Kuro

Pacific Royal Collegiate & University - [CLOSED]

This is your reminder for those who haven't posted this round that you have two days left to get a post in before you get sent to roleplay collections and Wraith has to go knocking on doors for payment.

Mahz's Dev Journal

I also don't know if anyone also suggested this one, but:
maybe a limit on how many times you can post in the status bar per day? to prevent spamming and all that?

side note:
after changing my email to my current one I am not officially verified. :)

@Vampiretwilight

Instead of locking it to a # of statuses per day, I'd say make it so people can reply underneath the status not unlike a VM. That way people can still "converse" like they were doing right now and it would cut down on the spam because the conversations/replies are shoved into their own little box and not flooding the status bar.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz The "username history" profile slot is bugging out. I haven't had any recent name changes and it's displaying for me. That said, it doesn't have any names or anything. It just says "username history" after the bullet point and that's it.

Pacific Royal Collegiate & University - [CLOSED]

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_{Location: Stadium - Dundas Islands, Pacific Ocean}

First Class #2.47 Heart on Your Sleeve

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_{Interaction(s): Trace @psych0pomp, Iñigo @Mao Mao & Mackenna @Tackytaff}

Previously: Honor the Memory

Betrayal.

The feeling had been the only emotion Haleigh felt as she watched Trace, Mackenna and Iñigo leave Blackjack for another team. It was like a knife in her back. It'd been only a week since they had lost Cass to Hyperion, and now she was forced to watch more of her teammates leave her and the rest of them behind.

Perhaps it was her own doing that drove the knife deeper into her back. She had been hung up on Hyperion since the Plateau; her emotionally-fueled choice of words at the funeral proving that. But perhaps it was also how the three reminded her of herself and her own past, a fact Haleigh hated. She had held nothing but scorn and disgust for her past actions. Always afraid of the problem at hand. Always running from it. Regardless of how many times she tried to shake it away, Haleigh could see only her own twisted reflection in each of their faces as they raised the sigil of a different team.

Haleigh glanced at the rest of Blackjack. Luce hadn't showed up at all, Calliope had fire within her eyes, and the remainder of Blackjack looked to be on the verge of tears. Could they still be considered a team? Sure, there were some new recruits that desired to swap teams. But those few applicants didn't change the fact that Blackjack proper was actively falling apart.

She looked back at Trace and the others. The only one who dared to say anything was an outsider. The only one who dared to do anything was an outsider. It was funny, albeit the depressing type of funny. Blackjack couldn't even stand up for themselves. They were doomed to fail; to collapse under the weight of their own emotions and other trauma-induced factors.

No. That wasn't going to happen. Not under her watch, Haleigh swore. Regardless of what differences they might've had in opinion, Blackjack was her home. She had declared it so all the way back at the plateau campsite when Jim had originally brought up the Team Swap, a position that grew ever so solid upon Hyperion's assault upon the school. There was no way she wasn't going to let Blackjack crumble into dust, at least not as long as she still had something to do with it.

"Enough, Iñigo." Haleigh snapped in an assertive, commanding tone. "Drop the act. You know she's saying what we're all thinking."

Summoning all the courage she had, Haleigh stood up and pushed away the wheelchair. Although Tad had assured her back then that the inhibitor he had given Haleigh would allow her to walk as long as she wore it, she didn't quite trust him at the time. But this was different. She couldn't keep allowing things to hold her back; she needed to face things head-on.

Seemingly terrified, cautious steps soon turned into a full walk as Haleigh approached the center of the triangle where the four had stood amongst each other.

"Maybe I was... a little too harsh earlier. I'm sorry. I've been stressed out since the incident. We all have been. But she has a point. Blackjack needs each other more than ever. We need unity more than ever. I know some of us have had... differences in opinion, to say the least, but I don't want to see us fall apart like this. I know it'll probably be difficult, and honestly I'm probably making a fool out of myself here because you've likely already made up your minds, but please reconsider. If not for me, then for everyone else. We can work things out. I'm sure of it."

Haleigh held out her hand, hoping at least one of them would take her offer. She made an attempt, time would only tell if the three would leave her feeling spurned once more.

Mahz's Dev Journal

<Snipped quote by Dark Cloud>

<Snipped quote by Kuro>

Are you referring to a recent change or just in general?

@Mahz

Is how it looks now on mobile. Half of the top bar got shoved into a drop down menu, while the other half still looks like how it displays on desktop. I don't know the possibility of it, but IMO it'd feel and look better if they were combined.

As for "You", I'm not sure why it needed to be changed. Your username already made it pretty clear that it was you/your profile link.

Mahz's Dev Journal

I think my main concerns is that "mobile view" has two menus that could just be one drop down menu + the profile link got changed to "You".

Mahz's Dev Journal

I really do not like the way this looks on my mobile I much prefer the desktop look so if you can add a feature that let's a user switch to that view I'd appreciate it because this orientation is way too small. @Mahz

@Dark Cloud

Just toggle desktop view in your browser.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz Btw Mahz, since you're doing upkeep on the guild, I do have some minor typos that could be addressed:

- In the VM section, if you send a VM, it displays 300 characters available. However, if you reply to a VM, it says you can type up to 3000. Of course, you still can't send anything *over* 300, so it's just an incorrect number being displayed.

- The tag for "Post-Apocalyptic" spells "disaster" as "distaster".

Mahz's Dev Journal

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.

Mahz's Dev Journal

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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.