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21 days ago
Current Feel free to use Adblock until this issue is resolved. We're aware of it.
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8 mos ago
Testing something rq
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8 mos ago
Yeah, we should. I’ll need to jump through some hoops to defeat bypasses, but that sort of thing is doable.
8 mos ago
Sorry all, our antispam system accidentally went offline. Carry on.
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10 mos ago
@Ambra Would you believe me if I told you they’ve already started rolling out? =)
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In Ask an Admin, v2. 4 yrs ago Forum: News
@Kuro

On one hand, it won't mess up any RPs that rely on broken BBCode functions right now—it's not retroactive.

As for BBCode-heavy RPs, it shouldn't mess anything up unless they decide to make a post with errors in it (and if they do, even the existing Guild system will break those posts—it just doesn't try to self-correct and recover). I really like the spellcheck suggestion and I can easily add something like "misaligned tag <tagName> at character <number>." I can try to add something that highlights the error too.
In Ask an Admin, v2. 4 yrs ago Forum: News
Opinions Needed


While a dangerous thing to ask for, I'd like some opinions on the error-handling of the BBCode parser. More specifically, how would you as a user like to see the parser handle BBCode errors? We've all had the experience of hitting that Preview button and getting the dreaded Some tags appear to be misaligned. And when we see that, we're inspired to fix the issue and make our posts. But what if we didn't?

To clarify, what would you expect to happen if you made a post with broken BBCode? What would you expect to see in the Preview window? Right now, the Guild takes any BBCode that has an error and refuses to display any style in that BBCode "nest." For example, [b][i]Test[/b][/b][i]Test2[/i] displays as [b][i]Test[/b][/b]Test2.

In my version of the parser, if a user posts bad BBCode to the forum, it attempts to do error-correction, so any incorrect tags are automatically converted into the correct ones, and any missing tags are added to the end (it still displays the Some tags appear to be misaligned. error). There are pros and cons to every approach, and because it's going to be an error state either way, I would expect that most users are going to fix the error before posting it to the Guild. But I'd like to hear your opinions on what you would expect/like to happen in the Preview window and the forum if there's an error in your BBCode. Or if it doesn't matter, I'd like to hear that too.



As a final note, I'd love to collect more test cases, so if you'd like to help me out, PM me the most horrendously broken BBCode you can imagine. I'll plug it in and see what it does. If you don't mind putting a letter between each tag so I can see what it does at every step, I'd appreciate that too.
Denny -> Dio

Done.
In Hello 4 yrs ago Forum: Introduce Yourself
Welcome back! Good luck with your RPs.
Darkod974 -> Gittarackur

Done.
Aptrgangr -> Slamurai

Done.
Animera->AnyAlex

Done.
Leslie Hall -> Cello done.
In Ask an Admin, v2. 4 yrs ago Forum: News
Custom tab names are probably the solution to that, but tab deletion is tricky because we don't want players randomly losing content because a Setting tab is no longer useful to the GM. It wouldn't be horribly difficult to add the same system to PMs, but probably with just one tab by default for the people who aren't PMing to RP.
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