Mahz is the Admin. He's the man with the plan and the Guild's head honcho.
Mahz
Admin
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- Old Guild Username: Mahz
- Joined: 12 yrs ago
- Posts: 2023 (0.45 / day)
- VMs: 22
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- Mahz 12 yrs ago
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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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Bio
Some favorite links I find while scrolling around.
- @Roach: Advanced BBCode Hacks (Part 2, Part 1)
- @Exit: C O N C E P T S ᵇʸ ᴱˣᴵᵗ – Amazing experiments in BBCode design.
- @BangoSkank: RPing Ain't Always Easy : A Collaborative Guide to the Stuff that Makes This Hobby Less Fun Sometimes And How to Make It More Betterer
- @Roach
- @Exit
BBCode
- @Roach: Advanced BBCode Hacks (Part 2, Part 1)
- @Exit: C O N C E P T S ᵇʸ ᴱˣᴵᵗ – Amazing experiments in BBCode design.
Articles
- @BangoSkank: RPing Ain't Always Easy : A Collaborative Guide to the Stuff that Makes This Hobby Less Fun Sometimes And How to Make It More Betterer
Bios I love
- @Roach
- @Exit
Most Recent Posts
> > > Hey Mahz, I'm wondering if you've licensed your Guild code? Or is it just All Rights Reserved copyrighted to Mahz?
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> > Thanks, added AGPLv3 license: <https://github.com/danneu/guild/blob/master/LICENSE.txt>
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> Thanks for adding the license. Can't say I care for the terms, but at least its open source and modifiable/distributable.
Relicensed: <https://github.com/danneu/guild/blob/master/LICENSE.txt> ;)
Thanks. The fix is still in queue for the next server deploy. I usually do them early in the morning to minimize the chance of a "REQUEST INTERRUPTED" event eating someone's IC post, but I keep waking up late and 175+ people are on.
> That's super great
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> Oh btw who are the people that are helpin you with the site? Do you have like a Code Crew
- [TheMaster99](http://www.roleplayerguild.com/users/12164) has been learning the code and started fielding some issues with patches.
- I've had two anonymous patches submitted to me by email. One of them was a surprisingly advanced patch, so I'm not sure why they patched by email instead of through the code repository. I'd like to give credit.
- Also had someone register on Github just to submit an anonymous patch to fix a link: <https://github.com/danneu/guild/pull/8/files>. I'd also like to know who that was.
Honestly it's a lot more than I expected at this stage, and it's heartwarming ^_^.
The code at the beginning is pretty unorganized since it's just me trying to belt stuff out. I'd like to refactor the project "README" file with a better quickstart for interested contributors. Someone actually requested that earlier in this topic.
I'd also like to explain how to make trivial changes to files for non-developers.
For example, if you wanted to change some text on the "Edit User" page:
- You can go here: <https://github.com/danneu/guild/blob/master/views/edit_user.html> (All html templates are in the "views" folder)
- Click the pencil icon on top
- Make the edit right there in the browser
- And then click "Submit"
Unless I'm missing a step, that should create a patch ("Pull Request") that I then can merge into the project without any effort.
> Random idea here, but what's the chance of a search bar at some point?
The new database has first-class support for fulltext search: <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/textsearch.html>
The implementation will probably take a week + weekend (I don't get to work on the Guild every day).
Once BBCode is finished, the next things on my plate (off the top of my head) are:
- notifications (big feature, partially coded already)
- being able to archive/delete private convos (medium feature)
- search (big feature)
Of course, these are always interleaved with random patches and smaller issues (I don't know why every line in this post has parentheses).
> Hey Mahz, I'm wondering if you've licensed your Guild code? Or is it just All Rights Reserved copyrighted to Mahz?
Thanks, added AGPLv3 license: <https://github.com/danneu/guild/blob/master/LICENSE.txt>
Update: I've essentially kept everything the same (I like this bare-bones editor) but replaced Markdown with BBCode. So far in my testing, the BBCode parser is compatible with QQCode (so I will make old posts editable again) except for these cases.
QQCode allows this short-hand:
[img=example.com/flower.png]
[url=example.com]
BBCode convention is:
[img]example.com/flower.png[/img]
[url]example.com[/url] or [url=example.com]Click Me[/url]
Right now I'm working on the logic for the transition to BBCode from the user POV.
Once I push the change, when you edit a post, it's going to dump into the editor either Markdown or QQCode for you to modify. When you save the post, it inserts into a new BBCode column.
By making the Markdown/QQCode read-only, I'll be able to avoid the nightmare case of losing data in the event of a glitch.
rofl
The fix is in queue for the next deploy: <https://github.com/danneu/guild/commit/a7b147f5d7e14f7312e2bd1959c7203c2e1c6854>
I moved the forum to the Meta category at the very bottom so it's out of the way until you're ready.
Got it working with the editor:
Though I'm just going to remove all the buttons except for the "Preview" button at the beginning and add them back later once I write the code to hook them up to BBCode.
I'll push my progress to the dev server when I hit a certain milestone.
Been making progress extending a parser:
It's actually looking promising.
Lots of goblins down these rabbit holes. Been feasting on them to stay alive.
Also passed by Jon Krakauer's corpse.
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