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Mahz
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- Old Guild Username: Mahz
- Joined: 12 yrs ago
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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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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
Agreed.
> > Is there any chance that the Guild will support higher resolution, and possibly auto-size it down at some point?
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> My apologies, I failed to clarify. Higher resolution of profile pictures*.
Right now the avatar system is a dirty hack. But I just couldn't justify the weak cost/reward ratio of implementing an upload system when there are so many other things I can be working on.
I do want to migrate to an image-upload system that actually does image scaling/resizing.
When I was rewriting the Subscription system, I considered displaying subscribers. But I ultimately decided that you should be able to subscribe in secret.
Displaying just the count seems like a good idea though.
However, once I crunch through some more generic forum features (like being able to archive/delete PMs), I do want to ponder more roleplay-specific features like first-class support for Roleplays and their participants.
For example:
- "Joining"/"Leaving" roleplays. Or "retiring" from a roleplay (so it drops out of your active roleplays list). Maybe everyone lost interest or your character got killed off.
- Displaying the number of active roleplays you're a part of under your avatar in posts
- Seeing an official participant count next to roleplays and, when clicking into the Roleplay, a list of the participants
- Being able to go to someone's profile and see which roleplays they're a part of
With that sort of Roleplay-has-many-Roleplayers metadata, there are a lot of interesting things I can do.
I've wanted to do something like this since 2009, but I was too noob of a developer to get it to work performantly on vBulletin. Nowadays this is a feature I can certainly take on, but it takes a lot of thought. Especially coming up with implementations that don't complicate the system or the user experience.
I mean, that's really the entire point of coding the Guild from scratch - so that I can develop these sorts of features.
The height of the Spam forum last year was one of the few times the Guild had an off-topic forum that people could be fucked to regularly care about.
90% of the Guild's traffic has always been RP-forums and PMs, so it brought a tear to my eye to see an off-topic forum with some activity and a sense of humor no matter how cringeworthy.
Still less cringe than the Off-Topic Discussion and Member Lounge forums.
Wonder how much of the dancing banana brigade remains. 
Changes that will be in effect after tonight's update:
- Instead of showing "Invisible" next to your posts when you have ghost-mode enabled, I'm just going to display nothing. Other users can still derive whether or not you have ghost-mode enabled since you won't have a last-seen-at timestamp, but at least it won't be broadcast anymore.
- You'll be able to toggle ghost-mode on and off in your edit-user page.
- Users with ghost-mode enabled will not be listed in the "Who's Online" list at the bottom of the homepage. This was patched a while back but haven't been able to deploy it til tonight.
Thanks Magic Magnum: <http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/75316/posts/ooc#post-2344650>
I patched it so that "Invisible" is no longer displayed (after tonight's update).
I checked out other forums with similar "Magic Magnum was last seen 2 hours ago" UI (like Xenforo) and they just hide your online-now icon and your last-seen-at timestamp. Of course, like on the Guild, you know if someone has invisible-mode enabled because they have no last-seen-at timestamp.
My reasoning for showing "Invisible" to begin with was that it possibly made the UI more obvious/consistent. i.e. "Why can't I see this one user's last-online-at timestamp?". But yeah, it's not something that needs to be broadcast with every post.
Aside: Invisible users will no longer show up in the "Who's Online" list after tonight's update. That was definitely a bug. The invisible-mode toggle will also appear on the edit-user page as well after the update.
Thanks for the feedback!
> The fix is loading oddly here, but the important thing is that you'll fix it. However minor an issue it is.
Can you explain what you mean by "loading oddly"? Button 2 at that link should appear just like Button 1 except that you can't middle-click it.
> Still can't figure out how to use hiders...Or is there something i missed?
Check back tomorrow. I'm adding BBCode tonight.
One more thing. I just created a simple test that might help me debug this issue.
The test:
- Go here: <http://jsfiddle.net/danneu/6tjdzjvy/embedded/result/>
- Click the "Click Me" button 10 times
- The result should look like this:
Can you let me know if you get a different result?
**Update**: I just went to your profile and deleted the double-posts that I found.
We'll help you clean up double-posts!
You can PM me when it happens since it's my fault. It should be impossible to double-post, so I'm working on that.
I'm actually surprised that you're able to double-post, so this is good information.
Do you have javascript enabled or disabled? This link will let you know: <http://www.enable-javascript.com/>
Here's what it displays for me:
Can you tell me which version of Chrome you're using?
Finally, are you double-clicking or double-tapping the "Post Reply" button? Or are you just clicking it once? You should only click the submit button one time.
Thanks for any help you can provide. I'm sure some other people are suffering as well. :)
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