process misfiring (both of which have already happened in the couple of posts I've made since the relaunch). Markdown has all the disadvantages of a WYSIWYG text editing (such as random parts of text deciding they need to be something else than intended as soon as you do anything a bit less standard ... like press enter), minus the actual WYSIWYG. It is *not* a good system. (Also, give me my asterixes back. I don't want them parsed.) And how do I do text that is both bolded and italicized? **...And why on Earth does this this thing eat single line breaks!?** That - omitting single line breaks - is a crime against all writers everywhere, if I've ever seen one. I have long preferred the line break and tab paragraphing (as seen in books) to the double line break common in many net environments (as the double line break makes especially dialogue visually rather hard to follow for me, atop of simply looking ugly and adding ridiculous amount of scrollable space), and now we have been stripped of single line breaks entirely? Well, be I damned... At least until I get my single line breaks back. Missing the tab key's functionality was hard as is. ...I had one more thing to point out, but honestly I forgot what it was when I noticed it omitting single line breaks in preview. Oh yes, I remembered - the formatting tends to take its time to kick in (I am writing this for a rather powerful PC that typically loads script-heavy pages instantly, Firefox browser). I am aware it it a clientside solution, however the time delay tends to be too significant for comfort - and sometimes the formatting doesn't pop in at all unless I scroll the text out of view and back. (I literally stared at a short OoC note of mine for two minutes, then went to edit the post because I became convinced that if it hadn't popped up by then, the interpreter must have consumed the formatting altogether. The formatting was there all right ... and further observation confirmed that this is indeed how "lazy" the formatting pop-in is. In-thread online markers haven't been implemented (same as forum-view Subscribed-markers).

He knows of the line break devouring Shienvien, so that'll be fixed when he has time. That notification moved up his timetable for a better formatting system. Still, the code now can be a touch annoying, which is probably why we've avoided it ourselves.

I'm on my phone (always) and I had signatures hidden because it always messed up my phone, I'm finding the same problem, not only that but I cannot hide them.

We can't find where, but we're pretty sure we read somewhere that the hide signatures feature hasn't been ported over yet. we have no doubts that mahz'll get it over when he has time (and has had some well-deserved sleep). Most profile configuration features have yet to be ported, be it for mobile or stationary browsers.