Mahz

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I like the idea of graying out the ratings. And yeah I'll change the code-block sometime.

Well, I never saw the message, and there seems to a handful of people who concluded that avatars are bust. (Though I admit that I tend to occasionally wait for things to fix themselves rather than investigate immediately when there are no announcements/notifications in place. I've also been quite out for the past couple of days.)

If it's working, you should see this message. I'll check the code to ensure people can actually see it.

@Mentions Problem

@Sharyxe: Thanks. I'll take a look at why that could be. ^ The system says that you should've received a notification for this mention, so lemme know if you don't get one.

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Not sure how relevant or good of an idea this is, but how about a donate button? Maybe it wouldn't be huge, but you put a lot of effort into this site, @Mahz.

@Robeatics

No need. I'll be putting ads back up soon. They pay for the server. Thanks.

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Question about signatures: I use my scrollbars responsibly and put things in hiders, mostly to spread world about my ICks. Now, it is ruined. What should I do? I do not want to delete my beautiful sword, but now you can't even see the credit!

@UltikanaRe

A signature is something that's imposed upon everyone viewing every post of yours ever. Either offload some glitter to your bio or shrink your image. I recommend simply shrinking your image to free up space. Edit: Soon I will make the "" link open a "pop-up" with the user's bio instead of redirecting to their profile. This will make it more pleasant to quickly view bios, and people will be more likely to view yours.

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<Snipped quote by Mahz about the trust system> That sounds like a very interesting idea. It would definitely make the Guild stand out. I would support such a feature. Of course, I can't imagine that the implementation would be simple, especially since balancing it properly would be important, but that doesn't stop it from being a good idea.

@BBeast

I'd keep it simple by just targeting a few obvious improvements over what existing forum platforms provide. Forum systems (vBulletin, Xenforo, phpBB, etc) generally implement this sort of thing with "usergroup escalation": - New users are placed in a "New Member" usergroup that has limited privileges. - After (50 posts OR 5 days) they get auto-moved into the "Regular Member" usergroup that has some more privileges. - After (1000 posts OR 100 days) they get auto-moved into the "Senior Member" usergroup that has full privileges. It's pretty limited, but it gets the job done. My proposal is similar except that I have more granular control over how users gain trust and that trusted members can expedite the process (vouching).

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Latest push: - Roleplays remember which page you were last viewing on each tab:

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<Snipped quote by LegendBegins> My bad. I appear to have missed page 45 until just now. I came in at page 44 from a notification and once I reached the end I failed to notice that there was another page, so I just replied to page 44.

@BBeast

This is something that bothers me about forum pagination in general. I think the unread-post tracking system will help out. For one, you'll be able to jump to "latest unread post" and I may be able to expose how many unread posts you have on previous pages to let you know you may want to click "Prev Page".

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Would it be possible to up the amount of people allowed in a single convo?

@duck55223

I've been thinking about this for a while. I'm going to implement a trust system so that I can give trusted members more privileges while restricting the privileges of potential spammers (i.e. new users). My core philosophy is that trusted users (i.e. users that have no record of system abuse, users trusted by the system) should be given a full toolkit to use as they see fit. If a trusted user wants to start convos with 10+ people and all 10+ people are down with that (i.e. it's not abuse), then the system should let them do that. - New members are considered untrusted. They can only create a convo every 60 seconds (or some duration). They can only create a convo with 1 other participant. This is to put the final nail in the coffin of a special class of PM spammers. - As a member participates in the community, they become more trusted and unlock more privileges. - Gaining trust needs to be slow enough to punish people that get banned (they have to start from scratch), but it shouldn't feature-starve new users from basic functions. - Trusted users should be able to expedite the trust process by "vouching" for users. Vouching for someone will boost their trust a fraction of your trust and put you on their vouch list that mods can see. If done right, this system will be simple and nearly invisible. Current users will notice nothing different but enhanced privileges, mods will have a better toolkit for evaluating bad actors, the system will be harder to abuse, and new users will unlock more features as they get acclimated to the community. As the guild rapidly climbs back to its pre-guildfall activity levels, I'd like to get this sort of system in place sooner than later. (I spent a lot of time hacking similar countermeasures into oldguild's vBulletin)

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<Snipped quote by Mahz> Huh, for some reason when I tried re-uploading it myself, it still didn't work. Renamed the file, deleted old avatar first, etc etc. What did work, however, was reducing the image size from 150x150 to 145x145. Perhaps your size constraint check is looking for <150x200, instead of =/<?

@KeysOfKayes

Nice intuition, plausible enough to make me have another look at the code. But I can confirm that it shouldn't be doing this according to the docs. Source code: https://github.com/danneu/guild/blob/49d5cedbdc621cda3a345022bbb0080bb4a77bdc/server/avatar.js#L85 image.resize(150, 200, '>') I'll take another look if other people report an issue uploading exact-dimension avatars. I couldn't reproduce the issue myself.

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<Snipped quote by Mahz> I've noticed it took a (relatively) long time for several people I roleplay with to notice this change and upload a new avatar. Some of them still haven't done so. You could argue that this means that some people don't really care about their avatars, but it can also be interpreted to mean that this implementation is too vague.

@Hank

Maybe, but I can only be so faffed. For example, people would frequently PM/email me to ask why they saw red text instead of their avatar in the old system. The red text that literally says "Avatar larger than 150x150". If let, hand-holding will become a full-time job. I depend on the community to help out the rest of the way. For all I know, some people just don't care.