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Is the option to block/ignore being added in this upgrade?

@Sir Lucario

Please for the love of god update our limited options with posts. Give us more fonts, colors, etc.

@Ambra

<Other feature requests>

Unfortunately, I am mostly working on more foundational issues this round like bugs and system improvements. I'm also trying to remove dead features and bloat.

yeah basically what kuro said. before tables in bios used to have no solid background (ergo the page matched the darker bio background) and now they're the same color background as regular forum posts

@nodogs

Ah, I see where the problem was introduced. I'll fix it shortly.

Edit: Okay, I think I fixed it. Nested tables now inherit the right bg color.

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@nodogs Oh, I meant I tagged you so that you could experience the thrill of the bug, again.

But it should be fixed now. Thanks

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@nodogs @Kuro Ah thanks. I see what's causing it. brb

I tagged you both so you can experience it again.

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@nodogs Can you give me more info about how tables broke (re: your status).

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Hey everyone.

After almost ten years in Mexico, I've finally moved back to the States .

New city, new Mahz.

Last night, I started the process of dusting off the Guild's cobwebs after about three hours of emotional evasion.

@LegendBegins has been trying to contribute to the Guild's code for years. Much like the Guild, years of neglect wasn't enough to completely lose him, so I've finally merged some of his fixes into the software. But seriously, I'm thankful and frankly in awe.

Some things I've started working on for the next few days:

- Clean up the Guild. Hide dead forums like Persistent World. Hide dead features like the Arena leaderboard. Like, why is there still a message from 22 May 2017 above the reply box announcing the autosave feature?
- Update the server. Both the database and the forum's platform are out of date. It makes the system harder to work on. This will probably result in some downtime.
- Fix the Discord link and other assorted bugs that have cropped up over the last year.

I've also wanted to put some time into thinking about the Guild's future. What's next for the Guild? A slow death? Just the same ugly taxi cab yellow clashing into the same nauseating gray over and over again until there's nobody left for it to offend?

Is it too late to do something better? How much gas is left in the tank? etc.

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I'll be taking the forum down this weekend to upgrade the database and syncing the server up with the code.

New Bean to The Pod

A new bean to the pod? Well that's cute.

Hope you find your pod.

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Just wanted to write an update here to remind everyone I'm still alive.

I'm working on an update. It's a bunch of smaller, not so consequential improvements in the code that I've accumulated over a six month period. Some random bug fixes you might notice as well. I want to thank @LegendBegins for pointing out a security bug that will be fixed in this update.

In other news, I want to have a quick memorial for my cat that I had to put asleep on my birthday Sept 13th a couple weeks ago. She's seen in the first test pic of the Guild's image hosting system:



It's heart-breaking that such an innocent, sweet cosita has to suffer at all. :( But she's not suffering anymore.

I hope everyone is doing well.

General Stories. Seeking Players (Updated)

clever way to bump your thread although somewhat questionable

@Dr Sue

Bumping interest checks is perfectly fine and expected.

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I heard I might have come across strongly with regard to PW in my last post or people might have been reacting to it.

To clarify, the PW concept has been part of the Guild since Day One.

Here it's seen in archive.org's first ever snapshot of the Guild from April 2007: web.archive.org/web/20070421113235/ht…



It will always be "doomed" to a relatively small group of people by its very nature, the same reason a roleplay rarely scales beyond a few people. It's just fun and part of Guild tradition.

But I'd rather talk about other things in this thread than PW's placement on the homepage.

@Vec Building my own editor quickly proved to be a horrific amount of work, so I did drop that ball.

Lately I've been looking into getting something like CKEditor working on the Guild. There there are plenty of challenges there as well.

Working on the Guild quickly made me aware how much full time engineering muscle platforms like vBulletin/Xenforo put into their editor.