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1 yr ago
Ok, I made a major change to the database (but I'm not done). Please hop on discord if you find errors doing something!
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1 yr ago
I'm making some upgrades to the guild database. Sorry for any errors!
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3 yrs ago
I'm working on experimental server changes. Email mahz@roleplayerguild.com if you're having problems.
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7 yrs ago
Getting some more work done on the Guild today and tomorrow.
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8 yrs ago
Investigating the catastrophic performance issues.
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In Seeing those scroll bars in people's signatures → 11 yrs ago Forum: Spam Forum
I recently opened up someone's edit-profile page to comment out their 4k resolution naruto wallpaper sig. Made me chuckle that he had `hide_sigs` toggled on.
In Writing Contest Subforum → 11 yrs ago Forum: Suggestions/Problems
Where do you want it?
In Mahz's Dev Journal → 11 yrs ago Forum: News
BBCode is at the top of my list right now. I decided to pause my progress on the notification system to get some sane formatting. I'm also going to move the rendering onto the server to retire this client-side hack.
In Mahz's Dev Journal → 11 yrs ago Forum: News
> Mahz, are you going to maintain Markdown or a BBCode-alike for those power users (like your's truly) who would rather type it all out on the keyboard than switch between keyboard and mouse for formatting. Or better yet, I often write RP posts in another application like Word or (yes, really!) Notepad, and being able to insert formatting straight into the post is a godsend. It's easier to type `[i]this is italics[/i]` or `*this is italics*` than to type "this is italics," move my hand to my mouse, highlight the text, click the Italics button, and move my hand back to the keyboard. > > Also, oh my god, you have **INLINE** code blocks?! /me swoons I'm scrapping Markdown. Apparently gets in the way of what people expect from formatting. Most editors seem to support keyboard shortcuts like `ctrl-b` for embolden and `ctrl-i` for italicize. Beyond that I guess you'd type your posts into source-view and then toggle to WYSIWYG-view for preview. I could support whatever markup Word uses as long as it only uses HTML tags for styling `<font color="red">foo</font>`, not arbitrary style tags `<span style="color: red">foo</span>`. Couldn't figure out a google query that would give me more info about what a markup copy-and-paste from Word would actually look like.
In Mahz's Dev Journal → 11 yrs ago Forum: News
Nice to see you guys again! With this roster and with this occasion, it feels like it's exactly one year ago again. Maybe we can just pretend last year never happened. > Wow, been away from the Guild for a while, but it's good to see the new rewrite in action. I'm also glad to see the source code available on Github, I'll probably watch it and try to build it sometime on my own to play around with it. The rewrite has been nice. ~20ms avg response time. So far it's served up to 50 req/sec on a single dyno. PM me if you have trouble setting it up. > Will you also implement the text editor background color change with that to make it blend better into the guild? Yeah, it'll be dark.
In Mahz's Dev Journal → 11 yrs ago Forum: News
> > With the thread/page titles once more popping up in browser tabs (instead of just "roleplayer guild")... Is it intentional that it says, for example, "Topic: Mahz's Dev Journal - Roleplayer Guild" rather than "Mahz's Dev Journal - Roleplayer Guild"? Or is that a sneaky bit of uncooperative code? > > I assume it might be intentional. I, however, did think that I should perhaps suggest that the "Topic:", "Convo:", etc prefixes be done away with, since the first six letters of a topic title tend to be more informative than just whether it is a topic, PM-conversation or forum view. Yall think the context is unnecessary/extraneous? I'll do away with it. In other news, I've been pleased with this editor: <http://imperavi.com/redactor/>. I have it working on my local machine and have re-implemented the Save/Cancel edit system seen on the current Markdown editor. If I go that route: - I'll be able to store HTML directly in the database. There will be no client-side rendering necessary, so no more jarring "pop in" posts. The front-end will be responsive since it's just an HTML dump. No post-processing. - I'll render all current Markdown posts to HTML (when I deploy the new editor) and they will then be editable with the editor. That should be a seamless change. Then I'll remove the Markdown system. - The path to making legacy (pre-relaunch posts) editable again will the be obvious since the editor can just load their HTML. I'll push it to the dev server when I'm done to get some feedback. It not easy to find the middle ground between WYSIWYG clusterfuck and editing markup by hand with no help, but this editor is actually easy for me to work with.
In Legacy Sig not being deletable → 11 yrs ago Forum: Suggestions/Problems
Fixed. Thanks. <https://github.com/danneu/guild/commit/f2767d65fd72ab9418e81b49c0d73b3bf7f05c16> You shouldn't see the Forbidden page next time you click the "Delete Legacy Sig" button.
In Little online text under name → 11 yrs ago Forum: Suggestions/Problems
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In PM count not showing when a PM arrives → 11 yrs ago Forum: Suggestions/Problems
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In Change tab title → 11 yrs ago Forum: Suggestions/Problems
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